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SirJeannot
2003-11-10, 06:58
wth is that ...
one friend told me about that this morning ... anyone has information about it?
Tomomi
2003-11-10, 07:13
Nope... So weird... Who in the world wants to own Google? Not as if they can earn from it. Google is just a search machine... :twitch:

Or does Google have other special functions? Hmm...
SirJeannot
2003-11-10, 07:29
i was thinking about their valuable database ;)
Animaniac
2003-11-10, 07:36
It was rumored that Microsoft was talking with Google about a buy out (since Google's doing their IPO soon). But they didn't have a deal. Microsoft wants to control everything. They're going to integrate a search enging into their next version of Windows and do what they did to Netscape to Google.
Tomomi
2003-11-10, 07:50
It was rumored that Microsoft was talking with Google about a buy out (since Google's doing their IPO soon). But they didn't have a deal. Microsoft wants to control everything. They're going to integrate a search enging into their next version of Windows and do what they did to Netscape to Google.

Oh... So what's IPO?
[^_^x]
2003-11-10, 07:53
Nope... So weird... Who in the world wants to own Google? Not as if they can earn from it. Google is just a search machine... :twitch:

Or does Google have other special functions? Hmm...

Google can used to find people. ^^ Google makes its money thru ads as do most sites.
NightWish
2003-11-10, 08:17
Oh... So what's IPO?
The IPO (http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/ipo) (Initial Public Offering) is the initial sale of stock by a company... It is basically where they go from being privately owned by an individual or group to being publicly owned by lots of independent shareholders.
BME
2003-11-10, 09:39
Seems more like Google is moving away from Microsoft, now you don't even need to have your browser open, CNN has the details http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/11/09/google.desktop.ap/index.html
p3psi
2003-11-10, 11:23
I thought yahoo already owned google, cuz what ever search you plug into either, they pop out the same exact results in the exact order
SirJeannot
2003-11-10, 11:39
I thought yahoo already owned google, cuz what ever search you plug into either, they pop out the same exact results in the exact orderyahoo has been using google for quite a while now ;)
Breogan
2003-11-10, 12:40
They make money from those small adds that appear in the right of your browser when you do a search (I think they call them Ad-Words or something like that)

It would be quite funny to see MS trying to move the thousands of Linux servers that Google uses to Windows ;)