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Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a keynote address at the Mobile World Congress yesterday, which is worth watching if you have an interest in the future of technology or, well, human life. The talk was an informative and open insight into Google’s future direction. It was centred on mobile; but since Google now regards the …continue reading Google’s strategy unveiled: a little bit of everything you do I am watching Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s keynote at the Mobile World Congress today. I am only 10 minutes in, but I was struck by these comments, as he talks about improving connectivity across the internet: Think of it as an opportunity to instrument the world. These networks are now so pervasive that we can literally …continue reading Eric Schmidt: we can literally know everything Shares in Rightmove, a UK web site for house sales, have dropped by move then 10% over the last couple of days, following a report by the Financial Times that “Google is in talks with British estate agents to launch an online property portal.” I do not know what chances of success this venture has. Google …continue reading Fear of Google Microsoft’s search deal with Yahoo makes more sense than the attempted full acquisition last year. The 10-year deal provides for Microsoft’s Bing to become the back-end search engine for Yahoo, while Yahoo becomes the exclusive sales force for premium search advertisers on both Bing and Yahoo. Listening to today’s conference call, the rationale for the deal …continue reading Microsoft – Yahoo search deal: 2+2 makes 5, or 3? A contact suffered a trojan infection on his Windows XP machine the other day. He was alerted to the infection by Windows Defender, but the Remove or Quarantine actions offered by Defender did not work. If he removed the trojan, it reappeared on the next reboot. The installed AVG security suite sat there unconcerned. I …continue reading Search for virus help highlights lack of authority in Google, Wikipedia Web stats site StatCounter caused some excitement last week when it announced that Bing had overtaken Yahoo in search market share, as tracked by its site analysis tools. I took a look at the figures today, and they make depressing reading for Microsoft: I’ve annotated the image to show Live Search share on 29 May, …continue reading Bing’s disappearing search share gain in the US It’s election fever in the UK: in dramatic results, the incumbent party is being pummelled at the polls. So too for search engines? Microsoft employee Michael Kordahi set up a blind search test. Perform a search, select your favourite from three columns of results. It started well for Bing, but market leader Google soon asserted …continue reading Bing, Blind Search and electoral fraud So Bing (Bing Is Not Google?) is Microsoft’s new search brand. A few good things about it: 1. Short memorable name, short memorable url 2. Judging by the official video at http://www.decisionengine.com/ Microsoft realises that it has to do something different than Google; doing the same thing almost as well or even just a little better is …continue reading A few good things about Bing – but where is the webmaster’s guide? Last weekend I attended Yahoo’s Open Hack Day in London. It was excellent. I wasn’t hacking myself; but enjoyed the tech talks. I also had an opportunity to interview execs including co-founder David Filo, Cody Simms who does Product Management for Yahoo Open Strategy, and Sophie Major the head of the International Developer Network. Highlights for me …continue reading Yahoo’s mindshare problem |
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