After I had my Galaxy Note 2 with it's big 5+inch screen, I used my tablets less and less. I have now sold them all. The tablet computer is just a poorly formated big phone - with out a phone - and wont fit in your pocket.
Imagine if we would add generators to all those useless stationary bikes, stair masters, and treadmills at the health clubs. Why, a couple thousand alone could power all the tofu makers in California.
As thin as the anti-google positions are, you'd think the article would have suggested more of the possibility that it was a media pro -- a hired gun -- brought in to spread FUD about Google.
a) The biggest problem by SE's has been over looked.
That is Inktomi, Fast, AskJeeves/Teoma, and Altavista "paid inclusion" or the cloaked "trusted feeds" where pages are paid for to be in the database. There is no disclosure to the public, that the link they are clicking on has been paid for to be in the database.
b) Google
Take another look. Adwords boxes on the right are easily id'd as advertising. However, the Top Premimum sponsors are very difficult to determine that they are paid advertisements. I think it is more difficult for a user to determine that those are ads than any of the other current search engines.
The word "sponsor" is at the right over top of the Adwords boxes and looks like the column header over there. It's a trick ad. Just because the color is different is no indication to the user that the link is paid for. In fact, the color makes people think the se has returned them and colored them because they are highest ranked.
Googles premium sponsor is the most obfuscated one on the net and the worst of any of the current search engines.
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After I had my Galaxy Note 2 with it's big 5+inch screen, I used my tablets less and less. I have now sold them all. The tablet computer is just a poorly formated big phone - with out a phone - and wont fit in your pocket.
Ask people if advertising works, and they will say yes.
Ask people why they use the products they do, and they will list off a ream of answers that rarely include advertising as a reason.
Any quality product can be sold, only those with superior advertising and branding succeed. Google is successful because of advertising and branding.
Google is not a lesson in better technology, it is the internets ultimate lesson in advertising and branding.
Imagine if we would add generators to all those useless stationary bikes, stair masters, and treadmills at the health clubs. Why, a couple thousand alone could power all the tofu makers in California.
As thin as the anti-google positions are, you'd think the article would have suggested more of the possibility that it was a media pro -- a hired gun -- brought in to spread FUD about Google.
a) The biggest problem by SE's has been over looked. That is Inktomi, Fast, AskJeeves/Teoma, and Altavista "paid inclusion" or the cloaked "trusted feeds" where pages are paid for to be in the database. There is no disclosure to the public, that the link they are clicking on has been paid for to be in the database. b) Google Take another look. Adwords boxes on the right are easily id'd as advertising. However, the Top Premimum sponsors are very difficult to determine that they are paid advertisements. I think it is more difficult for a user to determine that those are ads than any of the other current search engines. The word "sponsor" is at the right over top of the Adwords boxes and looks like the column header over there. It's a trick ad. Just because the color is different is no indication to the user that the link is paid for. In fact, the color makes people think the se has returned them and colored them because they are highest ranked. Googles premium sponsor is the most obfuscated one on the net and the worst of any of the current search engines.
Of those, only the DMOZ homepage validates. Even linux darling Google is full of nontrivial bugs on every page.