Replies to post #435879 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Softechie]

GOOG Wait until Barron's running the article...then the fun will start...

[George the Greek]

mm, that's quite a litany of bullet points (against GOOG).
So, (the big question) when will it crash?
Bucking up to $400 now.

[federal reserves]

I've used GOOG a lot

and never paid them a penny.

[FinancialAdvisor]

GOOD POST!!! Google is an awesome search engine, in fact I use it a lot, it's just the fact that an "Ad" company, or should I say a "search engine company" is worth north of $114 billion dollars that I have an issue with...

And in response to:

"* TOTAL control of the financial media- NYT LOVEFEST two Sundays in a row- this company's a goog as T.O. (In his mind)"

Go back and see what the NYT was writing before, during, and just after the company's IPO... a complete 360 to now... THIS IS A SIGNAL TO GO SHORT AND BRING OUT YOUR MOST-BEARISH COSTUME!!! Let the MASS MEDIA help you to WIN$$$...

[madrose1]

could be time for a little pullback on GOOG , has been great on the short side actually after the moring pop long from prmrkt into the open and watch for any double top to form into the mid-morning. Did 2 1/2 yesterday on short from $397.40 area to a couple of dips under $395


Really been in a trading pattern lately , but didn't follow thru as much as before into the close . Pretty extreme readings RSI/MACD , alot of accummulation on this run , they could take some profits anytime here .

[basserdan]

*** Rick Ackerman Commentary ***

>>>GOOG is a FRAUD.......<<<
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Hi Maven,
Maybe so, but even you would have to admit that their shareprice makes them a potential takeover powerhouse...


What If Google Bought Microsoft?

Rick Ackerman
Tuesday, Nov 08

Excerpt from the current Rick's Picks (website).

Google is closing fast on a $407 target (or $418 if any higher) we’ve had in our sights for a while. The stock is not so much a proxy for the market as a nose cone, but we follow it closely nonetheless because of its power to inspire the downtrodden investor. Not long ago, when GOOG shares were trading around $335, I was feeling inspired myself – to short the stock, as some of you may recall. Of course, no one I know personally has made a dime buying put options for maybe two years, but that could change in a Wall Street minute. And Google, with its dot.com-like trajectory, has held out the promise, since its IPO, of a spectacular payday for bearish speculators. In theory, all one needs is unflappable patience, iron nerves, and a willingness to lose one’s house, car, Rolex and spouse while waiting for the stock’s inevitable plunge into hell.

Fortunately, a luncheon date with the smartest kid I know disabused me of all such notions. He, a reviewer of computer stuff for Stanford’s student newspaper, told me that Google would someday leave Microsoft choking on dust. Lo, I took a gimlet-eyed second look at GOOG’s chart, and the $407 target smacked me in the eye. Now let’s suppose, just for entertainment’s sake, that the stock shreds that hidden pivot in an hour or two, then bolts higher. We might ask, at what level of capitalization would Google have the wherewithal to acquire Microsoft? Not that Bill Gates would allow such a thing. But just think what an upstart like Google could do with the tens of billions of dollars of cash that Microsoft has been sitting on. You can darn well bet they wouldn’t sink it into R&D for Windows 2012, or a fun new look for Excel. Here’s a question that I’d love to see Wired magazine tackle: What would Google do with Microsoft’s money? Me, I’d start by offering a $20 billion prize to anyone who could bring Frank Sinatra back for one last concert.

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/ackerman/current.html

[madrose1]

theflyonthewall.com: Yahoo!-YHOO drops out of running for stake in TWX's AOL-WSJ

YHOO said it has dropped out of the running to buy a stake in TWX's AOL. A YHOO spokeswoman said the company's CEO, Terry Semel, met with TWX chairman Richard Parsons, but denies YHOO ever made any offer for a stake in the web portal. "After we learned what their proposed deal terms were we passed and we've never looked back," said the spokeswoman. Another source said TWX was not interested in the terms YHOO was offering. GOOG and MSFT are both "still neck and neck" in discussions for a stake in TWX's AOL, said people familiar with the matter, and TWX is expected to select a partner as early as next week.