Comments on: Feedburner Acquired by Google

By: joshua

joshua — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:27:33 +0000

I think that this could benefit both parties in pretty good ways. With the Google and Microsoft battle for search engines and office solutions, this acquiring of feedburner would reach another market with a few million people already contributing. I don’t think feedburner really needs the publicity - they are already well-known in the blogosphere. However, there could be incredible revenue opportunities for both companies. I only hope Google does not saturate our feeds with pointless and annoying advertisements.

- Joshua Davis

By: Milanr

Milanr — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:42:18 +0000

I also have to defend businesses and business owners. Businesses want to get bigger and better so they can further their business and social goals. Very few people/businesses get up in the morning and say, “I want to rule the world…” Most people/businesses want to provide a better service for the community. And people pay that back by buying their product and services… People have to buy into it before it becomes successful. and rational people buy into it because they appreciate the service/product business.

Cheers,

Milan

By: polvero

polvero — Tue, 29 May 2007 05:17:43 +0000

I’ve been using Feedburner for quite a while, and I think this will only make it better. Statistics, numbers, stats… it’s a perfect fit. Google will definitely know how to make that information more useful.

By: petertdavis

petertdavis — Sat, 26 May 2007 17:14:29 +0000

“What do you think Google buying Feedburner means for the future of the service?”

Lower payouts for small publishers. Lower quality control on who they accept into the network.

By: ryannj

ryannj — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:52:31 +0000

I just want to take a minute to defend business. Most businesses are started because someone figures out a way to make people’s lives better/easier/cheaper/more comfortable. They must turn a profit in order to continue surviving and offering their service to more people. Otherwise, they would quickly implode and would end up helping nobody.

By: vinoth

vinoth — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:59:40 +0000

I agree with jack as google is totally dominating the earth, and soon many people will relasize it, Microsoft is far better than google.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:21:46 +0000

That’s the world of technology for ya, folks! Companies aren’t founded so everyone can sit around on their hands waiting for the paychecks to stop rolling in. Who would’ve thought there would be so much money to be made from a search engine of all things…well…it’s all about marketing no matter what business you are in.

By: Chrispian

Chrispian — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:24:21 +0000

As you all have suggested, I think the main fear is in that Google has become so big and when companies get big their is a certain fear that all they care about is profit. Which I suppose is probably true on some level. I think linkin99 is on track though and that many of Feedburner’s features will become free. I also doubt they’ll start charging for anything. It’s in their best interest to have more people using it rather than having a less but having them pay. I think the odds are this will open up Feedburner more so they can lure more people to using the service with the advanced reporting for free.

By: linkin99

linkin99 — Thu, 24 May 2007 12:24:21 +0000

From Googles perspective, it’s a good fit (as you’ve already explained). From a Feedburner users perspective, it makes me leary. One one hand, google may decide to make some services that were only supported by a fee free now, so that would be nice. On the other hand, they could go the other way and make some free features fee-based. (I don’t see that happening however.) I guess we’ll all have to wait and see. One things for sure, it’s a smart move by Google.

By: jack

jack — Thu, 24 May 2007 09:48:16 +0000

i guess you are right.
Companies never cared about anything but more profit.