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Google is jumping in with both feet into the online video scene. Google announced plans this week to allow content owners to set their own prices in a bid to create a more flexible alternative to Apple Computer Inc.’s pioneering iTunes store. I see this as an awesome idea and can not wait to see it take off. Google stock price jumped again when hearing the news.
“It’s the biggest marketplace of content that was previously offline and is now brought online,” said Jennifer Feikin, director of Google Video. Since Apple began selling video for iPods’ there was not much competition, and now google is about to change all of that. This should be exciting to watch this area grow. This may take place on Google Base, in another move to promote that feature of Google, which is now making more and more sense.

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Piper Jaffray research analyst Safa Rashtchy maintained an “outperform” rating on Google and raised his price target to $600 from $445, expecting the company to continue to gain market share, strengthen its brand and generate revenue with new initiatives in 2006.

“2006 should be another banner year for Google,” wrote the analyst. “It is singularly well positioned to benefit from the growth of online advertisement and search.”

Google is Piper Jaffray’s “Top Pick 2006″ in the large-cap category. Rashtchy expects the global search market to grow by 41% in 2006, with Google continuing to gain market share. The company gained an additional 5% market share in 2005 and strengthened its brand over the past year with the release of new and innovative products such as Google Maps and Gmail.
Rashtchy believes two of Google’s newer products in particular, Google Ad Network (Adsense) and Google Base, show significant promise to fuel Google’s string of earnings upside surprises into 2006 and beyond.

Google, mailing millions for millions. Who would have though 2 college kids, could be billionaires! Who thought free stuff could make this much!

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Microsoft has begun testing its competitor to Google Base. It is code named Fremont. Google Base is a free service first introducted six weeks ago. Will Microsoft ever be ahead of the game?

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The pilot program is believed to be the first public test that will provide data on Google’s plans to establish public and free offerings of its products.

Travelers at London’s Heathrow Airport have been using a free pilot program called Google Space. Beginning last Thursday, travelers have been able to use ten laptops to try out six Google programs: Google Earth, Google Local, Google Toolbar, Froogle, Google Mobile, Google Mail, and Picasa.

Also available to the fliers, is general web surfing. This test for Google, may be a glimpse into the future.

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It seems no one is safe: Google is doing Wi-Fi; Google is searching inside books; Google has a plan for ecommerce.

Of course, Google has always wanted to be more than a search engine. Even in the early days, its ultimate goal was extravagant: to organize the world’s information. High-minded as that sounds, Google’s ever-expanding agenda has put it on a collision course with nearly every company in the information technology industry: Amazon.com, Comcast, eBay, Yahoo!, even Microsoft. (Read the article)

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