Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Greed Through Generosity

People have asked if Google has grown too generous of late, what with its doubling the already huge emailbox size of its free Gmail service.

The Motley Fool proposes that there's a method to this madness -- that Google's awesome freebies successfully drive its lucrative contextual ad business. To wit:

"So why is Google so generous? The short answer: because it's greedy."

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