Sittin in 92 Atherton Avenue right now. Just came back from the Maker Faire. Picked up Esther Dyson this morning who spoke about her experiences in the astronaut training. Really interesting and worthwile. Her remarks about Google and Bing and the resulting dynamics for the market were also very thought provoking; looks like Bing is proving to be just another classic Microsoft model, i.e. reducing the competition within the industry, by hosting search and content on their website simultaneously (first time a search engine is explicitly including content on the site).. gonna be interesting to see how Google and the affected retailers (i.e. holiday check) will be reacting to it... If Microsoft manages to gain significantly in market share ( 8 per cent at the moment, Google around 70, Yahoo at 10), this could become a real problem.. Bing gives you the hotel recommendations as well as the opportunity to book flights directly.. Good for Airline companies, bad for the agencies... . Mahalo doesn't seem to play a very important role in this process.. Dyson: "I don't see them being able to keep up with the others." Baker: "Don't know where all of this is leading".
Nevertheless, it seems to me that the search market is THE market of the future. Search already is the main staring point for most people in the internet. If the providers now start to integrate content within their results, then they will inevitably increase their predominance on the web even further, by simply making it extremely easy and convenient for people to browse the web.
1 per cent market share for search is worth one billion!!!! Jason (Mahalo founder, Mahalo roughly at one per cent at the moment): " We will get to 5 per cent within the next years. Would make him worth five billion!!
D has also proved to be very informative. Met a couple of interesting people, most of which I am going to meet again during my stay in the Bay Area. Huge opportunities for Smart Phone market, no cut in Research and Development although money is short, Washington Post forcing their people to embrace the online version of the site as the only way to survive in this changing market, Huffington (Huffington Post) optimistic about the survival of newspapers and magazines " it is in our DNA".. Lets hope she's right..
Loved Balmer and Baltz.. two incredibly charismatic Ceo's of two internet giants (Microsoft and Yahoo) ...
Tuning in slowly..
Jacob
das ist der zweite versuch. gerade haben papa und ich sehr lustig und abwechselnd geschrieben, schade alles weg!
ReplyDeletePapa macht sich gedanken darüber; dass Google die ads wegschnappt und microsoft mit Bing den e-commerce ruiniert.
Mutti fragt sich ob chrome schon online ist oder noch zukunftsmusik?
Mutti Chrome is schon seit September letzten Jahres online..
ReplyDeleteBisher aber nur 1.42 per cent market share..
trotzdem der viertgrößte Browser weltweit..
Bin ganz stolz auf euch Internet Freaks dass ihr es geschafft habt zu commenten :)
Bussi