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Google’s known as the company with a “different” kind of corporate culture. Call Ooga Labs “really different,” then - these guys play…
Oh dear, where did that week go again? Goodness, I cannot believe that today is my first day back at work after having spent a fantastic week attending IBM's Technical Leadership Exchange conference event in Euro Disney, Paris, and then enjoying four wonderful days in lovely Paris doing a bit of sightseeing here and there! I know that I mentioned back then, before starting my…
In some markets, Google is getting trounced. Take China and South Korea, for instance: the big guy just can’t win. In other regions, Google continues to reign supreme, and the latest numbers from comScore confirm that Britain is willing to crown Google as king of the search engines. Social networks also fared well in the UK.
It’s well accepted in marketing that people buy on emotion. They purchase on emotion, and then justify the purchase with logic. As Barry Feig puts it in his book Hot Button Marketing: People don’t buy products and services, they buy the satisfaction of unmet needs.
Google may or may not be on democracy’s side in countries such as Thailand and China - CEO Eric Schmidt apparently isn’t saying. Yet, while speaking in South Korea, Schmidt made clear that the Internet, as a whole, can help spread this particular system of government.
Perhaps Google’s algorithm isn’t as difficult as we all think? No, I haven’t been sitting in front of the microwave for too long again. Before you rip me to pieces, give me a few seconds to explain myself! Possible Technology Limitations Now, we all know that Google has one of the largest server farms in the world, estimated upwards of 250,000 individual servers spread worldwide.…
