Think of the revenue Google could generate with MOBILE KEYWORDS
In what could be a key move in its nascent wireless strategy, Google has quietly acquired startup Android Inc., BusinessWeek Online has learned
One source familiar with the company says Android had at one point been working on a software operating system for cell phones
"Windows, we don't need no stinkin Windows"...I wonder if Google ever uttered that sentence.
"Wireless is the next frontier in search," says Scott Ellison, analyst at research outfit IDC
A couple questions for Pondering Primate readers:
Would you download a Google toolbar for your mobile? Instead of going to www.google.com, you had a little search box that you could type a search query in.
What if that search window incorporated GPS into your search query?
What would Google have to offer you, to make this part of your mobile screen?
Do you see where this is going? When you agree to download this mobile toolbar, you have given Google (and their clients) permission to advertise to you.
Think of taking Google's keyword revenue model and DOUBLING IT by offering a mobile version.
Would love comments on this one....
Google would probably have the best mobile analytics database..
Google, "Gargles"--doesn't Gag and swallows.
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"MOBILE SPACE RACE"-- you have been pondering for some time-- accelerates.
Wherever I go,goes my mobile.
The user friendly provider gets me. I wish I knew which door they are behind!
You said it all...
ReplyDeleteThe USER FRIENDLY provider gets me.
The mobile is with you all day, it is your new "remote control". It better be easy to use.
As Monty Hall says, "which door is it behind?"....Somehow I think the prize behind the correct door is worth more than a free cruise..
Stay tuned more pondering to come.
What about that key intellectual property they'd have to either use or get around?
ReplyDeleteBe more specific w/ IP question. IP that pertains to what part.
ReplyDeletethe bridge ip and how it relates to WordRegistry
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ps interesting site
"User friendly" to me means "useful & friendly" at the same time--GOOG would almost have to read my mind with its Mobile Search to make it useful to me and therefore friendly. Right now it takes me way too long to "search" on a mobile web browser--keyword or not. Want to see choices FAST & RELEVANT TO ME when I use anybody's Mobile Search.
ReplyDeleteUseful and friendly.. I like that
ReplyDeleteMobile search isn't search, it's navigation.
It can be navigating for your own use, or navigating (interacting) with the physical world in some way.
The bottom line...mobile search isn't PC search on a mobile.
Any thoughts on my ip question? I would also like to ask is who do you like in the bout between yahoo google and microsoft over mobiles
ReplyDeleteIt's the first inning of a spring training game.
ReplyDeleteTo tell you who's going to the World Series is just a wild guess.
I would much rather buy some peanuts and watch the game I'm at today than make travel reservations for October.
Google buys mystery wireless startup Android
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Peace.
martyMAC
Did you even read what you commented on?
ReplyDeleteFile that under the category "thanks for telling me what I just said"
Is anybody ever gonna pitch the first ball on this navigation thingee? Watching who is buying season tickets for which team would become even more interesting--if only we knew their deep down secrets. Who'll be making the "do re mi" from the peanuts, hot dogs & beer concessions is what I'd like to know. (Sorta like having one lawyer in town and he is SOOO poor but put two lawyers in town and they both get rich!) Who, if anybody, has something to sell MSFT, GOOG, YHOO, AMZN et al? Those guys certainly have plenty of mullah to throw around.
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ReplyDelete[b]What would Google have to offer you, to make this part of your mobile screen?[/b]
ReplyDeleteAsk not what Google would have to offer me, but what would Google have to offer the takers of the toll to cross the bridge?
You're assuming there's only bridge.
ReplyDeleteThere are a number of bridges, the trick is to find the closest, easiest and fastest to cross.
Think outside the box.
Sounds an awful lot like Neomedia's patented PaperClick technology using the WordRegistry - also includes GPS technology.
ReplyDeleteBridges for search and/or navigation might include (from near to far):
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Bluetooth
WiFi
WiMax
SMS
finally...."auto" navigation thru SP's
While Paperclick has been mentioned by several poster/pumpers, don't know if NEOM IP covers all these potential bridges. Any opinions?
Nice...now include all types of machine readable identifiers that allow mobile search..ie barcode, RFID tag, fingerprint, logo, image, sound..the list is pretty long.
ReplyDeleteThese will be the "keywords" for mobile search. Just as Google auctions the word "pizza" as a keyword for PC advertising, think of the numerous ways they could sell that word using a phone and GPS.
There are a couple other technologies too.
One that should be unveiled in the next few weeks. I will be more than happy to report it you when I can.
What will be the application that SP offer, to bolster their ARPU?
ReplyDeleteI can see a day soon, where voice is free, then what?
That's an easy one...turn the phone into a charge card people want to use a lot!!
ReplyDeleteHave you heard about AOL and Wildseed? Sounds like a similar situation between Google and Android.
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kokonutguy
I thought I blogged that..I know I read it..
ReplyDeleteGood catch.
Mobile space heating up...imo the next great land rush
Mobile...the 1st mobile land rush being anything physical (barcode, image, voice, text, rfid, biometric, etc). The next land rush anything virtual such as GPS or Wifi where air space by latitutde, longitude, AND elevation (such as inside a building on the 50th floor) to claim virtual advertising air space, like, oh, say anything around a McDonalds restrauant....and perhaps win a Big Mac.
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There will be 3 components for mobile marketing I beleive.
ReplyDeleteX is the physical world identifier (barcode, RFID tag etc)
Y is the position/location based
know what Z is?
Stay Tuned......
Big brother?
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Not yet..the reason?
ReplyDeleteYou CHOOSE TO USE Google's services. If Microsoft had all these apps, it would fall under the Big Brother category.
Sorry..I thought you were referring to Google as Big Brother.
ReplyDeleteThe Z factor that makes THIS ALL work...
PERMISSION
Google is on an acquisition spree. They are buying anything and everything in the mobi-apps domain. Probably not willing to commit the mistakes yahoo did, it wants to be present in every aspect of the mobile apps before some-one else does. Not sure its a good idea. But "Is google getting a mobile os?", I don't think we can conclude that just by looking at the companies they are acquiring.
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