What if Google buy Pictures Of England.com?

Although I know allot of time, hard work and expense goes into running a site like POE I’m afraid I don’t really know enough about the finer details of web hosting to give much of a valid reply, I know large sites like face book use advertising as a way of funding. I personally think the two tier membership system that allot of sites use is quite fair, like Flickr for example, free membership for limited picture uploads and a yearly payment for the advanced membership, at least this way people like myself who upload allot of pictures and regularly use the forums would pay membership and those who upload no pictures or very few and mainly just use the forums get the free membership option, at least this way nobody who wishes to join is left out just because they don’t have the cash for full membership and the option to upgrade at a later date if you want to is always open. I started off with myphotoalbum.com on a basic free membership but soon upgraded my account to a paying member. Going way back to the original title of this thread “what if Google buy Pictures of England.com” well, I’m sure they will make many changes and one of those changes I bet will be a membership fee, again only my personal thoughts but I would rather pay a fee to hosts like POE who actually seem to care about hosting an excellent and informative site than I would to one of the big giants like Google who are only in it for the money.

Jason- I would lend you that Tenner but I am donating it to a better cause…..POE