27 September 2011 0 Comments

Googlopoly

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Last week, Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, spent a day in Washington subjecting himself to a little Senatorial inquiry into the way it does business, and as Stacy Higginbotham so adeptly noted on GigaOm, Congress doesn’t get Google, and Google doesn’t get Congress. At this point, though, it’s not easy to tell which will have a [...]

17 September 2011 1 Comment

GFail redux

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We first wrote these “10 things” several years ago. From time to time we revisit this list to see if it still holds true. We hope it does–and you can hold us to that. — Google It was late 2001, if the Wayback Machine is to be believed. About a week ago, we had a [...]

16 September 2011 12 Comments

Down but not out

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How Experts Exchange will recover from Panda setbacks. With Panda 1 and Panda 2, Google really did a number on Experts Exchange search results.  As we (and others) have noted previously, having your business basically depend on The Algorithm is a pretty uncomfortable place to live and work.  You can spend a lot of time [...]

2 September 2011 0 Comments

YAQ&AS

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We love Q&A — specifically the A part. We also love people who think they’re competitors … Like Jig. We’ve spent a long time — about twelve years now — thinking about why Experts Exchange works so well; indeed, the main gripe we see in the Experts Exchange twitter feed is that it keeps showing [...]

31 August 2011 4 Comments

Has Google Failed The “Evil” Test

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By all appearances Google is having a pretty good decade. Revenue is up, acquisitions are happening, and Google’s position at the top of the search engine fight is unassailable. The folks at Mountain View must be pretty happy with the way things are going. They shouldn’t be. Google might be on the top of the [...]