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Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web

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Re: Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web

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Post by thurn »

r3m6 wrote: post #11
recoiledsnake wrote: post #8

PC loses to Web ads is more likely. I think Google's got better at getting people to click on ads. For example, one of the following is a search result and the other is an ad. How many people can differentiate between them on various monitors? http://i.imgur.com/Wmdd0.png I remember the time when Google differentiated itself by clearly marking ads, now it's no longer true for high value keywords.

Yep. Google is still a one trick pony when it comes to revenue: Advertising revenue in 2011 was 97 percent of Google's revenue!

Up there with other one-trick ponies like Exxon Mobil, I guess.

Re: Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web

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Post by recoiledsnake »

ajross wrote: post #28
recoiledsnake wrote: post #8

PC loses to Web ads is more likely. I think Google's got better at getting people to click on ads. For example, one of the following is a search result and the other is an ad. How many people can differentiate between them on various monitors? http://i.imgur.com/Wmdd0.png I remember the time when Google differentiated itself by clearly marking ads, now it's no longer true for high value keywords.

It might be easier to tell the ad from the search result if you hadn't cut out the part that reads, and I quote: "Ads related to mesothelioma:" Stop this trolling. You're quite simply lying to people with that kind of nonsense. It doesn't belong anywhere, much less here.

Relax, why not post a full screenshot yourself? Sorry I am on a mobile device right now or I would, but the point is that the text you quoted is two ad results above. So while scanning results, it's easy to not notice the subtle background change between those two results. It's hard to see where the ads end and the results begin, that's why I highlighted the part between the ad and the search result.

If someone can post the full screenshot, please do.

Re: Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web

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Post by tsycho »

malandrew wrote: post #19
martythemaniak wrote: post #5

I think Google has a kind of purpose and drive which will take it very very far. They want to "organize the world's information", but that's less than half the story - an even bigger challenge is making all this information not only understandable and usable to humans but making it all work seamlessly together - a monumental task they are barely getting started at. Unrelated (but necessary) they also seem to be doing…

Don't forget the work on self-driving cars. Once that becomes more commonplace technology, I think you'll see the stock increase dramatically. Every industry with the logistics of moving stuff from point A to point B not on rail could eventually be affected by the work they are doing. Once you can automate that you've effectively reduced tons of problems to automated packet-switching.

And Glass, and Fiber, and Android, and whatever else GoogleX might be working on......Google is quite diversified in its strategies.

Re: Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web

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Post by mladenkovacevic »

recoiledsnake wrote: post #8

PC loses to Web ads is more likely. I think Google's got better at getting people to click on ads. For example, one of the following is a search result and the other is an ad. How many people can differentiate between them on various monitors? http://i.imgur.com/Wmdd0.png I remember the time when Google differentiated itself by clearly marking ads, now it's no longer true for high value keywords.

It's worth mentioning that Bing ads are even less apparently demarcated. At least with Adwords there's a significant contrast created by the use of the yellow which human eyes are particularly sensitive to. I am looking at a Bing ad right now and I am really struggling to see where the ad ends and the white of the search results begins. Not to mention that Adwords has a "Ads related to {}" text along with an information icon next to that. Bing ads just have a small "Ads" in the top right corner of the ad (away from where the eyeballs are likely to be).

Re: Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web

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Post by drhowarddrfine »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #7

Funny APPL has a market cap (624B) that is bigger than Google (248) and "wintel" (248 + 115 = 363) combined . Seriously, that Google has lapped the larger part of what was the Microsoft / Intel juggernaut of the last century is notable of course, but I wonder if its the wrong question.

There was no question.

Re: Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web

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Post by kmfrk »

martythemaniak wrote: post #5

I think Google has a kind of purpose and drive which will take it very very far. They want to "organize the world's information", but that's less than half the story - an even bigger challenge is making all this information not only understandable and usable to humans but making it all work seamlessly together - a monumental task they are barely getting started at. Unrelated (but necessary) they also seem to be doing…

There is a lot I don't like about Google, but Google Maps, Project Glass, and the automated cars are nothing but inspiring.

Just the fact that they transported us to other countries so everyone with an internet connection could go to Paris is laudable. And now they're going to explore the final frontier of Earth underwater.

After iPhone and iPad, like them or not, Google is the one of the "big" companies the most involved in inventing the future.

Re: Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web

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Post by drhowarddrfine »

bencxr wrote: post #10

Yet another "market value defines losing/winning" article between 2 products that don't even compete.

You're right. Microsoft can't compete with Google.

If the two didn't compete, Microsoft wouldn't have search and Google wouldn't have an office suite or an operating system or a browser.

Re: Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web

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Post by disordinary »

kmfrk wrote: post #36
martythemaniak wrote: post #5

I think Google has a kind of purpose and drive which will take it very very far. They want to "organize the world's information", but that's less than half the story - an even bigger challenge is making all this information not only understandable and usable to humans but making it all work seamlessly together - a monumental task they are barely getting started at. Unrelated (but necessary) they also seem to be doing…

There is a lot I don't like about Google, but Google Maps, Project Glass, and the automated cars are nothing but inspiring. Just the fact that they transported us to other countries so everyone with an internet connection could go to Paris is laudable. And now they're going to explore the final frontier of Earth underwater. After iPhone and iPad, like them or not, Google is the one of the "big" companies the most inv…

It's not laudable it's laughable, you want to go to Paris? Go to Paris.

Re: Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web

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Post by kmfrk »

disordinary wrote: post #38
kmfrk wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a lot I don't like about Google, but Google Maps, Project Glass, and the automated cars are nothing but inspiring. Just the fact that they transported us to other countries so everyone with an internet connection could go to Paris is laudable. And now they're going to explore the final frontier of Earth underwater. After iPhone and iPad, like them or not, Google is the one of the "big" companies the most inv…

It's not laudable it's laughable, you want to go to Paris? Go to Paris.

Not everyone has that privilege.

Re: Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web

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Post by [deleted] »

disordinary wrote: post #38
kmfrk wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a lot I don't like about Google, but Google Maps, Project Glass, and the automated cars are nothing but inspiring. Just the fact that they transported us to other countries so everyone with an internet connection could go to Paris is laudable. And now they're going to explore the final frontier of Earth underwater. After iPhone and iPad, like them or not, Google is the one of the "big" companies the most inv…

It's not laudable it's laughable, you want to go to Paris? Go to Paris.

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