Google Is Weak Because It Is Strong
Google’s stock closed last week at $637.39, Wall Street thinks Google’s third quarter earnings announcement may come in 50 cents higher per share than last quarter, the company gets two-thirds of the web searches and 40 percent of the ad revenue. They’re screwed.
Google Complains About Censorship Charge
After blowing away ads aimed at criticizing MoveOn.org by name, Google’s public policy wonks fired back and asserted that trademarks, not politics, played a role.
Don’t Call It A Killer
It took me maybe a year of writing on the Internet to understand that any new online business created in a space where similar formats existed would be labeled "[current leader] + killer" and that that was probably, in my grandmother’s language, horse feathers.
Google 411’s Impressive Debut
Today, I was driving in San Francisco with a couple of other SEO-types and we spotted a prominent billboard for Google’s 411 service.
Google Versus Facebook
Some Google employees are leaving Google for social site Facebook. Well, “some” isn’t a trend, but a couple of the remarks of those that left offer insightful perspectives.
More Job Seekers Turning To The Internet
Job hunters are continuing to increase their use of the Internet as the main part of their job search according to a new report from the Conference Board.
Fear & Marketing
Yesterday I had the great pleasure of addressing 100 marketers from the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Marketing Association.
As I began to speak, I found that the PowerPoint file was corrupted on the conference’s laptop. And so was the copy on their flash drive. I was faced with doing my presentation with no slides. That experience was enough to put me in a mind to talk about fear today.
No, not the fear of public speaking, although that is a common fear. I want to talk about fear and marketing.
Facebook: The Awkward Teenager
Kara Swisher, who writes for All Things D, had a couple of posts on Facebook recently that got me thinking again about the social-networking site. In the first one, Kara said that using Facebook often seems like “children’s hour,” because of all the goofy applications and widgets that your friends and acquaintances are constantly adding (and trying to get you to add as well).
Craigslist: Your data belongs to you
One of the themes of Web 2.0 (if there is such a thing) is that all of the data that gets aggregated by Web applications and social networks can be a very powerful thing, and can in some cases justify giving services away for free — provided people who use those services agree to let their data be sliced and diced and parsed in various ways, whether to generate ads or whatever.
Google Bakes A Gigantic Cake
Sure, there are privacy issues. And yes, the company sometimes looks like a monopoly. But it has now made a cake weighing at least 125 pounds, which leads me to ask: how can you not love Google?