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• 24 Jun 08
  

  future google strategy web20 imported1s

• 18 Jun 08
  

  Takuya Homma

  i agree that the existence of competitors are not always good for market though it's thought to be so in traditional economics. what's different about google from other normal companies is that they are naturally motivated to change the world and their incentives are not so much on money making, and that's why it'd be better off without competitors in this case.
  
  and while google successfully dominated the internet realm, it's still a long way till they have the same presence in the mobile as they have in the internet, which means other players still have a lot of chance to succeed.

  Google 8 ○

  • Search share of traffic goes down to a much smaller amount. So there's not much worry about people not being able to find information.
  • I'd be interested to know if you have concrete case studies of better deals because of competitive pressure.

  • At O'Reilly, we always say "Create more value than you capture." All successful companies do this. Once they start capturing more value than they create, their market position erodes, and someone displaces them. It may take a while but it happens eventually. If Google takes too much of the pie, it will be a great opening for a new competitor. Right now, because Google is creating the most value for the ecosystem, competitors continue to lose share. If they started taking a lot more of the revenue, Microsoft's share would go up, plus new startups would have an opening that they don't have now. 
  • Search is an incredibly powerful subsystem of that OS, but it is just a subsystem.

  • 4. The landscape is changing so fast. To take only one axis, consider mobile. Google doesn't dominate mobile/local search. That's a whole new game.... Again, there's lots of competition. 

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• 16 Jun 08
  

  FruFru FourOne

  toread

• 15 Jun 08
  

  Mark Hinkle

  Great Quote from this: Create more value than you capture.
  
  via Aaron Wall on SEOBBook http://www.seobook.com/create-more-value-you-capture

  oreilly strategy business internet

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  Antony Mayfield

  "Web 2.0, the internet operating system we're building, is much bigger than search. Search is an incredibly powerful subsystem of that OS, but it is just a subsystem."

  search google yahoo web2.0

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