I don’t know Zunch, but I’d argue that it’s generally good riddance when overpriced fancy SEM firms go belly up. As Google creates easier, better, and cheaper ways to do great in-house SEM (e.g. Analytics and PPC management) it’s not … Continue reading
Matt’s got a great post and comment section going on the issue of online privacy. His point is well taken – Google stores less information about you than most other players online and your ISP is the place that has … Continue reading
Google is no longer narily, barely shading the advertisements that appear at the top of the organic listings on the left of the search web page. This may be a regional thing or experimental (I’m in Oregon on Charter ISP), … Continue reading
Google as advertising juggernaut continues the aggressive “advertising baron” expansion with today’s purchase of DoubleClick. I doubt it was DoubleClick’s technology that made this attractive to Google, rather the stable of existing advertisers and – perhaps most importantly – keeping … Continue reading
I really appreciate Robert Scoble‘s great insights but I’m skeptical of the party rumor he cited today that suggests this about Google Advertising: … fewer ads mean less revenue SHORT TERM. But long term the advertising revenue actually goes up. … Continue reading
Google’s legendary success, especially in light of Microsoft’s lackluster performance, leads one to wonder about the differences at these two techno behemoths. Stanford Magazine has a nice feature on the work of Carol Dweck on personal achievement. Here is a … Continue reading
Viacom has sued Google/YouTube for copyright infringement, filing papers today and asking for a billion bucks in damages. The Viacom Press release summarizes their point of view. In short Viacom says of YouTube: Their business model, which is based on … Continue reading
Viacom’s ditching YouTube, and says they are glad they did. This FT story suggests that we may seeing the beginning of what could become a monumental shift in content distribution online. Viacom has forced YouTube to delete Comedy Central … Continue reading
A group of Polish Poets are holding out their gmail.pl domain name from the Google legal juggernaut. I’m torn between 1) seeing this for what it most likely is, where the poets saw a great opportunity to nab a name … Continue reading
Today’s big news is that Google is not allowed to put out the news from a European news outlet that sued them. As usual, silicon insiders are 1) waxing argumentatively in favor of the virtuous wonder of Google and 2) … Continue reading
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