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gmail_full.gifEep! I'm hoping that Gmail will just give up and let me go past 100%, as clearing off space would be pretty annoiying.

Posted in Design, Observations, google on April 02, 2007, 02:11 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Google in New York

I had a great opportunity to visit Google's New York offices yesterday. Unfortunately, I had to leave early, but what struck me the most was the consistent focus on Google's mission: organizing the world's information.

For example, someone asked why Google hasn't considered charging for content instead of having it all advertising supported. That's easy: advertising facilitates access to this information.

One other interesting thing I hadn't heard about is the idea of partner-specific pages on Google Video, like this one for Sundance. "But how do you monetize those pages?" asked someone from the audience. The answer came without hesitation: "We don't."

Posted in Business, Media, google, marketing on June 29, 2006, 12:37 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink

College life... powered by Google?

Screenshot of Google's College LifeI was suprised to see an advertisement on The Facebook sending me to a landing page for what appears to be a new advertising campaign targeting college students.

Under the heading "College life, powered by Google" appeared this (what I think is) poorly written copy:

You spend your life dealing with information. A lot of it is academic, a lot more is personal, it all matters, and you can probably use better tools for handling it effectively. On this page, we'd like to introduce you to a few of them.

[Side rant: "A lot of it is academic, a lot more is personal, it all matters, and you can probably use better tools for handling it effectively" is a pretty confusing sentence!]

Anyway, stock photos with college-age people tell me that Google SMS is the best way to "put the power of Google in my cell-phone-wielding hand," Gmail is "a better way to email," and Google Toolbar is a "smarter way to surf." Sounds a lot like the usual marketing copy -- not at all what I've come to expect from Google.

· College life, powered by Google [Google.com]

Posted in Business, google, marketing on September 18, 2005, 07:52 PM | Comments (1) | Permalink

Why Google's $300+ Stock Price?

Google's Stock Price: A ChartCatching up on my sky-high backlog of USA Today, I found an interesting article on Google's $300+ stock price. As of July 14, only nine stocks had share prices over $300.

Why hasn't Google split its stock? Why haven't the nine other companies? The article discusses those points.

One side effect of the high stock price that I've felt:

And while a stock price in itself is meaningless, Google is clearly sending a message to investors by not splitting. "If you go back to Google's prospectus, it says Google is not a conventional company and does not intend to become one," says Jay Ritter, professor of finance at the University of Florida.

· Google joins ranks of stocks north of $300 [USA Today]
· Previous posts tagged with Google [ScottKidder.com]

Posted in Business, google, investing, stock market on July 25, 2005, 02:29 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Google's 300-Year Mission

An interesting quote from an article on Google's Search Service in today's Wall Street Journal:

Google's chief executive, Mr. Schmidt, calls Google's mission a long-term one. "It will take, current estimate, 300 years to organize all of the world's information," he says.

Where in the world did that estimate come from?

· For Soaring Google, Next Act Won't Be as Easy as the First [WSJ]

Posted in Business, google on June 30, 2005, 12:46 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Google Does It Again: Real-Time Stock Quotes

Google has done it again... they now offer real-time stock quotes. This, to me, is huge! Hundreds of web sites will give you stock quotes, but they are all 15 or 20 minutes delayed.

Yahoo, for example, charges $9.95 a month for this service.

Wow.

· Show Me The Money [Google Blog]
· Google adds real-time stock, ride info [ZDNet News]

Posted in Technology, google, investing, stock market on April 20, 2005, 11:20 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Google Sets

So, I really don't intend for this to become a Google blog... there are other places to do that. But I came across Google Sets and continue to be impressed.

Apparently this has been in the Google labs for several years. Basically, you put in some words and Google tries to determine other items in the set. Things like colors are pretty easy, but things like ways to prepare food impress me.

You go, Google.

Posted in Technology, google on March 20, 2005, 04:35 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink

G00GL3 1$ HAX0R3D?!?!

Google is a really cool company. I wrote about them earlier after reading a seemingly-candid article in GQ, but had never actually met an employee of Google in real life until the Blogger party at South by Southwest this week.

They were all great and I somehow came out of it loving Google more than I already do.

Today I found a link to Google H4x0r. Google has their sites in many different languages... French, Spanish, and apparently: Hacker.

The fact that Google can make fun of themselves like this only makes them cooler.

Posted in Technology, google on March 16, 2005, 09:48 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink