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Google Raises the Social Bar with New Friend Connect Feature

While content may be free, you can't find it w/o a search engine. Google is willing to trade you the use of its search engine in exchange for your willingness to view ads. If one is not willing to view ads, then one has nothing to offer Google and Google would have no reason to let you use its search engine. Perhaps for people who did not want to view ads, Google could charge them $20 per month for the use of its search engine and other tools. There are 6.7 billion people on the planet. Currently, 23.5% of the world's population have access to the internet. In 20 years, assume that increases to 75%, or 5 billion people. If 2 1/2 billion of those people don't want to view ads and are willing to pay $20 per month in exchange for the use of the search engine and other tools, that's $50 billion per month or $600 billion per year revenue. At at 30% net margin, that's $180 billion in profit per year times a 10 multiple is a market cap of $1.8 trillion dollars. That's why Google will be the first trillion dollar market cap company.
Long GOOG


On Feb 12 08:20 PM Marcap wrote:

> I agree 100%!
>
> At one time it was thought that the Internet was to be a somewhat
> passive entity with regards to advertising, in that users would be
> relatively free to surf the Net, and do as they pleased, without
> being subjected to the type of aggressive advertising campaigns that
> TV and radio subjects its audience to. Users in fact were simply
> expected to use the various search engines to search for items and
> services they wanted, and take it from there. Users had a real choice.
>
>
> But now, rather than the Internet offering even the remotest form
> of passive advertising, companies like Google are attempting to make
> the Internet a push-it-down-your-thro... 'must see this' arena of
> ads. The wise will however fight back to preserve what is left of
> this "free" Internet, and say "No" to such gimmicks as advertising
> Toolbars, pop-up / pop-under windows, flash display ads, advertising
> java applets, invasive browser modifications, and so on.
>
> There are many tools on the market now (simple browser add-ons) to
> protect the consumer from such an invasion of privacy. Just as many
> of us will switch TV or radio channels when annoying commercials
> come, perhaps it's time for us to do the same in order to block out
> Internet ads, and put the Internet back to what it use to be...and
> not simply allow the emergence of an Internet attempting to be monopolized
> (or at least controlled) by advertising companies such a Google,
> MSN, Yahoo, DoubleClick, Yieldmanager, Advertising.com, and so on.
> The stakes are high, and I believe that if we do not, one day soon,
> we will suddenly find that most content on the Internet will no longer
> be free, but rather it will take the form AOL did years ago...whereby
> you could "access" the Internet for your basic monthly fee, but beyond
> very basic access and content, everything else cost extra...a lot
> extra.
>
> On Feb 12 02:23 PM jackdee wrote:

Apple: The Best Is Yet To Come

No one's mentioned the itunes platform from which all music and video will be distributed. Look at the competition: Who has a better platform for distributing music? No one. Who has a better platform for distributing video? No one. Apple mfrs the device that get the video from the computer to your TV. The only possible competition would be if a business model took hold where music and video content was free and revenue was derived from advertising only. Could Google do this?