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- NY to Google: Stop trapping consumer data, or no DoubleClick merger
- Has Google CEO Eric Schmidt finally met his match in New York state Governor Eliot Spitzer?Schmidt feigns scant concern over Viacoms $1 billion lawsuit claiming "massive copyright fringement" following the Google $1.65 billion stock buyout of YouTube. Will the chief Googler also "dismiss" the efforts of Spitzers administration to call...
- Tags: Advertising, DoubleClick, Google, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Privacy, Search
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Google to acquire NBC Universal? Why not!
- Will John Battelle have to eat his Google words, AGAIN?In a typically Battellesque headline today, he responds to Bloomberg reports of calls for a General Electric spin-off of NBC Universal to the Googleplex by declaring: Google-NBC: Very dumb idea.How so? Battelle’s assessment: Analysts are saying that there is...
- Tags: Wall Street, Video, Television, Radio, Profits, Internet Data, Google, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Google demands more tax breaks for server farm rule
- Google really is number one, in more ways than one.For the first time, Google has surpassed Microsoft as the worlds most visited Internet property. Online measurement firm comScore Networks found that Google had just over a million more unique users in March: Google had 528 million unique visitors in March,...
- Tags: Microsoft, Google, Internet Data
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Google's big, bad risk
- The real story in Yahoo’s feather in the cap multi-year exclusive sponsored search and contextual ads agreement with Viacom Web properties announced today? No, it is not that it is a $1 billion YouTube lawsuit slap in the face to Google, it is that it puts Google’s entire raison...
- Tags: YouTube, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Google, Culture, Copyright, Content, Business Models, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Google and Web 2.0: Alive and kicking!
- Is Web 2.0 over? I asked last April Fool’s weekend.Today, Om Malik declares the end of Web 2.0 innocence, underscoring Google’s MyMaps launch as a tipping point.Malik: "The Web 2.0 story so far has been about taking APIs, mashups, low cost infrastructure and building applications that are then offered to...
- Tags: Metrics, Google, Web 2.0, Search Advertising, Profits, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Does Google SEO success 'suck'?
- Rich Skrenta has a love-hate relationship with Google, and the traffic it drives to the company he leads, Topix.Skrenta decried to the Wall Street Journal just weeks ago that as Topix is 45% dependent upon Google for its visitors, moves by the number one search engine can yield “catastrophic” impacts...
- Tags: Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Marketing, Local, Internet Data, Google, Business Models, Amateur Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Fox News Digital targets mobile advertising growth
- Fox News Mobile is a key component of the Fox News Digital strategy: “Now you can take your Fox News with you wherever you go,” Fox proudly offers. How does Fox News enable a “Fox on the go” strategy? I spoke with Jeremy Steinberg, VP, Digital Media Sales &...
- Tags: advertisement, Fox, mobile marketing
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Microsoft vs. Google on copyright infringement
- Last Thursday, Google offered biggest competitor honors to Microsoft in a quiet SEC required Annual Report public shareholder filing. Today, Microsoft is set to return the acknowledgement, in its own loud and very public stage way, according to Associated Press reports.Companies that create no content of their own, and...
- Tags: Metrics, Content, Print, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Government, Internet Data, Google, Microsoft, Legal, Media
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Google warns of Microsoft, Yahoo competition
- Google is warning shareholders of the “formidable competition” it faces from both Microsoft and Yahoo. Google considers Microsoft and Yahoo to be its primary competitors, acknowledging in particular that their Internet portals may have a greater ability to attract and retain users than Google does. On the Microsoft...
- Tags: Business Models, Enterprise, Google, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Investors, Legal, Metrics, Microsoft, Profits, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Wall Street, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-03-04
- Will Google diversification pay off in 2007?
- Google to shareholders: Google Print Ads, Google Audio Ads and Google Checkout have had no material impact on Google revenues in 2006, 2005, 2004... Google must present an accurate assessment of the financial impact of its products and services in SEC mandated reports. Everywhere else, however, Google apparently is...
- Tags: Advertising, Business Models, Google, Google Checkout, Google Software Applications, Government, Internet Data, Investors, Legal, Media, Metrics, Newspapers, Print, Profits, Radio, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Wall Street
- Blog posts 2007-03-04
- Should Google be trusted?
- When Google speaks the world listens, and believes, the media in particular.Is that a good thing? Generally not, especially when billions of dollars of others’ property is at stake.In the past two days alone, Google speak has succeeded in much more than dampening media criticism. It’s deft media handling has...
- Tags: Click Fraud, Google, Google Apps, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Legal, Media, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Self-Promotion
- Blog posts 2007-03-03
- Google: Who needs Yahoo Finance?
- Step by Google Finance step, Google is intensifying its battle against Yahoo Finance. Google is gearing up to provide “real-time, last-sale prices across all Google properties.” What is Google’s stock game plan? Google is inspired by the Yahoo Finance play book!SERP results for keyword searches on public company names...
- Tags: Google, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Metrics, Search, Search Advertising, Usability, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Microsoft to battle Google in online healthcare
- The online healthcare space is heating up big time, with a new Microsoft initiative. Last month I put forth “Google Health URL trumped by Steve Case?” Adam Bosworth, Vice President, Google: Every ill person needs a “health URL,” an online meeting place where their caregivers, with express permission...
- Tags: Business Models, Google, Google Software Applications, Government, Internet Data, Microsoft, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Google Apps data risks: Security vs. privacy
- A debate is underway: “Will you trust Google with your data?” Fellow ZDNet blogger Larry Dignan has been examining the prospective data security risks Google Apps Premier may pose. I propose that the debate be widened to encompass the data privacy risks that Google Apps, both Standard and Premier...
- Tags: AOL, Google, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Google: EFF defends right to sell AdWords
- Last week, I put forth “Google YouTube ‘victims’ championed by Chilling Effects, EFF, Harvard Law School.”This week, the EFF Electonic Frontier Foundation has come to the Google rescue once again, seeking to prevent “improper attacks on digital speech intermediaries.”Calling itself an advocate for “online speakers, consumers and technology innovators,” the...
- Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Search, Legal, Google, Government, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Search Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Poor Google?
- Google News is reporting bad news for Google. Today’s Google News headlines on Google: Google closes potentially devastating hole in desktop search Cold to Google, Viacom partners with Joost Google center in Caldwell County not what projected YouTube copyright warnings expected soon Phishing scam...
- Tags: Advertising, Google, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Marketing, Metrics, ROI, Search, Search Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Google analyzes Dell customers
- In “Google dependency is risky business” last month I underscored how Google is asserting its influence on the operations of its advertisers, prospective advertisers and publisher “partners” more and more.Companies expose themselves to prospective competitive and proprietary risks by enabling the number one search engine and third party contextual advertising...
- Tags: Blogs, Brands, ecommerce, Enterprise, Google, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Legal, Metrics, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Vote online for President? Internet voting meets 'User Generated Politics'
- Edition Number 19 in this Digital Markets Blog special presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics.” The Association for Computing Machinery asserts: Ensuring the reliability, security, and verifiability of public elections is fundamental to a stable democracy. Convenience and speed of vote...
- Tags: Culture, Government, Hillary Clinton, Internet Data, Legal, Local, Metrics, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, User Generated Politics
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Google's big European hypocricy
- In “Google gets defensive, all over the world” earlier in the week, I pointed out the $150 billion market cap irony of the world’s most powerful company decrying the use of the world’s legal system, when others employ it to defend themselves against alleged Google unfair business practices. I...
- Tags: Business Models, Content, Copyright, Google, Google Software Applications, Government, Internet Data, Legal
- Blog posts 2007-02-17
- Google due for a fall? Donna Bogatin debates Danny Sullivan
- IS GOOGLE OVERRATED? TAPPED OUT? DUE FOR A FALL?Fast Company Magazine invited "two experts" to take sides:Donna Bogatin and Danny Sullivan HIGHLIGHTSBogatin: Googles search stallion has driven GOOG to a 400%-plus appreciation in just two years. Googles stock price is not sustainable long term, and neither is its domination in...
- Tags: Advertising, Blogs, Brands, CEO Interviews, Content, Copyright, Culture, ecommerce, Enterprise, Google, Google Software Applications, Government, Internet Data, Legal, Local, Marketing, Media, Metrics, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Self-Promotion, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
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