[OGinparadise]

Its reckless, up-for-anything approach seems to be working. Its stock price is now $909.18, up 50% over the last 52 weeks, and the company’s market cap is $301 billion. Its year-over-year quarterly revenue growth exceeds 30%, which is pretty remarkable for company of its size and age.

(warning: I'm not a Google fan in the Larry Page as CEO era and that has hellbanned /slowbanned me from here. Who cares. Oh well)

His entire premise is based on Google growing by 30% a year and that's done by over-monetizing https://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2012/01... search and (IMHO) using search to force sites to advertise by limiting their free traffic with that purpose. Google Search seem to work to increase Adwords revenue, something many people believe in the post Larry Page world. (Still IMO) this will backfire, I read that many people do not know that they clicked on ads, they thought they were organic results. 95% or so of Google's revue is still thanks to ads.

Also Google is doing all it can to not send users to the best answer, but to ads and to a Google site. I see YouTube videos all over search, Google Places, images and other Google services. Google has become over1ly aggressive with ads and penalizing sites, in part to give themselves some runway to try other things, no one questions Larry when things are growing by 25%-30%.

As for the stock price, Apple was supposed to go to $1000 too, sometimes the fall is just as dramatic.

Bing is "good enough" for most people, that's why Microsoft is trying to muddy the Google brand. That's major risk too, if you do not trust Google results, they can go downhill quite fast.