When Things Change, They’re Actually Different
Turmoil is all around us, old assumptions no longer valid. Richard Florida deftly lays out the scenario for the current economic and spatial Great Reset. Bob Garfield outlines the Chaos Scenario in traditional media and advertising (upon which I comment favorably here). Friendly, iron-fist in a velvet glove American liberalism-cum-imperialism is laid to waste in [...] Read more...
Traffick, Jan 27, 12:37pm
AdWords, Declining Click Prices (CPC’s), and Interface Optics: Two Theories
Google’s recent financial results weren’t nearly as bad as the markets seemed to think. By any rational standard, once again they turned in a strong Q4 and strong YOY growth. Earnings were very solid. All they did was miss Wall Street expectations slightly. If revenues and profits were up sharply — but below expectations — [...] Read more...
Traffick, Jan 24, 2:25pm
So are Google Search results crap, or aren’t they?
The latest debates over Google Search results, search quality, antitrust, and other drama are only the latest in a long period of rapid change for Google in the search arena. That period, pretty much the past seven years, has been marked by (a) growth in new technology and soft innovations intended to handle the scale [...] Read more...
Traffick, Jan 17, 2:02pm