interesting article about how Google is failing to gain market penetration in areas such as Gmail, Google maps and other.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2212802,00.html
google finance looks like being one of the big failures.
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why aren't people using the service though? alot of them are much better than the competition. |
dpneal: Are those products really better?
If you look at Yahoo's tools they are quite good, very userfriendly & used...
I personally like to use them both, but I do think the tools of yahoo are much more mature. Although I must say that Google has some challenging good idea's like the office suite, the integration that is in a lot of things, etc.
Google is also quite good at making a hype around it's launches. One bad thing about hypes is that they mostly do not last... |
if you look at google's homepage (in the UK at least, where i am) , you dont see any links to gmail or maps or finance – so its no wonder that the average person dont know about them.
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<<Adam Sohn, Microsoft MSN's global director of public relations, told Times Online that Gmail's impact on Hotmail amounted to "a rounding error".>>
Erm. 2 MB to 250 MB soon to 2 GB. That is some rounding. |
Justin: the international behavior of google could indeed be better. I live in Belgium & if I used only the tools ment to be for my market, I'd live in the Middle Ages ;-)) |