Google surges past $700 a share without resistance
Today, google has rocketed past $700, and as I type it trades at $726. Thi is just the start of a epic sized rally that will take google to $4000+ dollars a share by the end of the next decade. As I have said before, these predictions may seem complately outlandish but they aren’t. When google was at $100 NO ONE could have envisioned a day when it would trade at 700, and now it is. The rate at with google is growing is unparalled, its dominance unrivaled.
As we transition to a type 1 civilization google impact and influence on the world will grow increasingly dominant. It is anexing marketshare away from almost every other competing technology/internet/and media companies at an increasing rate. Google’s final goal of controling the exchange and transfer of all information on planet earth will eventually be fulfilled by the time the transition to type 1 happens.
Google is the most revolutionary and important company in existance. No other company will play a greater pivitol role in the direction of humanity in the next 50-100 years than google. This isn’t an investment in just a company, but an investment in your ultimate fate.
Google penalties are permanent
Frequently on wembasters forums someone will complain about having been peanalized by google. One day their site will be ranking well for various keywords an in a split second all of those rankings disappear. So they go on one a webmaster forum and create a thread in search of some advice and clarification as to how to fix the penalty that caused their site to plument in the rankings.
The typical answer is to ‘fix the problem’ that caused the penalty. However, the ‘problem’ is rarely ever obvious. Google doesn’t send you a notice as to why your site was penalized. There are a multitiude of reasons why a site can be penalized. Too mnay links too soon, anchor text not varied enough, too many pages, too many links exchanges, links to bad sites, duplicate content, keyword stuffing, sandbox, and the list goes on. Going ththough all of those causes is nearly impossible, especially if you have no leads to go on. Most webmasters don’t keyword stuff, which is an obvious cause for a penalty, but there are seemingly endless subtle causes for penalties that are impossible to fix because you are completely oblivious to what they even are.
Sending an ‘apology’ to google explaining how you tried fixed the penalty is futile. I don’t understand why anyone bothers to do this. It’s not like anyone human actually reads them. Google created the webmaster panel to throw a bone to the webmaster community; not out of actual benevolence.
Third, in spite of the best efforts by the webmaster to remedy the problem I have rarely read of a penalty being reversed. Maybe I have only read of two or three cases but 99% of the time when your site if slapped with one of the numerous rankings penalties you’re essentially sunk. You might as well go stick your head in a toilet cause I can guarantee with great certainty that your site isn’t coming back. You might as well build a new site and cross your fingers that it doesn’t get penalized again. But your second site will probably also get penalized as well.
I know this sounds pessimistic, but as they say the truth hurts. I have seen it many times. A thriving site gets slapped with a penalty, it plummets in rankings, and never comes back.
Why Web 2.0 Kinda Sucks
Since mid August 2006 following the imaginary credit crunch Web 2.0 and other internet related stories have been dominating the headlines. There has been a huge surge in hype regarding social networking, facebook, google, web 2.0. and so on. Every week it seems there are crop of new headlines about another overpriced, noninclusive web 2.0 conference, facebook adding another billion or so in valuation, google stock rising another $100, a new google/youtube.facebook/myspace “killer” is launched, and so on.
Is this a repeat of the 1999-2000 tech euphoria? Maybe, but unlike the previous tech bubble there aren’t nearly as many opportunities for entrepreneurs, which is why Web 2.0 kinda sucks.
For one, it costs a lot more money and requires a lot more programing knowledge to create a dynamic user generated web 2.0 site than a more static web 1.0 site. You can’t just create a social network with an html/javasctip and php book. You would need to be proficient in the latest, most advanced programing languages such as ajax and so on in order to create the user platform required for a social network .
Second, there is too much competition for a new web 2.0 site to be able to generate much traction. Since late 2006 the rate of new social networking web 2.0 type sites being created has EXPLODED, and shows no signs of tapering off. Also, the largest social networking/ web 2.0 sites such as myspace, facebook, and youtube have an increasing growing percent of the total market share of social networking. It’s not that there are more web 2.0 sites to compete with, but that the biggest web 2.0 sites continue to extend their lead at an accelerating rate, which compounds the problem.
While web 2.0 has created many millionaires and some billionaires web 1.0 created many more, and with less work. judging by the admission prices of recent web 2.0 conferences just getting your foot in the door is a struggle, let alone creating a successful web 2.0 site that is able to compete with the current market leaders.
In conclusion, I don’t recommend building a web 2.0 site. Don’t waste your time and money. ignore the hype and focus on achieving more realistic goals than web 2.0 success. Maybe time travel or proving the Riemann hypothesis is a more feasible goal.
Google nears $700 a share
Google at $700 a share may seem too expensive, but it isn’t. Google and facebook will dominate all aspects on online and offline media, and the eventual transfer and exchange of all information on planet earth though all mediums. The potnetial for growth is staggering. Google will have a market cap of 2-4 trillion in the not so distant future after putting Yahoo, Microsoft, Ebay, Amazon, Viacom, time warner, and other internet and media companies out of business. (the process of which google will render these companies defunt is complicated and will be reserved for a later article. But one only needs to compare the stock charts for Yahoo and Google to see yahoo’s and microsoft’s inevitable fate). Also, the government wont step in unlike the case with microsoft and try to break up the monopoly.
With a market cap of 2 trillion google will be trading at $7000 a share, which is still a 900% profit. As you can see, that leaves a lot of opportunities to make money buying GOOG now at $700 a share.
The best move google could make at this point is to buy Facebook for $30 billion worth of stock and cash or buyout BIDU. Buying out facebook would pretty much seal google’s total domination of the internet since Facebook probably poses the greatest threat to google if anything does.
Youtube was purchased for 1.6 billion last year and now it is easily worth 10-15 billion.
$30 billion may seem like a lot but when you consider that goog has a market cap of 200+ billion it isn’t much.
The staggering rise of google, amazon.com, bidu, and the stock market overall coincides with the transition to a type 1 civilization within the next 50 years, at which point the goals of The Creators will be nearly fulfilled.