In case people haven’t noticed it’s getting harder to find “real” search results amid the “search result sales spam” that keeps popping up.

And tell me why I should believe a WORD of what Blodget says…he’s the same guy who said CMGI stock was going to $300 a share. R-i-ight.

My point is Google was always going to figure out some form of fantastic monetization because they conceived of something simply indispensable to virtually all web users, and knocked it out of the park when it came to execution.

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Of course Twitter will give us value, I mean, virtual value (which is to say, Bullshi*). So what if twitter is a time-waster? Didn’t you know that for some people it is their primary source of key insights and social interaction. Say, when they wan to know what lame movie some turd is watching. Or, or, what leftovers they’re eating today. Useful but a little rough on the edge. Don’t you think?

Oh, did I mention? You’re article’s headlining on Techmeme. That’s how I got here. Congratulations, you’re now in the virtual big league!

Since Twitter emerged as a communications tour de force with millions of users, the question has been: “How’s Twitter going to make money?”…

Since we’re in this tough economy right now, a bunch of people will snort at that suggestion and say something like companies without real business models blah blah blah death spiral blah blah blah. That’s not my point. The point is that once you attack a business model (or multiple potential models), you can’t necessarily keep innovating as quickly because you have to start doing things like hiring A/R folks, ad ops folks, have engineers work on Revenue aging reports, have engineers work on payment processing systems, etc.

Why do that before you need to when there are still loads of things you’d like to be able to attack quickly while your burn rate doesn’t include 20 addl. headcount working on the $$ side of the equation?

Of course companies that have limited access to funding have to find their models more quickly. Of course all companies eventually have to find their models. But it’s not necessarily true that it’s better to make money sooner than later. By attacking a business model too soon, you may end up underinvesting in innovation, customer adoption, and market penetration, and have yourself a nice small business that throws off a couple million in cash every year but that is otherwise uninteresting. If you have bigger plans, focus first on the product, then on the customers, and THEN on the business model.

This will always be true, in a down or up economy.