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JBMoney
10-26-05, 07:38 PM
Business Week (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc20051027_587849.htm) - It's not enough that Google seems to be taking on everyone from Microsoft and Yahoo! to Verizon and the world's book publishers. Now, it looks like the search giant has its sights set on tearing into another cast of corporations: online marketplace eBay, the funky classified-ad site Craigslist, the entire newspaper industry, and maybe more.

Google's already outsize ambitions appeared to balloon even bigger on Oct. 25 with the news that it's apparently testing something called Google Base. The test site, spotted by sharp-eyed Web surfers in Europe, indicate that Google aims to solicit people to post all manner of content on its site. But what got people's attention were the specific examples, such as classified-ad listings for real estate. - Whole Story (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc20051027_587849.htm)

rickmode
10-29-05, 12:46 PM
Google wants to be the new M$, evidently.

JBMoney
10-29-05, 12:50 PM
Ni hao. You buy panda?

Favetti
10-30-05, 03:15 PM
Cheap, cheap?

Is this a focused horizontal business plan or random shotgunning to see what hits and sticks?

Or is it, "hey everyone, we were only kidding. We're still friends. Yeah, good friends. Oh by the way, we bought you yesterday. Don't worry though. We're still friends. Yeah, good friends."