Comments on: Who’s Afraid of Google? The Economist Missed It http://www.charleshudson.net/whos-afraid-of-google-the-economist-missed-it?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whos-afraid-of-google-the-economist-missed-it This is my personal website for posting my views on the world of technology and gadgets. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Doug http://www.charleshudson.net/whos-afraid-of-google-the-economist-missed-it/comment-page-1#comment-24369 Doug Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:38:29 +0000 http://blog.charleshudson.net/?p=362#comment-24369 While I would have to agree with jfass' assertion that these services don't make any money, I disagree with jfass that search is not a "Product" in that nobody pays for it. It's a free service upon which Google has built an advertising network. That's it's only "Product" because it's the only thing people pay for. An analogy: "No cover before 10" isn't a 'Product', $6 vodka is a 'Product'. None of this is the issue, however, for Google. The issue is weather or not it can maintain its financial strength into the future. This is a trick that pretty much only Microsoft has accomplished (although Adobe has managed its product life cycles rather well). Google has a lot of pets and one cash cow. It's not clear what else is to be done from here to continue to make big gains in revenues. I guess maybe they'll start making phones or airplanes or something. While I would have to agree with jfass’ assertion that these services don’t make any money, I disagree with jfass that search is not a “Product” in that nobody pays for it. It’s a free service upon which Google has built an advertising network. That’s it’s only “Product” because it’s the only thing people pay for. An analogy: “No cover before 10″ isn’t a ‘Product’, $6 vodka is a ‘Product’.

None of this is the issue, however, for Google. The issue is weather or not it can maintain its financial strength into the future. This is a trick that pretty much only Microsoft has accomplished (although Adobe has managed its product life cycles rather well). Google has a lot of pets and one cash cow. It’s not clear what else is to be done from here to continue to make big gains in revenues.

I guess maybe they’ll start making phones or airplanes or something.

]]> By: Doug http://www.charleshudson.net/whos-afraid-of-google-the-economist-missed-it/comment-page-1#comment-30990 Doug Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:38:29 +0000 http://blog.charleshudson.net/?p=362#comment-30990 While I would have to agree with jfass' assertion that these services don't make any money, I disagree with jfass that search is not a "Product" in that nobody pays for it. It's a free service upon which Google has built an advertising network. That's it's only "Product" because it's the only thing people pay for. An analogy: "No cover before 10" isn't a 'Product', $6 vodka is a 'Product'. None of this is the issue, however, for Google. The issue is weather or not it can maintain its financial strength into the future. This is a trick that pretty much only Microsoft has accomplished (although Adobe has managed its product life cycles rather well). Google has a lot of pets and one cash cow. It's not clear what else is to be done from here to continue to make big gains in revenues. I guess maybe they'll start making phones or airplanes or something. While I would have to agree with jfass’ assertion that these services don’t make any money, I disagree with jfass that search is not a “Product” in that nobody pays for it. It’s a free service upon which Google has built an advertising network. That’s it’s only “Product” because it’s the only thing people pay for. An analogy: “No cover before 10″ isn’t a ‘Product’, $6 vodka is a ‘Product’. None of this is the issue, however, for Google. The issue is weather or not it can maintain its financial strength into the future. This is a trick that pretty much only Microsoft has accomplished (although Adobe has managed its product life cycles rather well). Google has a lot of pets and one cash cow. It’s not clear what else is to be done from here to continue to make big gains in revenues. I guess maybe they’ll start making phones or airplanes or something.

]]> By: jfass http://www.charleshudson.net/whos-afraid-of-google-the-economist-missed-it/comment-page-1#comment-24271 jfass Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:56:02 +0000 http://blog.charleshudson.net/?p=362#comment-24271 I think it's interesting to call all of these things "products". While I'm a big fan of many of the things listed above (maps, reader, calendar, igoogle) their ability to generate any direct revenue is unknown. In my opinion Google is a one "product" company--Search. And, YES in this category they rock! Just for the heck of it, let's pretend Google search is dead (there are many articles about this out there). Now what does the company have? I think it’s interesting to call all of these things “products”. While I’m a big fan of many of the things listed above (maps, reader, calendar, igoogle) their ability to generate any direct revenue is unknown. In my opinion Google is a one “product” company–Search. And, YES in this category they rock!

Just for the heck of it, let’s pretend Google search is dead (there are many articles about this out there). Now what does the company have?

]]> By: jfass http://www.charleshudson.net/whos-afraid-of-google-the-economist-missed-it/comment-page-1#comment-30989 jfass Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:56:02 +0000 http://blog.charleshudson.net/?p=362#comment-30989 I think it's interesting to call all of these things "products". While I'm a big fan of many of the things listed above (maps, reader, calendar, igoogle) their ability to generate any direct revenue is unknown. In my opinion Google is a one "product" company--Search. And, YES in this category they rock! Just for the heck of it, let's pretend Google search is dead (there are many articles about this out there). Now what does the company have? I think it’s interesting to call all of these things “products”. While I’m a big fan of many of the things listed above (maps, reader, calendar, igoogle) their ability to generate any direct revenue is unknown. In my opinion Google is a one “product” company–Search. And, YES in this category they rock! Just for the heck of it, let’s pretend Google search is dead (there are many articles about this out there). Now what does the company have?

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