Comments on: Google: Is There Life Beyond Search and AdSense? http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/09/24/google-is-there-life-beyond-search-and-adsense/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:56:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mark Evans http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/09/24/google-is-there-life-beyond-search-and-adsense/#comment-6952 Mark Evans Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:01:59 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/09/24/google-is-there-life-beyond-search-and-adsense/#comment-6952 Fair comment. I've obviously spent a lot of time looking at the economic viability of the many services that Google has launched. I guess this time around, I was trying to move up the strategic food chain a little to see what the big picture holds. This is what makes Google so fascinating: they have such a powerful underlying business that they can dabble, experiment and test different concepts - leaving the rest of us trying to figure out how it all fits together - if, in fact, it does. Fair comment. I’ve obviously spent a lot of time looking at the economic viability of the many services that Google has launched. I guess this time around, I was trying to move up the strategic food chain a little to see what the big picture holds. This is what makes Google so fascinating: they have such a powerful underlying business that they can dabble, experiment and test different concepts - leaving the rest of us trying to figure out how it all fits together - if, in fact, it does.

]]> By: E Guy http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/09/24/google-is-there-life-beyond-search-and-adsense/#comment-6951 E Guy Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:52:38 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/09/24/google-is-there-life-beyond-search-and-adsense/#comment-6951 Mark: As a regular reader, I have read the above post many times in the last year or so with different words but the same basic theme...What is Google's overarching strategic plan, do not understand their one-off applications with minimal traffic, do they have a vision beyond adsense?... Google does publish documents that reflect their strategic direction. As a regular reader, I would appreciate a little more insight into your fixation with Google rather than a rehash of the same old theme with minimal strategic insight. I do not mean to be on a rant...but your regular readers may appreciate you digging a little deeper and providing insight if you want to continue to write about Google. The content is there, it needs to be found and analyzed. Mark:

As a regular reader, I have read the above post many times in the last year or so with different words but the same basic theme…What is Google’s overarching strategic plan, do not understand their one-off applications with minimal traffic, do they have a vision beyond adsense?…

Google does publish documents that reflect their strategic direction. As a regular reader, I would appreciate a little more insight into your fixation with Google rather than a rehash of the same old theme with minimal strategic insight. I do not mean to be on a rant…but your regular readers may appreciate you digging a little deeper and providing insight if you want to continue to write about Google. The content is there, it needs to be found and analyzed.

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