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    Image of krismry krismry
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google to Lay Off 200 Employees
    GOOG at 353 and change is still ridiculous.
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    Image of GuyBitchy GuyBitchy
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google to Lay Off 200 Employees
    That's it. Economy over.


    Can Larry "Wall Street" Summers and his clan of Goldman Sachs shadow government hustlers apologize to Bryon Dorgan now?

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    Image of nowmedusa nowmedusa
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google to Lay Off 200 Employees
    The irony is that this morning I was at a marketing seminar at Google's offices where industry experts discussed marketing in a down economy and how the answer is not to make drastic budget cuts.
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    Image of Dave J. Dave J.
    03/26/09

    @nowmedusa: Well, this IS Google. 200 people is hardly drastic.
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    Image of KitWalsall KitWalsall
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google to Lay Off 200 Employees
    Googlers average salary is well over $95K per salary list http://www.salarylist.com/all-real-jobs-salary-at-google-inc.htm Will this layoff help them really save money?
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    Image of GuyBitchy GuyBitchy
    03/26/09

    @KitWalsall: @ron2009: Have you two met?
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google to Lay Off 200 Employees
    Layoffs in marketing and sales make, seeing as how they have so little to sell, so much to give away.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    03/26/09

    @iplaudius: Layoffs in marketing and sales make sense, seeing as how they have so little to sell, so much to give away.
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    Image of tunamelt tunamelt
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google to Lay Off 200 Employees
    Will they make a special pink-slip themed Google logo for their search engine today?
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    Image of Understater Understater
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google to Lay Off 200 Employees
    The "I'm Feeling Lucky!" button has a whole new sad dimension.
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    03/26/09

    In reply to Google to Lay Off 200 Employees
    I long for the day when spokespeople respond immediately when contacted for comment by a blog.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    03/26/09

    @TheHonJudgeSmails: Yes, I can hear the longing in your voice.
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    03/24/09

    In reply to It's Time to Ask if Google's Too Big to Fail
    I think the question you should ask is "If Google failed, would it actually matter?"


    Obviously it would matter to its employees and its stock holders, but really... Unless I'm missing something, what would it matter to the US economy if a bunch of free software, webmail and the G1 simply vanished?


    I guess I would be upset about gmail, but I could always just use another search engine...


    What about them is so important that failure matters to the country as a whole?


    And, seriously, even if there is an argument for this; to compare them to banks that have gotten to big to be allowed to fail is impossibly absurd.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/24/09

    In reply to It's Time to Ask if Google's Too Big to Fail
    Master shall never be too big fail. No, never. You musn't speak like that where Master may hear. Master get very angry. I must go punish myself now by using Dogpile.
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    Image of rimshot515 rimshot515
    03/24/09

    In reply to It's Time to Ask if Google's Too Big to Fail
    No company is "too big to fail." We'd be out of this economic mess sooner if we could have let those thieving bums at AIG to go out of business for giving themselves too much money.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    03/24/09

    @rimshot515: I am not an economic expert, so I tend not to give advice on this subject. That said, if you listen to the supposed experts (yes, many of them responsible for the mess we are in), there is absolutely a point at which a company becomes too big to fail. In fact, many are saying that we need regulations to break up companies that are too big, like AIG, BofA, Citi, GM, and so forth. (Although, I think they would contend that GM is not too big to fail, it is merely too big to let all of those Americans be out of work.)


    I admit that I do not trust anyone, but I do not know enough to know whether the experts are wrong. Until I do, I guess I have to assume that there is some truth in what they are saying, and we probably need to give someone the tools to determine whether a company is too big and make a change.


    That said, the question for technology companies is not whether Google is too big, but perhaps whether Microsoft is too big, or potentially Apple is too big. As others have said, Google is nothing more than an advertising company. Microsoft and Apple are something entirely different. Microsoft is simply huge and their software divisions make it difficult for other companies to play on their turf. Apple, while much smaller, does not allow anyone to play on their turf unless they have personally approved it. Those companies are much more questionable than Google.

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    Image of bandit bandit
    03/24/09

    In reply to It's Time to Ask if Google's Too Big to Fail
    Google isn't too big to fail because it isn't an intertwined part of the commerce system. Yes we all use it every day, but it's basically a search-and-advertising system.
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    Image of Danilo Campos Danilo Campos
    03/24/09

    @bandit: Tell that to every business who lives and dies based on Google's traffic to their site, paid or otherwise.
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    Image of madog madog
    03/24/09

    In reply to It's Time to Ask if Google's Too Big to Fail
    In business, you're never too small to get big, and you're never too big to get small.
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