BuzzMachine

The race is over, and Google won. They own my #1, #2, #3 referral sources to the Web site (Google Images, Search and Reader). They are my only Search Engine. They are my default RSS reader. They store more e-mail in one account than anybody. They own the online ad market. And so far, we trust them more than we ever did Microsoft.

Yes, can’t stop admiring Google. One heck of an amazing and unique company.

The innovators always win. :)

Google is so wonderful. They keep my teeth white, help me lower my cholesterol and keep my laundry so soft and fresh.

I would just like them to make more jobs available via telecommuting, then maybe I would see them as a major part of life, or rather affecting a major part of MY life.

One firm having a dominant position in any industry is never a good thing.

Here is my short essay detailing why this is so in this case.

Google and the Dissemination of Knowledge

The first part deals with the potential for the limiting of access to information by design (censorship), the second part deals with the limits imposed by faulty indexing or other technical failures.

If it isn’t in the index, the information effectively doesn’t exist. This is not healthy in a democracy.

People scrutinize the ups and downs of newspaper advertising so closely, but we should really study the phenomenon of Google advertising.

It’s remarkable that Google is able to bring in $15 billion a year from those simple text-only ads, with no graphics, no flashing, blinking things. It’s also remarkable that there was $15 billion sitting around waiting to be spent by merchants of various sizes.

How much does Google spend on sales people? What’s their pitch? How much of it is automated, that is, it sells itself? Has Google solved its click-fraud problem? Are the advertisers doing $15 billion worth of business through these ads?

What if newspapers had a more automated process where a business could sign up for an ad and it would become like a little blog, that you could update at will?

Hi,

Google is simply run by management that failed/learned their lessons at other companies.

It’s also had the same ambitions from the begining, both of being the alexandria of the modern world (as all other serch engines), and being at the point of transaction for every transaction possible. It has planned its road-map from that point on. Everything it does is simply a piece towards that jigsaw, whether that be Checkout or giving away free translation and 411 DQ services in return for building up the greater value that will come from intelligent Data-sets that will be the largest ever and be impossible for competitors to overcome -they also learnt the import of the network-effect/tipping-point as they learnt from ppc.

People forget that for almost half it’s life, google wasn’t anything meaningful in terms of the business-model, it was the guts/forsight/execution they had to not only rip-off GO.com’s patented PPC technology/model, but also pay well for Applied Semantics, and then expand and expand the distribution and inventory for its content/advertising making is as simple and atomically granular specifiy-ical as possible!

What that means is that if the other players hadn’t been as complacent and arrogant, they could also have obsessively have focussed on threats and opportunities, and bought some of those assets and moved first to build the barriers. What it also means, that any time google pisses off enough staff, customers (see: wpp and ebay), forces competitive alliances, gets lazy or simply too distracted, any one of those older or not-even-existing-yet companies (see facebook) have the potential to take it on.

Remeber, in the early days, I remeber google having to pitch, with only one product, to isp’s and portals for them to use and include it on their sites, and when you used to be able to get direct pr/contact from its founders -a world away.

The one great advantage that Google previously had that no one else dared to, was the hype and stupidity of “do no evil” greatest marketing in history!

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

Thanks for the post Jeff. Things change so quickly that it’s interesting to see how far Google has come just in the past year. Wow!

@Grich

Whala?

Do you mean, voila?

google also dominates website statistic services. there are not exact stats on how many sites converted to google analytics from other free services. since google analytics is so much better than other free services a lot of big and small sites convert to it and by that allow google to track “none-search” user activity. see more here

lots of good points but not sure I’d quote anything from Rimm-Kaufman. They’re hardly a credible company.

They did it when others couldn’t. Period. Microsoft is so envious. Yahoo is still scratching its head wondering how they came in first, but got in last. Plus, they created a new word in the English Language: “Googled.”

google es una mierda google es el gran estafador

Polytheistic heathen worship multiple gods.

Googleislord.com circa Xmas 2006.