One of COMM 101 students, Jialu Li, has written about Google’s allowance of users using their online information (including Google+ and YouTube and etc.). She has mentioned that online advertisements also helped Google to earn money. Personally I believe that from the perspective of Google, getting profit by ads is necessary. Though Internet users may be disturbed by the ads, however, people would not stop using the website if they truly want to explore something. That means corporation with ads will not influence the company much because Google is one of the most well known website for searching information.

A few days ago I saw an article about how Chris Dodd, former U.S. senator and now CEO of Motion Picture Association of America, criticized the lack of action that Google takes to prevent the pirated contents on Internet. (Article can be found in http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d088e55e-46c8-11e3-bdd2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2kyHkYqUP) However my perspective after reading the article was that one of the reasons that Google did not deter it was because by providing links for those pirated movies, Google can actually earn more Internet users whereas without the links, users would find other ways instead of searching by Google.

In this regard, by comparing Jialu’s blog and the online article, I found it was interesting to see how Google company earn money and get profit using different strategies in two different articles.

Reference

Jialu Li’s Blog – Quantity or Quality: https://blogs.ubc.ca/jialu/

Google urged to step up fight against film piracy – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d088e55e-46c8-11e3-bdd2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2kyHkYqUP