Comments on: Google Buys … A Paper Mill?

By: Google ahora fabrica papel de baño? | Blog Enredame

Google ahora fabrica papel de baño? | Blog Enredame — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:27:57 +0000

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By: Virtual Web Symphony

Virtual Web Symphony — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:52:13 +0000

Google also announced its foray in to Energy metering through Google PowerMeter. Google is really diversifying.

By: sirmc

sirmc — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:10:40 +0000

Maybe they want to spy on nokia

By: dee

dee — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:02:09 +0000

Because most of the growth isn’t from the U.S. anymore? While being an obvious to cater for Nordic countries, Finland acts also as a quite nice hub to St. Petersburg area in Russia — without the uncertainties you always have when investing/doing business in developing economies such as Russia. Some insight can be maybe drawn from this:

http://www.info...a/A0781359.html

Finland ranks as #1 “least corrupted country”, while Russia ranks at #143, on par with Gambia and Nigeria..

By: Morning Edition - Feb 13, 2009 « Sazbean

Morning Edition - Feb 13, 2009 « Sazbean — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:01:42 +0000

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By: azam

azam — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:22:10 +0000

Are you people so daft. It’s for a possibility of a wind and hydro plants, as well as the cool climate.
POWER BABY. NOT PAPER BUSINESS ROFL.

By: marvin

marvin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:11:56 +0000

@Anjali it would be foolish, however to ignore the possibility of moving into print->media->ad revenues too. Why then a paper mill? why not the closed Daewoo Motor building company in korea? It was close enough to russia as well; and cool too. [:)]

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:13:38 +0000

Maybe for this?
http://mail.goo...paper/more.html

(Hint: Debut date for “Gmail Paper” was March 30, 2007.)

By: ab

ab — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:41:42 +0000

hahaha

By: Saklas

Saklas — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:53:42 +0000

the carbon credit reasoning is highly plausible.

if it can be confirmed that the Finland site has its own hydrodam: this will allow google to gather a green tag. huge show of corporate social responsibility.

alternatively: think of the potential of renewable energy in the next 10 years. Finland government is likely to support google if they decide to pump in money to build wind farms in the area.
google into power business….hrmmm….

By: physco 219

physco 219 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:22:25 +0000

Thats awesome I am gonna try it and see what I get for a reply.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:43:54 +0000

Perhaps not content with knocking out all possible digital competition, they realise we can’t live without paper either.

By: Davide Di Cillo

Davide Di Cillo — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:46:28 +0000

here’s a sneak preview of the next google product http://fury.com...-circa-1960.php

By: Fd CP

Fd CP — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:32:03 +0000

So, it was all Google’s fault that finnish companies are coming to southamerica to install their damn pollutive paper mills.. !

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:21:10 +0000

Why dosen’t Google invest in some smaller US towns. ie. Kittanning PA.

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紙からWEBへ | CHATAのWEB — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:09:23 +0000

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By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:39:53 +0000

Oh, I forgot to mention that this clearly indicates Google’s interest in pony trekking and snack lunch in the hall!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:39:06 +0000

Finland. The country where Google wants to be? So near to Russia, but so far from Japan. Quite a long way from Cairo and many miles from Vietnam.

It’s good to see Google putting some money into a country so sadly neglected, often ignored, really a poor second to Belgium.

What I want to know is if Google will next attempt to amass an unrivaled collection of scandinavian credit cards. But, I don’t know. Google clearly knows that Finland has it all!

By: noam

noam — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:20:38 +0000

Google’s remark on the matter is odd:

“We are currently considering to build a data centre at this site”

It seems odd that Google buys the mill before knowing for sure what they’re going to use it for. It seems like they’re hiding something to me. My guess is that they know exactly why they bought it and that they plan to use it for something other than a data center. However, had they wanted to buy a printing business for their google print service, why wouldn’t they buy a printing plant? Maybe they want to go into some sort of recycled paper service and could not find reliable suppliers?

By: Fatbatman

Fatbatman — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:05:06 +0000

Last year I met a girl who worked in HR for Google in the UK, she’d recently left and hated the company. She told me that for each potential applicant HR had to put together a 100 page dossier for management about the potential employee. Apparently if there was a single mistake the whole thing would go in the bin, and need to printed out again once corrected. She said this was something that happened regularly and consequently the amount of paper the company got through as a result of this was a joke.

By: scale

scale — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:02:54 +0000

That’s pretty funny!

Nice to see they’re going to be transferring some assets to the City…..hopefully at no cost to the city.

By: grace

grace — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:56:24 +0000

Thanks robin!

By: Google Buys … A Paper Mill? | TechBeta

Google Buys … A Paper Mill? | TechBeta — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:38:02 +0000

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By: Recessioned

Recessioned — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:24:35 +0000

Clearly, in a couple of years, the only publication left will be TC. Expect Google to produce a series of Google-branded local newspapers so they can sell ads on them.