Does Bitcoin really need Google?

[Champ92]

What can anyone say about this news?

Coinbase and Google Now in Partnership for Special App http://bit.ly/1KjVJMc

Will this make an impact to the current bitcoin price?

[Q7]

will provide you with timely updates, like bitcoin price changes,

There are probably tons of apps having the same functionality so not sure how this is going to be any different.
Except maybe for the incoming fund notification functionality to coinbase account.

[dsly]

What can anyone say about this news?

Coinbase and Google Now in Partnership for Special App http://bit.ly/1KjVJMc

Will this make an impact to the current bitcoin price?

I don't think an app can alone impact the price, unless it makes a big difference in the lives of people.

[elephantas1]

What can anyone say about this news?

Coinbase and Google Now in Partnership for Special App http://bit.ly/1KjVJMc

Will this make an impact to the current bitcoin price?

I don't think an app can alone impact the price, unless it makes a big difference in the lives of people.

if it will be on google play then a lot more new people will get interested in bitcoin, what could lead to more buys and price change

[jbrnt]

Bitcoin does not need Google to succeed. Google can accelerate bitcoin acceptance. It is much cheaper for Google to accept bitcoin than selling those Google play prepaid cards. So bitcoin will be useful to Google too.

[randy8777]

bitcoin doesn't need it but it will help. i think when amazon accepts bitcoin payments it will be much better news.

[commandrix]

A truly decentralized entity would not "need" any single person, place, thing, or corporation to validate its existence. I put Google in the "Would be nice to have, but it's not necessary" category as far as Bitcoin is concerned.

[maurya78]

it will help a little but i expect no price impact

[HarmonLi]

This won't affect the price. But it's an interesting step and surely noteworthy. It show how companies take interest in Bitcoin and are starting their own little experiments, so to say. What ever comes of those experiments... only time will tell!

[zimmah]

A truly decentralized entity would not "need" any single person, place, thing, or corporation to validate its existence. I put Google in the "Would be nice to have, but it's not necessary" category as far as Bitcoin is concerned.

But when companies are working together with Bitcoin it will give positive signals to the masses and they may be more inclined to look into it.

[BillyBobZorton]

Totally dont, but this is just good publicity for bitcoin, it doesnt matter who partners with go, the protocol is still independent.

[countryfree]

Any company or product needs google to gain visibility, and BTC is no different.

[JohnsCasino]

Google needs bitcoin..and they're admitting it if not in the media, through their actions.

[fenghush]

Google needs bitcoin..and they're admitting it if not in the media, through their actions.

No they don't, google handles most of the internet traffic today, they're the overlord, if google removes bitcoin from its search results influx of new bitcoin users will grind to a halt.

[neurotypical]

Google is a big mafia and decide what and what isn't moraly correct. Example, they let that idiot PerezHilton do whatever he wants and still get millions of adsense, but then if you use a single picture that happens to be copyrighted or is of "lewd" content (the entire perezhilton website is of lewd content) then they can cancel your adsense account for life without giving any particular explaination. Motherfuckers.

[fenghush]

Google is a big mafia and decide what and what isn't moraly correct. Example, they let that idiot PerezHilton do whatever he wants and still get millions of adsense, but then if you use a single picture that happens to be copyrighted or is of "lewd" content (the entire perezhilton website is of lewd content) then they can cancel your adsense account for life without giving any particular explaination. Motherfuckers.

Build your own multi billion corporation and make them obsolete then.

[dothebeats]

As many of us know, the search engine of Google is the most widely-used search engine in the world. It handles the vast majority of searches and traffics in the internet, which is a good thing for Bitcoin. It can obtain some publicity because of tying up with Google, but I don't think it will affect that much with regards to the price. Bitcoin can stand alone, yes. But without enough publicity, adoption rate would be much slower.

[Bitzkrieg]

Bitcoin can stand alone, yes. But without enough publicity, adoption rate would be much slower.

Hell right.... 

[viboracecata]

I think google should learn the bitcoin network and help to improve it, they will get profit from it

[ahmi]

Why bitcoin need Google!!!.... to spread the bitcoin??