Where Google Goes From Here, Part 1 by Editors, New York Times (Dec 2)
AlsoPart 2.
Ken Auletta, Fred Wilson, and John Markoff discuss Google strengths and vulnerabilities.
+ "A potentially more efficient threat will come from a vertical search, which social networks like Facebook and Twitter might provide." Auletta
+ "But Google is very vulnerable to changes in the current Internet search paradigm. You can already see this effect in social media." Wilson
" "John, at Google, social networks like Facebook are seen as a threat for several reasons: They can offer social search or expand search options, both of which siphon users from Google. They hog attention, capturing their users in an alternate universe. And Facebook is allied with Microsoft, one of its primary investors." Auletta on social search
+ "The government bear is a greater threat to Google than it is to Microsoft or Amazon, and not just the U.S. government. Google juggles three atomic issues: concentration of power, privacy and copyright." Auletta
+ "Google is very much a friend of journalists and journalism. It is also a friend of newspapers although the newspapers don’t see it that way. Hitwise recently reported that over 25 percent of the Wall Street Journal’s traffic comes from Google. Each of those visits are worth money to News Corporation and so Google is driving revenue for them." Wilson