SUBJECT: Google in China Given the guidelines and requirements on self censorship imposed by the Chinese Communist Party on local internet service providers‚ it is my recommendation that before Google develops businesses under such requirements it has a clear understanding on the role and impact its services will play in peoples lives under these circumstances to avoid being used unintentionally as a political tool. Services provided by Google‚ such as blogs and email accounts‚ which are knowingly
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liabilities and resource weaknesses does it have? What opportunities exist? What threats to its continued success are present? The key resources and competitive capabilities of the search industry are due to the huge company’s success. For instance‚ Google gains the trust of users through reliable‚ accurate searches and a clear distinction of upfront advertisements in searches. Therefore‚ the online business user’s can do their work in minimum physical locations and lower fixed cost. These locations
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Does Google have any core competencies? Explain. Core Competency is a company’s unique ability acquired from its founders that cannot be easily imitated. The core competencies are what give a company competitive advantage by creating value and delivering it to the customers. Google Inc. (Google) is global technology company focused on improving the ways people connect with information. The company generates revenue primarily by delivering online advertising. As stated in the case‚ Google Inc
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Homework # 3 – Google Google’s core business is search. The majority of their business decisions revolve around optimizing‚ monetizing‚ and improving the search engine. They have perfected their search technology to such extent that hundreds of thousands of companies have purchased their technology in order to deliver relevant information to their users. Another way Google has made the search profitable is through their creation of advertising technology. They are the most visited search engine
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What is the date of the audit opinion? Explain why the opinion date is different than the date of the financial statements. Ernst & Young provides an unqualified opinion following their review of Google’s financial statements. They state that Google has performed effective internal control over their financial reporting‚ but they do go onto state that they changed their accounting methods in previous years as a note. The date of the audit‚ February 14th‚ is later than the issuance of the statements
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Google Inc. Study Questions 1. What were the key factors behind Google’s early success? 1. Better search algorithm (PageRank). 2. More indexed web pages (over one billion in the first year) 3. Fast‚ and user-friendly interface and search experience. 4. Effectively being able to monetize searches 2. Do you expect the search business to become more concentrated (i.e.‚ dominated by fewer firms)? Is search a winner-take-all business? I do expect that the search business will become
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Google Inc. began in 1996 as the brainchild of two bright computer science grad students‚ Sergey Brin and Larry Page. These two intellectually gifted men met in 1995 at Stanford University where they were doing their PhDs. During their time together at Stanford‚ both came up with creative ways of finding and organizing large amounts of data. After that‚ Brin and Page developed a technology called PageRank that enabled them to analyze a particular website’s significance. The idea of a search engine
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Summary of Google SWOT analysis Strengths Opportunities • Google is number one search engine and has established a brand name‚ in which its users trust. • It’s dependable‚ reliable and fast. • Google has low operation cost as it uses low cost UNIX web servers for indexing millions of web pages across internet • Very little end user marketing is needed as the name itself is getting word by mouth publicity. • The Google interface is simple and it gives comprehensive results without confusing
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an important tool. a) Rivalry among Competitors * Rivalry among search engine firms is Very Strong. Google has an 80% market share in the search industry with several rivals. The competition among rivals is average‚ but has high potential for growth. Google constantly has to maneuver to improve their services‚ and stay ahead of other competitors. Google also faces low switching cost which increases rivalry among competitors: • Rapid growth in online auctions is acting
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new modes of communication and social networks available to us making us more anti-social and rude? Today we have the choice of voice‚ video‚ text‚ instant message‚ social networks‚ gaming networks‚ Skype‚ Google Voice‚ voice enabled Twitter and Facebook etc. These choices and the advances in mobile communication devices are responsible for this communication paradigm shift. The ability to take all this communication with you has changed us as much‚ or more‚ than the communication applications themselves
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