GOOG - Google Inc

I personally like Yahoo because they are moving towards making money off of subscription based fees.

GOOG looks good because they own AOL, and AIM which is the by far THE most popular messaging service, and if AIM users had google as their homepage, their would be a lot more traffic on google. Also when they actually intergrate AIM into the google website, it will be huge...

$600???? I laughed when they said $300

GOOG seems like a stock that has had about 4 different high water marks. Yet it kept going up. I enjoy watching the stock but I really don't want to touch it either way. I don't see it going much higher right now but how in the world could you bet against it?

Are you laughing at $300 now that its at $430?

I think Yahoo is going to be the future. You have to think to what is next. They are doing really well with their Yahoo Music, but really what will be next.

I think the next big thing will be TV. TV on the internet. Yahoo has the perfect site for this, and I think they will become huge, subscription rates will be very high, yet they will be a lot cheaper than cable providers. I was itching to get some Yahoo Options earlier today but hesitated...

Well here is the thing, I personally don't think that Google is losing marketshare when Yahoo puts up ads, simply because the market is not saturated yet. The online ad market is just being tapped into and has A LOT of room to grow. Now businesses are looking at internet ads as an effective way to place their product, brand, service in the middle of the consumer.

Also I think AOL will add to Google's growth, and keep them in the number 1 spot...

MindOverMarkets currently holds no position in Yahoo, or Google.

No im crying

I'll forget my neg. divergence thread and jump on this band wagon. That thread was for TA.

So $600? That's quite high. People like us might even stop posting about it in the forum. What's the point if you can't afford it?

Dont worry, Bubba, Stock Jockey will loan us the money

Cant afford it?

With stocks you are looking for PERCENTAGE gains...

But the higher this thing goes, the more scary it is, because people think it will come down, and investors are reminded of the late 90's with this kind of stock movement.

Yeah but how long will he do that?

I mean if 10 people want to buy one GOOG at the sticker price of $600, that's costing SJ-e 6 big ones already.

What happens if more people want to buy and GOOG just goes higher and higher?

On a ontopic note, I think GOOG will be innovative for quite a while. There's been points where I thought GOOG couldn't come up with something new. But they keep researching. They find new markets.

Personally, I don't think Yahoo's any threat to Google. Google is so different than Yahoo. Google cares about its users. Yahoo tries to screw them over by telling them who got fired on The Apprentice this week. Forget most people using PVRs who record such shows to watch them later. Yahoo doesn't tell this in the interest of telling latest news. But so people can see the "exclusive" videos on Yahoo and think to themselves, "Gosh, this Yahoo - I can't live without it!" But this ruins the whole fun of it.

Yahoo was good when it first started but now it's too commercial. Look at the Yahoo email inbox. You can barely see the Inbox link on the main window because the huge picture of a smiling girl for the Yahoo personals ad is blocking pretty much everything on the screen. All their games are all Java based, slow and full of ads. Sometimes it's hard to simply start a Pool game because of so many levels of "I don't want to buy this" clicks that one has to see.

Good luck if you install the Yahoo toolbar.

Google, on the other hand, has maintained an image that is getting most people to think, "Simplicity, thy name is Google." And it offers many useful services.

Hey, BTW, is this Ads by Goooooooooooooooooooooooogle after the first post a new thing? Really in the way.

Yeah they do not cease to amaze me. AWSOME COMPANY, but the stock has accounted for all of this, and their cutting edge image is why they have such a high P/E.

They will dominate the internet, the only thing is, I would like to see them offer more subscription based services, because they are totally relying on ad sales now, and because they are doing so well now, I think they should bring something else to the table that will drive earnings...

Day's Range: 418.22 - 433.25

Is google doing something we don't know about. Current price: $432.33. That's $17.47 (4.21%).

P.S. Market hasn't even closed yet!

$600 price target from piper jaffary...

Thats why the increase

Also, did you see the market today? Thats another reason...

FOMC minutes...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,3503327.story

Innovation:

Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other retailers, to sell a Google PC. The machine would run an operating system created by Google, not Microsoft's Windows, which is one reason it would be so cheap — perhaps as little as a couple of hundred dollars.

Bear Stearns analysts speculated in a research report last month that consumers would soon see something called "Google Cubes" — a small hardware box that could allow users to move songs, videos and other digital files between their computers and TV sets.

Google's future is not with it's own advertising models, however succsesful they might be. Their future is a giant marketing juggernaught who will sell it's marketing information to the highest bidders.

They collect staggering amounts of data on their users. Think about how much they can know about an internet consumer:

They know what topics you search on.
What keywords pop up in your e-mail.
If you use google toolbar, what web pages you visit. What hobbies you entertain.
With maps, where you go or want to go. If that's retail locations, they know what kind of consumer you are based on where you live.
With the new friends service they know where your friends go.
With the new technology the bought based on Wireless Phone GPS working with google maps, they will be able to target mobile advertisments directly to your location.

Move over timewaner, google will be the next information giant in the 21st century. In 10 years, I wouldn't be suprised if every advertising firm in the country depended on google for demographic studies and consumer information.

600? Naw... 500 and a split? Very likely. Either way, don't let the huge stock price fool you. The stock is still worth money if it falls. Don't look at it in terms of how many shares you have. Look at it terms of actual dollars and net worth.

I feel, GOOG's profit of last quarte will not beat the estimation.

GL

Google

With today's drop, we might be seeing a nice entry point. I know it can be argued either way, but I feel this stock can really pull forward based on how the court case goes. Anyone have any opinons on Google?