Comments on: Google FeedBurner Buyout ‘Confirmed’

By: endeki

endeki — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:39:26 +0000

one day google will buy my site, I hope :)

By: WebStractions

WebStractions — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:01:50 +0000

“Does this mean that all of the blogs we subscribe to with RSS powered by FeedBurner will be serving Google AdSense ads?”

Probably not. But I can see them converting it over to Atom.

As for the statistics from feeds in combination with Analytics, should be a powerful duo to crunch data with. Just another piece of the puzzle to analyze patterns with.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:55:01 +0000

Oh by the way, watch Technorati be Google’s next acquisition, pretty much capturing a lot the best blogospheric services. Knock wood

By: Andy Beard (on feedburner)

Andy Beard (on feedburner) — Thu, 24 May 2007 08:52:11 +0000

I went into some depth yesterday before the “official” rumour confirmation on Techcrunch.

I am sure it is a good deal for Google and Feedburner, but I am not sure it is a good deal for Bloggers.

I would like to see Feedburner have some healthy competition before being purchased.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 24 May 2007 00:19:48 +0000

Is there any start-up (decent one) Google can’t buy?

They can just pick and choose what they want.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:59:19 +0000

It’s not bad, not for Google.

I’m not saying I don’t use Google services – I love and use many of them daily. I just don’t like that “everything” belongs to one company, whether Google, Microsoft, or whatever. I’m pure anti-monopoly.

By: Ryan Christensen

Ryan Christensen — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:33:47 +0000

That’s actually a very interesting point Loren — I can imagine that Google sees a great deal of value in that sort of statistical data.

Either way, I’ll be very interested to see how this pans out (for both FeedBurner and its members…)

By: Loren Baker, Editor

Loren Baker, Editor — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:17:45 +0000

Is it that bad Raj? I think Feedburner’s power is not only in its advertising program, as Ryan reminded us, but also in its acceptance by the blogosphere as THE feed syndication measurement tool (although probably a handful of bloggers could tell you what those numbers actually mean).

Wonder if Google would work feed syndication popularity into their algorithm?

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:54:25 +0000

Damn it all!! This sucks so much. Time to find an alternative.

By: Ryan Christensen

Ryan Christensen — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:12:36 +0000

Several blogs I’ve read seem to be similar in their concern that “all of the blogs we subscribe to with RSS powered by FeedBurner will be serving Google AdSense ads?”…

Perhaps I’m just really missing the boat, but could someone explain exactly what leads them to believe Google would want to do that? I posted a similar comment on Young Go Getter:

You don’t need ROI to justify a purchase… look at YouTube! :) (Or, more seriously, Urchin? Blogger?) At least FeedBurner has some services it can (and does successfully to my knowledge) make money off. I think I have faith that if it does happen, we won’t see it destroyed.

I think common sense says purchasing FB and spamming feeds with ads would be among the most effective things Google could do to piss off an absurdly large portion of the web community. (Accordingly, I don’t see it happening.)