by Annette
10. April 2007
No company has flown higher in the last two years than Google. They've been touted as the best company to work for, heralded as the most innovative in product design and responsible for ushering in a new era of commerce.
David Vise and Robert Cyran from WSJ's Financial Insight provide an interesting take on the Google's inability to diversify their profit stream beyond on-line advertising. They point out Google's flops in social networking, online video and more. It begs the question about Google's growth position and the consumer's stomach for the barrage of on-line advertising.
True "search" should be a search for information. Increasingly, "googling" feels like a search for .coms and big brother monitoring your imagination. Will there come a day when search will be a monthly charge, but brings a promise of higher quality data and complete privacy?
