Comments on: Google develops moral minerals

By: JamesK

JamesK — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:21:54 +0000

Yep, a massive amount of Google’s future bottom line is wrapped up in the public continuing to trust them. It will be the biggest challenge they face as they continue to grow.

Very hard to see how their whole China thing was ever going to work.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:35:27 +0000

Are they really? I thought the google announcement described the income as ‘immaterial’.

Also, that is not what I meant. I meant that they are protecting their global revenues which are pretty heavily based on, amongst other things, people’s willingness to put their information in google’s hot little hands.

No trust for google, no business model. $300m, even if remotely true, is pissing in the ocean.

And I saw another report (I think the write-up in this week’s Economist) that suggested this might have been partly opportunistic as a way to shut up (an apparently expensive) shop in China and gain face (overall) at the same time.

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:54:28 +0000

Well they’re risking about $300 million dollars of income from the Chinese market.

Luckily for Page and Brin, they and their friends at Google have a class of share with higher voting power.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:40:46 +0000

Not such a ‘sacrifice’ – they are above all protecting the integrity of google accounts.

By: derrida derider

derrida derider — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:57:00 +0000

Yes, but gangsters and thugs who were quite willing to cut them in on their rackets. So it’s quite a sacrifice by Google.