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Mar
2
Social Networks - The New Bulletin Boards?
Filed Under Editorials, Social, Trends | Leave a Comment
In my previous post, I looked at how a social network “picks up” an application and “spreads” it to reach the audience that would be interested in using it. And I said that was because social networks make it easy to propagate information, but primarily because people with similar interests have numerous ways of “hooking up” - either via communities or interacting on these in-network applications.
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
Filed Under Editorials, Google, Internet, Trends, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
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.”
Apr
24
Flash Web Applications and componentization
Filed Under Flash, Google, Internet, Trends | Leave a Comment
There was a time when Google released its Desktop Search application (since renamed Google Desktop), and the Google Talk client more or less together. Back then, I wondered why Google was going down the path of Windows desktop applications - wasn’t the Web the Future, according to them? I did think that their strategy implementation was faltering just a bit.
Apr
11
Lookin’ for trends!
Filed Under Internet, Off-Topic, Trends | Leave a Comment
One of the more interesting applications of Google Trends is to compare the search volumes of two or more search terms over the past several months (or years). So we were winding down work yesterday at Convonix, and fooling around with Google trends, when, on a whim, I compared “valentine” and “lingerie”. And well - there is a correlation. See for yourself.
Mar
27
The race for the smallest screen of ‘em all
Filed Under Editorials, Google, Internet, Mobile, Trends, Yahoo, india | Leave a Comment
Yahoo’s been quietly putting into place a set of very high-quality tools and services for mobile phones. From the time it launched Yahoo! Go last year, the company’s been working feverishly at plugging its diverse services (mail, search, instant messaging, news, photos, finance, entertainment) into the mobile platform (or the other way round).
Mar
27
How do you solve the problem of… metrics?
Filed Under Analytics, Insights, Internet, Trends, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
Peter Daboll, “Chief of Insights” (wow!) at Yahoo!, contends that page views as a measure of website performance are outdated. Daboll’s argument is that with Ajax, Flash and embedded video, traditional methods are no longer accurate indicators. While he’s right on that count, his call for “visits a day” as an alternative measure doesn’t quite measure up. Consider this: Read more
Aug
20
Universities and Venture Funds
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Institutions of Higher Education in the USA really do seem to “get” Private Equity. Over the past two weeks, I’ve come across two examples of just how well Universities are leveraging private equity. Both these examples are with different ends in mind. Read more
May
30
And the PC becomes more irrelevant…
Filed Under Internet, Trends | 3 Comments
… with every passing day! Today we aren’t just storing data online, but are now using applications that run straight off the web to work with that data. At this stage in the evolution of web applications, we’ve done a very good data to store and manipulate textual data online. There’s very little of that kind of stuff on my hard disk any more. Consider this: