Google Gorg replacing Microsoft Borg? Don’t be P/E vil?


Chris “Factory Joe” Messina of Flock has a provocative post about how Google is …. continuing to take over the internet world. Although I’m more concerned about the virtual monopoly on search rather than Google’s assualt on Microsoft’s virtual monopoly … Continue reading

Online Sheep get the revenue shaft. Hey Google, when you gonna show *Average Joe’s* the money rather than Rupert Murdoch?


Business week is fretting over how Google will monetize the YouTube content and whether they’ll share with Myspace owners News Corp. Myspace users have embedded tons of YouTube video content in their personal pages so this is potentially a big … Continue reading

Time Warner to Google: We spell your merger “SueTube”. Battelle to TW: Lookout!


John Battelle thinks Time Warner is mistaken to attack Google on copyright, writing over at Searchblog: a shot across the bow may bring a broadside from the other side I usually agree with John Battelle but I don’t really follow … Continue reading

Prediction: Google will buy Facebook for about 1.1 billion


Irrational exuberance in the dot com shopping aisles? No, it’s a chess game and Google’s winning….again. I’m really starting to understand what seems like irrational exuberance on the part of Google and the major players. A Google aquisition of Facebook … Continue reading

Ballmer on YouTube Google “transferring the wealth out of the hands of rights holders into Google”


This is a great interview by Business Week of Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer on Web 2.0 valuations and the competitive landscape up at the top of the heap, where Ballmer suggests only companies like MS, Google, Yahoo, and EBAY can … Continue reading

Google may not be evil, but their advertisers often are. Facilitators of illegal ads should be held accountable


Although I think Google really tries to follow the “don’t be evil” mantra I think it now rings fairly hollow (ha – especially if it’s ringing up a ringtone ad scam at Google Adwords). The problems are click fraud and … Continue reading