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The problem, even if Google wanted to sell it: finding a buyer who: a) has the money, and, b) thinks they can find success where Google failed.
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Google's ventures outside search fail to pay dividends
By Chris O'Brien Mercury News
08/22/2008
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"Name me anything they've been successful in beside search," Chowdhry said. "I think the board and management of Google need a total overhaul."
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In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company noted that revenue from services such as YouTube, Google Checkout and a host of others "were not material."
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[mercurynews.com...]
P.S. Does anyone know how much money Google makes off Google Groups? (It bought deja.com years ago.)
[edited by: goodroi at 5:33 pm (utc) on Aug. 24, 2008]
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"Name me anything they've been successful in beside search," Chowdhry said.
Sounds like jealousy to me.
"Name me anything they've been successful in beside search,"
Now, if profit is the only yardstick for "success," I'd remind them that in the begining Google didn't make any money off search, so they would have classified as "unsuccessful." Then again, maybe Chowdhry wrote them off then too? :)
