Friday, March 24, 2006
John Battelle's Searchblog: News: Google.Portal.Finance Launches:
"...First, this marks a rolling shift at Google - the company is getting into publishing, whether or not it wants to admit it. The product manager, Katie Jacobs Stanton, admitted as much when we spoke - Google Finance will have a Groups section where stocks are discussed with paid moderators - that's editors to you and me. And that's a shift, a shift that is worth noting.
Second, Google is integrating its Finance section as the first link in its one box implementation, ahead of Yahoo and the others who previously got the free Google juice (see it in action HERE). Now the first results are going to...well...Google. That's obviously the right thing to do for the business, but it brings up the question - is Google in the pure unadulterated we don't mess with your results at all we're totally objective search business, or....is it in the Yahoo business of being a content company?..."
"...First, this marks a rolling shift at Google - the company is getting into publishing, whether or not it wants to admit it. The product manager, Katie Jacobs Stanton, admitted as much when we spoke - Google Finance will have a Groups section where stocks are discussed with paid moderators - that's editors to you and me. And that's a shift, a shift that is worth noting.
Second, Google is integrating its Finance section as the first link in its one box implementation, ahead of Yahoo and the others who previously got the free Google juice (see it in action HERE). Now the first results are going to...well...Google. That's obviously the right thing to do for the business, but it brings up the question - is Google in the pure unadulterated we don't mess with your results at all we're totally objective search business, or....is it in the Yahoo business of being a content company?..."
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