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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Yahoo!: Powered by Community
I’ve been thinking of the difference (and similarities) between Y! Answers and Wikipedia, and then about Yahoo!’s true strength. Excerpts from an email I wrote a friend: … if you can get inputs from not only patients, but medical practitioners, … Continue reading
Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search – Part 3: What it means for MS and Yahoo!
Bob Cringely contends that the battle for search is over, with Google emerging the clear winner. With Google Universal Search, Google has put so much distance between itself and numbers two and three, that the incremental return on additional investment … Continue reading
Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search – Part 2: What it means for the SEO industry
It means everything. It means a massive opportunity and a massive threat. It means a period of flux in the SEO space for the next six months. Why? Until today, everything – everything – in the SEO industry was to … Continue reading
Posted in Editorials, google, internet, Trends, Yahoo
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Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search – Part 1: Industry Disruption
About a week ago, Google took the lid off a project that had been brewing for several months. The company calls it Universal Search. In a nutshell, it “will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search … Continue reading
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Monetizing Yahoo! Answers – or not?
A source who knows a thing or two about Yahoo!, and I, were talking about possible strategies to monetize Yahoo! Answers. The source mentioned that Yahoo! was looking at Adsense-like sponsored links to make money. At that point, I realized … Continue reading
When Telecom & IT babus just don't get the Market
For all who go to town declaring that India has an entrepreneur-friendly, liberalized Telecom sector, here’s a dampener. TRAI’s recommendations on “ Review of Internet Services“, a report dated May 10th 2007, show just how much (or little) babus in … Continue reading
Posted in Editorials, india, internet, Policy, telecom
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Google – Too much talent could be a problem
This March, Avinash Kaushik, and this week, Robert Love. Both have moved from their previous positions to new roles at Google. Kaushik is now Google’s “Analytics Evangelist” and Love is on the staff at the “Open Source Program Office”. Consider … Continue reading
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