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POPSWhy Google Releases Half-Baked Products Basically, Nick Carr is arguing that Google is exploiting something like the long tail in its product releases. It may only have a few hits--products like Gmail, for instance--but the cost of development is low enough that even a marginal traffic bump to its ads makes new features worthwhile. Hence all the Google products that seem to be languishing in semi-obscurity, like Knol, Android and Open Social.
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POPSClick Fraud Problem Getting Better? Google and Yahoo's changes that decreased clicks seem to have been partly a result of better click fraud filtering. So now the question is, can Google take credit for solving a problem it has always denied existed?
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POPSGoogle: Cookies Are Complicated Google has a growing tendency to make flashy announcements that draw press and then let their ideas stagnate and disappear. Looks like they may be doing the same with an element of their search privacy solution.
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POPSGoogle is Adults Only Probably every company has these strange legal policies that are read by no one and are never enforced. But Google, as usual, gets the most scrutiny.
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POPSGoogling for Hackable Sites Google Hacking is an old trick made popular by the well-known penetration tester Johnny Long. But this is an interesting way to make those techniques more accessible to Web developers. Wonder what Google thinks about all of this...
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POPSGoogle Helps Jail Indian Man This sounds like an exact replay of Yahoo!'s disastrous cooperation with the Chinese government, in which they turned over the IP information of a dissident journalist. One difference: in this case, the jailed user was the wrong guy...which is the only reason we've actually heard anything about it.
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POPSGoogle Wants $100 billion -- In Revenue This is an unbelievably ambitious goal, and would make Google the biggest company in the world. But whether or not it's possible, it's certainly the kind of talk that drives the company's share price higher...hence Blodget's $2000/share talk.
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POPSWhy Google Wins: Really Fast Data Om Malik does an interesting analysis of Google's real advantage: the Web's fastest supply chain in delivering data. To be fair, Google's initial advantage was its search algorithm. But I think he's right that as the company's other products like Apps and the coming Gdrive mature, super-fast data movement will keep Google on top of the heap.
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POPSIs GOOG Too Good? Strange thing about public companies...you have to win, but you can't make it look too easy. Google is eating up market share so fast that Henry Blodget worries it can't keep up a steady diet--and that may mean a hit to its ever-more-ginormous stock price.
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POPSEmail is the New Social Network Slate says email is going the way of the fax. The NYtimes says it's going the way of Facebook. It's all very confusing. I vote for the latter. As Joe Kraus argues here, email does contain all the information that social networkers refer to as "the social graph" by virtue of all those contact lists. That means Google and Yahoo already have a massive social network. This, along with OpenSocial, seems to be another sign that Facebook is not the Web messiah many make it out to be. The barbarians are at the gate, and Facebook still has yet to even approach Myspace's number of users.
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POPSGoogle Phone Not a Phone? Turns out that Google isn't making hardware...no big surprise there. But if it contracts a handset maker (like HTC, as Forbes writer Brian Caulfield has reported) to build the phone and then installs its own innovative OS, that could still offer real competition to the iPhone.
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