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If DuckDuckGo could really make $301+ M on search in Firefox, they would bid that. Reality, they can't. There is no value created in the imagined middle man investor.

It's a great option to consider, but: * What matters is not just default placement, but actual share. How many would not switch to Google? Say hypothetically half which I think is …

The dynamics behind the deal are interesting. Google probably paid just enough to outbid Bing, the second highest bidder. Or Firefox played a great hand of poker with Google. In ei…

I don't think it is productive to blame "the players". In fact, it obscures the issue. Look at it from the perspective of the patents (in a Dawkins sense). Patents want to make mon…

Ask the shareholders. And since I am one I'll answer. I don't have a problem with this at all. $300M is about 1/1000 of the current market cap. The rewards are spread over 10 years…

Freakonomics had another entertaining podcast related to Nathan, namely his work on "molecular gastronomy" and comparing to traditional cooking. http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/01…

And my assessment is that the article is wrong. Google+'s goal is absolutely to kill Facebook. With something this important to Google, they want to control it themselves. If not, …

True. But to go a level deeper, Facebook is dangerous to Google, because: 1) The competitive advantage of AdSense ($10 billion in annualized revenue) is all about having better use…

Pointless generalization. Engineers have their place: as individual contributors without customer facing roles. Not at the top or any management position.

1) lobby your congressman and senator. get everyone on HN to do the same in a co-ordinated way. 2) ask them to lower the barriers to invalidate patents. many big companies includin…

Seems like a very poor choice for Eric to appear in front of Congress. Can only result in bad PR for Google and hightened scrunity of Google. My favority Schmidt gaffe thus far was…