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by niekmaas 5432 days ago
Of course this will likely happen when a decent alternative presents itself. This is not guarenteed to happen though. The same could have been said about 'search' when Google wasn't around. 'Yahoo will buy them'. They had the chance but did not see the potential Google had as a searchengine. Whith this in mind it could potentially happen that a new company comes up with a better idea and grows too big too fast for GOOG to buy them. But that's the whole idea behind investing in the stock market: past revenues are no guarantee for the future...