This link has been bookmarked by 5 people . It was first bookmarked on 24 Sep 2008, by Zoli Erdos.
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27 Sep 08
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Not only that, in order to create that initial business, Google had three great successes: the search engine itself, the Adwords ad auction, and Adsense.
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Meanwhile, Google is a strong #2 in maps (and growing), handily beating out Yahoo! and Microsoft's offerings, and gaining steadily on market leader Mapquest (which created the category three years before Google was even created). Google's got about 30% share to Mapquest's 50% or so, last time I looked. Not only that, Google is totally dominant in mapping mashups and is the leading mapping application on the iPhone.
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And I don't know what planet the author of the piece is living on, but it seems to me that Google's office apps are very strong. No, they don't challenge Microsoft head-to-head yet, but I get far fewer word and excel files via email than I used to, and a lot more invitations to Google docs and spreadsheets. The article's claim that Zoho is giving Google a run for its money seems extremely unlikely, given that both Quantcast and Compete show Zoho with only a few hundred thousand visitors a month. I have yet to receive an invitation to share a Zoho document. And yes, Gmail still trails Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, but it's doing quite well, thank you, given their ten year head start. At Science Foo Camp, I asked how many people had a gmail account, and virtually every hand in the room went up.
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YouTube - yes, they haven't monetized it well yet, but that's because of Google's caution in creating user-unfriendly advertising, a philosophy that has served them well in the past. Far better that than junking it up in search of premature monetization.
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Both Android and Chrome demonstrate true strategic thinking, focusing on how to grow the market for everyone rather than just finding advantage for Google. They still seem intent on creating more value than they capture. <!-- mt:GeoPressMap / -->
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25 Sep 08
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24 Sep 08
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Google hasn't built another business yet to rival its initial search franchise.
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How dumb is that?
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And I don't know what planet the author of the piece is living on
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trigger for this thin piece of analysis
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