Category: Google Adsense Tips
Yesterday, Google announced its quarterly results. Well, nothing unusual there. Rise in earnings, rise in profits, rise in number of employees around the world…so, overall, the same story that’s been going on every 3 months since Google started announcing them.
But that wasn’t all. Google also announced something that wasn’t expected. Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer(CEO) wrote a detailed blog post where he told every one that he would be stepping down as the CEO of Google to let Co-founder Larry Page take his place.
Here’s one interesting excerpt from Schmidt’s post that almost every one in the tech industry seems to be talking about at the moment.
And as our results today show, the outlook is bright. But as Google has grown, managing the business has become more complicated. So Larry, Sergey and I have been talking for a long time about how best to simplify our management structure and speed up decision making—and over the holidays we decided now was the right moment to make some changes to the way we are structured.
Notice the words, “speed up decision making.” It has been long speculated that in the past few months (or may be years), all the major strategic decisions were mainly driven by the co-founders – Larry and Sergey. Many of the decisions which Eric wanted to take were vetoed by them, who also happen to own a bigger stake in the company, in board meetings. It is important to note that Page and Brin have veto power over everyone else in Google’s board ( read this for more on how they used it on one such occasion. )
I guess they decided that Larry better call the shots from the forefront instead of Eric dealing with day-to-day stuff despite not having complete control over strategic affairs. So, from now on, Larry is the Google CEO, Sergey remains as a Co-founder and Eric will be the Executive Chairman (no he is not leaving Google anytime soon. )
I hope it’s all for good, and together the “triumvirate”, as Eric likes to call their group in his post, helps Google create better products.
Got a question about Google? Ask me in the forums: http://www.googletutor.com/forums/
Similar Posts:
Category: Google Adsense Tips
Irrelevant results on the search pages in Google are nothing new, and we have had people criticizing it time and again. But that used to be a part of exceptions, not the average. I mean, the name Google is synonymous with search, right? It is the leader and authority when it comes to web search, and people expect it to deliver the most relevant results for each and every query.
Looks like it isn’t the case anymore. The quality of results that Google shows up have been deteriorating, and in the past week Google has drawn a lot of flak from all corners of the tech industry.
It started with Vivek Wadhwa’s post on TechCrunch on why we need a new and better Google. It’s an interesting post where he voices his frustrations on the Google search results, and how content farms and spammers have dominated it, thereby pushing out quality content from the first few pages.
It’s pretty alarming to find that Vivek’s students, who wanted to get the work history of certain company founders from Google, ended up abandoning it in favor of Blekko, a relatively new kid on the block.
While Vivek’s post was still hot, we had Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame talking about how duplicate content seems to rank higher than the original content in Google’s search result pages. He was taken aback when he found that content syndicators outranked his site Stack Overflow for the content that was originally published on his site.
Jeff also links to a number of articles in the recent past that talk about the decreasing quality of Google search results.
The problem here is that the people who are criticizing Google are not some Tom, Dick or Harry who don’t know what they are talking about. These are eminent personalities, who are far more tech savvy than you or me. And they know the nitty-gritties of searching on Google. They know things like intitle: or inlink:, and how to use them. So when they are saying something’s wrong, something IS wrong.
And I personally too find Google’s results less relevant then they were, say, a year back. Obviously, there are all kinds of spammers targeting Google, but the problem is that Google’s algorithm changes haven’t been good enough to weed them out.
So, I’d like to ask all of you – what do you think about this issue? Is there really a problem or has it been blown out of proportion? Are you able to easily locate what you want in Google? Or have you been dealing with the same problem?
Buy an ad right here. You are reading this aren’t you?
Similar Posts:
