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What Would Google Do
Google deserves a lot of credit. They built a better search engine and have kept it one step ahead of the competition for seven years. They reinvented online advertising with AdWords and gave everyone with a website the ability to make a couple of bucks with AdSense. Gmail is one of the best webmail clients out there and Google Maps is just so amazingly great, it shocked MapQuest and Yahoo Maps out of their decade-long slumber.4 comments | trackback | | Add this link to...
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Well said: "Imagine a web page with just a logo, a form entry field, and a submit button. What does it do? Only one way to find out. Some call that brilliant – I call it mean. The only reason we all tolerate it at all is because we were trained to. But that only works once – to compete, you have to offer users a better experience."
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it was not a web page with just a logo and a form entry with a button. It is a web site with a brilliant algorithm behin it and a couple of very smart guys running it. Was not the logo, nor the design but the product. YOu have a great product you win, regarless.
..."But if you are entering a crowded marketplace, and you’re doing something a little bleeding edge, something a little newfangled, something your mom or dad might not see the value in without your explaining … in other words, if you live in the real world, you can’t expect people to understand your product when all you give them is a logo and a blank form."