Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [mlw] on Friday 03 February 2006 16:05 \__
>
>> John Bailo wrote:
>>
>>> http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article342636.ece
>>>
>>> $13bn: Amount wiped off Google shares
>>> By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
>>>
>>> "Google's reputation as the internet phenomenon that can do no wrong
>>> took
>>> a new and unprecedentedly severe battering yesterday as investors,
>>> stunned by a quarterly earnings report falling far short of
>>> expectations, wiped more than 12 per cent off the value of the search
>>> engine company's stock."
>>
>> And how is this Google's fault?
>
>
> They just weren't good enough. They didn't manage to steal content which
> feeds the public with some extra funds. <sarcasm />
>
>
>> Actually, it is probably a god time to buy google as most of the bad hype
>> is based on coordinated attacks by Microsoft and its media puppets.
>
>
> Are you suggesting that the Goobuntu, Gopera, Low-cost Google PC and the
> Naspter acquisition rumours may have been spawned to act through
> incitement?
>
> Or is the "I'll fscking kill google" rave a better way?
>
> Microsoft are advertising to promote their new O/S, servers, XBox 360 and
> software solutions like there's no tomorrow. This now includes the cinema
> and ordinary TV channels. Deep pockets seem to help, but we are yet to see
> money spent directly on mission "extinguish Google". Live software is yet
> the main attempt.
Signing a deal for bucket loads of M$ advertisement is a big success, odd
how it happens you hear bad things about a Microsoft competitor when they
are blitzing the ads.
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