DISQUS

McLaughlin · 3 months ago

IPO? Heck, Mark turned down 1.6 billion from Yahoo! He will keep it private until it is the #1 site on the net. They are #2 today, just behind Google. If they pass Google and BingHoo! (MS & Yahoo!) buys it, they will just build a search feature into the tool and wham, google loses search.
Hercules K · 3 months ago

lol, I don't think its that easy for them to just that with search, they just don't got the technology to do that + all those patents the powerhouses have.

Facebook could venture into a lot of other stuff, like kill iGoogle or something with gadgets/startpages

I'm personally don't think I would buy into an IPO, but for sure its coming.
Chris · 3 months ago

they just can't make money - all they got is a massive user base they can't even leverage, ads are not good enough to make money and we all know that today, especially how plugins disable all ads for people nowadays anyway
markmontoya · 3 months ago

It was only a matter or time before they were profitable... I just thought it would take an IPO to do it.
Jon · 3 months ago

my stance is this, if I want to buy into a company that only sells ads basically as its business model - I think I'd rather invest in Google.