Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different.
Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
When Google reached out to me in 2011, they wanted me to build out their female lifestyle vertical. When they were starting with that initiative, they were giving each production house a million dollars to produce content.
Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.
The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.
It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that.
Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content.
Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company.
Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.
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