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Did You Know Google Owned A Twitter Like Site? The Tale Of Jaiku.com

December 23, 2009 by Michael Berkens

Do you think that Google owns EVERYTHING?

I didn’t know that Google owned a Twitter like site at Jaiku.com until the other day.

I sure didn’t know that Google paid for $12 Million for the privilege.

Go check out the site for yourself and tell me how its worth $12 Mills.

If nothing else it should inspire you to do your own project on a domain you already own.

Did you  know that

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About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. JS says

    December 23, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    Your blog looks better Michael

  2. Jose says

    December 23, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    I really don”t what to sound mean, but that site is a piece of j%^$# Iam going to work on my own now!

  3. Chef Patrick says

    December 23, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    I didn’t know and will probably never go back and again after just checking it out, lol.

  4. MHB says

    December 23, 2009 at 10:32 pm

    Chef

    I agree with you but the lesson here is that Google bought this for $12 MILLION dollars.

    If that doesn’t give you incentive to build something out I don’t know what will.

  5. Tony says

    December 24, 2009 at 1:18 am

    Mike, this isn’t as easy as just building out a website. It’s about creating a first-of-a-kind web service and that takes a lot expertise.

    Or I could be wrong and someone will make a million dollar site with a free generic script LOL.

  6. Richard says

    December 24, 2009 at 3:13 am

    They also own a social network by the name of Orkut.com.

  7. Breaking News Blog says

    December 24, 2009 at 7:02 am

    .

    fortunately, not ALL Google sites (like Knol) are a success, so, we can hope to don’t have a full Google’s web monopoly

    .

  8. don says

    December 24, 2009 at 10:18 am

    The key is too get the socail hype machine known as techcrunch to feature you…it seems to do wonders for getting vc money, although they turn a blind eye to some of the better web strategies that actually make money…

  9. Russ says

    December 24, 2009 at 11:13 am

    What’s the saying…. everyone’s good at something, but no one’s good at everything.

    Google has quite a history of buying promising sites (sometimes for lots of money) and letting them wither or die.

  10. Open Domain Market says

    December 24, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    Even a devil can be sold if its cooked properly.

    You should invent or at least duplicate at light speed.


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