It's brilliant for Google to offer free internet to any metro area, and maybe even rurally though that gets more complex logistically. Google doesn't need ISP fees, they to keep up market share and ad clicks. Even a linked logo … Continue reading
Henry Blodget poses some provocative search questions and gets a thoughtful answer from Walt Mossberg, who has switched from Google to Ask as his primary search tool. This is significant as I recall that it was people like Mossberg, … Continue reading
I read two books up at the lake. David Vises "The Google Story" was an entertaining and informative history of Google from humble beginnings as Larry Page and Sergey Brin's Stanford PhD project to the earth shaking internet giant Google.com. … Continue reading
I was WRONG that there were zero people from Google here at MIX06. I just met Patrick with their Adwords API. Excellent guy. He didn’t know of any OTHER Google folks here though. Hey Microsoft – having a Web 2.0 … Continue reading
Although I’m in the growing crowd that suggests Yahoo and Google search results are comparable and MSN is not far behind, Google remains the leader in simple cleverness. Why Yahoo and MSN don’t copy these little ideas from Google is … Continue reading
Seth Godin, one of the great online marketeers, recently spoke at Google and here is the Video. His main point is that success is about marketing more than technology, even for companies like Google. I’m really struck the more I … Continue reading
Bambi Francisco at MarketWatch raises many of the key points about Google’s monetization challenges in the coming months and years. I was surprised to see this coming from Bambi who’s articles back in Bubble days were notoriously optimistic about the … Continue reading
Mashup Party … at the GooglePlex. MashupCamp ended on a high note with an invite from Google’s Adam Sah (who works on the Google Home page API) to head over to Google for a party. I’d been there in July … Continue reading
I think the most profound issue in the online world right NOW is “where are we going with web 2.0”? I hope to answer this question, at least in part, at next week’s mashup camp in the heart of Silicon … Continue reading
Google just can’t seem to keep out of the big spotlight whether you are talking stocks, global economy, politics from Davos, DOJ subpoenas, and most currently censorship of content at Google.cn, the chinese edition of Google. Regarding China Google censorship: … Continue reading
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