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Microsoft Bing: But It ‘s Not Google!

July 13, 2009

I’ve been increasingly using Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing in lieu of Google for my casual searches. One of the things that appeals to me is how the search results are so much more organized and comprehensive than just a list of ten text items. Google’s spartan deisgn was cool and chic ten years ago [...]

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should Google spin off it’s advertising business?

February 1, 2009

This intriguing article for web entrepreneurs has a lot of useful information in it – particularly the interesting metric for assessing a companies value: 10 x (revenue – cost). However, in the course of the discussion he also makes an intriguing point about Google: Google has one incredibly amazing business – keyword advertising. It relies [...]

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email the google-killer?

February 23, 2008

Fascinating numbers via Bernard Lunn at RWW about the true market share threat to Google of a Microsoft-Yahoo merger: Email is 49% of Impressions. Portals and Search Engines is 10% by contrast. This is some free data from Nielsen-Netratings. click on Top Site Genres. 56% is Microsoft and Yahoo combined market share of webmail. Gmail [...]

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