The Google Conspriacy A-go-go (for lack of a better title)

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The Google Conspriacy A-go-go (for lack of a better title)

The more I read this site that's critical of Google [1], the less I
understand what the heck Google [2] is trying to do (and yes, I realize the
site in question is heavily biased against Google, but unlike some other
sites [3], this one doesn't come across like a conspriacy laden crack pot
[4]).

I always thought that Google made their money selling intranet (read: large
private networks) search appliances and that the IPO (Initial Public
Offering) [5] was a legal requirement due to their number of outstanding
shares. But from their recent filing [6] (link via this page [7]) they're no
longer making the money they once were—perhaps they saturated the intranet
search market?

I just don't understand what's going on inside Google.

Anyways, I decided to check how the Google AdSense [8] is doing, and lo! I've
made some money! I'm now up to stratospheric $8.19! I can afford lunch! Woot!
I'm guessing some of the changes I've made behind the scenes have actually
worked (basically, adding  and  around the actual content) so the Google Ads get to
stay for the moment.

I also checked Amazon [9] and while I'm doing way better with them, it's
actually less money than I made in the same amount of time last year—I think
the “mad money” I made with Amazon had more to do with timing [10] than
anything else.

[1] http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/
[2] http://www.google.com/
[3] http://www.google-watch.org/
[4] http://www.crank.net/
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/04/30.1
[6] http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=GOOG
[7] http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/fuckedgoogle/2006/04/the_numbers_don.html
[8] https://www.google.com/adsense/
[9] http://associates.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/
[10] http://www.hhgproject.org/

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