why is google so expensive?
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Part of the reason is that Wall street is excited about search, and google being the #1 search engine, commands a higher multiple in the open market.
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It is because of the following reasons following reasons:\n\nPros of Google:\n\nAs a seach engine, google has the best relevance and presents the results in a way that I find easy to decide what pages are best for me. Its the best in terms of researching information.\n\nFor makin money, a #1 on google is worth many times more than a #1 on yahoo. Yahoo! blocks the top of the SERPs with sponsored ads.\n\nGoogle also has a neat interface. Yahoo is not bad too, but its interface is not that neat. The reason for that being it to be a portal. I think a nice interface is very important since people will come back more often if so.\n\nThe relevance of search results make its 'Feeling Lucky' feature pretty useful. Firefox address bar by defaults goes to 1 site listed on your search results.\n\nGoogle has tried to stay away from Spam/ misleading sites better than other search engines.\n\nCons of Google:\n\nHowever, few problems with google, its web crawler dosen't capture hyperlinks from PDF files stored on net, a feature which Yahoo provides.\n\nAlso, Google at present does not provide an index for video aggregation through the web crawler, a feature which Altavista provided since 1999. The problems include accuracy of the media file. That is the reason for providing Google Videos where users have to submit videos.\n\nDue to a larger share of 'searching' community, Google has been targeted by bloggers by planting Google Bombs. Because most bloggers mention the word failure with President Bush's name, the #1 site on searching Failure is the website of President Bush.\n\nYahoo is doing pretty good research in Search Technologies, for example Grokker.\n\nhttp://www.grokker.com/grokker.html?query=Anirudh%20Koul&Yahoo=true&Daypop=true&numResults=250
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With $112 Billion you can buy:\nThe entire New York Stock Exchange ($10 Billion)\nE*Trade ($10 Billion)\nTD Ameritrade ($10 Billion)\nAll the Hilton Hotels in the World ($10 Billion)\nSeagate ($11 Billion)\nSandisk ($11 Billion)\nFord ($12 Billion)\nAmazon ($13 Billion)\nGeneral Motors ($13 Billion)\nAll the Taco Bells, Pizza Huts and Kentucky Fried Chickens of the World ($14 Billion)\n\nI suggest you to research how much profits all these companies combined make each year as opposed to just $1.4 Billion Google makes.\n\nAt the current rate Google is going to be more expensive than the entire United States of America in a few years.
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For the love of google. You must love google. Use google a lot, adwords pays them out.
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Because Google pay people to research your question and get really good answers.\n\nOn Yahoo anyone can answer your question so you might get a good answer or you might just get a totally rubbish answer.\n\nIn short you get what you pay for.
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No... All I know is that the reason gas is so expensive is because of supply and demand... maybe you should talk about that for 5 pages!!! I know I could... Well, there, I actually did help you!!! You are welcome...
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For the same reason that a plasma TV or a Saab is expensive: you pay for the quality of the product. Plus it doesn't help that they're an extremely hot item right now.
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that would be very expensive, even if you could. \n\njust use the internet.
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Hard to say on that one, nobody has a 100% prediction rate so you have to understand the future of Google. Below is a link that talks about some reasons Google stock might not be such a good investment. If your looking for reasons Google would be, you have to have a look at some of the wall street bidders.
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I prefer Google. It's faster, returns more relevant hits, and provides more options.
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Gstockreport.com, a report on Google stock  \nby Steve Baba, Ph.D.\n\nGoogle is a great website, but a lesson of the dotcom bubble is that a great website is not always a great business.  Google’s expected IPO has attracted enormous, one-sided, positive buzz from Google fans, techies nostalgic about the boom years, and day traders hoping for quick profits.   \n\nFor balance, below is a list of Google’s many potential business challenges, several of which could turn Google into a penny stock.    A more detailed analysis is available at the bottom of this page. \n\n23 Reasons Google Could Become a Penny Stock  \n\n1.  Companies that grow quickly by viral marketing, also known as word-of-mouth advertising, can fall just as quickly by competitors’ viral marketing.   \n\n2.  Companies that grow quickly from free publicity can also fall quickly by competitor’s free publicity.    \n\n3.  Switching costs and brand loyalty of search engine users are low.   \n\n4.  A winner-take-all business, also known as a contest business model, is only profitable if you are the winner, as Google is today.      \n\n5.  While Google is free to searchers, a price of zero, profit-lowering price-competition is still possible with a negative price.   \n\n6.   In addition to price competition, search engines can compete for users by offering less advertising.   \n\n7.  A competitor could develop a better, patentable search algorithm, as some hopeful inventors claim to be working on.   \n\n8.  The search engine industry may be in a temporary disequilibrium, and the long run equilibrium, dominance by Google or highly competitive industry, is unknown.    \n\n9.  Microsoft and Yahoo might actually try and compete with Google.   \n\n10.  The rapidly declining cost of technology, computers, storage, and bandwidth (Moore’s Law), will reduce the cost of entry for competitors.   \n\n11.  Any competitor can outsource software deployment to India, Russia or China, which will reduce the cost of entry for competitors enabling new competitors.   \n\n12.  There is open source competition.   \n\n13.  The increasing power of programming tools, languages, and scripts reduces programming costs, which increases competition.   \n\n14.  Google’s revenue source, text Pay-Per-Click advertising (PPC) often causes a race to the bottom as the most expensive/profitable products outbid less expensive products for the limited PPC positions, having negative reputational then financial effects.   \n\n15.  Text pay-per-click advertising is only one form of advertising and is subject to competition from other forms of advertising.   \n\n16.  Google’s revenue source, advertising, may be blocked or replaced by ad blocking software.   This is similar to the TiVo problem for television advertisers. \n\n17.  Google’s reported 50% margin with AdSense (displaying ads on third party sites) is unsustainably high for a middleman.   \n\n18.  Much of Google’s future profit potential depends on brand extension to other services, such as their shopping comparison site Froogle or Gmail, which involves risks and cannibalization.   \n\n19.  Being number one, Google is the number one target for search engine spammers and search engine optimizers, which reduces Google’s quality.   \n\n20.  After an IPO, with no prospect of great stock options to employees, Google may be at a comparative disadvantage attracting and retaining top talent.\n\n21.  Google may not discover significant new advances in search if none are there to be easily discovered and all the easy techniques, the low hanging fruit, were already discovered, wasting Google’s research investment.   \n\n22.  In contrast to the already discovered and easily copied low hanging fruit, the high hanging fruit of artificial intelligence may be decades away if it’s even possible, wasting Google’s research investment.   \n\n23.  Everyone online, including Internet entrepreneurs, uses Google or another search engine, making search a
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The reason RDRAM is so expensive is because it is proprietary(Proprietary indicates that a party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property, usually to the exclusion of other parties.\n\nWhere a party, holds or claims proprietary interests in relation to certain types of property (e.g. a creative literary work, or software), that property may also be the subject of intellectual property law (e.g. copyright or patents).\n\nThere is a great article/review about RAMBUS (RDRAM) here: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1097\n\nI own computers that use RAMBUS (RDRAM), & some that use DDR, and I do not see a major diffrence between the DDR & RAMBUS (RDRAM)
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Not unless you like lots of risk. Google is a very volatile stock.  There is no doubt that Google is over valued but let me remind you of the internet bubble of 1998-2000. These stock were overpriced in 1998 but that did not prevent them from rising another 5 fold--some of which were not worth the paper the certificates were printed on--Global Crossing comes to mind. Cisco was selling at 20 in 1998 and 100 in 2000. Now it under 20. And it is a good company. Google is too. \n\nIf you really, really have a hanckering to short Google two ways to do it to minimize your risk are as follows: 1) is to buy a put on the stock. The put will give you a period of time to sell Google at a particular price. \n\nFor example a 370 put expiring in the end of June 2006 will currently cost you $2100 for 100 shares. If the stock closes below $348 by the expiration date in June you will make money. If not you will loose your $2100 but nothing more. Of course you may ask why does the put cost so much when the stock is currently selling at 435.  Because a lot of people think it might be over priced. \n\nAs the price of Google rises and falls, the price of the options also rises and falls and as the option approaches the expiration date, its value also falls.\n\n2) short the stock and buy a call option. The call option gives you the ability to buy the stock at a given price for a given length of time. That way if Google rises 30 points the day after you short it, your loss is limited to the cost of the call option.
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In my opinion, Google was never something more than a great search engine. In an early era where dial-up was more common than broadband, Google built a top-notch engine with a very light UI which made it an immediate favorite amongst a lot of users. What was nice about Google was that it never aspired to be something someone else was, it created its own identity as a very comprehensive search engine. However, offlate, I have started losing faith in Google, especially because their objectives and goals as a company seem very unclear. A chunk of their revenue still comes through ads, and their search engine is really the only intellectual property they have developed from the ground-up, otherwise everything else is either just an acquisition or a bad idea. Google earth was previously keynote, Google Talk has been built upon Jabber which is an open source technology for messaging and these were the "other" great ideas besides the search engine, but things like web accelerators and secure connection through VPN are just lame excuses to drive internet traffic through their servers.\n\nAnother great idea from Google was desktop search, but somehow they never capitalized on the idea, and today MSN has come out tops in this department.\n\nAt the end of the day, Google isnt running out of ideas, I think they are running out of focus, something that companies like Yahoo have and very well defined ones at that.
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Not really, it's probably more of a "failing experiment."\n\nThe fact is that the website has low web-traffic and the advertising price is outrageous. \n\nIngenious idea, maybe; but not for this day and age. \n\nWhy would people spend that kind of money when Google and all the other search engines offer a much better deal and use adwords/adsense that brings up relative ads to the topic which someone is searching.\n\nGood luck paymydreams.com
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Because Google has a better search algorithm.
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Google is doing many good things and is still growing. If you can, I would buy as much as you can. I can see Google (GOOG) going up to $600.00 per share. You will need to hang on, it will be a wild ride this stock is going to be very volatile.