Comments on: Is Google Building the Social Web? http://paulpedersen.com/blog/2009/07/is-google-building-the-social-web/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-google-building-the-social-web Search Engine Marketing Professional (SEO, PPC/CPC) Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:38:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Johnnie http://paulpedersen.com/blog/2009/07/is-google-building-the-social-web/comment-page-1/#comment-435 Johnnie Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:38:43 +0000 http://paulpedersen.com/blog/2009/07/is-google-building-the-social-web/#comment-435 Perhaps the problems lies with their inability to produce viable, and profitable revenue from some of their biggest innovative platforms (such as YouTube.com and Blogger.com. Factor in the history of social networking sites (such as FaceBook.com and MySpace.com) and their excessively slow adaptations of business strategy to generate revenue and you have your answer. In essence, Google is good at making money from concepts that have been done (paid search), by doing it better. Throwing in a structure that hasn't been done in a profitable way yet (YouTube) and suddenly their at a loss. It just doesn't make good business sense at this time. Perhaps the problems lies with their inability to produce viable, and profitable revenue from some of their biggest innovative platforms (such as YouTube.com and Blogger.com. Factor in the history of social networking sites (such as FaceBook.com and MySpace.com) and their excessively slow adaptations of business strategy to generate revenue and you have your answer. In essence, Google is good at making money from concepts that have been done (paid search), by doing it better. Throwing in a structure that hasn’t been done in a profitable way yet (YouTube) and suddenly their at a loss. It just doesn’t make good business sense at this time.

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