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Sat Aug 18, 2012, 09:00 AM

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19. One of the smartest Googlers from the time when they did innovation just became Yahoo's CEO

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And I think that's significant.

Google's practical/successful properties are search, gmail, and video. All monetized by ads. Android is a loss leader.

They are trying desperately to win at social, but Google+ is a ghost town.

My biggest problem with them is their data spying/mining. They have lost their way and headlines about fines for their practices are making people think twice about paying for their services. As long as they give services away, they will make money. Until better services come along, which will happen.

They are trying to get us to pay them, and people don't want to pay. Now they are trying to launch their own Internet provider service. I have a real problem with one company owning the data infrastructure and the data pipe.

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38 replies	Author	Time	Post
Facebook falls to half of public offering price [View all]	Omaha Steve	Aug 2012	OP
Cool. When it drops to penny stock status I might buy a few thousand shares just	kestrel91316	Aug 2012	#1
The sheep got sheared/	Fuddnik	Aug 2012	#2
they sure did	Liberal_in_LA	Aug 2012	#11
Everyone's Facebook pages are simply not worth that much.	vkkv	Aug 2012	#15
I hope this is the beginning of the end. I detest Facebook.	virgogal	Aug 2012	#3
+1	bupkus	Aug 2012	#18
my feeling as well. I just cannot describe why, exactly.	ChairmanAgnostic	Aug 2012	#20
I am sick sick SICK of facebook	Skittles	Aug 2012	#26
+1, FB seems so invasive. I don't group up with the guppies too well and with	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#27
Google will fail next.	onehandle	Aug 2012	#4
No, Google does one hell of a lot more than that	Occulus	Aug 2012	#5
Facebook is a fad. Google is attempting to own the Internet.	onehandle	Aug 2012	#6
Pretty much.	JackRiddler	Aug 2012	#7
One of the smartest Googlers from the time when they did innovation just became Yahoo's CEO	onehandle	Aug 2012	#19
goggle+? hmm. never heard of it. Ooops, GOOgle.	ChairmanAgnostic	Aug 2012	#21
You can yahoo her.	David Zephyr	Aug 2012	#24
Savy observation, onehandle. Yahoo's sitting in a very good position now.	David Zephyr	Aug 2012	#23
Facebook and Google are opposites. The Wall Street sheep herd never understood that. They still do	BlueStreak	Aug 2012	#10
CIA venture funding started up Google...	AntiFascist	Aug 2012	#25
Exactly!!! And, I'm always amazed at how many don't understand that what is	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#28
Case in point...	AntiFascist	Aug 2012	#30
Exactly...	malokvale77	Aug 2012	#31
And Peter Thiel of In-Q-Tel was the key VC "angel" for Facebook.	JackRiddler	Aug 2012	#36
This post was hidden by jury decision.	cottonseed	Aug 2012	#32
I have never clicked on one ad on Facebook.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#8
I'm the only person on a social networking/blogging site who will admit to liking facebook?	XemaSab	Aug 2012	#9
I hate facebook	Liberal_in_LA	Aug 2012	#12
Where is the button for like this thread	jsr	Aug 2012	#13
Suckers. nt	SunSeeker	Aug 2012	#14
lol	iamthebandfanman	Aug 2012	#16
As much as I hate Wall Street..	sendero	Aug 2012	#17
A good growth company like FB should be worth 20x earnings.	banned from Kos	Aug 2012	#22
Absolutely. That should be the starting point for valuation.	BlueStreak	Aug 2012	#33
I heard MySpace is coming back into fad!	DontTreadOnMe	Aug 2012	#29
"Like"	TeamPooka	Aug 2012	#34
I'm experiencing Schadenfriende	Sabriel	Aug 2012	#35
So a super-hyped company that produces basically nothing and which lost a big	petronius	Aug 2012	#37
This was a sucker bet from the door.	MrSlayer	Aug 2012	#38

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