Daniels Republic » Google http://danielsrepublic.com/country "It took evolution 65 million years to evolve me and you want me to be like the rest of them?!" Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:42:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Why is Google angry with me :( http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2009/05/why-is-google-angry-with-me/ http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2009/05/why-is-google-angry-with-me/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 07:12:46 +0000 daniel robinson http://danielsrepublic.com/country/?p=586 I have been targeted of late by a bunch of hackers and all my sites are being blasted left right and center! and this has caused some of my good paying sites to fall in their pagerank! and hence ofcourse bring with it the revenues down!

We are resposible for the non-responsible mess we create

and that ‘s what seems to be Google’s philosophy here i guess.

]]> http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2009/05/why-is-google-angry-with-me/feed/ 0 Gmail favicon – Not google style! http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2009/01/gmail-favicon-not-google-style/ http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2009/01/gmail-favicon-not-google-style/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:48:47 +0000 daniel robinson http://danielsrepublic.com/country/?p=323 So gmail has changed its favicon! For those of you who you are not familiar with what favicon is, it is the little graphic thats before the web address on your address bar.

Unlike Google designs which are generally synonymous with functionality and lightness over design aesthetics (evident from orkut design) the new favicon is more a symmetry seeking one! Not something google’ish  you can say!

]]> http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2009/01/gmail-favicon-not-google-style/feed/ 0 Kings Move: Advantage Microsoft http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2008/04/kings-move-advantage-microsoft/ http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2008/04/kings-move-advantage-microsoft/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:42:37 +0000 daniel robinson http://danielsrepublic.com/country/?p=126 Its been in the news for quiet a longtime now and so you should be familiar with the ups and downs that the strategic Yahoo Microsoft bid is causing in the Business landscape.

Almost all the articles have said that Microsoft will not be able to take over Yahoo! Now thats what i call ‘make the market believe what i want to make it believe’.

I take it! Microsoft always felt short in the Web wars. And the bad news was it was loosing to a company that grew using its own product offering. So what did Microsoft do? Try to take over Yahoo! Atleast thats what they said. But at a whooping cost of USD 40 billion!!!! Thats the revenue valuation of Microsoft for 2005. Why would Microsoft even do that???

How do you get fight a competitor who makes good of anything you do? Plan B: You give it more enemies in Friends forms! So here is what Microsoft has done which i feel is what their intentional strategy was is that, they have made Google now sign up with Yahoo so that they share some of their platform offering with each other. Google is in a very strange position now! It can’t aquire Yahoo! They don’t have a need to! They can’t allow Yahoo! to get weaker, as that would lead to a takeover bid, and if anyone wins then they would be competing head on with Google. And they can’t allow them to grow stronger as that would make them loose their market share.

So now google has to strategise for two companies, one for itself Google Inc. and the other for Yahoo! on which it has no internal control, so it has to make a great deal of market conditions for Yahoo! to take the decision that it wants them to take in its own intrest!

Is this Business 3.0 from Bill Gates? I wonder, somebody who even in today’s world has so much adaptive competitive edge! One Shot! And how many coins? 1..2…..3………… and i am counting…..

]]> http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2008/04/kings-move-advantage-microsoft/feed/ 1 Google … An Utopian Collapse in the making – ‘Knol’ http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2007/12/google-an-utopian-collapse-in-the-making-knol/ http://danielsrepublic.com/country/2007/12/google-an-utopian-collapse-in-the-making-knol/#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:32:09 +0000 daniel robinson http://danielsrepublic.com/country/archives/56 First came google search, was accepted cause there were not an established leader and the market in itself was not well formed. Then came gmail…. bolt out of the sky for Yahoo! and many other email providers! Then came a series of launches from the Google stable and made the brand more popular and in the process also closed down many rivals. And now it is ‘Knol’ parked alongside the legendary Wikipedia !!! Somebody stop this, war of silent takeovers and monopolies!!!

Google has always enjoyed limelight in the Anti-Microsoft world! But this time around it seems that Google is on the straight path that Microsoft once treaded! But the nature of the industry itself is such that history does repeat itself…

What will be the business model of the company that beats google? One that is able to mind read!!!

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