Comments on: Google Recaptures 5th Spot On Most Valuable U.S. Companies List

By: InvestEveryMonth.com

InvestEveryMonth.com — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:25:02 +0000

Using Google has become a daily habit for most people. Other search engines can try to get better, but it still would be hard to break the habit people have of using Google.

Having 60 – 70% of search traffic on the internet is very valuable as their advertising earnings show. Once ad prices online mature, the value of Google will be even greater – in my opinion.

The biggest threat is that people will stop using Google. It is not easy to stop using oil or the operating system on your computer, but new technology or a competitor could rapidly change the daily habit of people when they go online. It would be very difficult, but the risk for Google is higher compared to other companies on this list.

By: Bobby Kolev

Bobby Kolev — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:14:11 +0000

You can hardly conclude “what Americans ultimately value” from this list.

I don’t know numbers, but I dare guess that at least half of those companies have half or more of their revenue from international operations.

By: Tegan

Tegan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:48:08 +0000

Great post. I took a lot from this. The list shows what Americans ultimately value.

Anyone else surprised that Apple was #7? I would have thought they would be top #5?

Tegan
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By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:14:48 +0000

Hi Chad,
Why limit your list only to U.S.-based companies? The whole world is our investing opportunity. Besides, most of the companies on your list receive more revenues from outside the U.S. than from within. Care to guess where Google ranks among all worldwide companies?
Jeff

By: Bobby Kolev

Bobby Kolev — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:53:49 +0000

I respectfully disagree.

Appreciating what Google has done should not be used to depreciate what Microsoft has.

Last time I tried Linux – I think it was RedHat, but it may have been Suse – it has come a long way in terms of installation ease, but its interface was still somewhat clunky, apparently similar to Windows XP and application titles were all 4-5 letter acronyms that only hardcore fans knew the meanings of. I could get around only because of my long experience and apparent similarity with XP…my mother most certainly could not.

Microsoft has one of the best if not *the* best development tools available in IT and fully deserves the huge developer base it enjoys.

Around 2000 when I looked at what servers and technologies should I use for building our corporate website Microsoft has books, samples and knowledge bases on ASP already out. It’s working to date…admittingly falling behind today’s trands, but that’s almost 10 years on Microsoft technologies…and it’s still rock solid.

This is not to say PHP or MySQL or Linux or Oracle do not deserve to be recognized. They do and they are.

Microsoft, apparently, has managed to do it better than all of them.

Someone has to be on the top….for now it’s Microsoft.

I expect that to change in 2-5 years.