10 Random Exciting Nexus One Blog Post Titles
- Did Google revolutionize mobile phone buying? Nope
- Google's biggest announcement was not a phone, but a URL
- Nexus One vs iPhone, Droid & Palm Pre - Total Cost of Ownership
- A Few Thoughts on the Nexus One
- Google Nexus One: Everything You Need to Know
- Google's Nexus One Is Bold New Face in Super-Smart Phones
- Google Nexus One: The TechCrunch Review [I love this title :-) ]
- Check Out Google's Other New Phone: The F*$*-You-iPhone
- Our new approach to buying a mobile phone (Official Google Blog)
- 10 Random Exciting Nexus One Blog Post Titles
10 Random things you dont know about Google Ad Business
Adapted via 20 Things You Don't Know About Google
1. Adwords accounts for 99% Google's annual revenue.
2. In 2008, 80% of 80,000 typo-squatting domains in the US alone were funded through Adsense.
3. Google's advertising revenue in 2008 was $21 billion
4. 1.35% of the US' Adwords advertisers make up 80% of Google US ad revenue
5. In 2009 Google began showing ads based on their previous online activities. User patterns are segmented in 20 categories and roughly 600 subcategories
6. Adwords as we know it used to be called Adwords Select. The top banner position was sold old school style through a program call Adwords Premium.
7. The first Adwords Select ad was in 2000 for live mail-order lobsters.
8. Google's query forecasting models are founded in their efforts to understand and predict Adwords pricing and click patterns
9. Google's pricing mechanism where the winner pays the runner up's price was devised to prevent super-inflated bid prices but the second-price auctions resulted in higher prices for Google right away
10. I am still waiting for my first adsense payment check.
10 things Google is doing with its new Chrome OS
- Following its motto "Dont be evil" by creating a OS thats not competing with or a replacement to the existing Operating Systems
- Giving a helping hand to the HW manufacturers by identifying the need for a 2nd device
- Targetting a very narrow TG which is always connected to net and needs a 2nd device
- Going against the current definition of net book, by saying its Cloud Books will have a big screen and keyboard
- Creating a disruption in the definition of an OS
- OS will be free , but one need to buy additional hardware thats locked to Chrome OS
- Will definitely create new ecosystem of Web App store
- Going against the device convergence
- Cloud books will use Solid State Drives, not hard drives
- Getting people like me write random stories like this
PS: Author is not endorsed by any company to write about Google Chrome OS . All the views expressed here are his own and doesnt represent the company he works for.
10 Random things about Google Reader
- You always have more items to read than you can actually read
- 50% of the items are from subscriptions whose job in the world is to keep posting & increase your unread items
- Yor are the only one who's liking and sharing your blogposts
- You only know you have 1000+ unread items, but never know the actual unread
- You never read 100% of the posts.
- Half of the time, folder names doesnt make sense at all
- Sharing on Reader is a nice way to fill your Twitter time line
- "Mark all as read" is the greatest web tool that was ever developed/invented
- Post that your friends share are always intersting than 90% of your subscriptions
- The current (as of 1 Nov 09) needs to be improved
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