CTMike

The Strategic Threats Facing Google

You missed the single biggest threat - GREED. In their lust for advertising revenues they have strayed away from becoming a search engine have become an advertising engine. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with making a dollar. BUT, their business model is based on lots of traffic which only some (few?) is interested in advertisements. Back a few years ago, I almost always could get "information" I was searching for. Now, the search results are so proliferated with advertisements that its becoming incredibly time consuming to find independent information. I only use Google when I'm desperate. Won't be long until the general public finds a better way to search. Some day Google will be forgotten just like the previous popular search engines.

Tuesday Overview: Confusion and Caution

While reading these charts and enjoying David's obvious love of the bail out plan, I came up with a new bail out plan. Go ahead and give them their $billions but it all has to come out of re-election campaign funds instead of taxpayer dollars. Politicians love picking our pockets so see how they like it for a change!