Display advertising will get more complex before it will get simpler

There has been a lot of development in the display advertising markets in the past 18-24 months and there is no better place than New York City to dive into this vertical. Terence Kawaja did an excellent job at his IAB keynote address a few weeks ago to show how complex the display advertising technology […]

Google getting into the people search business in a bigger way?

People search must account for a significant portion of Google search traffic and it is interesting to see that they are now trying to grab a larger market but asking people to store essential information in a Google profile. If this takes off, this would not be great news to Facebook, LinkedIn and specialized people […]

Mystery: where does Yahoo’s search traffic go to?

Every time I read about Yahoo‘s share of the search market I wonder to what sites the Yahoo traffic is actually going. Here is the mystery: depending on the source, Yahoo’s share of the US search market is around 20% give or take (e.g. Compete numbers or ComScore numbers) but when I look at the […]

Google versus Facebook?

RBC came out with a very interesting analysis today that looked at how much Facebook and Google were complements or on a collission course and it got quite some attention among tech blogs (e.g. SI). RBC’s conclusion: Complementary (For Now): Google and Facebook are two of the fastest growing and largest companies on the internet, […]