Google, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)

Outperform

It's Google what more can I say!

cheaper than FB with good rev/profits

Facebook's valuation is going to make Google look very cheap. (It's a very good company too, on its own merits, at a pretty good price.)

It's google. My only concern is that they don't really have anywhere else to grow and expand except overseas. Hopefully they can do that, or form a partnership/alliance with another corporation to continue their growth.

Market capitalization, cash reserves, innovation.

high growth potential with Android and captive market that renews itself every 2-3 years bought 605

Google has disappointed a couple of times in the past year as they continue to look for different ways to diversify. The Android market is a bit fractured, which I believe they will eventually fix, and they will get better at managing the apps. Ultimately, this is a far superior investment to Facebook.

What can I say? It's Google and it's almost 100 points off its high. Short term? It found a base around 560ish, so looks to go up from there.

My internet life is surrounded by Google products. I use Gmail as my email, iGoogle as my homepage/newsfeed, an Android phone, the Google listen app for my podcasts, Google maps whenever I want a map or directions from my phone or find a business, etc. As long as Google continues their dominance in people's lives, the long-term outlook for this stock is positive in my opinion.

Google practically owns the online adverstising industry. High growth for the long term and a reaonable valuation.

Give me that political Ad $!! Presidential Election 2012

Facebook will take market share from Google for the next couple years. Look for Facebook to come out with their own cell phone operating system that will not only take market share from Google with their social media, from their mobile phone industry as well.

The privacy policy changes promise a level of integration that should unleash massive value. More: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/01/31/googles-chess-move-and-why-its-brilliant.aspx

note to self at $580 on jan 31 2012 i would add to this position.

"Nobody ever got anywhere in life by Googling everything they did to make sure it was ok."
"Yeah those guys that made all that money off of Google, they didn't make sh*t."

You gota love a company that is also a verb

cloud

Youtube is clearly the future of television, and leverages user-made content into huge gains for google. They will also move into the OS sector soon enough, possibly dethroning MS.