Comments on: Slide, Vic Gundotra & The Un-Social Reality of Google http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/slide-vic-gundotra-the-un-social-reality-of-google/ Sat, 25 May 2013 01:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Google Looks For Better Social Search As Rivals Ramp Up : Tech News and Analysis « http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/slide-vic-gundotra-the-un-social-reality-of-google/#comment-595164 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:21:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=136416#comment-595164 [...] that, Google is showing that it’s working to figure out social, something that’s been sort of a mystery to the company. It’ll have to do a lot more if it wants to maintain its web dominance. Its algorithms have [...]

]]> By: Change Is Good, But It’s Also Really Hard: Tech News and Analysis « « Itsnowandthen's Blog http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/slide-vic-gundotra-the-un-social-reality-of-google/#comment-590819 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:26:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=136416#comment-590819 [...] In my previous posts, including my GigaOM Pro report (subscription required), Why Google Should Fear the Social Web, I argued that the Facebook threat is so dangerous because Google doesn’t quite understand people and often defaults to using its core competency — algorithms and engineering — as a way to solve problems. These two are such an ingrained part of the company’s belief system that it is hard for them to get over it. [...]

]]> By: Change Is Good, But It’s Also Really Hard: Tech News and Analysis « http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/slide-vic-gundotra-the-un-social-reality-of-google/#comment-590308 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:02:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=136416#comment-590308 [...] In my previous posts, including my GigaOM Pro report (subscription required), Why Google Should Fear the Social Web, I argued that the Facebook threat is so dangerous because Google doesn’t quite understand people and often defaults to using its core competency — algorithms and engineering — as a way to solve problems. These two are such an ingrained part of the company’s belief system that it is hard for them to get over it. [...]

]]> By: In His Own Words: The Story of Max Levchin [Video]: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/slide-vic-gundotra-the-un-social-reality-of-google/#comment-505018 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:03:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=136416#comment-505018 [...] rich beyond his dreams, he is married to his long time sweetheart, and is enjoying family life. His most recent startup, Slide, was acquired by Google for about $200 million. A modest win when compared to the fact that he co-created PayPal, [...]

]]> By: Facebook Dominated the Social Media Pack in Q3: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/slide-vic-gundotra-the-un-social-reality-of-google/#comment-302205 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:43:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=136416#comment-302205 [...] online media space. You can talk about the innovator’s dilemma, pandas and lobsters or just incompatible corporate DNA. But whatever the “why,” the big guys need to figure out some kind of “how” [...]

]]> By: Memo to Eric Schmidt: Being Social is Not a Widget: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/slide-vic-gundotra-the-un-social-reality-of-google/#comment-278804 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:48:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=136416#comment-278804 [...] trying to take a vast business built on something else and somehow make it social. As Om and others have noted, social just isn’t something the company understands very well, period. Too many engineers? [...]

]]> By: badadur http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/slide-vic-gundotra-the-un-social-reality-of-google/#comment-273000 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:43:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=136416#comment-273000 Google does search exceedingly well.

They also have social media for people with ample attention span, blogs on blogspot.com or blogger.com.

Doing both puts Google in a fix. For example consider that Google has a customer in Asia that pays to advertise for top spots in a search for “international school for global indians”. The search result could (as they do!) include not only the school’s own web content but also unflattering truths about the school appearing on Google owned social media.

And, I guess Google wouldn’t tweak search results or censor speech as a matter of principle.

I don’t think that is a good way to do business in many Asian countries ! At the least, it puts Google in a fix about its priorities.

Should Google follow their paying customer and scrub the search results ? Even news papers in India such as the Times of India (paid news and private treaties) do such scrubbing in reporting. Can Google survive without ?

]]> By: Arno http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/slide-vic-gundotra-the-un-social-reality-of-google/#comment-270653 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:55:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=136416#comment-270653 I really love the cricket/baseball story, great! :)

There is a video on CNN.com about the links between baseball and cricket you might like.

]]> By: How to Make Google Matter in Social Media http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/slide-vic-gundotra-the-un-social-reality-of-google/#comment-266060 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:01:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=136416#comment-266060 [...] Google has had its share of social media flops, and many smart analysts think the search giant just doesn’t have “social” in its nature. As I discuss in my column at [...]

]]> By: Rabois Slides On To Square http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/slide-vic-gundotra-the-un-social-reality-of-google/#comment-261490 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:54:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=136416#comment-261490 [...] recently acquired Slide for $182 million (plus $46 million in retention bonuses.) As Google tries to graft social DNA into its engineering-heavy culture, someone like Rabois would have been a good strategist for the search giant to keep around. Rabois [...]

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