google need more diversified business model?
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they are in the process of diversifying it.  they need to because the growth of what they are currently doing will eventually slow, which will crush their share price.
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The latest in a series of abrupt downturns in Google's stock followed CFO George Reyes' answer to a question during an investor conference hosted by Merrill Lynch in New York. \n\n"Most of what's left is just organic growth, which means you have to find ways to grow your traffic," Reyes said. "Clearly, our growth rates are slowing, and you see that each and every quarter."\n\nReyes later put a more positive spin on his remarks. "I am not turning bearish at all," he said near the end of a 45-minute session that was Webcast. "I think we have a lot of growth ahead of us. I think it's just a question of at what rate."
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They already have something like this. It's called Google Groups.\n\nhttp://groups.google.com
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they just got purchased by google.  Perhaps they don't have it all down quite yet.
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Many think Google has a more comprehensive search engine.
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Sure.  Why not spread it around?  The more people that use the service, the more likely it will be successful.  The more success it has, the more likely it will be to stick around and offer improvements/upgrades.
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Neat idea, but slender it down for a professional look!\n\nIt does look professional enough to be credible, but there's a lot of faffing around and way too many Google ads! Keep it simple and free from cr4p if you want to keep the professional look!\n\nThe privacy statement and the user agreement could do without any ads at all and could do with some revamping. What are those caplocks for?
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Yeah, technology should be on our side with this one. Better yet, start your own service, make your own money.
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SEO? CEO (Chief Executive Officer) might be what you're aiming for though.
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I dont think any site is needed.. There are sites for everything, from searching to shopping.. However, a search site giving more relevant results than google (Google is good, but even better) should be a nice idea. Not only more relevant results, also better categorization of results, lesser time to deliver them, etc would do good. I bet such a site would become an instant hit among Internet users.
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Google keeps all plans proprietary, especially products currently in BETA. However, you can submit ideas to the GMAIL development team. I can't remember what page, but I submitted an idea, and it got accepted.
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As quoted from MSN.com "Many of the details, including a plan that may display more graphical ads on Google’s traditionally sparse Web pages, had been leaked to the media in the last few days. None of the so-called banner ads will appear on Google’s home page or alongside its primary search results."\n\nAdvertising soon to come.  i.e. Banner Ads
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The strategies for large companies might be a bit more vague. Also the implementation might involve hiring more people or moving other projects out of the way.
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Gstockreport.com, a report on Google stock  \nby Steve Baba, Ph.D.\n\nGoogle is a great website, but a lesson of the dotcom bubble is that a great website is not always a great business.  Google’s expected IPO has attracted enormous, one-sided, positive buzz from Google fans, techies nostalgic about the boom years, and day traders hoping for quick profits.   \n\nFor balance, below is a list of Google’s many potential business challenges, several of which could turn Google into a penny stock.    A more detailed analysis is available at the bottom of this page. \n\n23 Reasons Google Could Become a Penny Stock  \n\n1.  Companies that grow quickly by viral marketing, also known as word-of-mouth advertising, can fall just as quickly by competitors’ viral marketing.   \n\n2.  Companies that grow quickly from free publicity can also fall quickly by competitor’s free publicity.    \n\n3.  Switching costs and brand loyalty of search engine users are low.   \n\n4.  A winner-take-all business, also known as a contest business model, is only profitable if you are the winner, as Google is today.      \n\n5.  While Google is free to searchers, a price of zero, profit-lowering price-competition is still possible with a negative price.   \n\n6.   In addition to price competition, search engines can compete for users by offering less advertising.   \n\n7.  A competitor could develop a better, patentable search algorithm, as some hopeful inventors claim to be working on.   \n\n8.  The search engine industry may be in a temporary disequilibrium, and the long run equilibrium, dominance by Google or highly competitive industry, is unknown.    \n\n9.  Microsoft and Yahoo might actually try and compete with Google.   \n\n10.  The rapidly declining cost of technology, computers, storage, and bandwidth (Moore’s Law), will reduce the cost of entry for competitors.   \n\n11.  Any competitor can outsource software deployment to India, Russia or China, which will reduce the cost of entry for competitors enabling new competitors.   \n\n12.  There is open source competition.   \n\n13.  The increasing power of programming tools, languages, and scripts reduces programming costs, which increases competition.   \n\n14.  Google’s revenue source, text Pay-Per-Click advertising (PPC) often causes a race to the bottom as the most expensive/profitable products outbid less expensive products for the limited PPC positions, having negative reputational then financial effects.   \n\n15.  Text pay-per-click advertising is only one form of advertising and is subject to competition from other forms of advertising.   \n\n16.  Google’s revenue source, advertising, may be blocked or replaced by ad blocking software.   This is similar to the TiVo problem for television advertisers. \n\n17.  Google’s reported 50% margin with AdSense (displaying ads on third party sites) is unsustainably high for a middleman.   \n\n18.  Much of Google’s future profit potential depends on brand extension to other services, such as their shopping comparison site Froogle or Gmail, which involves risks and cannibalization.   \n\n19.  Being number one, Google is the number one target for search engine spammers and search engine optimizers, which reduces Google’s quality.   \n\n20.  After an IPO, with no prospect of great stock options to employees, Google may be at a comparative disadvantage attracting and retaining top talent.\n\n21.  Google may not discover significant new advances in search if none are there to be easily discovered and all the easy techniques, the low hanging fruit, were already discovered, wasting Google’s research investment.   \n\n22.  In contrast to the already discovered and easily copied low hanging fruit, the high hanging fruit of artificial intelligence may be decades away if it’s even possible, wasting Google’s research investment.   \n\n23.  Everyone online, including Internet entrepreneurs, uses Google or another search engine, making search a
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Why do you think Google has done so well?
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Interesting quiestion.\n\n1) Go Multi-Local: A great way to improve revenue while leveraging their strongest asset (customer focus technology)would be to go multi local expanding into high throughput consumer economies (such as Germany and Japan) If amazon would launch multi-local sites with strong logistics.\n\nEven atypical markets would be good for Amazon they could follow the example of ebay in latin america (check out a case study on ebay´s latin american branch http://www.deremate.com )\n\n2) Go into alternate service markets:\n\nThe back bone of amazon´s success is the strong logistics motor that links customer traking and physical delivery. Amazon could create a new brand umbrella and sell Logistics outsourcing for Distribution centers. (go into a segment dominated today by ryder, and dhl) In a way they have allready started to exploit this strenght offering electronic storefronts for small businesses but it would be great if their distribution center knowelege could be sold to traditional retail giants such as K Mart.\n\n3) Cross brand with competitive size brick and mortar bookstores. Amazon could easily cross brand, merge or even hostily take over a good competitive bookstore chain to build a physical presence in malls and shopping centers arround the country. There is still a suprising amount of consumers who are not internet buyers. If amazon would cross brand with someone like borderbooks or walden books they could probably access the best of both worlds. (Amazon is still positioned as a bookstore more than anything else)\n\nThere are three ideas you could elaborate on.\nCheck profit margins and typical markup values in each of these businesses to support your case in class and you will have a solid project. . . Good Luck
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google search there are loads of companys out there