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Isn't that Google's model? It's worked out pretty well for them.
by WillyF 14y ago
Isn't that Google's model? It's worked out pretty well for them.
- simonsarris 14y agoWell, when I look at companies that I might legitimately invest in, arguably the most important question is "what kind of room for growth is there?" Without getting too deep, its not hard to see Google become more than an ads company in the near future. Google Research. Google (self-driving) cars. Google ISP. Google Space Mining. Google the hardware manufacturer (hello moto). It's very difficult from my little point of view to see the same thing happening with Facebook. Their room for growth seems an awful lot smaller than most other companies worth investing in, and with their stats (higher market cap than Ford, huge P/E, etc), one would have to expect massive room for growth, but they haven't floated much in terms of monetization ideas other than ads and things that people may not like very much (privacy intrusive things, etc)
- nollidge 14y agoThere's nothing stopping Facebook from diversifying, too...
- pnathan 14y agoThe big win I see right now is that Google has a stable of brilliant researches in Google Research, and that is something that could be producing high quality industrial research for decades (Microsoft has a similar department). I actually think that Research departments are the long-term investment a company does, they will produce new and interesting concepts. I have never heard of a similar group for Facebook. I am sure they could put one together, but it takes years and years to get the right people and environment.
- Retric 14y agoThere's nothing stopping Honda from diversifying, too...
- gfosco 14y agoGoogle is everywhere, in everything. Google built a platform that allows others to build businesses on. I'm getting quite scared of them as well, but there's no comparing them with Facebook. Google has moved beyond just advertisements. Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Autonomous Cars, GMail, to name a few. Facebook is a colossal failure in the making, and I'm actually enjoying watching the stock fall. Disclosure: I have no connection to either company. I am a privacy advocate and think both will eventually become harmful to society at large.
- potatolicious 14y agoGoogle isn't strictly in the "get eyeballs, show ads" business - their meteoric success has been due to ad brokering, not the showing of the ads themselves. In short, they show ads to other people's eyeballs - being the broker is a much, much stronger position than being the one who has to collect all the pageviews.