Looking for the Next Google

In brand-new offices with a still-empty game room and enough space to triple their staff of nearly 30, a trio of entrepreneurs is leading an Internet start-up with an improbable mission: to out- Google Google.Comment

Original post by New York Times

Can you make money in the Long Tail?

Stats December 31, 2006 Can you make money in the Long Tail? Well, it depends who “you” are.Comment

Original post by The Long Tail

AdSense Might Be Color-Matching Logos

Here’s some good news: One blogger reports that the AdSense logos appearing with his Google ads are actually matching the colors of the ads themselves, resulting in ads that blend and don’t look like crap. Google has been experimenting with putting the Google logo in the “Ads by Google” line in AdSense ads, but publishers have hated it, due to the crap look of the logos, and it looks like Google is listening. The ads screenshotted at Chaos Laboratory have the same colors as the ad units they are part of, meaning Google is finding a way to dynamically serve the images in different colors.
Thank god. Can you imagine if we were all stuck with the old system?
(via Digg)

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Web users driving change in 2007

Video site YouTube blazed a trail in 2006 It is often said the only constant in the world of hi-tech is change - a fact that makes prediction notoriously difficult.Comment

Original post by BBC

Google Ends Year On Sour Note

Google has had a rash of missteps in the last few day, leaving a negative feeling going into the new year.
First off: Google accidently deleted the inboxes of some 60 Gmail users, leaving them with none of their stored email (and, surprisingly, Google’s vaunted server architecture didn’t have any backups either). Google says it tried to salvage what it could, but was left with helping users figure out how to restore the data themselves. There’s been a belief that Google keeps multiple copies of everything, so this has to leave a lot of people with a little less trust in keeping their data on Google’s systems. At least when I blow my hard drive, it’s my fault.
Also, Orkut, which was Google’s surprise mini-success story of the year, went down for 22 hours on Friday and Saturday. It won’t tank Orkut, but Orkut used to suffer massive […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Google pitches Blogger et al, others pitch fit

It was just a matter of time before Google started promoting their own products and services above search results.Comment

Original post by Things That … Make You Go Hmm

Yahoo CFO praised for candor, intellect

A few years ago, a Wall Street analyst challenged a forecast Yahoo Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker was making about the Internet giant’s revenues.Comment

Original post by Therockinghamnews.com

The real lesson from this week

<<Hi, in case you haven’t been following along at home, I’ll give you the short catch-up info first. Blake Ross wrote a post criticizing some tips that Google recently tried. I agreed that I didn’t like the tips, primarily because the targeting was too poor (even substrings would tri…>>   (more…)

Original post by Chris Gilmer

“2007 Shaping Up To Be Bigger Than 2006″

AJAXWorld News Desk Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog is Already 18 Months Old! Jan.Comment

Original post by Opensource.sys-con.com

Google Monetizing Search At Double Over Two Years Ago

In BusinessWeek, analyst Tim Boyd of Caris & Co. used Comscore numbers to determine that Google makes between 19 and 21 cents per search executed, totalling just under $5 billion in the first nine months of this year. To compare, Yahoo monetizes its searches at a rate of 10-11 cents each, which, combined with a lower market share, totals a considerably less $1.6 billion. An even more interesting comparison, as pointed out by Greg Linden, is that Google is now earning more than twice what it did two years ago, up from 9 cents a search in December 2004.
All this means that not only does Google have the most inventory, but they are squeezing the most money out of that inventory, a lethal combination Yahoo just can’t meet. Yahoo’s new Panama system is designed to get a higher amount per search, but without the market share, its […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

PayPal Launches Virtual Debit Card, Three Days Too Late

On December 27, PayPal announced a “virtual debit card”, letting you make online purchases everywhere MasterCard is accepted. One little problem: Christmas was a few days earlier, meaning the online financial service missed the holiday shopping season for some stupid reason.
PayPal’s move was a smart one, devaluing “exclusive” arrangements like the one Google Checkout has with online merchants (in fact, you could use PayPal and Google Checkout on the same purchase, thanks to this). However, PayPal’s timing was so poor, missing the most important and valuable shopping season of the year, that you have to question their management intelligence, or lack thereof. PayPal, and parent company eBay, makes so many bad decisions, that as stupid as some of Google’s moves have been, you have to wonder if this is not a game of who fights the hardest, but who lakes the least dumb moves.
Hat-tip and inspiration: […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Where’s i-Technology Headed?

XXENDBOLD News 2007: Where’s i-Technology Headed? SYS-CON Media’s Annual Poll of Industry Prognosticators By: Jeremy Geelan Dec.Comment

Original post by Linux.sys-con.com

Google’s Tipping Point?

Taken in a vacuum, a fairly trivial thing happened a few days ago. The co-founder of Firefox, Blake Ross, wrote a post criticizing Google called “Tip: Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose”. He takes issue with a …Comment

Original post by Zmetro.com

A year in Google blogging

<<Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team The definition of “googol” is a number, and Google lives by numbers. So how else should we look back over the year but with numerical bits? Here goes: This post marks the 294th time this year you’re reading a post from us — nearly 100 times more often than i…>>   (more…)

Original post by Chris Gilmer

Can Google Come Out to Play?

ON a Thursday afternoon before the holidays, the game room at Google’s new offices in Chelsea was being put to good use.Comment

Original post by New York Times

Wheeling, Dealing and Reeling

WELCOME again to DealBook’s annual “closing dinner,” where we celebrate the year in deals and the dealmakers behind them.Comment

Original post by New York Times

The Google phone demystified

More details leaked from the Goophone, the cellphone Google and France Telecom’s Orange are planning to launch some time in 2008 .Comment

Original post by 21talks

Google’s Tipping Point

Taken in a vacuum, a fairly trivial thing happened a few days ago. The co-founder of Firefox, Blake Ross, wrote a post criticizing Google called ” Tip: Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose “. He takes issue with …Comment

Original post by TechCrunch

Why are PPC and SEO the most popular web promotion tools?

Filed in archive web promotion by noel on December 30, 2006 PPC refers to paying for web traffic through a marketing program or search engine advertising.Comment

Original post by The Search Engine Weblog

The Price of Nothing and the Value of Everything

In the Christmas double issue of The Economist, there is an interesting article about Google’s new domain-level email services and their applicability to business.Comment

Original post by Emergent Chaos

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