Charlene Li
Charlene Li
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It's only a small number of people who know what to do with it.
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That's not to be underplayed. At some point, you'll want a personal experience, and you can't get that online. ... There's still an opportunity online for small and midsize businesses to drive traffic to their offline stores, and that offers a way for them to differentiate themselves. It is pretty dismal when you look at the numbers, but there is that silver lining in the dark clouds.
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Ad-supported software for consumers and very small businesses is only the beginning. Microsoft's real aim is to build and host a service platform that will attract the investment of developers looking for a way to reach these market sectors.
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Microsoft's real aim is to build and host a service platform that will be robust enough that other developers will want to use it to deliver their services through it.
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Microsoft is moving out of selling boxes into selling real, true services.
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I think Google is going to blow them out of the water. So they need to dive into some niche and develop something other than just blog search.
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The 800-pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, ... the secret sauce to Google's blog-search success.
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Search engine users aren't terribly loyal, so a better or more targeted technology could make headway.
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This relevancy ranking is what I think will be the secret sauce to Googles blog search success.
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The big hurdle for video search to overcome has been the dearth of content that people really want to find online. That's starting to change rapidly.
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It's going to take a long time for video search to develop.
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The fact of the matter is--the average user shouldn't have to get used to RSS. It should be something that's just as easy as browsing the Web or doing anything else on the Internet.
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Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells' of opinions to which companies and other institutions are realizing they must respond. From marketing to consumers organizations are being pulled into engaging with individuals.
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