The following link most likely will only work today, April Fools day. It may be an indication that Google thinks that the new GTLD’s are somewhat backwards.
Try a search at https://Com.Google and see what happens.
How many times have you click on an adwords ad link thinking you were going to a certain website, only to be taken somewhere else? Obviously it has been happening to too many people. Google today announced that it will display the landing page’s domain name as part of the headlines on top placement ads.
The change should increase click thru to adsense ads that have strong generic domains. This is another reason to own prime generic domains for your business.
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Should Google buy Facebook? What would happen if these two major Internet companies merged? This is a question I’ve been thinking about for a while. After all you have two of largest Internet companies who are both dominant forces in their fields. This will form one company that would become a gigantic Internet monster. Google has tons of cash built up. What better way than spending their cash reserves on buying Facebook. However, I would for see a problem with both regulators approving the deal and current Facebook partner, Microsoft letting this happen. But, for a second. imagine all the information at this new company. This new company would basically control the net. Your thoughts?
Last year online spending reached $ 22.6 Billion as opposed to magazine ad sales which which totaled $19.5 Billion. This is the first time that Internet spending was higher than magazine spending. However, overall there was a 3.4% dip in overall ad spending from 2008. I think with the economy on the rebound we should see a further increase in spending this year. Hopefully those added dollars will flow to domainers and not get lost in the Yahoo/Google black hole.
Recently I had the opportunity to talk with some well known internet pioneers. This was totally by accident but I took the opportunity to ask them a few questions. The specific part of the conversation that I want to mention was our talk on domains and also our discussion of the larger internet companies. For generic domains, 3 out of the 4 thought they were the one of the best investments you could make to help get a jump on the competition in a specific category. They thought .com for business in the US was a necessity. They split as wether to use the domain alone as the business name or use it to direct traffic to the home page or related part of their business. All 4 thought the new tld’s would cause more confusion and mostly likely make business spend more money to protect their bands.
As for the Internet, we discussed what major companies would be on top 10 years from today. While 2 did not want to go out that far, they all agreed that Google’s grasp is enormous and if any company would be out in front it was them. They also gave high marks Ebay, Amazon and Facebook. When I asked about Yahoo, they felt that it was finally going in the right direction but in their minds they fell behind the other mentioned.
Please let me know your thoughts.
The American Dialect Society is a group that studies the English Language. They have voted “google”, used as a verb meaning to search the Internet, the top word of the decade. In addition they voted “tweet”, which is a short message using the twitter service as it’s noun of the year.
Other nominated words for Word of The Year were -er, fail, H1N1. public opinion and Dracula sneeze.
Other nominated words for Word of The Decade were – 9/11, blog. green , text, war on terror.
The press release also lists the winner of most useful word, “fail”, and other categories.
Is there any words that you think are better than the ones chosen?
Both Facebook and Google Have entered into the world of URL shorteners. At present, Google’s goo.gl will only be used for Feedburner and Google Toolbar while Facebook’s FB.me is currently used on links from mobile versions of it’s site. This is not be good news for bit.ly, currently the most popular shortener service. I am sure it’s only a matter of time before Google and Facebook expand these services.
Why are they starting these services? It all about the data thats collected. Very valuable and very scary to think about the information these companies collect and use.
Do I see this a move away from .com’s? Not at all. Both companies went for a 2 letter TLD as opposed to the 3 letter .com in order to shorten the URL as much as possible