You can see here as an example how my google+ looks like if you have yet not seen g+
Google is an amazing company growing enormously and with a market that is still in its infancy. Online advertising is growing, internet usage is growing and economies of scale make it’s moat a sharks’ paradise. By controlling search Google knows exactly what your tastes are. Even by visiting a financial site it can offer you a completely unrelated ad about, for example, wine, just based on your searchs’ history. The better the search gets, the better the ads and the click through rates get and the higher the cost per clicks go, because more companies are willing to pay for them. That creates more profits for Google, its clients who sell the ads and its publishers who get paid by serving the ads. Therefore in an elegant business virtuous circle the incentives between the company, its ad providers, its search customers and its publisher customers are well aligned. While at the same time the bigger the search gets the better it gets for all. They are all striving to get more profits since they will be distributed if profits are low everyone loses. So everyone does its part, Google strives to provides good search by measuring how fast searchers get where they want and learning what they like and publishers and ad sellers make sure they provide good content otherwise they do not get paid (and Google neither)!
As Charlie Munger says: incentives are very important!
It is worth noting that Google measures how happy its search users are by measuring how fast they get out of their search engine, that is the most important measure of how effective the search was! (quite a different model than Facebook eh!)
Since last quarters results I have been adding shares, it is now almost 5% of my portfolio, here are all the posts I wrote on my blog about Google and the transactions I made to add to my positions. You will there understand why I like the company. I should write an elaborated and comprehensible post explaining why it is a great investment but lately I have been extremely busy studying about certain investment opportunities (like Cisco) and do not have too much time to write.
As an investor, if you really want to learn a LOT about google, you should also read the Book In the Plex: how Google thinks, works and shapes our lives. It was recommended by Charlie Munger and gives an excellent view on on the company, better than if you were an insider since it aggregates all the invaluable company info that the writer recollected in his years long research and access to exclusive workers and people related to Google. I thought I knew about Google a bit more than the average person but after reading the book my knowledge has been incredibly increased much much more than by reading normal news or 10k’s!
Anyone really I mean really interested in g+ or displeased with Facebook feel free to reply to this post for an invite to g+. It has really cool features (that will make you laugh)! And thanks to the 2 persons who invited me to g+ after I asked for it via this blog: Andrew and Patrice!
Bye for now, I am going, guess where? I am going to read the conference call transcript !
Ah for those who are really fed up with Facebook here is how you can import all your contacts to Google+:
At first it seems quite difficult to export your Facebook friends. But as I will mention there is a very easy work around. I have read that Facebook is working hard removing emails (since the 5th of July) and blocking 3rd party plugins made to export your list of friends. Like if YOUR friends were their property and not yours! I guess they are pretty scared, but doing that is an evil sign showing non openness that could badly revert on them if its picked up by the media.
Anyways if you are lucky to have a yahoo email you can import all of your Facebook contacts into it with just 1 click and then Google+ can detect them! If you really want to do it and do not have a yahoo account you can make one just for that, its also quite fast to do. I did it and now I see all my Facebook contacts on Google+ and they were massively invited, I am surprised by their quick reaction to accept the invitation and ad me back !
I just organized all my contacts in different circles, several fell into more than one circle. It’s an amazingly cool and natural way to look at them, it like just feels like the way your brain does it !
Cheers!
jrv
I have the pleasure to announce that before having finished to edit this post I already invited 3 persons: Jim, Dave and Peter!
And short afterwards more people asked me via Facebook: Rob
I feel great I can make someone happy, and thanks for your kind comments such as this one:
Hello, jrv:
It’s been interesting, reading the opinions of an increasing number of G+ proponents such as yourself. It all seems to be unbiased and has a common theme of looking for something better.
I decided to give FB a try a couple of years ago, “to see what all the fuss is about”. That experiment that lasted about two days. Once I realized that it was a huge data mine in the guise of a childish college funhouse, I “deleted” my account. We both know I am still on file there…
I’d like to investigate G+ now, but not for the same reason I tried FB. This time, it’s a case of finding out how an intelligent, moral organization like Google takes a good idea and executes it properly right from the start.
Plus, I want to see your shares grow
If you would be so kind as to invite me to G+, I would appreciate it very much!
Take care,
xxxx
Hi jrv
Please send me G+ invitation.
Thanks
Mukesh, you are invited!
Greetings from Natal – hope your enjoying Brazil. If you’ve any invites left, do share, and thanks in advance.
jrv, just got the invite – obrigado.
Hi jrv, I’m from São Paulo, in the last 10 years I lived in Salvador, Bahia and now we moved to Hawaii. I have the same philosophy though I only invest in the brazilian stock market.
Could you invite me to Google+ ?
abraço
Ignacio
please send me google+ invitation
Midhula I cannot find your email to send you the invite, please send it to me to jvelasco@gmail.com
Plz send me an invitation: szabolaszlogabor@gmail.com
thx
Hi jrv, I do similar work to you. I enjoyed reading your comment. Please invite me to google +, it would help me assess googles prospects in that space.
Regards and
Thank you.
Joe, I’m glad I could invite you.
and just added you to my acquaintances circle
Enjoy !
Hey can I get an invite to Google +
Sure! I just invited you, Enjoy the power of G+ !
HI
please send me the invitation for Google+ please………………
Hey jrv, i want to know if you have any invitations left?? Just one needed please
Yes Orlando! I just invited you, enjoy the power of G+ !
Wow, that was fast. Thank you.
please i want one invitation to me.
Hello jrv,
I really appreciate the work you do around and sending G+ invites is a really nice thing to do
If you have any invites left I would be very glad to have one! Thank you very much!
That was quick! Thanks a lot, jrv!
Glad to send you one, you are now invited enjoy !
I was an IT consultant a long time ago and am looking to get back into the field. I would really like to learn all about google+ first hand so I can help others learn it / troubleshoot it / secure it, etc..
An invite would really be appreciated.
thanks,
john
Wish you the best on your comeback to IT consultancy, I just invited you, enjoy !
Hola jrv
Realmente me gustaría que me invitaras al proyecto
espero a tu invitación, gracias!
Con placer, ya estas invitado!
Gracias jrv!
Hey,
can I get an invite to Google + ?
I am really curious!
Have fun!
Well soon your curiosity will be fulfilled !… yep done, invited
Hey, do you happen to have any g+ invites left? I would be very grateful. Thanks and I enjoyed the post.
Rob
Looks like I have enough … yeah, you’re invited !
I’d love an invite please
Sure here it goes… you are now invited !
hey can i get invited too kcoot500@yahoo.com please..thanks
My pleasure, you are now invited !
jrv, am a facebook refugee. To many games and apps!! Would love to explore a professionally done social network. Thanks!!
Michael
I just invited you! I agree Facebook is full of ads and games and likes that have nothing in common with me. Hurray to the clean looks of G+!
Already there. Thanks for the Invite!!
Would love an invite if you have one arround, thanks !
Done !
I would like an invite.
Your like is granted!
If you have an extra invite, would be appreciated. thx
sorry email: sahrans@gmail.com
ok no problem, done !
Thx much
I would like to check out google+ if you still happen to have any invites.
Thanks!
I do I just invited you, enjoy it!
Hi jrv, finally i found the right place to ask a magic link to bring me into a G+ powers, for a better proffesional-network than friends/followers collector
Terima Kasih (Thanks in ‘Bahasa’)
A pleasure to add someone from Indonesia! You have a nice family and live in a very green place! Invitation is just sent!
Great appreciations for your quick invitation, prompt responses to people who post something on your page to get an invitation.
Im glad have a new friend from there, Thanks for you comment and i did bookmark your pages and will come back.
Best Regards
Great Blog. Bookmarked ! What do you think of CSCO as a long term play @ its current price ?
Oh … forgot … how about an invitation to Google Plus ?
Cisco seems cheap, I already bought 130 shares @ a bit less than 15, I am studying to add much more, still not 100% but smells much better than anything else and could be an unique opportunity, I hope I can decide myself fast…
You are now invited !
I would appreciate an invite to Google+. Thank you!
Jerry I just sent you one!
Thank you very much!
Hi, it seems like a really nice social network. Plus I like google. I was wondering if you can send me an invite too. My email is Shay1119@hotmail.com. The future looks bright for the internet.
Shay you wondered right I sent you the invite ! Enjoy!
Thanks
Great..! I like your blog, can I get an intitation
Helio, you have been initiated !
Hi. can I please get an invite to Googles new social network. I read your article and it was pleasant. Thanks
Sheena, you’re on!
I’d be very grateful for an invite if you have any left, thanks! Interesting article by the way, if google+ offers something less invasive than FB, I’m onboard.
Tom, you are invited ! It is much less intrusive, by default things are private.
goggle + appeals to me .
If you do have an invite left would greatly appreciate. Thanks for sharing your
Ideas always thought provoking and interesting. Count as a fan a 60 year old grandma !
Jane, your age is wisdom, you still have great years ahead, and I love grandmas ! Glad I could invite you!
Now I am going to show how little I really know. Thought invite would appear in my email in box. Not there
,Now this is the silly part, where is the invite.
( blushing smile)
I would love an invitation. I, too, am a 60 year old grandma. I may get old, but I won’t grow up!!
Another grandma great, at this rate I’m gonna have to make a grandma google+ circle, you’re invited !
I’m a great fan of you, you have a great choice for you and your family, my dream too is to live and educate my kids in Brazil but my wife isn’t very fond of the idea :/
Too bad because we’re Portuguese and he language wouldn’t be any problem. Guess luck doesn’t come to all of us
All the best luck for you and your family. I just dropped my FB account, so I guess I don’t need yet another social network so soon
Thanks Henrique, let me know if you ever change your mind and come to Brazil, I’ll help you settling!
As a facebook user for a few years now, I feel it’s gotten stale and has slacked in security lately. I’d love to check out google+ and see for myself if this could in fact topple “the social network.” Thanks in advance if you could help me out.
B.T. It’s a pleasure if I can be of any help, I just invited you, enjoy!
I would LOVE to get invited… :3
can you please invite me??
Fred, love is all we need. You’re invited !
Very displeased with facebook! Please send me an invite. Thanks!
Google+ invite please. Facebook has gotten on my nerves.
Hello…I would appreciate an invite as I am curious about Google plus. I deactivated my Facebook account about 2 years ago due to privacy issues…thank you
Hi jrv,
Can I get an invite please?
Thank you,
Teri
Dave, Mathew, Claudia, Teri and Jack, you are ALL invited!
Thank you!
Hi jrv, I like your blog, I would appreciate an invite to Google+. Thank you!
Hi jrv. Nice insight on google. Also interesting info on how you started investing, and I only wish I can be better in investing too.
In any case you still have invites for google+, can you invite me please?
Thanks and ‘have a good weekend!
-Jamil
Hi jrv, how you doin?
Man, I’m a big fan of Google and I want to join of the Google+, could you send to me an invite please???
Greetings from São Paulo, Brazil
Thanks jrv
Jess, Jamil, Raphael, you are invited!
jrv,
I’m really grateful …
Thanks a lot …
Thank you jrv!
Hey jrv, your blog is real neat. Is there anyway you can invite me to use Google+, I find it very interesting. It would be very appreciated. Thanks man.
Brondon I just invited you!
Hey jrv, you are a very generous person for giving away invites. Can you send me an invite? I would be very grateful. Thanks a lot.
Hey jrv, I’ve been very interested in trying Google+ as an alternative to facebook. Do you still have invites available? I’d greatly appreciate it. Thank you kindly.
Sorry silly me found it in spam. Is my face red!
Hi jrv,
If you have any invites left for google + I’d love one! Thanks!!
A Lacy, Jane, Justin, Jenny, you are all invited!
could you invite me please! i’ve been dying for G+
Hi jrv, please send me an invite to G+
Jacob (don’t die just yet), Peter and Kishore: INVITED
!
Hello.
If you could send me an invite to Google+ I would be very appreciative!
The ongoing privacy challenges, combined with managing all the “noise” with my FB account are getting to be too much of a pain and distraction.
Since reading about Google+ I have been desperate to try it.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Cheers,
rjv
Intite me pleeease^^
Hey jrv, if you have any invitations left I would like to try Google+
Could I please have a g+ invite?!
All of the last requests have been invited !
Sorry!! My email is saullecompte2@charter.net !!! Thanks again!!
Hi jrv,
Could you send me an invite to g+ too?
Please would you send me an invitation. I really do appreciate this. Thank you.
0513220@gmail.com
Thanks jrv! Bookmarking the site!!
I’d like an invite. I hope G+ is better than the Facebook. From the sound of things, it might be. I like the group video chat idea.
Hi jrv, please send me an invite to G+….Thanks in Advance…
mrrandypierce@gmail.com
Hey there jrv
… You had me @ the google invite promise but now that i’m here, I find this place to be quite interesting, to say the least… i’ll add you to my news feed and i will appreciate a Google+ invite 
Thanks,
Mai
https://profiles.google.com/u/0/Born2WinMai/about
Please add me to your invite list.
Thank you
I think up to now I invited every single person who asked !
Please invite me to Google+!
My email is lindseydenniston@gmail.com!
can i please get a G+ invite if you have any left.
thank you!!
Lindsey, Chris, I just sent you the invitation, enjoy!
Hey please can you send me an invite to G+ be highly appreciated! steffan.merrick1@gmail.com
Thank you!
Please, please send me an invite!! I am not a fan of facebook, at all, and want to join G+! Thanks!!
can i please get a G+ invite if you have any left.
thank you!!
If you dont mind can I get a G+ invite.
Gracias.
Hi jrv, i am a student from italy and found out your blog looking for some real private portfolio. I am studing for Market and Corporate Finance exams and reading about real portfolios helps me to better understand the financial world. Your blog has been very useful.
I am also interested in trying google+, since i believe google services are very innovative, i’d really like to be invited.
Thank you
Simone (enomismile@gmail.com)
Hi jrv! Loved the post. Any chance you have any Google+ invites left? If so, would you mind sending me one? I would much appreciate it. Thanks either way!
Take care,
Roger
Steffan, Dallas Hughes, Obasks, Jose, Simone and Roger: you are all invited !
I would greatly appreciate it if you could send me an invitation as well, though with how many you’ve given already it’s ok if you cant
Hola, necesito una invitacion de google+ por favor. gracias.
Hi juan, thank you for your time , I would really appreciate a invitation.
Hi jrv,
I’d love an invitation if you have any left.
Thanks for your time!
gracias jrv. thank you very much.
It would seem as if some of the civilization you managed to escape from has now managed to track you down.
Count me in!
I jumped here from huffpost. Could I get an invite if you still have some left?
Thanks
Hi jrv, i want to know if you have any invitations left?? Just one needed
Please…
Hi jrv
Pl send me G+ Invitation
Thanks
Hi jrv, found this post and looking for an invite. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks!
Hi jrv,
Lived in Belgium, France… we have some countries in common.
Please send me a google+ invitation. I would love to check it out.
thanks,
could you invite me please !
jk.c1@hotmail.com
Up to here all are invited!
Hi jrv,
Please send me Google+ invitation
Thanks
my email address – eymirsya@gmail.com
one here please
i want to share my summer time on G+!
Hi!
Can you pls send me an invitation?
Thxs!
i hope you will invite me. thank you.
can u send me invatation to G+ please
on my email alialsaleem@gmail.com
Por favor, envíenme una invitación. Gracias.
Hi jrv
Can I get invitation?
Please… Thanks!!
plz send me invitation
Hi! Still handing out invites? I’d appreciate one! Thanks.
may i have an invite at patrickquincy@gmail.com
I would love an invite: epiccathedral@gmail.com
Thanks in advance!
Hello,
I would appreciate an invitation for google +.
Thanks a lot : ))))))
Hello jrv,
May I have an invitation to google+ ?
Thanks
Hi I’m an It tech and was looking for an invite to see how it works and if it can be useful to my college I work at thanks.
Hi jrv. I wish to say that I’ve enjoy your posting re. Walter Schloss and his incredible but steadfast value investing philosophy (via Gurufocus). Somewhat similar to yourself, I’ve moved beyond the rat race of banking & IT & now settled down in the countryside with one big difference: I’m over here in Asia.
I love to keep track of your postings too & on g+. Would you please forward me an invitation? Thanks again!
Hi
Could I please have an invite to google +? I’m really interested in it
Hello jrv,
May I have an invitation to google+ ?
please send me invitation to google+…beniam2011@gmail.com….please send me invitation
pls send me g+ invitation
Plz send me an invitation: szabolaszlogabor @ gmail com
thx
Invite me please to Google +
sportsmen@gmail.com
Thanks
Please invite me : nicola.gonthier@gmail.com
Thanks!
Please invite me to your G+
Thanks for sharing your experience. I started putting my friends into categories knowing this was coming. My Twitter friends will be in one circle. My Family in another. My S.F.S.U. creative writing friends in another circle…..
Hope you still have room,
I can see you are being inundated with requests.
Please invite me roseoffner @gmail.com
I saw on Huffingtonpost.com about GOOGLE Plus invites I would love one. My email is WOLFFTIGGAIN@GMAIL.COM.
I would love an invite please! Very interested in this!
Please invite me !
any invites left?
chreers!
All up to now have been invited enjoy !
jrv, If u have any invite left, plz invite me thanks in advance
Hey jrv! Great blog! Have any more invitations to send? Please send one my way. It would be greatly appreciated.
hey
I’ll be very thankfull for one more invitation.
If you have any more, I would appreciate one. Thanks for sharing some insight on G+. Obrigado!
jrv, I hope that you have an invitation left for me. I’m from Mexico, been living in the US for about 20 years now, I have a passion from computers and I like self learn. I like the idea of been on google’s select list. I would really appreciate if you can send me an ivitation. Thanks in advanced…
Hello, can you please invite me to g+?
Thanks!
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Please, invite me to google+
I just checked Google plus and they are allowing people to join via invite again! Mind giving me the key to open the door out of Facebook? Thanks!
All until now are invited, still 143 invitations left, hurry!
Interesting CV of yours. Good luck with your investments and your radical change in life style.
I’ve never been on FB — once or twice ALMOST signed up but then didn’t. And I’ve been interested in G+ as soon as it started. Seems to have exactly the public/ privacy flexibility that is missing from FB. I’m quite disappointed that G+ isn’t open to everyone (yet).
Can you pls invite if you have some left?
Gracias
R
please invite me
lori@whitelakeart.com thanks!
I would love to have one
google +
napatel2007@gmail.com
Hello.
Yes, I am very interested in an invite to G+. ….Thank you so much!
zignit@zignit.net
Please would you send me an invitation. I really do appreciate this. Thank you.
Please Invite me
zob.cool@gmail.com
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