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Re: Google Renounces its Greatness in Pursuit of Google+

gerry campbell — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:55:51 -0000

Happy to debate, but not with anonymity.

Re: Google Renounces its Greatness in Pursuit of Google+

lerican — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:45:58 -0000

Not sure what "facts" you're referring to. I prefer facts to be substantiated by reputable sources, not hacks. And...

While I agree that objective and comprehensive results are important, I'm not certain that everyone shares this as a "core belief". I think it's a widely held opinion that these are good things, but not the sacred tenets you have asserted them to be.

Even if they were sacred tenets, I'm still not sure how injecting a G+ search result into a page of still-valid results makes the entirety of the result set less objective or valuable. I think your idea of Google loosing it's way is interesting, but frankly the dramatic reaction to G+ polluting Google search results is the de rigueur cat o' nine tails the SV intelligentsia is using to flog Google with.

And it all started with a shrill cry that (in your words) Google was embarking on a departure from comprehensiveness because Twitter and Facebook results weren't included in the social search results. The dramatic critics fail to acknowledge that the Twitter and Facebook walled gardens were fortified by the Facebook and Twitter legal teams. Formidable as Google's dealmaking ability is and as deep as their pockets are, if Facebook and Twitter want to take all of their marbles and go home, do you advocate Google giving into extortion? I think not.

I think you've built and interesting argument, but it's a dramatic tautology at best. Good for grabbing eyeballs and raising a ruckus, bot not very helpful unless you just want to join the mob beating up Google. Maybe that's why referencing Henry and his merry band of pranksters doesn't bother you.

Re: Google Renounces its Greatness in Pursuit of Google+

gerry campbell — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:25:18 -0000

I can give you points on being critical of the source, disregard as you like - but the underlying facts are solid

Re: Google Renounces its Greatness in Pursuit of Google+

Franck Debane — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:07:05 -0000

I agree with you Lucky Gerry Robot. And I can think of other recent example where Google uses the popularity of the search engine and their ad network to promote other internal products:
google places threatening Qype-like businesses
+1 button to influence on search results
+1 button on Google Ads

but one could also argue the other way, such as the integration of google news, google maps, google images, etc... into search results is providing value to the user. Why not add the Google+ social network ?

I guess the line between editorial integrity and promotion is thin.

Re: Google Renounces its Greatness in Pursuit of Google+

lerican — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:43:35 -0000

Inserting a reference to a story in Silicon Alley Insider to bolster your story is a big fail. They are a tabloid run by wannabe reporters and hack journalists. The credibility of your story just went down a few notches

Re: Social Search Isn’t Enough

gerry campbell — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:55:20 -0000

Andy - I completely agree. Talking just about search marketing for a moment: when there is a finite query stream, all you need to do is target keywords, expand your terms until the point of diminishing returns (i'm aware this is a gross oversimplification) and you're set. Then you buy those terms and measure ROI. With sharing, liking and other social behaviors driving information discovery, it's not that simple. There's exponentially more data, and even more importantly, the USER is in charge of creating discovery opportunities for their friends. Search engines don't have a deadlock on traffic flow, and therefore the "toll" (CPC's) won't pass through there. It's not that the search game is over, it's that future revenue growth will be elsewhere...

Re: Social Search Isn’t Enough

Andy Hunn — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:19:37 -0000

Gerry - Great piece, first half gets at a problem i've been noodling on for some time since seeing Sandberg present at the IAB Mixx show and talking about future of ad targeting being based on all the 'Liking' my friends are doing - waaaayyy too much information in stream to be consumable by me, so how can it influence me to respond? Something's broken there that the market hype hasn't understood yet.

Re: Gerry Campbell Named CEO of Collecta.com Realtime Web Search

seonottingham — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:49:25 -0000

Congrats Gerry, A good move by both parties.

Re: Gerry Campbell Named CEO of Collecta.com Realtime Web Search

Herbal Fiberblend — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:59:09 -0000

You deserved it man. Hope you have a fabulas time as the CEO of the company. Wishing you best of luck.

Re: Gerry Campbell Named CEO of Collecta.com Realtime Web Search

Torq Xponent — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:45:29 -0000

Congrats Grey.The platform of collecta.com is great. I had found some real good information of related topic from their search engine. Really worth it. Time saving.

Re: Gerry Campbell Named CEO of Collecta.com Realtime Web Search

Watch Fifa Online — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:46:21 -0000

Congrats Gerry
wish you the very best !

Re: Gerry Campbell Named CEO of Collecta.com Realtime Web Search

KIba — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:24:34 -0000

Congratulations on this great success. I am eagerly waiting for the proper launch of the products.

Re: Creating Value Across Social Networks

download de filmes — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:24:49 -0000

thanks for the post - That's great! Congratulations!

Re: Gerry Campbell Named CEO of Collecta.com Realtime Web Search

cindysdildovibrator — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:55:40 -0000

woohoo realtime search

Re: Gerry Campbell Named CEO of Collecta.com Realtime Web Search

cindysdildovibrator — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:52:58 -0000

cant wait for the release

Re: Gerry Campbell Named CEO of Collecta.com Realtime Web Search

Name change kit — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:00:24 -0000

Wow, you deserve to be named as the CEO. 'grats and keep up the good work. Cheers!

Re: Swine Flu… in Realtime

club penguin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:29:53 -0000

KickApps widgets can parse any Media RSS or Atom feed. In the "Swidget" example, each tab conducts a real time search of YouTube, Flickr and Twitter feeds, for the search term "swine flu."

Re: Gerry Campbell Named CEO of Collecta.com Realtime Web Search

club penguin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:29:37 -0000

Congratulations Gerry.
Keep us posted, perhaps with early alerts of pending news!

Re: Twitter and Summize - thoughts from a plane seat

club penguin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:26:26 -0000

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Re: Creating Value Across Social Networks

David Semeria — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:18:54 -0000

Excellent post Gerry - you nailed many of the key themes.

Future networks will be implicit rather than explicit (i.e. no destination site). Twitter is leading the way, but still owns and controls the data and infrastrucutre.

It's all a riff on the meaning of 'open'.

There is 'open' as in 'door' - which is bad for privacy. Expect to see much more granular access privileges for UGC.

Then there is also 'open' as in 'compatible' - which is the key. People will assemble their networks and functionality to best suit their interests/needs. Making all the pieces compatible it the big challenge here.

Finally, as regards the business model, I think it will be some sort of usage-based system, where code and content continue to earn revenues regardless of the context in which they find themselves.

Re: Creating Value Across Social Networks

Steve — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:41:35 -0000

If you're looking to move beyond Facebook I suggest you check out the features of Zovue.com Zovue has remote webpage sharing which is used to communal shop or just share the web experience with a distant friend. There's lots of HQ photo and video storage too!

Re: Gerry Campbell Named CEO of Collecta.com Realtime Web Search

Flyer printing — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:20:34 -0000

Great move by you and a great addition to the team.

Look forward to watching your inevitable success (again)!

Re: Gerry Campbell Named CEO of Collecta.com Realtime Web Search

Gucci Sunglasses — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:37:25 -0000

Congratulations Gerry an Good luck!!

Re: Swine Flu… in Realtime

ryan v. — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:46:15 -0000

Wow how have I not heard of this site yet? Pretty awesome with a lot of potential.

Most certainly going to use that in the future.

Thanks!

Re: Gerry Campbell Named CEO of Collecta.com Realtime Web Search

miami website design — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:13:51 -0000

Kudos and congrats Gerry. You deserve it!