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Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

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Re: Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

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Post by foobarqux »

JonSkeptic wrote: post #3

I think this is interesting because it matches my user experience with Google products in a very inverted way. Google search has gotten worse and worse lately, forcing me on to other search engines with worse UIs just so that I can get useful results. Youtube UI gets worse every time they update it. They cancelled the RSS reader. The email UI keeps getting worse and featuring more ads. But the stock value hit $1000.…

It's a good indication of market power (and therefore business value) when products get worse but users still buy.

Re: Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

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Post by nonchalance »

dragontamer wrote: post #27

The value of a company is not measured in its individual stock price, but instead measured in its market cap. The real headline should be: Google hits $330 Billion market cap, making it the 3rd most valuable company in the world.

$1000/sh seems like a more momentous headline than $330B market cap.

On the other hand, It's more likely that we see the headline "$1T company" than "$3030.30/sh"

Re: Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

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Post by anon1385 »

nonchalance wrote: post #39
anon1385 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ads depend on your location etc. We have had a discussion about this same example before and plenty of people got similar results: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6533287 e.g. http://i.imgur.com/mhJhc5W.png and http://i.imgur.com/2iFv7Yf.png And for what it's worth, this is the result I got just now in the UK: http://i.imgur.com/YHXngwR.png

It could be because the plus500.co.uk is manifestly UK (and people saying otherwise are probably based in the US).

Yes, it's just an example. I'm sure there are other terms that get more ads in the US than the UK. The point isn't this exact search term, it's that there are combinations of searches+locations that return pages where the entire of the visible page is filled with ads or google content and you have to scroll to see any real results at all.

Re: Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

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Post by trevmckendrick »

Share price is relatively meaningless. It needs to be paired to total shares outstanding.

It's arbitrary by itself because it's a function of shares outstanding and total market value, one of which the company can (relatively easily) control via stock splits.

Re: Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

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Post by ChikkaChiChi »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #32
dragontamer wrote: post #27

The value of a company is not measured in its individual stock price, but instead measured in its market cap. The real headline should be: Google hits $330 Billion market cap, making it the 3rd most valuable company in the world.

True that. Too many people are obsessed with the stock price, when really it's just marketcap/outstanding shares...

If a person owns share of GOOG, then I think its allowable.

Re: Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

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Post by CatMtKing »

anon1385 wrote: post #16
NathanKP wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm no Google fanboy but what you are saying is a pretty strong accusation. Where is the data to back what you are claiming Google is doing?

http://i.imgur.com/eBtzYic.png see any organic search results there?

Google's profile of you probably adjusts the number of ad results that show up. If so, then if you use the service anonymously, you'd probably get the whole shebang.

Re: Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

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Post by dman »

jwcooper wrote: post #25
turing wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And in my experience Google products have gotten significantly better and more polished in the last few years. Goes to show that their products aren't getting worse , just shifting in focus and priority.

Some products have improved, and some have gotten worse (losing Exchange on Gmail, Reader, Google Talk, Google Checkout) and some haven't changed in years (Google Finance). I use a lot of Google services, and it's frustrating when they keep removing features, or killing off products that I use daily. It's gotten to the point where I'd rather pay for a service now and be the customer rather than signing up for another…

Google should just shut the google finance android app down. Its so bad its embarassing. Adding arbitrary securities (some foreign adrs in the cases I have found) will prevent any portfolios from being displayed at all. When you open the app and hit update it will update the portfolios and show a notification that portfolios updated but the portfolios themselves will never appear anywhere in the UI.

Re: Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

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Post by smtddr »

antsar wrote: post #34
anon1385 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://i.imgur.com/eBtzYic.png see any organic search results there?

Just to show that sharkweek's reply isn't an outlier, here is the same search with adblock turned off, from a US address. http://i.imgur.com/Ed0UYER.png

me too! (California Bay Area) http://i.imgur.com/yaEh1xY.png

This is kinda fun. I'd like a website that showed screenshots of popular search-results on Google from across the world.

Re: Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

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Post by smoorman1024 »

trevmckendrick wrote: post #44

Share price is relatively meaningless. It needs to be paired to total shares outstanding. It's arbitrary by itself because it's a function of shares outstanding and total market value, one of which the company can (relatively easily) control via stock splits.

Well GOOG added $36 billion dollars of market cap overnight. To put that into perspective that is 9 BBRYs (RIMM), 1.5 TSLA's, 1.5 LNKD's, or 0.5 UNP's (Union Pacific).
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