What If Google Shut Down?

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Sep 20, 2012 10:39 PM #743247

Google has become an important roll in modern life. We use it for research, it owns Android, it owns Youtube, and sometimes needed just to ask stupid questions. (Clearly this is not everything from Google, but just off the top of my head.) Pretty much everyone relies on this company nowadays in SOME way. I see commercials saying that you can run an entire business on your Android phone! (Personally, I think that's a bad idea.) Sooo... what would happen if Google shut down? How devastating would that really be? What kind of effect would that have on other big businesses?

Alright, I don't think I got the point across. Along with Google; Youtube, Android, and evrything else on this list would go down with it. They have purchased and merged w/ these companies.

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Sep 20, 2012 10:54 PM #743255

I wouldn't know what to do about all my stupid questions... I'd be..... Retarded...

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Sep 20, 2012 10:56 PM #743256

I'd be so screwed if they closed down. :(

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Sep 20, 2012 11:02 PM #743259

if google shut down, we could just read books to do research

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Sep 20, 2012 11:03 PM #743260

Quote from Solo
I'd be so screwed if they closed down. :(

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I wouldn't know what to do about all my stupid questions... I'd be..... Retarded...

Exactly. You are a deep thinker.

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Sep 20, 2012 11:06 PM #743263

To many reasons for me to list any specific one as to why I'd fail at researching with simply books. Then again, I'm confusing all internet sources for Google. Using a different site would suffice, but I prefer Google.

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Sep 20, 2012 11:08 PM #743264

I go to Yahoo. Simple as that.

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Sep 20, 2012 11:12 PM #743267

Bing as a replacement search engine,
not sure what'll become of everything else.

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Sep 20, 2012 11:14 PM #743269

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if google shut down, we could just read books to do research

ARE YOU INSANE?! lol jk

Errr Shadow, Xero, and hewitt: Youtube and the entire Android market would go down WITH Google. It's no longer just a search engine.

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Sep 20, 2012 11:19 PM #743274

Buy the Rights to Youtube and put it back up? *Shrugs* Wonder how much that would cost though.

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Sep 20, 2012 11:25 PM #743282

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Buy the Rights to Youtube and put it back up? *Shrugs* Wonder how much that would cost though.

Lame fact: It cost Google around 1.65 BILLION dollars for the rights to Youtube. Everyone thought that was a ridiculous idea at the time. I would assume they've made ten times that by now though. And they didn't "put it back up" 'cause it was never taken down.

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Sep 20, 2012 11:27 PM #743283

That was Mad Money for them. >__>

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Sep 20, 2012 11:30 PM #743286

Yeeeah and that was back in 2006! Where'd that little search engine git all dat money?

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Sep 20, 2012 11:36 PM #743292

Blackmail? lol

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Sep 20, 2012 11:48 PM #743298

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Advertising. Google's main asset is its ever-intricate search algorithm that no other search engine has. You wouldn't be able to search as much for school with Google as Yahoo I'll bet. Yahoo used to be a competitor but has now moved on to being a variety of services with a search engine. If it competed with Google on that ground, they would've been dead a long time ago. But I digress.

Google provides a service that allows any site to integrate their search algorithm into their websites. You might've noticed it back then with sites like tvtropes, gamewinners, and such. Then Google is able to advertise along with those websites but for a fee, remove them altogether.

EDIT: Then you also have revenue stemming from sites paying Google to always be on top of their search results for a particular thing.

Yes, Google bought those other ventures, but they wouldnt necessarily not exist if Google was gone. They would just be fragmented ventures with a less than par search algorithm and the inability to integrate into any form of social media.

Yerp. Google owns Double-Click (advertising co.) too. Did you ever notice that Amazon advertisement on like, every search? Can you imagine how much Amazon pays for that?

I put a link on the front page of all of Googles acquisitions. There's like, 120 :O