{"id":2100,"date":"2006-01-14T06:44:18","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T06:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2006-01-14T06:44:18","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T06:44:18","slug":"blodget_the_bea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2100","title":{"rendered":"Blodget: The Bear Case for Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Blodget:<Blockquote><i>No one else is writing this piece, so it will have to be me.  I should say upfront that I&#8217;m not predicting that this will happen (yet), and I&#8217;m certainly not making a recommendation.  I&#8217;m just laying out a scenario that could kneecap Google and take its stock back to, say, $100 a share.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s major weakness is that it is almost entirely dependent on one, high-margin revenue stream.  The company has dozens of cool products, but with the exception of AdWords, none of them generate meaningful revenue.  From an intermediate-term financial perspective, therefore, they are irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>So, the question is, what could happen to AdWords, and what will happen to the company (and stock) if it does?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rather ironic &#8211; and refreshing, coming from <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22henry+Blodget%22\">Blodget<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Blodget:No one else is writing this piece, so it will have to be me. I should say upfront that I&#8217;m not predicting that this will happen (yet), and I&#8217;m certainly not making a recommendation. I&#8217;m just laying out a scenario that could kneecap Google and take its stock back to, say, $100 a share. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}