MacDailyNews Take: This is exactly why Eric T. Mole had Google launch their own rapidly-fragmenting, inconsistent, temperamental and beta-like fake iPhone OS called Hemorrh… er, “Android.” They needed a hedge. Unfortunately for Google, their demographics are skewed towards tech ignoramuses, a relative handful of anti-Apple geek tinkerers each of whom has a dusty, unused Dell DJ in a drawer somewhere and is currently on at least their third iPod, and, mainly, jealous Verizon users whose greatest wish is that their carrier would just fargin’ offer Apple’s iPhone already.
Moritz continues, “In his speech to introduce iAds (ads that will run inside applications), Jobs sharpened his point against Google, adding that using apps like Yelp to find restaurants nearby ‘is where the opportunity is to deliver advertising.’ And there it is, the holy grail of the Net search business: ad sales.”
“Mobile ads will bring in an estimated $500 million in revenue for Google this year, according to Caris and Co. analyst Sandeep Aggarwal. That is ‘perhaps the fastest growing revenue line’ for Google, Aggarwal wrote in a research note Monday,” Moritz reports. “Aggarwal also adds that there are a couple challenges along the mobile road for Google. For one, Google’s dominance of search means that each mobile search is — cannibalistically-speaking — one less desktop search. Second, apps on phones bypass Google search.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: “Google’s going to rue the day they got greedy by deciding to try to work against Apple instead of with them.” – MacDailyNews Take, March 09, 2010
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The day Moritz gets anything he reports on, will be a national holiday.
I’m a jealous Verizon user. But that’s because ATT chooses not to serve my area.
I had $500 ready to go back in 2007. I hate that exclusivity clause with a passion.
Ain’t seen nuttin’ yet. Apple will soon have its own Search for desktop and all devices. It will blow Google away. Get out the popcorn!
@ Midwest Mac
Yeah, midwest here too. I get ya. They offer service to 97% of americans. I just happen to fall into that 3% bracket. Is there no option to just fly on the extended network, because there is cell service where I am? Or will AT&T;just not sell it to me knowing that?
MDN Magic Word; later. They always seem to be so appropriate.
If they just build into Safari the ability to send each search request to 5 different search engines and combine the results automatically, Google will start having fits.
Hemi ‘roid
The new Google phone from Chrysledr.
Not a gig fan of ATT, had US Cellular for over a decade without any issues. I’ve learned to tolerate ATT, but if they ever open it up to all of the carriers and they keep the full functionality of the iPhone, I’m switching from ATT in a heartbeat.
“If they just build into Safari the ability to send each search request to 5 different search engines and combine the results automatically, Google will start having fits.”
While this would be very nice, and extremely useful. (Sherlock did this way back when, and delivered very good results.) It’s not going to happen. The Terms of Use for search sites now state that the results must be presented to the end user unaltered. Disallowing a very useful Sherlock-like function. Sad really.
“their demographics are skewed towards tech ignoramuses”
What a tech-ist prick of a comment!
This time MDN has gone to far. You can say I hate my wife, but don’t call me a tech ignoramus. That’s crossing the line. I will never come back!
(http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/25246/)
The worst thing for Google – Apple has iAds, Microsoft will have their own ads solution for their phones, so will HP/Palm, RIM, Nokia, etc. All this means less Ad revenue for Google and the end result will be a weaker Google. Judging by their arrogance that will be a good thing.
> If they just build into Safari the ability to send each search request to 5 different search engines and combine the results automatically, Google will start having fits.
MetaCrawler has been doing this for years. Obviously not as handy as sherlock was..
iPhone:
Android:
@Marian
Good point, elegantly made.
Sorry Psystar – nobody is buying what you’re selling.
I can see apple totally reinventing search.
Think of it like this… You own a mac, an iPhone, ipad… You do a search and it searches all those devices simultaneously.
Now that is REAL search power!
Thanks for the comments about combining search results from multiple sources.
What about simultaneously open up 5 tabs showing individual results from each search engine in separate tabs?
Of course instead of making the process even more complex and overwhelming, Apple would probably design simpler but more powerful new ways to search.
Steve is very right when he says that people does not search on a mobile phone like they do on a desktop. They might how ever use search a little bit more like the desktop when it comes to the iPad. But he is right, apps replaces search for the most part.