Time will tell if it was Bing’s inherent abilities or Microsoft’s deep-pockets spending that caused the initial bump of 8% in unique users after the first month — but its clear what is suffering from a lack of Buzz … Wolfram Alpha.
About two months after its initial launch, there’s been thundering silence from the blogosphere / socialstream [...]
So, I’m not disparaging any company that gets 3M or so uniques per month, but its funny. I remember that when Mahalo was launched some year(s) ago, in its initial incarnation / hype, I remember someone saying something about building its index to the 25k most common terms, and then trying to own those terms [...]
Dennis Howlett is amongst the realists when it comes to GoogleOS, and he rightly reminds us that:
Linux has not fared so well in the Netbooks market and I don’t see anything here that makes me think Google ChromeOS will do any better. Where’s the secret sauce here other than the Google halo effect painted over [...]
I think one of the great advantages that Google has isn’t just the strength of its search technology, or the bottom-line deliciousness of adwords / adsense. Its really the thought leadership of what “Search” — and even, probably “The Internet” — means to so many ordinary people.
So much so, (and moreso than say, “Internet Explorer” [...]
In advance of the release of the Android OS for the T-mobile today at 10:30 EST there are a ton of questions — most of which I will not be addressing in this post. One of them, however, seems to have escaped the attention of most bloggers and that is this: will the quality and [...]
Update: Of course the rumours were debunked. Ah well. It made for a tasty morning. :) On another note, it did whet our collective appetite for what Google would or could do with gaming. Third note: in spite of being Google, they are still Google, and their next acquisition, be it gaming or otherwise, might [...]
