Comments on: Google Goobling Up Startups? Its But A Part of Google’s Masterplan, Folks.

By: Deep Jive Interests » Google’s A One Trick Pony I’ll Bet On Any Day

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:58:23 +0000

[...] He has a good point though: Google’s spending a fraction of its revenues on the one pony that’s actually making it cash money. Personally, I’m looking at it from a glass half-full point of view. I *like* the idea of Google putting money into unfettered innovation that has a good chance of defining what the “internet” is, via software-as-service while owning the infrastructure behind it (don’t forget, Google has secretly been buying up dark fiber and building huge data centers, also largely in secret…). [...]

By: Transaction Processor

Transaction Processor — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:41:05 +0000

Great post about Google Goobling Up Startups? Its But A Part of Google’s Masterplan, Folks.!

By: Deep Jive Interests » Evening Rap: Google Domination Continues Apace, Open-Source Not Perfect, And Stupid Smart People.

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:52:45 +0000

[...] plan for Google — the company that most people associate merely with search and ads — to build or acquire physical assets, so that it literally owns the bandwidth to fuel its future plans for world domination. [Do I [...]

By: Deep Jive Interests » Has Google News Capitulated To Newspapers? (Is Sam Zell Celebrating Somewhere?)

Mon, 21 May 2007 02:49:00 +0000

[...] Google buying start ups every few days … making aggressive deals with content providers … building a dark fibre network punctuated with data centers … [...]

By: Metagg

Metagg — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:50:05 +0000

While I agree that the future of many applications is probably SAS. In order to access the software or the service you have to have an operating system, and it seems like Microsoft’s OS still makes a buck or two. Plus, the I just can’t see the SAS internet model replacing things like Photoshop, office, and the like…-Metagg

By: ryan l

ryan l — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:26:50 +0000

The voracious appetite of Google is mostly due to its gigantic hoard of cash or “war chest” Money can’t just sit in the bank….analysts and wall street will not stand for that.

What else is a company to do…well they could buy back stock; but when you stock is already at astronomical numbers so that seems foolish.

You could give it back as a dividend…again no…the astronomical price tag of the stock is a direct result of its perceived “growth”.

So what do you do?

well obviously you put riduculous amounts of money into R&D and you continue to feed the blackhole of talent in the technology industry which is Google.

But that is not enough alone…and you still have all this cash. M&A makes sense cause you get I.P., you get talent, and hey you might even get a few more eyeballs to throw your adds at.

The dark fiber is definitely a hedge against the Teleco’s….but I still think that the last low hanging fruit is actual transaction processing at the point of purchase.

Build the customers trust…then hold their hand all the way to the cash register. Finally when you have them there; by handling the transaction (ala Visa, Mastercard) you have the most desirable of all action items…the purchase. Forget about all the pay per click stuff, if they could get a cut of Visa’s action..thats stupid money!

By: jhay

jhay — Sun, 13 May 2007 11:05:54 +0000

All I can say is, Google is the future of the web.