[120458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Dec 22 02:31:17 2009
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:30:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
To: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <202705b0912211224ya429553v4b2417d61da0464b@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Jorge Amodio wrote:
> Another one from the "Evil Doer"
>
> http://www.google.com/advertising/holiday2009/
>
> Wish the guys from Redmond and others copy this action too ...
>
> Cheers
> Jorge
Google makes about $1.5B profit per quarter. $20M of charity? I don't
like MS any more than most, but Gates Foundation has received $20B from
Bill and Warren over the past 3 years. My hat goes off to those guys!
>From a corporate standpoint, comparing to 2006 donations as reviewed by
Businessweek:
http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/philanthropy_corporate/
Google's $20M on $6B profit for 2009 is miniscule and basically just PR
hype. Wanna compare Bill to Larry & Sergey? Your comment on "wish
Redmond would copy this action" is libelous and I certainly hope that
major philanthropists do not "copy" Google's joke of a donation.
-Hank
Further references:
http://www.corporatephilanthropy.org/resources/benchmarking-reports/giving-in-numbers.html
http://philanthropy.com/philanthropy50/index.php?view=topdonors&year=2008
