Google has become the 8000 pound search Gorilla. During their meteoric growth there has been a trend that people’s expectations have gotten higher and their attention span shorter. There was a time when people would click though a page, two or even three of search results, but that is not so common any more. Today, if you don’t rank in the top 3, searchers will barely notice your listing.
Grok on Google
7 September 2008
4 September 2008
You work a decade to build a trendsetting browser, even the first with tabs, and what happens? In two days you’re kicked aside for a Johnny-come-lately that doesn’t even have a sidebar, let alone one with more options than any other browser. I’m talking about the much-loved but little-used Opera, which already has taken a backseat to Google’s mere 2-day-old infant of a browser, Chrome.
AppScout on Opera
2 September 2008
I think in time, Google’s Android will be to the iPhone what Windows was to the Mac. The iPhone laid out many of the killer mobile device innovations, but its a closed device, a closed carrier relationship, and even a closed application store. Android will take all of those good ideas and put them on every device, with every carrier, and in partnership with every app developer.
A VC on Android
18 August 2008
Apple will make one high-quality model that runs on one low-quality carrier, and fit one very niche consumer segment. Android will enjoy the collective development and marketing budgets of a range of mega corporations, and fit every conceivable consumer desire. Whatever type of phone you want, on whichever carrier you want it on, Android will have a model for that. Apple just cannot compete.
Matt Maroon on Google’s Android
1 August 2008
Whenever Knol is wrong, Google has pledged to rearrange facts in the world to make it right.
The Onion on Knol
31 July 2008
Google was a game changer 6 years ago, but that is an eternity in web-years. They’re looking more and more like Microsoft or General Motors when it comes to fresh innovation and execution. It’s like they’re trying to confuse.
Voltageblog on Google
28 July 2008
Where I think you can beat Google, or at least make some headway on them, is with people. At the end of the day, computer interpretation of human behavior and desires is what drives Google. You could attempt building a bigger or faster computer, but no one computer is really going to be able to interpret people better than, well, people. That’s why del.icio.us had so much potential. Google could never figure out what was funny or interesting, but del.icio.us could.
This is going to be BIG on Google
25 July 2008
A page created by some dude is just a snapshot in time, and not a living document. Have you recently read an article published in the 80s? 90s? 2003? They sound almost endearingly naive (depending on the author). Things change so rapidly in our society, that a page created on Knol has almost no chance to compete with its comparable Wikipedia entry.
SocialBias on Knol
7 July 2008
SEO rewards Wikipedia, and well it should. Most searchers who end up there are pretty happy with that result. But as we get further and further into Googleworld, who decides what’s worthy? There’s no right answer, of course. But “no answer” isn’t an answer either.
Seth Godin on Wikipedia
23 June 2008
A Google search may or may not lead them to valuable resources online, but many students today clearly don’t know how to differentiate between what’s legitimate and what’s not. Being able to look at a piece of information online and challenge it in order to determine whether or not it is a fact is simply not a skill that many online users have. However, once this process is learned, students can apply it throughout their education - no matter what medium they use for research.
ReadWriteWeb on Information