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Sorry, I don't get your point. You can be successful with your product on the WWW without employing any Google services, being totally independent. If people a

by tferris 14y ago

Sorry, I don't get your point. You can be successful with your product on the WWW without employing any Google services, being totally independent. If people and other sites like you and link back to you your traffic will quickly skyrocket—which feels natural. You are not obliged to use any Google service like GA. Just use the Internet and its open standards and you are ready to go because Google left the Internet's core like it is and didn't build a walled garden around it. That's the great thing about the web: it's decentralized and everybody can contribute, Google haven't tried to change this. That's why I don't like the native app trend with the appstore, all the innovation the Internet brought us are vanished by one central and strict entity and nobody cares, Android at least tries to emulate some parts of the net (i.e. by using intents, allowing multiple appstores, with the open nature of Android, etc.), Google is regarding their marketplace Play much more relaxed than Apple. Looking at the Appstore or the Facebook API, there are so many rules which don't follow any of the core principles of the Internet. You have to play by these rules otherwise you are banned or completely and utterly dependent of one single entities. Moreover, if you then play by Apple's or Facebook's rules you still do not get the impact as from Google traffic-wise. Ultimately, Google haven't entered the Chinese Market which shows the company's values. Every larger western corporation have build joint venture based branches in China—every corporation, except Google—and that's distinguishes Google.

rbarooah 14y ago
I agree that you don't get my point. The reason Google hasn't built a walled garden around the internet because they simply don't yet have the power to do that. You talk as if it was something they could easily have done but have chosen not to. I disagree. They just aren't in a position to do it. It makes no sense at all to say that innovation on the web has vanished because of the Appstore. We are in in a boom time for internet startups, and we have healthy browser competition leading to web standards advancing much faster than at any time in the past. There is room for both the open web, and for more controlled environments like the app store or Facebook to coexist and compete with one another. Each offers different tradeoffs. The existence of different kinds of environment is a good thing. It provides a variety of different economic opportunities, and choices for consumers. Google would naturally like to have more influence and control, but the reality is that they exist in a competitive environment.
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- Sargis 14y ago
  Google's mission is to display their ads to as many people as possible. How is a walled garden going to help achieve that goal?
  - rbarooah 14y ago
    ...because Google left the Internet's core like it is and didn't build a walled garden around it. The commenter I was replying to claimed that Google chose not to build a walled garden around the internet because of their good character. If they were able to do this, they'd be able to limit the threat of Facebook and other advertising based competitors. They haven't done it simply because they can't. Not because it wouldn't be to their advantage.
- tferris 14y ago
  Pardon, you are totally misleading. Google could do this—there are multiple options to silently wallgarden the user. Just check how much traffic Google moves. If they want they could arbitrarily redirect traffic and subtly punish user's not using their tools. But that's not their culture. Just look at their products, how far they pushing the boundaries and still stay open, give back and contribute to the community. Look at V8, Dart, Go—all open, all free, all top-notch, all following the Internet's principles and look at Apple, FB—I see no groundbreaking innovation that's free or not protecting their walled garden. Even if Google has some hidden agenda with their products (like with Chrome) the products are always best-of-breed and never deadlock the user. The point is: Google benefits of an open Internet, their business model is fully based on an open Internet. Therefore they will do everything to keep the Internet neutral, free and decentralized. In contrast, the bizmodels of Apple and FB do not rely on these values, they need walled gardens. Enough reasons to trust them less. RE-EDIT: Took out later added passages as wished.
  - j_col 14y ago
    Facebook have given back plenty of open source to the dev community. Scribe (their federated logging server) and HipHop (their PHP compiler) come to mind immediately, but there may be others.
Tloewald 14y ago
Google have entered the Chinese market, compromised their values and still got their asses handed to them by Baidu, then pulled out. Not quite the same thing.
- dnda 14y ago
  Care to support your theory with numbers and facts?
  - pyre 14y ago
    Google was in China until their internal network was (supposedly) compromised by the the Chinese Government. This is a fact. Google was not the #1 search engine in China. This is also a fact. Whether they 'got their ass handed to them' is another story, which could be supported by numbers, though it's somewhat subjective.
  - Tloewald 14y ago
    Google made a deal with the Chinese government to censor search results - also a fact. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-bows-to-chinas-censorship-demands-20100721-10jx5.html http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-bows... Google's penetration in China was very low (we've had native Chinese speakers living with us for the last three years and they had hardly heard of Google). Not only is Google's share in China low, it's falling. http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/02/23/sizing-up-two-internet-giants-google-vs-baidu-in-china-infographic/ http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/02/23/sizing-up-two-internet...
brudgers 14y ago
"You can be successful with your product on the WWW without employing any Google services" It is often more difficult to be successful on the internet without devoting significant resources to Google specific SEO. Doing so without the benefit of Google search would be orders of magnitude more difficult, and Google is under no obligation to return any particular website in their results (e.g. Safe Search). Google is a company just like any other, only, perhaps, more so.
- tferris 14y ago
  I don't agree. If you build a really great web based product you don't need to do any single SEO activity to get strong traffic. No white or black hat or anything needed. People will come anyway. It's all about the product. If it's good people will tell and Google will notice. And Google is so smart that every crappy site powered by 100,000 system generated backlinks blasts will stay inferior.
  - brudgers 14y ago
    >"If you build a really great web based product" Assuming a really great web based product begs the question a bit. It's a pretty select group.
- zerostar07 14y ago
  Twitter, facebook, airbnb didn't do any SEO
  - brudgers 14y ago
    JustinTV, Scribd, and Carwoo are more typical new companies. Ebay and Amazon are more typical of large consumer facing companies. Facebook does a great deal of SEO - it's how they compete with Linkedin for eyeballs.

by tferris 14y ago

rbarooah 14y ago

I agree that you don't get my point. The reason Google hasn't built a walled garden around the internet because they simply don't yet have the power to do that. You talk as if it was something they could easily have done but have chosen not to. I disagree. They just aren't in a position to do it. It makes no sense at all to say that innovation on the web has vanished because of the Appstore. We are in in a boom time for internet startups, and we have healthy browser competition leading to web standards advancing much faster than at any time in the past. There is room for both the open web, and for more controlled environments like the app store or Facebook to coexist and compete with one another. Each offers different tradeoffs. The existence of different kinds of environment is a good thing. It provides a variety of different economic opportunities, and choices for consumers. Google would naturally like to have more influence and control, but the reality is that they exist in a competitive environment.

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Sargis 14y ago
Google's mission is to display their ads to as many people as possible. How is a walled garden going to help achieve that goal?
- rbarooah 14y ago
  ...because Google left the Internet's core like it is and didn't build a walled garden around it. The commenter I was replying to claimed that Google chose not to build a walled garden around the internet because of their good character. If they were able to do this, they'd be able to limit the threat of Facebook and other advertising based competitors. They haven't done it simply because they can't. Not because it wouldn't be to their advantage.
tferris 14y ago
Pardon, you are totally misleading. Google could do this—there are multiple options to silently wallgarden the user. Just check how much traffic Google moves. If they want they could arbitrarily redirect traffic and subtly punish user's not using their tools. But that's not their culture. Just look at their products, how far they pushing the boundaries and still stay open, give back and contribute to the community. Look at V8, Dart, Go—all open, all free, all top-notch, all following the Internet's principles and look at Apple, FB—I see no groundbreaking innovation that's free or not protecting their walled garden. Even if Google has some hidden agenda with their products (like with Chrome) the products are always best-of-breed and never deadlock the user. The point is: Google benefits of an open Internet, their business model is fully based on an open Internet. Therefore they will do everything to keep the Internet neutral, free and decentralized. In contrast, the bizmodels of Apple and FB do not rely on these values, they need walled gardens. Enough reasons to trust them less. RE-EDIT: Took out later added passages as wished.
- j_col 14y ago
  Facebook have given back plenty of open source to the dev community. Scribe (their federated logging server) and HipHop (their PHP compiler) come to mind immediately, but there may be others.

Tloewald 14y ago

Google have entered the Chinese market, compromised their values and still got their asses handed to them by Baidu, then pulled out. Not quite the same thing.

dnda 14y ago
Care to support your theory with numbers and facts?
- pyre 14y ago
  Google was in China until their internal network was (supposedly) compromised by the the Chinese Government. This is a fact. Google was not the #1 search engine in China. This is also a fact. Whether they 'got their ass handed to them' is another story, which could be supported by numbers, though it's somewhat subjective.
- Tloewald 14y ago
  Google made a deal with the Chinese government to censor search results - also a fact. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-bows-to-chinas-censorship-demands-20100721-10jx5.html http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-bows... Google's penetration in China was very low (we've had native Chinese speakers living with us for the last three years and they had hardly heard of Google). Not only is Google's share in China low, it's falling. http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/02/23/sizing-up-two-internet-giants-google-vs-baidu-in-china-infographic/ http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/02/23/sizing-up-two-internet...

brudgers 14y ago

"You can be successful with your product on the WWW without employing any Google services" It is often more difficult to be successful on the internet without devoting significant resources to Google specific SEO. Doing so without the benefit of Google search would be orders of magnitude more difficult, and Google is under no obligation to return any particular website in their results (e.g. Safe Search). Google is a company just like any other, only, perhaps, more so.

tferris 14y ago
I don't agree. If you build a really great web based product you don't need to do any single SEO activity to get strong traffic. No white or black hat or anything needed. People will come anyway. It's all about the product. If it's good people will tell and Google will notice. And Google is so smart that every crappy site powered by 100,000 system generated backlinks blasts will stay inferior.
- brudgers 14y ago
  >"If you build a really great web based product" Assuming a really great web based product begs the question a bit. It's a pretty select group.
zerostar07 14y ago
Twitter, facebook, airbnb didn't do any SEO
- brudgers 14y ago
  JustinTV, Scribd, and Carwoo are more typical new companies. Ebay and Amazon are more typical of large consumer facing companies. Facebook does a great deal of SEO - it's how they compete with Linkedin for eyeballs.