Comments on: Disenchantment with Google is growing http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/ Nic Brisbourne's view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: martinowen http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/#comment-6351 martinowen Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:21:32 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/#comment-6351 At a futures of education meeting for the EU last week we did some scenario painting. We had some axes and at one end of one was "monopoly provider". A few years ago that would have been Microsoft - this time around it was Google. This does indicate an image shift - which looks even grimmer if you add in that most of the folks in the group had Apple in front of them. At a futures of education meeting for the EU last week we did some scenario painting. We had some axes and at one end of one was “monopoly provider”. A few years ago that would have been Microsoft – this time around it was Google. This does indicate an image shift – which looks even grimmer if you add in that most of the folks in the group had Apple in front of them.

]]> By: martinowen http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/#comment-4974 martinowen Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:21:32 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/#comment-4974 At a futures of education meeting for the EU last week we did some scenario painting. We had some axes and at one end of one was "monopoly provider". A few years ago that would have been Microsoft - this time around it was Google. This does indicate an image shift - which looks even grimmer if you add in that most of the folks in the group had Apple in front of them. At a futures of education meeting for the EU last week we did some scenario painting. We had some axes and at one end of one was “monopoly provider”. A few years ago that would have been Microsoft – this time around it was Google. This does indicate an image shift – which looks even grimmer if you add in that most of the folks in the group had Apple in front of them.

]]> By: coldbrew http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/#comment-4973 coldbrew Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:20:07 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/#comment-4973 Some how you entirely missed the tone of this post, and found, astonishingly, that it confirmed some belief that you hold. MS is in no better position than GOOG to do anything for these people that failed to understand and adapt to the age of digital distribution; MS is in a worse position because they too failed to understand what networked computing is capable of on a global scale. The M.O. of MS would be to offer better compensation in the short-term (loss leader) and then gauge, to an extent even greater than GOOG, the content producers. People are desperate for $, and that probably will lead to making bad decisions. Some how you entirely missed the tone of this post, and found, astonishingly, that it confirmed some belief that you hold. MS is in no better position than GOOG to do anything for these people that failed to understand and adapt to the age of digital distribution; MS is in a worse position because they too failed to understand what networked computing is capable of on a global scale. The M.O. of MS would be to offer better compensation in the short-term (loss leader) and then gauge, to an extent even greater than GOOG, the content producers. People are desperate for $, and that probably will lead to making bad decisions.

]]> By: Alx Klive http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/#comment-11842 Alx Klive Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:21:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/#comment-11842 Very true and the recent bid for Twitter, if successful, will only hurt them further and may actually kill Twitter in the process. When I mentioned on Twitter recently that I'll be writing a story for Techcrunch about Microsoft's new 'Adsense' type product, it opened up a river of stories from web publishers about nightmare experiences in dealing with Google. The anticipation and interest in Microsoft's product is impressive. People are desperate for an alternative. Very true and the recent bid for Twitter, if successful, will only hurt them further and may actually kill Twitter in the process. When I mentioned on Twitter recently that I’ll be writing a story for Techcrunch about Microsoft’s new ‘Adsense’ type product, it opened up a river of stories from web publishers about nightmare experiences in dealing with Google. The anticipation and interest in Microsoft’s product is impressive. People are desperate for an alternative.

]]> By: brisbourne http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/#comment-4972 brisbourne Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:18:13 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/#comment-4972 I agree. To me the argument that Google creates nothing and therefore adds no value is clearly nonsense. I agree. To me the argument that Google creates nothing and therefore adds no value is clearly nonsense.

]]> By: Nicholas Lovell http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/#comment-4971 Nicholas Lovell Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:51:31 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2009/04/05/disenchantment-with-google-is-growing/#comment-4971 It's a depressingly anti-capitalist statement: "Google is in the final analysis a parasite that creates nothing".<br><br>Since what it really does is connect people who are looking for something with people who are selling something Google is "in the final analysis" a market.<br><br>And to extend the analogy, farmers grow things, and sell them in markets - which are just parasites that create nothing. But to argue that the farmer's world would be a better place without the markets that connect buyers and sellers would be pretty hard. It's a depressingly anti-capitalist statement: “Google is in the final analysis a parasite that creates nothing”.

Since what it really does is connect people who are looking for something with people who are selling something Google is “in the final analysis” a market.

And to extend the analogy, farmers grow things, and sell them in markets – which are just parasites that create nothing. But to argue that the farmer's world would be a better place without the markets that connect buyers and sellers would be pretty hard.

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