Poll: Should google provide free fantasy sport games?

[FreshPrince]

With all that money, Google should provide fantasy football, fantasy baseball...etc.

yahoo provides them for free

 

[tami]

uh... why?

 

[Sqube]

Meh

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: tami
uh... why?

if they want to continue their dominance, they should...

 

[ironcrotch]

yahoo is good enough for me

 

[Noirish]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: tami
uh... why?

if they want to continue their dominance, they should...

if they want to continue their dominance, they shouldn't.
there is no money in that area.

 

[fs5]

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

http://www.google.com/corporate/

Does not forfill that mission.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: ironcrotch
yahoo is good enough for me

QFT, and also what fs5 said makes sense: it's not part of their mission

edit: it's also part of their philosopy (#2 = It's best to do one thing really, really well)

2. It's best to do one thing really, really well.

Google does search. Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat. With the largest research group in the world focused exclusively on solving search problems, Google knows what it does well and how it could be done better. Through continued iteration on difficult problems, Google has been able to solve complex issues that stymie others and provide continuous improvements to a service already considered the best on the web. Innovations like Google's spell checker and the Google Toolbar, which enables users to search using Google from any website, make finding information a fast and seamless experience for millions of users. Google's entire staff is dedicated to creating the perfect search engine and works tirelessly toward that goal.

From here

 

[cjgallen]

Google eats babies.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Should Google do _______?

The answer is yes, always yes.

 

[theGlove]

everyone uses yahoo that I know of. google is too late to the game.
just like asking if google should start an auction site like ebay. sure they can,
but everyone is using ebay so nobody is going to care

 

[BurnItDwn]

No. I think fantasy sports are stupid.

 

[FreshPrince]

so much for doing one thing and doing it well...

fact is, no one is in business to not make money and google now wants to take a cut for every online transaction that goes through them...does this still conform to their mission statement? Didn't think so...

There are millions of Fantasy sports players online....most places charge $29.99-$199.99 for these services. Let's see..

$29.99 X 1 million players = $29.99M
$199.99 x 1 million players = $199.99M

I would say that's a pretty good chunk of money to go after...

 

[torpid]

No. Several sites that specialize in individual sports, several generic sports sites, as well as yahoo all do this already.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince
so much for doing one thing and doing it well...

fact is, no one is in business to not make money and google now wants to take a cut for every online transaction that goes through them...does this still conform to their mission statement? Didn't think so...

There are millions of Fantasy sports players online....most places charge $29.99-$199.99 for these services. Let's see..

$29.99 X 1 million players = $29.99M
$199.99 x 1 million players = $199.99M

I would say that's a pretty good chunk of money to go after...

yahoo is free

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: FreshPrince
so much for doing one thing and doing it well...

fact is, no one is in business to not make money and google now wants to take a cut for every online transaction that goes through them...does this still conform to their mission statement? Didn't think so...

There are millions of Fantasy sports players online....most places charge $29.99-$199.99 for these services. Let's see..

$29.99 X 1 million players = $29.99M
$199.99 x 1 million players = $199.99M

I would say that's a pretty good chunk of money to go after...

yahoo is free

sure, but they do offer more advanced versions with live scoring for a fee...

 

[cKGunslinger]

Hmm..

Yahoo - $36.56/share
Google - $283.71/share

Yeah, I don't think Google is too concerned about modeling their business after Yahoo..

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Hmm..

Yahoo - $36.56/share
Google - $283.71/share

Yeah, I don't think Google is too concerned about modeling their business after Yahoo..

no one said they should... and if you think a dotbomb is going to stay at $283 / share for long...think again. That share price will come back down to earth once everyone realizes that it's just a search engine company...well, now with copied version of paypal

 

[jdub1107]

Could care less, unless they can do it better than Yahoo and keep it free.

 

[fs5]

so far, it's just rumors.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Hmm..

Yahoo - $36.56/share
Google - $283.71/share

Yeah, I don't think Google is too concerned about modeling their business after Yahoo..

no one said they should... and if you think a dotbomb is going to stay at $283 / share for long...think again. That share price will come back down to earth once everyone realizes that it's just a search engine company...well, now with copied version of paypal

They had 1.3 billion dollars in revenue in the first quarter of the year. Hardly a dotbomb.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Hmm..

Yahoo - $36.56/share
Google - $283.71/share

Yeah, I don't think Google is too concerned about modeling their business after Yahoo..

no one said they should... and if you think a dotbomb is going to stay at $283 / share for long...think again. That share price will come back down to earth once everyone realizes that it's just a search engine company...well, now with copied version of paypal

yup, it won't stay at $283. HOWEVER, it's not a dotbomb nor merely a 'search' company. You realize every other 'search' company including Yahoo, Microsoft, and Amazon is trying to copy Google?

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: Kev

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Hmm..

Yahoo - $36.56/share
Google - $283.71/share

Yeah, I don't think Google is too concerned about modeling their business after Yahoo..

no one said they should... and if you think a dotbomb is going to stay at $283 / share for long...think again. That share price will come back down to earth once everyone realizes that it's just a search engine company...well, now with copied version of paypal

They had 1.3 billion dollars in revenue in the first quarter of the year. Hardly a dotbomb.

yahoo had $1.17B, a 55% increase from last quarter's figures...how did they do it? I can assure they changed their mission statement as well. As for dotbomb...maybe not now, but that remains to be seen.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince
yahoo had $1.17B, a 55% increase from last quarter's figures...how did they do it? I can assure they changed their mission statement as well. As for dotbomb...maybe not now, but that remains to be seen.

well it certainly wasn't from offering fantasy sports games.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: fs5

Originally posted by: FreshPrince
yahoo had $1.17B, a 55% increase from last quarter's figures...how did they do it? I can assure they changed their mission statement as well. As for dotbomb...maybe not now, but that remains to be seen.

well it certainly wasn't from offering fantasy sports games.

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