Thursday, May 05, 2005
The Globe and Mail: Thomson unfazed by Google:
"By RICHARD BLOOM - Thursday, May 5, 2005 Updated at 5:10 AM EDT
Toronto — If asked to name a search engine, most Internet surfers would likely answer Google, Yahoo or perhaps MSN. Ask a doctor or lawyer and they might have a different response, the head of Thomson Corp. says.
'Thomson is the Google for the high-end professional user,' chief executive officer Richard Harrington told the company's annual general meeting yesterday, referring to its broad range of data products targeted at the medical, legal and financial industries.
Toronto-based Thomson, which is run mainly from offices in Stamford, Conn., was at one point a major operator of newspapers around the world. It now generates most of its revenue by selling electronic databases and services.
During a brief question-and-answer session with reporters after the meeting, Mr. Harrington described consumer-oriented search engines such as Google as 'a mile wide and an inch deep' while Thomson's services are 'an inch wide, a mile deep.' He also likened Google's services to 'drinking from a fire hose,' because its searches bring back so much information..."
"By RICHARD BLOOM - Thursday, May 5, 2005 Updated at 5:10 AM EDT
Toronto — If asked to name a search engine, most Internet surfers would likely answer Google, Yahoo or perhaps MSN. Ask a doctor or lawyer and they might have a different response, the head of Thomson Corp. says.
'Thomson is the Google for the high-end professional user,' chief executive officer Richard Harrington told the company's annual general meeting yesterday, referring to its broad range of data products targeted at the medical, legal and financial industries.
Toronto-based Thomson, which is run mainly from offices in Stamford, Conn., was at one point a major operator of newspapers around the world. It now generates most of its revenue by selling electronic databases and services.
During a brief question-and-answer session with reporters after the meeting, Mr. Harrington described consumer-oriented search engines such as Google as 'a mile wide and an inch deep' while Thomson's services are 'an inch wide, a mile deep.' He also likened Google's services to 'drinking from a fire hose,' because its searches bring back so much information..."
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