The Art of war – Google vs Microsoft
April 27, 2010
Search Election is providing us with a hard hitting example of what it’s like to see Google vs Microsoft in Action.
http://www.searchelection.com/
The only problem is that it appears to be a stalemate no matter how hard one matches the skillset, will and drive.
It sort of makes you feel like you are playing Wargames (circa 1983) with the WOPR (Joshua).
Would you like to play a game?
Regardless it’s quite comical, and most likely the truth. Both companies have their fans and their loyalists. Granted I am partial to Google winning the game, but I might (and I stress might) still be in the minority.
Enjoy the battle… let us know if you won or not.
If you did win, make sure to send us a screen shot.. or at post it from here…
Again.. good luck…. hope you can take over the world, and don’t forget the screenshot.. We are considering a reward for the first person that can beat the computer.
Tweets for Sale! Buy your tweet here!
April 13, 2010
Twitter announced Tuesday that it’s allowing companies to pay to have their tweets show up first in searches on its site. The new advertising model is to be tested by Virgin, Best Buy and host of other companies.
The paid tweets will show up if you follow the advertiser or not, and if not retweeted they will “disappear” …
Enjoy the new business model, I can’t wait to get my new Geek Squad tweet offering the latest Windows based virus protection software for my linux machine.
Find another way to make money Twitter, this isn’t going to work as well as you think.
The major problem is that people are saying “I don’t want to hear about Best Buy” …. and the kicker… there is talk that twitter is considering an offer of “pay not to get ads”
That’s right if you don’t pay you get bombarded with ads…but if you shell out money you will get your tweets spam free! The source of that is close to the company and I can verify that was discussed at a recent meeting.
Enjoy the new reality.
Matt Drudge : Google is liberal only outlet.
April 12, 2010
Matt Drudge launches offensive against Google, claiming literally running this story as the headline on this site. Honestly I don’t even know where to start when you start saying that the “popular” stories are liberal leaning…. because Google is measuring this partly via a popularity contest via clicks and other measures (such as what news article is citing what other news article).
Enjoy the new reality.
GOOGLE FRANKENSTEIN: MACHINES TO CHOOSE YOUR NEWS
Mon Apr 12 2010 08:15:34 ET
GOOGLE CEO and Obama political activist Eric Schmidt declared this weekend that his machines will help decide what news you receive!
News sites should use technology to PREDICT what a user wants to read by what they have already read, Schmidt told the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEWS EDITORS, where a few humans still remained in the audience.
“We’re all in this together.”
MORE
Schmidt said he doesn’t want ‘to be treated as a stranger’ when reading online, POLITICO reports.
He envisions a future where technology for news editing could help tailor advertisements for individual readers.
And he wants to be challenged through technology that ‘directs readers’ to a story with an ‘opposing’ view.
[An odd suggestion from the CEO of a company long accused of offering little to no conservative-leaning links on its news page, while aggressively promoting left-leaning hubs.]
Schmidt said GOOGLE is working on new ways to push adverts and content for consumers, based on what stories they’ve read.
What stories his machines have selected.
Developing…
China launching fresh online attack on Google’s servers
March 24, 2010
Breaking — Google’s corporate page has been under a bit of interesting hacking over the past 2 hours. The languages have been rotating from English, to Chinese, To Spanish to Hebrew and it’s the roll of the dice what language you are going to get when you visit the site.
http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html
The multi prong attack has also struck other sites online such as Google’s wikipedia page where images are being deleted and other more interesting problems such as brief moment of gay porn showing up…
The story is developing, but the general finger pointing is that these attacks are coming from China.
The long running spat (which has been extensively covered by Tribble Ad Agency ) can be found here.
Story is developing.
China : Google is NOT God
March 24, 2010
China’s state media on Wednesday slammed Google after it effectively shut down its Chinese search engine, saying the US Internet giant was “not god” and accusing it of working with the CIA and other US intelligence groups, almost saying it’s an extension of the NSA.
The actual statement is as follows:
“For Chinese people, Google is not god, and even if it puts on a show of politics and values, it is still not god,” said the overseas edition of the People’s Daily, the ruling Communist Party’s mouthpiece.
“In fact, Google is not chaste when it comes to values. Its cooperation and collusion with the US intelligence and security agencies is well-known,” it said in a front-page commentary.
China has had a long running dispute with Google regarding censorship. Over the past few weeks this has grown to become a full fledged political war with Google acting like it’s own sovereign state.
This isn’t going to be the last spat with China, the issue however is the nature of the spat.. it’s over censorship and it’s over a company that let’s face it.. is perhaps the most powerful company ever to exist, as they control the flow of information to the point where you can call it a search engine, an advertising agency, a telephone company, an e-mail company, a map company or a news source.
Enjoy the new reality.
Google : We’re sending all China traffic to uncensored Hong Kong
March 22, 2010
Google has announced that they are redirecting all search traffic from Mainland China to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong used to be a British settlement / territory until 1997, at that point ownership was transferred from the UK to Mainland China. However due to the geo-political nature of such a territory, China implemented special laws to allow for a transition from a democratic state to a communist one. Google is using these very laws to prolong the battle with China.
Basically now if China goes into it’s own territory (Hong Kong) they would be violating the very laws they created during the transition period and much of the world will cry foul.
Google is officially acting like a sovereign state at this point, and honestly it’s playing the game in a way most sovereign states would dream to be able to.
Welcome to the new reality, where a company composed of mostly of servers is now acting like a nation by itself.
Completely amazing, and fairly unprecedented from historical terms.
Rumor : Google and China have NOT reached agreement – Google leaving
March 18, 2010
Evidently there has not been a reaching agreement between both the Chinese Government and Google. Our sources have stated that Google WILL be shutting down Chinese operations in short order.
Google will make it’s services available from other locations to China, however the Chinese government had stated they will block those services.
it’s game over people, Google China is completely toast if our sources are right… and our sources are generally spot on regarding this topic.
I personally lay the blame entirely on China… if their population is searching for a specific topic.. why is Beijing so scared to see what their population finds?
Martin Sorrell : WPP lacks social media skillset and we’re scared of Google
March 4, 2010
Evidently Martin Sorrell feels that since WPP lacks social media skillset, so their clients don’t need to take advantage of the higher ROI. The mindset of the industry is staggering.
WPP group in it’s entirety is one of the most technologically challenged advertising agencies in the industry. Very little resources have been put into Search and Social marketing and advertising, leaving the company with an overabundence of print and TV ads, and hardly anything on the table with higher ROI generating Search and Social media.
It’s primarily why many WPP owned ad agencies are forced to share the client with digital firms that the client hired directly. So “Agency of Record” actually means “Agency of print and TV”
This is bad and getting worse, The Financial Times reported the following:
“”Google is a much more dangerous company as a competitor than it was 12 months ago,” Sorrell said. ”They are much slimmer. They are more focused on search and more focused on mobile search.””
In other words, he’s terrified of Google because it generates a higher ROI for their clients than his overpriced advertising agencies can.
Then he goes on to do a bit of paid advertising for Microsoft’s bing:
“While WPP, whose JWT agency worked on the launch of Microsoft’s Bing search service, would like to see more balance in the search market, Sir Martin added: ”Smaller companies are more likely to sing out about this than bigger companies.””
I give up… no wonder we have RFP’s from 1/2 a dozen of your clients.
Pot Calls Kettle Black – Microsoft to Google : you’re a monopoly
March 3, 2010
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer says Google is a monopoly on Internet search. Microsoft is complaining after spending 50 cents on development and 3/4 of a billion promoting Bing / Live / MSN .
We’re actually not kidding on that 3/4 of a billion. Each iteration of the same search engine (Bing/ Live / MSN) was priced for advertising alone at about 1/4 of a billion spent on advertising for each failure. This failure was repeated 3 times so far. Already there is talk that Bing is a “failure” and another branding and domain name change is being discussed.. making it the 4th disaster in a row for the search engine… Trust me I know, I was there for the first failure. That will put the charge at 1 billion wasted on Advertising Alone…. because the root of the problem isn’t their advertising, the root of the problem is that Bing / MSN / Live (whatever you wanna call it) still is technically inferior .
Microsoft’s failure at search is mostly because they still don’t understand that the desktop isn’t online. They are glued to the proprietary model that utterly fails online.
Plus the fact that Bing still is the worst “large” search engine out there in terms of technical ranking of sites… many experts state (including myself) that Microsoft is 1/2 a decade behind Google in terms of technology.
So there you go, keep blowing money.. keep calling regulators… but at the end.. no one wants that Ford Pinto you call Bing… fix the search engine… don’t complain to the police. Seriously Microsoft you guys sound like foundem The company that’s ranking are horrible and call the police / antitrust department.
Just substitute the words “ranking” for “market share”
AT&T removes Google search from Android – puts in Yahoo (Big WTF)
March 2, 2010
After years of being known as the carrier that has the iPhone, next week, AT&T will step out of its shell into the world of Android. The number two carrier in the U.S. will launch the Motorola Backflip on March 7th. The smartphone will cost $99 with a two year “your locked in” contract.
Great Deal, other than the fact that the Google created phone OS will lack Google search, instead AT&T decided to bastardised the phone by putting in Yahoo search, Yahoo BTW doesn’t own a search engine (instead it’s outsourced to Microsoft)
The AT&T move doesn’t take people by surprise, as the company constantly ranked horrific in consumer surveys . AT&T wireless has been known to provide spotty service, a complete lack of 3g Coverage in most areas, and worse they bill for phone calls not even made (such as a flurry of calls to South Africa that were ‘made by our phone last week’ even though our phone doesn’t even have a working battery and hasn’t been used in months.
I really dislike that company.
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