Eric Schmidt Interview #45,6789
This time, he’s at Web 2.0 ™ Expo. Interesting bits: “We don’t think its a competitor to Microsoft Office”. Uh huh. “Advertising is an art and a science. We can provide the science to the artists”. And Spamsense-ers. Advertisers are worried that, with DoubleClick, Google might have too much information about their business. “Viacom is using the suit as a …
Google Adds “Powerpoint”
In an ongoing mission not to compete with Microsoft Office, Google now adds a presentation application to their suite. “First of all, we want to welcome the team from Tonic Systems to Google. Tonic, which we’ve just acquired, is based in San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia. They have some great technology for presentation creation and document conversion, and it will …
Use Google, Prevent War
Amusing. “It was a simple letter, just more than 100 words on two pieces of paper. But this singular document became one of the key pieces of evidence, the smoking gun, to justify the invasion of Iraq….if the CIA had done a simple Internet search on some of the terms used in the letter, the agency would have quickly learned …
One Google Aquisition That Didn’t Go So Well
Remember Dodgeball? Dodgeball is mobile social software. Google acquired Dodgeball back in 2005. However, it appears that things didn’t go too well, as far as the founders are concerned, as they have recently left Google. They claim it was due to frustration, as Google didn’t appear to be doing much with the service: “In a post on photo-sharing site Flickr, …
When You’re Done Working For Google, Then What?
Interesting dilemma. When you’ve had enough of working for Google, where do you go? What happens when you are at the top of the search career ladder? Amusing: “I asked a friend who recently joined Google where any of her exiting colleagues had gone. “I thought they went to the desert island they just purchased when they cashed out their …
Google Buys DoubleClick For…A Lot
Google buys DoubleClick, the ad-serving company, for $3.1 billion dollars. “The most compelling argument (for the deal) is it is accelerating our display advertising business,” Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said“ This purchase, if it goes through, means that Google would account for 80 percent of the ads served up on the Internet, according to this source. Yahoo, Microsoft, and …
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