xcoder - 8:45 am on Nov 27, 2012 (gmt 0)

Wow, I had no idea... someone mentioned here before that Amazon are kind of big time white listed on Google SERPs. Could this be the reason?...

The story is this - in 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine in a $1 million follow-on investment round. When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 million shares of Google stock. At Google’s IPO that represented a stock share position worth over $280 million! While Bezos does not disclose how many of those shares he still holds, at the current price of Google stock they would represent an investment position of over $1.5 billion. Read more: [growthink.com...]