Google's achilles heel

There's a paradox at the heart of Google's success that highlights the location of its Achilles' heel. It makes money because users of its search engine find what they want by clicking on ads. That's right, the ads are better targeted than the search results. It's not so much a search engine company, more an ad engine company. The search engine is almost a smokescreen (indeed, I've argued in the past that Google should spin off its search engine and just ... Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Dec 13, 2006 - 4:01 PM PST
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Michael Unverferth
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by Michael Unverferth - Oct. 1, 2008

Rather speculative. Makes a claim that Google's ads are better targeted than the search results, but provides no evidence to that effect.

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008
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martha johnston
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by martha johnston - Oct. 1, 2008

This is good journalism because it tells the truth about the most popular search engine.

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