Debate Over How To Classify Google Continues

Jon Friedman is really, really, really irked that anyone could classify Google, which gets the bulk of its revenue from advertising, as a media company. (He seems especially fixated on the idea that it came from a blogger, albeit a blogger who works for Knight-Ridder, throwing jabs with abandon, even though the item was a link to a story by The Hollywood Reporter.) Once he gets past all that, he asks a good question: “What is a media company in 2005 supposed to be, anyway?” Then tosses it away by returning to his question of the day: “Do you think Google should be classified as a media company – or as something else?”
So I’ll ask instead — how do you define a media company today? Drop me a line.
Speaking of fixations, I just saw an Online Journal headline: “Google Dips Below $280.”
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Wall Street Dubs Google Most Valuable Media Company

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