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Originally Posted by kgun
...finace and economics that is my main education and experience.
Yes, that is your opinion.
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Actually it is also very close to my own opinion if you are gathering statistical understanding.
I am encouraged that your background may be finance and economics. Perhaps you may help elucidate on how Google is an advertising network of homogenized affiliate websites paid to provide landing pages with content for it’s advertisers?
Since I have done many business plans I do understand the need to define the business. Google is not a search engine. If I were to create a plan where my business model was to return relevant results on a query than no investment bank in the world would back me. I would need to show a plan where I can earn my keep and show an exit strategy for the investors. Standard no?
So, if you created the Google business plan would it include that it was a link farm selling links? Hi, we are Google. Our business is to sell advertising on our affiliated sites using a massive database of affiliates that homogenize their sites to serve your advertising into the hands of niche markets using a public "front," or face of a search engine. The affiliate sites will create content suitable for your sales niche and it will be in the form most acceptable to the advertiser and promoted through a massive search engine that will highlight the best of our properties to sell your products. We can manipulate the return results to exclude content that might enhance competition, penalize sites that go outside our system, and even censor for political reasons as long as you pay the price. With such a business plan they could become what they are.
They never did IPO until they had that business model and I think that is what our friend was speaking to. Once it became a corporate machine its goals must change. It is finance and economics not search results that make a business like Google.
As far as the fellows who do not like sig lines or identification you may not like to lend them money but to listen to their opinion does not need much more than a discerning mind that can digest and comprehend. I pay a huge price for my intransigence and being outspoken does not make a good business plan either. So he has reason to his madness.