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  • Half of Google searches + more

    Worldwide, More Than Half Of Google Searches Happen On Mobile | SearchEngineLand – this is really big. A few thoughts on this: Half of Google searches will be about very different things, for instance searching for things like coffee shops in the vicinity of the searcher Advertising is likely to see a higher amount of real…

  • Google Hangouts + more news

    Google Hangouts Google Hangouts breaks out on its own site | TechRadar – dismantling Google+ piece-by-piece literally with the Google Hangouts service. Google+ has been a failure for user adoption; even if they did benefit from the enrichment of search data. Whether Google Hangouts will remain, who knows? Consumer behaviour China is two-speed consumer market |…

  • The limits of Google

    Earlier I wrote a post on the work blog: Alphabet: what does it all mean? – which I have republished below. One thing that came through to me from this exercise was the growth limits of Google and by extension the growth limits of online advertising. The ceiling on advertising is limited by a number of…

  • Google services

    When reflecting on Google services, it made me realise how much the internet has changed. Back in 2005 when I started work at Yahoo!, the internet was a very different place.  It was an exciting time, web 2.0 was a technological and philosophical step-change for online services. We had cleared our palates of the bad…

  • Google Glass & things this week

    Google Glass and IBM An IBM video from 2000 did a pretty good use case and flaws of Google Glass. Good work (I presume by Ogilvy & Mather, but I maybe wrong). Looking on the bright side of things for Google Glass, this probably protects them from IP court cases, given the ad could be…

  • Google IO: who is Google trying to disrupt?

    Google IO this week played out like a science fair trying to be an Apple keynote. It was interesting for me to watch to try and discern how this will affect commercial rivals. Google IO and Java The most obvious casualty of Google IO announcements is not Apple or Microsoft but the Java language that…

  • Google Glass device

    I’ve blogged a few times before about the merits and flaws in the current iterations of  the Google Glass device. I consider the Google Glass device to be an interesting idea; because of the potential contextual nature of its content provision; but the product is flawed and ultimately a failure in the consumer space due…

  • HTTPS & Google search

    I was talking to colleagues during the week and thought it would be timely answer the question, what does Google moving search click-throughs on to HTTPS mean for PR people? We have less data to use as part of a scientific approach to developing messaging as HTTPS moves inbound search words private. For non-mainland Chinese…

  • Bruce Schneier @Google

    Bruce Schneier Bruce Schneier on the state of the internet. Schneier is one of the smartest people on information security and the implications of how systems change to affect consumer privacy and security Bruce Schneier’s @Google Talk<br>Key takeaways: Key takeaways Four classes of internet tools of power: Facebook is changing social norms, affecting what people…