Comments on: Was Google’s Disastrous January A Passing Storm Or Sign Of Things To Come? http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/ The economics of digital content Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:19:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Liz Cranston http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87594 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:45 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87594 Google is in big trouble.  The FTC is investigating.  Watch out, they are doing evil and the good have evidence to stop it.

]]> By: Jeff @ Dead Tree Media http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87593 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:33:56 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87593 Yeah, not really a disaster at all… really weird article.

]]> By: Wilhelm Reuch http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87592 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:46:17 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87592 People have always overlooked the real Google. That enormous office-building with thousands of phone-salesmen making cold-calls to corporates to get them to buy ads on the web. This is the real Google. The Google that rakes in 97% of the revenue.

The Google store-front with happy nerds playing with their pet-projects and water-guns is just that. A storefront to feed the public/press.

Now, the nerds have just one strategic mission within Google. And that is to keep any startup in check by attacking the same market and provide a free copycat service.

]]> By: invitedmedia http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87591 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:19:58 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87591 yeah, ‘adapt’ is what companies who are trying to keep up with the ” changing conditions in the internet” do.

what ever happened to google actually INNOVATING?

]]> By: BH http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87590 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:15:30 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87590 The initial 80% of this article is a steaming pile of Apple fan-boy nonsense. Anyone with a deeper understanding of these issues knows that they amount to nothing. People hate changes, especially ones that are misreported and over-hyped by a lazy press that loves stirring up controversy and knocking down the big guys.

The shorter version of this article could be this: BREAKING: Google is a large public company with a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to make money and evolve.

]]> By: modelportfolio2003 http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87589 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:00:17 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87589 Agree.  And Tom Krazit makes a bunch of assumptions that bear little resemblance to fact.  While some of his comments are made tongue in cheek, it seems with others, the tongue got caught in the cheek! 

“unable to recognize a company that would alter its search results to favor links to a half-baked social network.”  No. Make search results more relevant as social signals play an important part in personalizing the answer to the search.  Google + has more than 100 million users in 6 months, is the fastest growing social network ever, is a pleasure to use and is hardly “half-baked”. FB keeps stealing ideas from G+.

“a public-relations decision borrowed from a desperate company’s playbook”:  what does the simplification of Google’s privacy policies have to do with Apple’s quarter?  Talk about a non-sequitur!  Hardly desperate.  Suggest you read the Google public blog on why the changes were introduced for some fact on that bone. Of course if you prefer to read Microsoft’s interpretation, I can understand why you believe it.

“observers began to wonder if the cash machine that is Google’s AdWords and AdSense had started to wane.”  You mean the quarter which missed analyst expectations (Google never gives guidance so whose fault is it?) based on a higher than expected PPC, a lower than expected CPC a non-deductible tax charge for Clearwire investment write-off, an adverse foreign exchange movement, a larger than expected cap ex spend and Google’s first $ 10 billion + revenue quarter ever? Google blew away estimates in the previous quarter.  Does one quarter mark a big change in Google’s future based on incorrect assumptions by some analysts and just because some analyst told him so? Google is well placed in search (growing 20% plus pa) and mobile (Android is the world’s leading smartphone OS) and display (YouTube, AdExchange,DoubleClick) and is increasingly well placed in local and social.  

]]> By: lrd555 http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87588 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:02:20 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87588 Forgot at least one more bit of bad news: Motorola posted a $70 million loss for the 4th quarter of 2011. The company Google paid a whopping 30% premium of $12.3 Billion for.
It’s the beginning of the end for Google.
Expect it to be looking for a buyer by this time next year.

]]> By: David Abraham http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87587 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:57:00 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87587 Google is doing what it has to do to survive. It has to adapt to changing conditions in the Internet

]]> By: azazello http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87586 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:14:03 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2012/02/04/419-was-googles-disastrous-january-a-passing-storm-or-sign-of-things-to-com/#comment-87586 Interesting little article with one caveat: Google’s customers are the advertisers and NOT Anroid owners and Google searchers.

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