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A 3 minute historic overview of Google: The Most Powerful Company in the World?
Here is a quick 3 minute video to put the information that I posted
yesterday on Google into perspective. I strongly suggest all take the
time to watch it and post comments.
03:15
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followed by Microsoft. Subscribers should expect a strategic forensic
report to makes sense of the investment opportunities shortly
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Eric Schmidt the Google CEO is a Bilderberger
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Reggie, I like most of your stuff and I think you generally do a great job, but this piece is just retarded. Google is a massively overhyped and overvalued company worth nowhere near their current valuation. Please put down the Kool-Aid.
Have you ever noticed that Google spelled backwards is Elgoog. "El Goog" in Spanish is a variation of “The Globster”, which is a brain eating unidentified organic mass that washed up on a Canadian shoreline in 1962. It was described as a creature with "no visible eyes, no defined head, and no apparent bone structure". This seems to be what Reggie was meaning to say in his report, which took him 3 minutes to write, referenced above.
Yeah, its freaky from the individual perspective.
Might I suggest a macro perspective from someone that build a tic-tac-toe copmputer out of tinker toys as a child ...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive//6.01/hillis.html?person=danny_hillis...
I really had a hard time accepting this trend ten years ago. I pretty much came to the conclusion its inevitable. What is up in the air is how societies/cultures/goverments deal with these changes as they happen. For example, for US folks, what if there were a constituional amendment that simply stated your information is your property? Would the framers of the constitution, had they known a "google" would exist, ensured this right in the bill of rights in some form? What would these rights look like?
Acceptance is generational as well. Older folks are much more likely to be fearful than younger folks, whose opinion will slowly shift to acceptance over time. Remember when getting a drivers license was all about the state getting in your personal business? Know any 16 year old drivers would arent enthusiastically looking forward to getting their license?
I would also point out that if everyone in the world uses google, then its extremely likely that the CIA is genuinely interested in a few gmail accounts. There are many legitimate reasons for law enforcement to access this type of information. The video implies google is trying to (1) specifically identify a user and (2) store everything about that user and (3) cross section that with their DNA. Um, seriously?
There are more immediate and far graver plots with respect to privacy than this over reach.
There are many benefits to be had here, but there are also significant freedom risks. Consider breifly that this message exists in a forum (which I found via google a while back) that didn't exist ten years ago. I would note that the primary poster of content is a pseudonym. This community searchs for, processes, and shares information. Its more about ideas that tangible products. Privacy is just one aspect of this change that is going on, so be sure to keep your macro hat on!
Cooter
Google, outside the Fed, and current regime, and parts of past one's, are IMHO, the most Orwellian company on the planet.
They are like a leech............a tick, blood suckers.
They constantly are breaking COUNTRIES laws by Observation, mapping, and Privacy................globally.
Why do you think China threw a hissy pover them.
Takes a Spy to know ONE.
Greek swimming pool spys for the revenooers. - Ned
Ah! The voice of the Gekko.
Google has been criminally charged in Belgium, and is facing related proceedings in the EU, for illegally blocking the websites of a political refugee from the US who lives in Belgium, Google lawyers agreeing to help murder him. The guy is a non-Zionist Jew and there are anti-Semitic elements in the threats to kill him, so the charges against Google include aiding an attempt at genocidal murder.
It seems Google is a complete fraud about the 'internet freedom' issue; it is actually a CIA tool to help illegally censor the internet and kill people. This case is lumbering through the Belgian system but the media is ignoring it, though US interests are putting a lot of lies about the non-Zionist Jewish guy on the web and on Wikipedia.
There is a European-based search-engine Ixquick which does not censor search results to help the CIA, like Google does. This might be a good boost for them. You can see the victim's websites blocked from Google, not blocked on Ixquick.
A few years ago there was an article explaining that CIA seed money was used to develop Google, naming the CIA contact. Google is part of the US criminal schemes on the world, it needs to be brought down.
Links about the criminal charges against Google -
http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2010/01/64949.shtml
http://www.indymedia.be/node/31259
Google doesn't produce any wealth what-so-ever. They are simply information banks, taking their cut of the labor-value generated; fees produced not through interest, but instead, on information access (something that should be available to all). They are as despicable as any other parasite that only takes and produces NOTHING!!
Settle down sparky. If you dont like google - dont use it. Pretty simple actually. If you cant do what you want or get what you want without using Google then you've obviated your little screed. BTW, That kind of vitriol should be reserved for the Banksters and the politicians.
"That kind of vitriol should be reserved for the Banksters and the politicians."
Mr. Bitches,
The point was that they are doing the same exact thing as the banksters, only with information. But, thank you for caring just the same.
So- other than the 2% of the workforce involved in agriculture and about 10% involved in manufacturing - the rest are all parasites?
Entertainers, sports stars, lawyers, accountants, advertising folks, - all parasites- who "produce" nothing. Financial services - parasites .
So- everone should don blue tunics , be given a hoe and sent to work the fields - pronto!
So buy and hold Treasuries to maturity bub, and you'll get the answer to your question.
They make money from being a information intermediary......They collect and organize information and then sell that to the public with the use of advertising.....and soon subscription based user fees.
Google is pretty much the kingpin in a global click fraud scam, they defraud businesses out of billions of dollars.
yawn.
Exactly the reaction Google wants from you... Just ask why the CIA helped to fund google?
Their birth, initiation, integration and complicity with the government is well documented but little publicized. (I shall not speculate, but leave the reader to wonder why....)
Several years ago, there was initiated the Internet Identity Layer Protocol. It was designed to facilitate an industry wide standard to monitor individual access to the Internet, keep track of all sites visited, e-mails exchanged and so forth. Many ISP and search providers signed on to the protocol with the government. This has been documented on Wired on line amongst other sources.
Google, one article suggested first resisted being a party to such activities as it would have been an invasion of privacy of its users. Shortly thereafter the story goes, Google was threatened with anti-trust action by the Dept. of Justice due the the significant dominant market share they have of the search business.
Shortly thereafter, Google agreed to the Protocol and the anti-trust action disappeared. Several weeks ago in one of the Governmental records posted on line, was a series of statements taken from a press conference or release by a federal agency proposing that each user of the Internet in the US be required to have an identity card in order to log on and track their activities in a more forthright manner.... in the name of National Security. Many believe this to be the effective birthing of the Identity Layer Protocol, wherein each users activities will be tracked and available to governmental scrutiny.
Seems odd that the web, being a world wide entity would be better protected by complete open transparency of US citizens activities thereupon on behalf of the government. Indeed, many seem to believe that it is an attempt in addition to legislation proposed by congress to control the web in times of Natioanl Emergencies, to control access and information thereupon, through tracking user activities. Many feel this to be chillingly Orwellian, Big Brotherish.
Further, it is assumed by many that with the extent of open warrant-less access federal and other law enforcement agencies enjoy to on line activities through ISP and search providers, that privacy on the Web is becoming virtually nonexistent, to the point that many consider the Google/Chinese spat on censorship to be only one dimension of the Chinese being concerned that Google is, in essence due to openness of information cared therewith to the government, a publicly held arm of the NSA. (Reference Wikileaks and Cryptome)
Many, if not most consider the aforementioned points to be part of great conspiracy theory, tin foil hat rumors and silly speculation, but much of these concerns and considerations do rest in information in the public domain through sources considered reliable as mentioned earlier.
Uh, this is really not a correct viewing of MSFT's business model. MSFT always had an integrated business model. A simple example is that Office really only runs on Windows (it was cut from OS/2 and it is still brain-damaged on the Mac), which forces people to own Windows to have Office. Internet Explorer's market dominance w/default MSN home page drives people to MSN, which drives ads, etc. The server business is optimized to provide the best experience w/Windows clients, which drives sales of both Windows desktops and servers and in businesses. I could go on and on, but, the point is, that Google is doing nothing different from a macro-strategy perspective except optimizing for a different end-goal. Instead of trying to sell Office-Windows licenses and a little bit of everything else, Google gleans knowledge from the text available in multiple applications to improve search (and increase ad revenues).
"Office really only runs on Windows." This is just plain false. I've been a Mac user (and Mac software publisher in the past) since 1984. I use the Office software and find no shortcomings. I am not "forced" to own Windows.
Also, I did find it ironic that the video about Google that Reggie posted on his website is being served up by YouTube. Those folks criticizing Google are using Google's YouTube, not some other company's platform.
While Office has improved on the Mac, Excel support is still only rudimentary. But my point is that Mac penetration is less than 8% of the total PC market and Mac Office's revenue per Mac sold is ~70% lower on Macs than on Windows.
Microsoft gambled on Office/Windows combo early on. It was always an integrated business model.
YouTube is a money loser, google can afford to subsidize it (for now).