Mark Cuban, no stranger to online video having made about a billion in that field, challenges Google’s sanity in the YouTube deal here. It seems to me Cuban’s been the most insightful of those reviewing this deal and my first … Continue reading
It’s official – Google buys YouTube for 1.65 billion. Yikes, the early estimates of 1.6 billion were off by 0.05 billion which is real money even to Google. Unless Zuckerman wises up soon that 50 million will be the entire … Continue reading
Deals with Youtube and Google are flourishing today in the fertile ground of a 1.6 billion dollar aquistion of the online video leader* by the online money and search leader. The announcement is expected this afternoon or evening that Google’s … Continue reading
It’s now almost official that Google will buy Youtube for a whopping 1.6 billion. They’ll announce it after the close today. Here’s the NYT take on things. I’d have listened to Mark Cuban because it seems to me he’s in … Continue reading
Over at Battelle’s House ‘o Search info he’s summarized Google Zeitgeist conference, where Google’s big news appears to be “We will NOT do content” and “We WILL do offline media advertising”. I don’t agree with John that this means the … Continue reading
Today a very sharp friend said that even though he uses Yahoo mail and some of their default screen navigation, he always uses Google to search. Why? Because Google is not cluttered and makes it very easy to leave Google … Continue reading
It’s great to see Adam Sah’s Google Gadgetry project move ahead with today’s announcement that Gadgets can be created to work on any website. Adam was at both Mashup Camp 1 and Mashup Camp 2 and it was neat … Continue reading
This post about Eric Schmidt of Google has moved.
This clever application compares results from Yahoo to Google. Type in a search terms and see how the results stack up on each engine as the lines between dots connect the *same* site on each engine.
I noted before that Google is mostly ignoring the enterprise market in favor of maintaining their huge share of regular user traffic and targeting small content producers with Adsense and small advertisers with Adwords. In fact I think FAST, rather … Continue reading
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