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May
31
Yahoo!: Powered by Community
Filed Under Facebook, Insights, Social, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
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, medical students, this could be huge. There are innumerable startups out there trying to build up a comprehensive directory of medical knowledge - the Answers model could complement a static medical database by being a naturally up-to-date, action-oriented database.
May
24
Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search - Part 3: What it means for MS and Yahoo!
Filed Under Editorials, Google, Insights, Internet, Trends, Yahoo | 1 Comment
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 into search by either Yahoo! or Microsoft will be negative. Both firms will be better off putting their money in other lines of business.Why has GUS ended the search wars? Apart from standard Web Search, Google’s also ruled vertical search - maps, books, images, and video. (The only exception was news, where Y! did a better job.) So if Y! and MS were to follow suit with their own integrated searches, the top video (or book) results would be on Google’s properties. In fact, the better they made their searches, the more traffic they’d drive to YouTube or books.google.com! Not only does Google do the best job with vertical search, today it also owns the properties where this vertical content resides!
May
23
Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search - Part 2: What it means for the SEO industry
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Until today, everything - everything - in the SEO industry was to do with optimising web pages. Firms in this space have fine-tuned the art of Optimization into a science over a decade. Pagerank was all that mattered, and SEO firms knew what worked and what didn’t.
May
22
Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search - Part 1: Industry Disruption
Filed Under Editorials, Google, Internet, Trends, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
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 engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages.”
May
18
Monetizing Yahoo! Answers - or not?
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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 something interesting:
May
17
When Telecom & IT babus just don’t get the Market
Filed Under Editorials, Internet, Policy, Telecom, india | Leave a Comment
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 the ministry understand the Internet. We’re light-years away from a truly liberal Telecom policy, because the DoT hasn’t even grasped the concept of creating a free, healthy market.
May
9
Google - Too much talent could be a problem
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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 this a follow-up to my New Year’s Eve post, where I listed a few of the leading lights of the tech industry who’ve joined Google.