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Comment by bsullivan01 | Hacker News Reader

Google does everything in a very orchestrated campaign. Bash Adwords or Search here and you will see "them" show up to defend it.

But unless Google already transferred $x billions to Calico's bank account, I have to laugh at the 20-30+ year investment agenda and that somehow Google will be in for the long run--unlike other companies. This will be shut down the minute Adwords growth slows down...and they're running out of places to put them due to over-saturation and "free" traffic to sites is disappearing at an alarming rate already.

Google, Page, Brin should've put $500 mil each and then pledged regular contributions.

Or maybe this is Brin's divorce package: Calico will buy 123andMe for a lot of money ;-)

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You don't have any information on how much money they have invested.

All you do is speculate and inform us about your aversion towards Google.

And the enlightening insight that Google would probably drop this project if their profits started going down isn't really informative unless you think that we all here have problems with understanding fundamental logic.

>>"You don't have any information on how much money they have invested."

I never said I had the info. The people that know this chose not to say it. I speculated, which is all we can do.

>>"And the enlightening insight that Google would probably drop this project if their profits started going down isn't really informative unless you think that we all here have problems with understanding fundamental logic."

It's not that informative, I give you that; it's Wall Street 101 and most know by now.

>>"about your aversion towards Google."

Not sure blind love and gullibility is any better, assuming that I have an aversion to everything Google.

> Google does everything in a very orchestrated campaign. Bash Adwords or Search here and you will see "them" show up to defend it.

I would assume this is because a lot of Google engineers read Hacker News and they want to defend their work, rather than because of an orchestrated PR campaign.

Actually, no. I never read HackerNews of my own free will. What happens is, there is a team in the PR division that scans all the comments for anti-Google bias. Then company wide, Matt Cutts, and sometimes Larry Page, sends out an all hands email, and asks all Googlers to visit HN and vote down the comments, and post rebuttals. Stock Bonuses are given for the best rebuttals, and if you get someone hellbanned, you get to fly on Larry's private jet, although I've heard they have killed that perk now that the cheap jet fuel deal from NASA fell through. Ah well.

> Google does everything in a very orchestrated campaign.

Who doesn't, at that level?

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