Sometimes I wonder if I get just a bit too meta? Reporting on the reporting following the reporting…..

Anyways, media reaction has been mixed following Googles announcements yesterday.

Here’s a range of comments that appeared in the media today:

• Google Co-op is a complicated, non-algorithmic search product that breaks my “remember that people are lazy” rule
  
• Google Notebook is for a market, search clipping, that is cluttered with the bones of failed products
  
• Google Desktop soaks up desktop space and CPU cycles while underwhelming
  
• Google Trends is marginally more useful, but it’s fringe silliness, a less fun cross between Googlefight and Alexaholic
• Google Trends – Kick Ass!
• Google Trends – a great time waster
• The first is outstanding. It’s called Google Trends
• Danny and Barry spent some time playing around with it, and are sounding confused…
• Google Co-op : Community Search, Spam Opportunity…

Quite frankly, I could go on all day. It’s fair to say that reaction is mixed, apparently based on what you do for a living. Search Marketers, like me, appear to love Google Trends. Generalist Tech journalists appear to demand nothing short of the Second Coming, and the Web 2.0 crowd….

Actually, who cares

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