Not buy it in the first place?

I really doubt this google company has any long term potential. What the hell is this "investing in development" shiat? Why aren't they laying off employees?

I own Google stock partly because they "don't care about investors". Good for them. Maybe that'll translate into something meaningful and successful that will pay off for everyone involved, including the consumer. Or not. Regardless, this quarterly earnings treadmill and the fact that everything rides on it is silly, short-sighted and ultimately harmful. I like to watch that stock bump 20% in one day too after a "successful" earnings call, but if it was because the company had to sell the office furniture, count their earnings from 3 quarters in the future or whatever accounting nonsense they use, then that 20% isn't going to be there long, and it probably won't translate into 300% on down the road.

And by the way, his reasons for not holding Google are silly. I expected some thorough analysis and some reasoned thought as to why Google might be a sell. Instead, we get one reason being an unknown, and two more reasons that are both the same thing: Google isn't driven to please their investors 24/7. That first reason by the way is kind of ignorant too. Life is nothing but unknowns. Any company you invest in has unknowns like that out there, and nothing is a sure bet.

I'd be more concerned about Google wanting to buy Groupon a little while back, which even then seemed shortsighted and a waste of money. That made me wonder just how well they knew what they were doing.

Oh, I see. Buy low. Sell high. Thanks, subby!

A company that's hiring people and expanding rather than selling off all it's assets when the accountant comes? Long term thinking over short term greed? Preposterous, they won't last a day!

They make disdain for investors sound like a bad thing, sheesh!

I never listen to stock analysts. If those morans knew what they were talking about, they wouldn't be working for a living.

Sun Worshiping Dog Launcher: and two more reasons that are both the same thing: Google isn't driven to please their investors 24/7.

Which is funny, since a success business makes for successful investors.

Sun Worshiping Dog Launcher: And by the way, his reasons for not holding Google are silly. I expected some thorough analysis and some reasoned thought as to why Google might be a sell. Instead, we get one reason being an unknown, and two more reasons that are both the same thing: Google isn't driven to please their investors 24/7. That first reason by the way is kind of ignorant too. Life is nothing but unknowns. Any company you invest in has unknowns like that out there, and nothing is a sure bet.

I'd be more concerned about Google wanting to buy Groupon a little while back, which even then seemed shortsighted and a waste of money. That made me wonder just how well they knew what they were doing.

Re Groupon: they had no interest in actually owning it. They wanted to look at the books and the business model and then scram. Groupon probably knew that (and that their business model is lousy) and refused

make me some tea: I owned a bit of Google once, I sold it at a small profit. Made about $100 on it.

I came into some money (about $10K) end of december 2004. Wanted to buy $5K of google and $5K of apple, but was convinced that putting it into bonds would be a better investment. That apple stock would be worth about $100K now. Google would be worth something like $25K. Sigh

I've always thought that Google was the world's greatest Ponzi scheme. It makes 100 brazillian dollars a year on those stupid 'Ad Words' that nobody ever clicks on? Yeah, right.

zetar: I've always thought that Google was the world's greatest Ponzi scheme. It makes 100 brazillian dollars a year on those stupid 'Ad Words' that nobody ever clicks on? Yeah, right.

It's a market that crated before(~2000) and will crater again. The difference now is that Google also sells all that data they collect.