JupiterResearch Analyst Weblogs - Archive for November 28, 2005
David Card November 28
Passing Fancies
Fortune has a pair of word stories on geektrendy topics anime47manga and massively multiplayer online game economies Does that mean theyre done Wait Fortune wrote about game economies back in and that didnt jinx em more
Todd Chanko November 28
TiVo Phoenix Rising or Sitting in Ashes
Theres a lot of energy coming out of TiVo these days Today the supposed ad destroyer announced it would enable its subscribers to receive targeted ads resulting from search...
Search Engine Brands: Google is The Guide
Gary Stein November 28
Theres been a bunch of buzz the last few days about the Search Engine Experiment The live test lets you put in a search term the results from Yahoo and Google are returned and youre asked to determine which set you think is the most relevant and therefore best Google wins but not by a huge margin And if you add up Yahoo and you can very reasonably say that more than half of all people or testtakers if you want to be specific say that they can find better results at other than Google
The question on everyones mind notably Seth and Guillaume is why...
Live on OD
The Google
Juggernaut is slowly taking over the world Their penetration into 21st century
global culture is spreading faster than Avian Flu Search Engine advertising
aka Google advertising is overthrowing all other forms of advertising With
their revenue model positioned as an online auction the profits that will
soon flow into this Behemoth cannot even be imagined And its not limited
to search soon Google will be world telephone company and world
email company Thank the Gods everybody says that these guys slogan is Do
No Evil
And Google
leverages this motto to the max...
Globetechnology: Competitors challenge MapQuest
Google Yahoo and are certainly on its heels Sterling said MapQuest is in danger if it doesnt continue to innovate
Of all people going to mapping sites 71 per cent visited MapQuestcom in September roughly even from a year ago according to comScore Media Metrix Yahoo Inc drew 32 per cent also about the same as last year while new arrival Google Inc had a 25 per cent share The numbers do not add up to 100 per cent because some people visit multiple sites
Were the market leader for a reason said Tommy McGloin MapQuests general manager Were paying really close attention to what people want...
Seniors Reveal More Browsing For Housing Versatility
Not quite as many older buyers as the general population use the Internet when shopping for a home but they are just as versatile in their surfing and use the Net to go well beyond just browsing for housing
Nearly half of all home buyers 50 years and older use the Internet as a part of the home buying process...