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Google Rains On StumbleUpon Parade: Launches Direct Competitor

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11 pointsmattjaynes12 comments

Better to rain on the parade than before it. I bet the StumbleUpon guys are delighted they waited till now to do it instead of launching before the eBay deal closed.

Why would Google launch it before the deal is closed? They would rather acquire StumbleUpon than release their own competitor.

More like StumbleUpon rained on Google's parade by turning down their offer.

It seems like the hardball thing for Google to do would have been to release the product before the deal, to lower eBay's interest and drive the price down.

Google is losing its edge. The cracks began to appear when they acquired YouTube.

I'm sure they are crying all the way to the bank.

Google's taking pages out of MS's playbook.

"Om Malik says this is Google lashing out at StumbleUpon and eBay because they lost the deal. Given the timing, I tend to agree."

Puh-lease.

What happened to "do no evil"?

How is competing against somebody evil? The only way you can take customers from StumbleUpon is to create a better service than StumbleUpon does. It's the users who decide who wins in the marketplace, not the companies.

"... Google is proactively squashing any chance that the little guy who is extremely innovative once had. Google is no longer a creative, positive force on the Internet, but a massive corporation who makes up in muscle what they lack in creativity. Start-ups beware!"

Again. Google can't squash a competitor, only the users can. If StumbleUpon is better than Google's Dice thing then it will die the same death as Google Base and Google Page Creator.

There's a difference between competing and cloning their service to the detail as soon as you lose a bidding war. I'm by all means a capitalist, but this somehow doesn't sit right with me.

Evil?

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