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Another powerful acqusition by Google.
Google buys RSS company FeedBurner
I use Feedburner to track subscriptions to my RSS Feed. With Analytics and now Feedburner, Google is a one stop shop for tracking who’s on your site, which is of course very powerful for advertising.
Google shares over $500 today.
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From our Thought of the Geek column here at SSC - “If you’re into trying predict what Google is evolving towards, this article outlines what they’ve bought in the last 12 months. Make of it what you will!
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/053107-google.html“
Google is a one stop shop for tracking who’s on your site, which is of course very powerful for advertising.
I think that Google can do that already.
Off-topic, but perhaps interesting as this article describes some frictions between Google & Microsoft at the moment.
Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept
My opinion on this anti-trust thing is about state interference in private businesses. Microsoft has a product, Vista which is private property (yes, owner is Microsft and not Google), and the state is trying to muzzle the owner, Microsoft (the producer) from its own choosing of what they can or can’t bundle with their own Vista software. The State nor anyone else (Google in this case) have no right to tell or demand private property owners of what they can or can’t do with their own (intellectual) properties.
A good analogy of this scenario, perhaps that if I demand Rod Drury via appealing to the state authority to allow my software to be bundled with his Accounting software. I (or anyone including the state),have no right to demand of Rod (to muzzle Rod), of what functionalities he can or can’t develop into his accounting software. It is Rod’s private property, and the public including the state can keep their nose out of Rod’s property.
Some will say, it is monopoly. That is true. But this only happens when the market allows the monopoly to flourish and not standing up and compete with it. Microsoft & Yahoo were the duopoly prior to the emergence of Google in the late 1990s which took the number #1 spot. These 2 are fighting back to topple Google.
I think that this anti-trust thing is going crazy since it hinders development & innovation and Google must learn to live with it because Microsoft & Yahoo are not piggybacking their search engine on Google own. I mean , Microsoft & Yahoo had not demanded the state to force Google to index their search engine collection of documents.