Comments on: Predictions 2012 #4: Google’s Challenging Year

By: Google Android

Google Android — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:29:00 +0000

Google try to get in to social space with google+ I's very good but I think today can't reach facebook and twitter. Google android

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:42:00 +0000

hard to say, or know, given we don’t have direct visibility into how G+ effects ranking, right?

By: WhatUpWithThis?

WhatUpWithThis? — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:23:00 +0000

Noticing that some G+ users are promoted by Google
https://plus.google.com/getstarted/follow
to the network influence of over 1.7 million contacts, 100X the social network reach of another relatively successful person in the same given market niche (say photography where the 500th out of 3000+ people on this list is at around 17,000 contacts)
http://www.group.as/500+most+followed+photographers+on+gplus/ ),
what is the downstream effect on the G+ data being fed into Google search, and what is the ultimate effect of manipulated (biased, tainted, corrupted) search results on Google?

Doesn’t this dramatically violate the neutrality value (possibly also gatekeeper, ethos of the commons) you described in this recent article?
http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/02/its-not-whether-googles-threatened-its-asking-ourselves-what-commons-do-we-wish-for.php

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:27:00 +0000

I don’t trade stocks, alas.

By: maggie

maggie — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:58:00 +0000

i assume then you are short google. I should sell tomorrow even after a 50 point drop even though jim cramer, mike, carter worth , and jon nagarian of cnbc have been majorly pushing google during several episodes last week, very interesting!! They pushed it to 670, said its going to 720, drops to 622, and is now shit on cnbc. all in 2 days… wow.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:13:00 +0000

Sure – something like Motorola becoming a major drag on management time and financial performance, or Google+ losing steam and being seen as a failure, or a major privacy or data use breach in the integrated ad stack that garners government ire, etc.

By: Peter c

Peter c — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:08:00 +0000

I like this prediction, seems a little more risky that your usual ones, but i guess that really depends on how liberal you are with the definition of fumble. so… would you provide an example of what you would consider a fumble? either a concrete example, or a hypothetical, doesn’t matter.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:30:00 +0000

I’ll take that criticism, Roger. I am not arguing Google isn’t well positioned.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:01:00 +0000

After a tumultuous 2011, i think (or at least i hope) that 2012 will be more peaceful. Of course that new devices and apps will appear, but I think it’s time that big companies invest in research more than releasing a (similar) product every fortnight.

I trust that Google will remain no1 search engine, and for sure he’s going to change once again its search algorithms, and make even harder for sites to be listed on the first page. So, what is now grey it may become pretty soon black (hat).

By: dbv

dbv — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:58:00 +0000

It seems (to me) that Google is planning its Microsoft Office moment where Google+ = Google+ plus Google (search) plus YouTube plus gmail + etc. etc. aimed for Android devices. Socialize, search, watch videos, communicate etc. all from one app.