Google’s Mayer says philosophy intact

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Since I took a potshot at Google a couple of days ago I wanted to link to Marissa Mayer’s post about the AOL announcement where she basically said that Google’s philosophy is intact.

Search-engine expert John Battelle, on the other hand (he wrote a book about Google and the search industry that’s been getting raves), is a little bit skeptical in response to Marissa’s post.

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6 thoughts on “Google’s Mayer says philosophy intact”

  1. I know that very few things Google do make financial sense, but that makes no sense. Why drop some large amount of money into AOL – vastly overvaluing their business – and not get anything out of it?

    I was recently reading something about Atari’s initial forays into the home game console market (in the context of Lucasfilm Games, from the book “Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution” by Michael Rubin). Chapter 18 of that book is the relevant one and is freely available (at the moment) from http://www.droidmaker.com/Droidmaker.Ch18.pdf. Atari were basically completely out of control, and Google sound like they’re similarly out of control.

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  2. I know that very few things Google do make financial sense, but that makes no sense. Why drop some large amount of money into AOL – vastly overvaluing their business – and not get anything out of it?

    I was recently reading something about Atari’s initial forays into the home game console market (in the context of Lucasfilm Games, from the book “Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution” by Michael Rubin). Chapter 18 of that book is the relevant one and is freely available (at the moment) from http://www.droidmaker.com/Droidmaker.Ch18.pdf. Atari were basically completely out of control, and Google sound like they’re similarly out of control.

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  5. Good read, those are.

    You posted a link to his blog but did not trackback?? I don’t know much about blog etiquette but is this normal Robert ? Forgive me if i’m wrong.

    Jason

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  6. Good read, those are.

    You posted a link to his blog but did not trackback?? I don’t know much about blog etiquette but is this normal Robert ? Forgive me if i’m wrong.

    Jason

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