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August 19, 2005

They Never Learn

NP: Foo Fighters, In Your Honor

From today's New York Times, on Google's selling off the digits of pi:

With perhaps $7 billion in cash, Google could also consider acquisition of a media or digital content company, analysts said.

This is why you shouldn't necessarily listen to analysts. Didn't anybody learn anything from the AOL Time Warner thing? The marriage of Internet companies and media companies failed spectacularly in the nineties, and while I know Sergey and Larry are smart guys, I'm not sure even they could do it right, regardless of who is underwriting the sale.

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