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Re: Google Will Eat Itself

#81

This reminds me of stock buy-back programs. The company, using company revenues, to buy the company. Although now I understand them, when I first heard of them I immediately thought it would lead to a stack overflow...

Just think of them as issuing a negative amount of new stock.

Re: Google Will Eat Itself

#83

This reminds me of stock buy-back programs. The company, using company revenues, to buy the company. Although now I understand them, when I first heard of them I immediately thought it would lead to a stack overflow...

If you find this amusing, you should read the book "devil take the hindmost," particularly the section on the south sea bubble. Tldr: in the south sea bubble it did eventually lead to a stackoverflow

How did buy-backs figure in that?

Re: Google Will Eat Itself

#87

This is a pretty genius idea. Use Google to buy Google stock. With the current share price, buying shares isn't exactly cheap. But collecting cash from their service is an effective way to reap the benefits of corporate growth in another way. Similarly: buying Tesla (TSLA) stock when it was cheap because you couldn't afford the Model S....and now you can afford it. That being said, it would seem that there would need…

> Similarly: buying Tesla (TSLA) stock when it was cheap because you couldn't afford the Model S....and now you can afford it.

This is how I'm funding my Model S purchase.

Re: Google Will Eat Itself

#88
post #13

FYI, in many European countries periods and commas in numbers are the reverse of how we use them in English- 405.413,19 is actually 405,413.19

And yet they say "Current Google Share Price : 495.01 USD".

They're not even consistent.

Re: Google Will Eat Itself

#89
I don't get it. They're paying for the servers for their websites and the content on the websites. They could just as easily keep the money from the ads. So essentially they're just buying the shares out of pocket.

Re: Google Will Eat Itself

#90
Appears this was created as an art/media installation by Ubermorgen in 2005 [1] that ran for a few years. Some believe it was a hoax [2], although it may have just been a brief but curious experiment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubermorgen#Life_and_career

[2] http://linearfix.tumblr.com/post/21838753641/is-google-will-...

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