What will Google offer?

#1

Post by thankuz » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 6:13 PM UTC

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#2

Post by ilium » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 6:34 PM UTC

I subscribed for NYC. They just sent me an email saying that I'm on the waiting list, "to bring you great deals at 50% off or more". I was wondering when Google was going to jump on that bandwagon.

Re: What will Google offer?

#3

Post by rohanprabhu » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 6:36 PM UTC

Not another groupon clone please...

Re: What will Google offer?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 6:39 PM UTC

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Post by thankuz » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 6:39 PM UTC

rohanprabhu wrote: post #3

Not another groupon clone please...

Pretty safe to say that if it's new, shiny, buzzing, makes money and users love it - Google will either (offer to) buy it, or build it.

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Post by guelo » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 6:40 PM UTC

rohanprabhu wrote: post #3

Not another groupon clone please...

why not? competition is great.

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Post by rednum » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 6:42 PM UTC

The back button in my browser is broken on this site. I know it doesn't matter for the product itself, but it's one of these little annoying things that leave me with slightly negative - instead of totally neutral - impression.

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Post by hugh3 » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 6:46 PM UTC

rohanprabhu wrote: post #3

Not another groupon clone please...

Not just another one -- the Groupon clone to end all Groupon clones.

And I mean that literally. Once Google enters the game, who else will bother? Either

a) Google will lose against Groupon, proving that it's impossible to dislodge Groupon, or

b) Google will win against Groupon, in which case you'd be crazy to take on Google

David can sometimes beat Goliath, but if King Kong shows up to the fight as well then David should probably just go home.

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Post by thankuz » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 6:47 PM UTC

rednum wrote: post #7

The back button in my browser is broken on this site. I know it doesn't matter for the product itself, but it's one of these little annoying things that leave me with slightly negative - instead of totally neutral - impression.

For a company that boasts so much about 'eating their own dog food,' it seems like a lot of things like that get overlooked on most of their new products. I used to call them out all the time on being hypocrites about a lot of the Webmaster / SEO rules they preached and didn't follow on their own domains (ie. canonical URLs, 301 redirects, sloppy URLs, etc.)

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Post by Jcasc » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 6:48 PM UTC

I would personally use this over Groupon. Especially if it integrates well with all the current Google services I use. I'm sure Groupon is a bit uneasy about this one.