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Google is an advertising and marketing company. Only. By developing a location aware service they can target you with relevant ads from services in your proxim
by phlux 15y ago
Google is an advertising and marketing company. Only.
By developing a location aware service they can target you with relevant ads from services in your proximity.
The creation of a social networking service would allow this -- though I think its too late for google. What they should do is build the engine that facebook then uses to deliver the ads to their users, then rev-share...
- T_S_ 15y agoIt's too bad if Google really thinks that way. Seems to me the original key to their success was providing incredible value to their users. That got the user's attention and ... eventually ... monetization. In the mobile space, the ways to add "incredible value" to the user are only just being conceived. Sure adding the location data silo to apps is a plus. And it seems the entire planet is fixated on social. But I don't see businesses competing for my business in any significant way inside the same app...yet.
- phlux 15y agoI totally agree with you, look at my post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518927 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518927