We Have Met the Evil and It Is Not Google or Apple: It Is Us

Posted on January 26, 2012 by robhof

Cross-posted on my Forbes blog, The New Persuaders. So much talk about evil these days. Google is evil for promoting results from its Google+ social network on search results pages, and even for changing its privacy policy to make clear its services share data. Apple is evil for not coming down hard enough on harsh [...]

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What’s Coming in Internet Advertising: 12 Predictions for 2012

Posted on January 10, 2012 by robhof

I did my annual predictions first on my Forbes blog, The New Persuaders, since they’re focused largely on the Internet media and advertising I cover there. On that blog, they’re done as separate posts, but I wanted to gather them up in one place here, as I’ve done in previous years. So here’s what I [...]

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LIVE Inside Google Search Event: Search by Image and Voice, and Faster Too

Posted on June 14, 2011 by robhof

Google will shortly provide an “under the hood look at Google Search” for a group of reporters and bloggers in San Francisco. According to the invitation, Google Fellow Amit Singhal, who for a decade has headed the core search ranking team, and others will “share our vision and demo some of our newest technology and features.” [...]

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What’s Google’s Marissa Mayer Up To?

Posted on May 25, 2011 by robhof

We haven’t heard much from Marissa Mayer, one of Google’s highest-profile executives, since she left her longtime job as vice president of search products last October to become vice president of location and local services. Some saw that as a demotion, though it’s clear that Google is putting an especially heavy emphasis on local commerce [...]

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How Social and Mobile Will Disrupt Online Advertising

Posted on May 24, 2011 by robhof

It’s no secret that online display advertising is going through huge changes, thanks largely to the fact that banner ads have never worked very well. Everyone from Google to Facebook to Twitter to a gazillion ad technology startups is trying to figure out something that will work as remotely well as search ads. So I’m [...]

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Do@ Aims to Disrupt Mobile Search–Including Google

Posted on May 23, 2011 by robhof

It’s ironic, or maybe apropos, that you can’t find anything about the new mobile search application Do@ by Googling it. Google doesn’t track the @ symbol at all. But the Israeli company (pronounced “do-at”), which launched its free iPhone app today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, is looking to do a number on Google. [...]

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Beyond the Wow Factor: Why LinkedIn’s IPO Matters

Posted on May 19, 2011 by robhof

It would be easy to take today’s blockbuster initial public offering by business networking service LinkedIn as a sign that the IPO, the fuel for the tech industry’s wealth-creation engine, is back. But one IPO on the first day won’t tell us that. It’s just as easy to dismiss the rocket-ride to well over double [...]

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Polishing Chrome at Google I/O: Angry Birds, Cheap Payments & $20 Chromebooks

Posted on May 11, 2011 by robhof

After hearing yesterday how Android is becoming a leading force in mobile devices, today at Google’s annual I/O developer conference, we’re expecting to hear how Google hopes to repeat its success in a more established realm: the Web. Google hopes to turn the Web into a mainstream platform for applications, and it’s betting heavily on [...]

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LIVE: What’s New From Google’s Android: Web Store and More

Posted on February 2, 2011 by robhof

Google seems to realize that most people can’t keep up with all the developments around its Android mobile-device operating software. So this morning, it’s inviting a whole lot of press to an event promising to provide ”an in-depth look at Honeycomb, Android ecosystem news and hands-on demos.” I’ll be liveblogging the highlights starting at 10 a.m. [...]

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Surprise: Google Cofounder Larry Page Takes Over As CEO

Posted on January 20, 2011 by robhof

It was no secret that Google cofounder Larry Page hankered to be CEO at some point. (I should say, again–he was the founding CEO–but it always seemed from what I heard that he wanted another shot at the appropriate time.) Today, he got his wish, as Google just announced that he will take over from [...]

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