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The Case For and Against Google’s Rumoured Twitter Acquisition

Posted on April 5, 2009 by amit

There’s been a lot of talk the last few days about Google’s rumored “late-stage” acquisition talks with Twitter. While current consensus is that they are merely discussing mutually beneficial product strategies, it doesn’t mean that this deal isn’t being thoroughly … Continue reading →

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Why Would Anyone Advertise Online Without Google/Facebook?

Posted on December 25, 2008 by amit

As part of my new job I’m in charge of developing and executing a marketing plan for a new website.  I’ve been doing a lot of research into online advertising and trying to figure out the best way to allocate … Continue reading →

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The Transition to Real-Time, Social Search

Posted on December 18, 2008 by amit

John Batelle recently wrote a great post about the shift from static to real-time search.  To paraphrase he says that Google is/was awesome because for the first time, you could quickly and accurately get static information about any search term.  … Continue reading →

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10^100 – Why Google still isn’t Evil (yet)

Posted on September 23, 2008 by amit

While Google was making headlines today with the launch of G1, I came across another article describing their Project 10100.  The project is described as, “a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.”  … Continue reading →

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Recent Links

Posted on May 12, 2008 by amit

Here are some noteworthy articles from the last week: Google Friend Connect – Any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and … Continue reading →

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