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MarketFoolery:01.12.2012

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🗓️ 12 January 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Google renews its push into China, shares of Sears drop on bad financial news while shares of Dick's Sporting Goods rise 12%. Plus, the guys share sports equipment tips.

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, January 12th, and this is Market Fullry.

0:05.0

I'm Chris Hill and joining me in studio today from Motleyville Stock Advisor, Jason Moser,

0:09.0

and from Motley Fool Inside Value Joe Meager.

0:12.0

Gentle, happy Thursday.

0:13.5

Happy Thursday.

0:14.6

We have a couple of retail stocks

0:16.4

that are going in opposite directions,

0:17.9

but we are going to start with Google.

0:20.2

Do you remember two years ago

0:21.5

when Google pulled out of China after butting

0:24.3

Butting heads with the authorities about censorship? Yeah, that was that the

0:29.4

Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Google is renewing its push to expand into China.

0:35.0

Does this have anything to do with the fact that China is the world's biggest internet market?

0:40.0

Joe, what do you think?

0:41.0

Yeah, I think it does.

0:42.0

And they never fully left China. What they did was basically

0:47.4

They stopped agreeing to a lot of the Chinese government's requests on censoring content and they move their servers to Hong Kong.

0:55.8

In doing so it basically made the Google experience a lot slower for users in China and so that's

1:00.5

why usage has fallen off and they've lost market share there.

1:04.0

I think they're getting back there not just because it's a huge market, but also, I mean for fairly obvious reasons, right?

1:11.0

It's a huge surging market that's still in

1:13.2

its formative days and in a business where network effects are so key and huge you know

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