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I've noticed that in your evaluation there wasn't a single mention of revenue, income or even market share.

It boggles the mind how a $1B takeover can be described as reasonable while paying absolurely no attention to very basic performance indicators.

Has the world learned nothing from the dot com bubble?

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My whole point is that any revenue from Glassdoor is meaningless and irrelevant. Their data is so valuable to the current business of a company that runs multiple recruiting firms that it's just a cost of doing business for them.

> My whole point is that any revenue from Glassdoor is meaningless and irrelevant.

That's the same tired old logic that brought the world the Myspace and Yahoo deal.

Yep, it sure is fascinating!

Much of the world prefers riding the bubble to FOMO. The frothier it gets, the less need for and meaning held by useful indicators. It's human nature :/

Look at Recruit’s existing line of business and revenue. The bigger question, to me, is what happens if Google decides two sites dominating their organic listings is not welcome.

Massive backlash, claims of bias, lobbying and negative PR pieces, and more than likely regulations would then follow, putting at least a sizeable damper on their business and an unforeseen impact on future business. Companies with millions of dollars available to them will not go down without a fight.

So froogle/shopping.google all over again? I think Google made the change in 2012[1] with no meaningful backlash in the US and a fine in the EU they are appealing. So I think the lesson is that Goog can do whatever they like with job searches.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Shopping

It’s ads and shaking down companies to subscribe. Their data is likely to be very valuable.

Money is fiction, rich people understand that and embrace it, poor people do not.

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