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Google Apps Provisioning API Developer's Guide: Protocol
An interview with Google's CEO Eric Schmidt - The McKinsey Quarterly - Google CEO Eric Schmidt interview video - Strategy - Innovation
The Quarterly: Will the Internet bring down barriers, making markets more democratic?
Eric Schmidt: I would like to tell you that the Internet has created such a level playing field that the long tail1 is absolutely the place to be—that there's so much differentiation, there’s so much diversity, so many new voices. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. What really happens is something called a power law, with the property that a small number of things are very highly concentrated and most other things have relatively little volume. Virtually all of the new network markets follow this law.
So, while the tail is very interesting, the vast majority of revenue remains in the head. And this is a lesson that businesses have to learn. While you can have a long tail strategy, you better have a head, because that's where all the revenue is.
And, in fact, it's probable that the Internet will lead to larger blockbusters and more concentration of brands. Which, again, doesn’t make sense to most people, because it’s a larger distribution medium. But when you get everybody together they still like to have one superstar. It's no longer a US superstar, it's a global superstar. So that means global brands, global businesses, global sports figures, global celebrities, global scandals, global politicians.
So, we love the long tail, but we make most of our revenue in the head, because of the math of the power law. And you need both, by the way. You need the head and the tail to make the model work.
Google Public Policy Blog: What Do We Mean By Net Neutrality
What kind of behavior is okay?
There are a lot of misconceptions about which market practices Google and other net neutrality advocates consider "discriminatory," and therefore should be subject to regulation by the FCC. There is widespread agreement among all parties that outright blocking, impairing, or degrading Internet traffic should not be tolerated. Beyond that, we also believe that broadband carriers should have the flexibility to engage in a whole host of activities, including:
* Prioritizing all applications of a certain general type, such as streaming video;
* Managing their networks to, for example, block certain traffic based on IP address in order to prevent harmful denial of service (DOS) attacks, viruses or worms;
* Employing certain upgrades, such as the use of local caching or private network backbone links;
* Providing managed IP services and proprietary content (like IPTV); and
* Charging consumers extra to receive higher speed or performance capacity broadband service.
Clean Energy 2030 - a knol by Jeffery Greenblatt
Right now we have a real opportunity to transform our economy from one running on fossil fuels to one largely based on clean energy. Technologies and know-how to accomplish this are either available today or are under development. We can build whole new industries and create millions of new jobs. We can cut energy costs, both at the gas pump and at home. We can improve our national security. And we can put a big dent in climate change. With strong leadership we could be moving forward on an aggressive but realistic time-line and an approach that offsets costs with real economic gains.
Seven Hidden Configuration Pages of Google Chrome Browser
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Here is another even more intresting post related to Google Chrome. Users have already started Reverse Engineering Google Chrome and found out 7 hidden chrome pages or call it as Seven Google Chrome Configuration Parameters.
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project
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Today there was a comic book in my mail, sent by Google and drawn by no less than Scott McCloud, creator of the classic Understanding Comics. Within the 38 pages, which I’ve scanned and put up, in very readable format Google gives the technical details into a project of theirs: an open source browser called Google Chrome. The book points to www.google.com/chrome, but I can’t see anything live there yet. In a nut-shell, here’s what the comic announces Google Chrome to be:
Google AdWords: Keyword Tool
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Keyword Tool
Use the Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas. Select an option below to
enter a few descriptive words or phrases, or type in your website's URL. Keyword Tool Tips
Additional info on Google maintenance issue - Thirty Day Challenge Forums
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Google's documentation claims that structured data can be represented in a third to a tenth of the space required, and transmission times cut to a 20th or even a 100th of the time, compared to XML.
(My initial testing of Protocol Buffers vs. XML have shown these estimates to
be true, and not just hype. Protocol Buffers is far and away a speedier and more efficient method than XML.)
FT.com | Tech Blog | Google: what earnings shortfall?
Turns out there is a simple explanation for the few cents in the shortfall to analysts expexctations. Google is chugging along quite nicely thank you very much.
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When I got a brief word with CEO Eric Schmidt just now, he pretty much brushed off this discrepancy as a failure by Wall Street analysts to take account of Google’s lower cash balances. “As best we can tell,” he said, “they [analysts] didn’t back out the cash we paid for DoubleClick.” With less money in the bank, interest income dropped by around $80m, accounting for the earnings “disappointment”
Why Tiny FriendFeed Will Be as Big as Google - Advertising Age - Steve Rubel
"I believe that FriendFeed has the potential to become as big as Google" | Steve Rubel
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My latest fascination is FriendFeed, a site that in one place aggregates your friends' streams from across different social sites. Right now FriendFeed's audience is paltry. According to Compete, it has 300,000 active users. Still, I believe that FriendFeed has the potential to become as big as Google.
Others who are vying for the same crown include SocialThing, Facebook and Google itself. -
As an early FriendFeed enthusiast, I find myself increasingly turning to its terrific search engine when I need product and service information. You can give this a try yourself at friendfeed.com/search/advanced.
Eric Schmidt in conversation with Ken Auletta | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com
wow ... this is the archetype business mission statement!
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The goal of the company is not to monetize everything. Our goal is to change the world. Monetization is a technology to pay for it.
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Google is not different than the success of companies 30 years previously. The difference is it all happened quicker. It all happens in six months, not six years. At Sun we had two-year product roadmaps...at Google we have trouble doing six-month roadmaps.
The compression of time occurs because there are so many more actors. The industrialization of 2 billion players coming online...we have to listen to them.
comScore Releases April 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
why does Microsoft bother with search?
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April 2008 U.S. Core Search Rankings
In April, Google Sites extended its share of core searches
to 61.6 percent, up from 59.8 percent the previous month. Yahoo! Sites ranked
second with 20.4 percent, followed by Microsoft Sites (9.1 percent), AOL LLC
(4.6 percent), and Ask Network (4.3 percent).
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