Google: Friend or Foe?

GOOGLE: FRIEND OR FOE?

Google Who?

Google, Inc.

230 million search queries per day worldwide

Available in 117 languages (including Pig Latin, Klingon, and Elmer Fudd)

Market Cap as of 1/10/08: $205 billion Market Cap as of 9/17/09: $156 billion

Google is Not a Monopoly

But it might as well be. It has 68% of all Web searches. Closest competitor is Yahoo (16%), who’s losing

share. Bing is 11%. Google has the widest moat of any business

today.

"Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger praised Google Inc. during a press conference Sunday, saying the Internet giant has a strong business that can't be matched or taken away by rivals. "Google has a huge new moat," Munger said. "In fact I've probably never seen such a wide moat."

What is Google?

Google is the largest advertising company in the

history of the world.

RESPECT THE BIGNESS!

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How Much is $156 Billion?

Largest Public Companies

COMPANY SIZE (MARKET CAP)

Microsoft $224 Billion

Wal-Mart $192 Billion

Apple $165 Billion

Berkshire Hathaway $158 Billion

Google $156 Billion

AT&T $155 Billion

Toyota $129 Billion

Coca Cola $122 Billion

Pfizer $110 Billion

Restaurants


McDonald’s $60 Billion

YUM $15 Billion

Brinker Group $1.5 Billion

Wendy’s/Arby’s $2.5 Billion

Darden Restaurant Group

$5 Billion

Total: $84 Billion

Google $156 Billion

Booze


Diageo $40 Billion

Brown Forman $7 Billion

Constellation Brands $3 Billion

InBev (Budweiser) $75 Billion

Molson Coors $9 Billion

SAB Miller $38 Billion

total $172 Billion

Google $156 Billion

Cigarettes


Phillip Morris International

$93 Billion

British American Tobacco

$64 Billion

Altria (PM in the US) $ 37 Billion

total $194 Billion

Google $156 Billion

Shipping


UPS $70 Billion

FedEx $25 Billion

Total $95 billion

Google $156 Billion

World’s Most Recognizable Brands


Coke $122 Billion(since 1886, over half of carbonated beverages worldwide)

McDonald’s $60 Billion(since 1954, 31K restaurants in 119 countries)

total $ 182 Billion

Google $156 Billion

Media Companies


Washington Post $4.5 Billion

Gannett $2.3 Billion

NY Times $1.5 Billion

CBS $8.5 Billion

Comcast $49 Billion

Clear Channel Outdoor $2.5 Billion

Lamar $2.5 Billion

total $70.8 Billion

Google $156 Billion

AND IF YA DON’T KNOW…

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…Now Ya Know

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

Obviously through an exhaustive variety of advertising options allowing you to target anyone, anytime, online or offline.

WRONG!

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

The lowly text ad.

97% of Google's revenue comes from these text ads.

How Does It All Work?

Google Adwords: advertising program started in 2002.

3-Minute Summary

http://services.google.com/awp/en_us/breeze/7914/index.html

It’s Not About the Format.

Text ads are succinct and efficient, but Google isn’t the first to recognize that. Newspapers have known it (and clung to it) for a century.

Google perfected the delivery of a message at the moment you want to hear it.

“Perfected” – not invented. They stole it from Yahoo!

2007 FLASHBACK!

“Google plans to invade your space. “

Print, radio, TV – it’s coming after everyone.

Google wants to own advertising. Google wants to be the ad agency to the world."

A lot has happened since then…

2007: Google Print

2009: Google Print

RIP, Google Print

2007: Google on the Radio

Four years ago, Google purchased dMarc Broadcasting. dMarc connected advertisers directly to radio stations through its automated advertising platform.

Google integrated dMarc into Adwords and rolled out...

2007: Google Radio Ads

2009: Google Radio Ads

RIP, Google Radio

2007: Google TV Ads

STILL GOING!

LONG STORY SHORT

Google knows TV isn’t hurting nearly as bad as radio and

newspapers. Splintered, but not abandoned.

Google thinks TV still has a bright future, and that

newspapers and radio don’t.

LONG STORY SHORT, cont.

GOOD NEWS: Google doesn’t want its fingers in your pie

anymore.

BAD NEWS: That may not actually be good news.

WHAT NOW, THEN?

2009, the message is refined:

Google wants to own communication.

It wants to be wherever your attention is. It knows that you aren’t necessarily wed to traditional ad-carrying media.

Google: Next-Gen Social Media?

If “social media” is engaging customers where they’re already spending their time…

….then Google has big plans for you.

The Anna Nicole Smith strategy

If you're showered with enough wonderful and expensive gifts, you'll jump into bed with your sugar daddy when the time comes to do so.

Yyyyyeeeeeeeeeeahhhhhhh..........

Google wants to follow you around all day long.

What do you do all day?

What would ya say ya do here?

-Actual Work- Google Docs – Create, edit, store and

download Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF documents online and free.

Cloud computing. Apps run & docs are stored somewhere else. Easy to store your files in one place. (Works for me!)

Chrome OS. Based on Linux. Easy integration of all Google services.


-Actual Work- Drives down cost. You don't have to pay $269

for MS Office if you don't want to. Computers themselves get cheaper with no MS license fee.

Eliminates headaches & simplifies computing(Less hard drive space, less memory, less processing power)

Bottom Line: Google wants your attention while you’re workign.


-Email- Gmail. Serves ads to

emails. POP mail access –

consolidates all your email accounts. Also lets Google serve ads in front of emails that aren’t theirs!

Postini –antivirus/spam filtering. Message archiving.

Bottom line: While you're emailing, Google wants a piece of your attention.


-Talk on your cell phone- Google has Google Voice. Waitlist. FREE. http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about

.html (Listen In, Taking Calls, Phone Routing,

Conf Calling, Call Record) Lots of extras you currently pay for – all

free. Bottom Line: Google wants to be a part of

your phone conversations.


-Use the Web-

Google Chrome

Web browser, fairly new. Known for blazing speed. Integration of all those Google features will be coming.


-Photos-(view/edit/share)

“Picasa helps you organize, edit, and share your

photos. It's free, and easy to use.”


-Photos-(view/edit/share)

Picasa


-Videos-


-Music-????????????????????

Why no music-player application? Google is, for now, very friendly with

Apple. (The enemy of my enemy (Microsoft) is my friend.)

Apple DOMINATES the online music business. Good place for Google to hang back right now.


-Facebook- Google-Microsoft battle

to invest. Google lost.

Google got Myspace instead.

Myspace = Detroit -- used to be a boomtown, now it's just scary and dying.

FRIEND OR FOE?

Friend or Foe? Well, seems awfully friendly now, that's for sure. But you can be sure that this is not charity work on Google's part.

You don’t build (and/or buy) this kind of functionality for no good reason, just to be nice.

Google is not the government. (Obviously – everything runs smoothly and works well).

An offer you can’t refuse?

You will be granted favors, but there will come a time to pay back...by accepting advertising.

What’s Up Google’s Sleeve?

Google Says:

“Google is in the connection business. Google is in the business of

connecting buyers & sellers.”


READ BETWEEN THE LINES.

“Google is in the connection business. Google is in the business of connecting

buyers & sellers.”

SELLERS: AdvertisersBUYERS: Everyone else.

The sellers’ messages WILL be delivered.

Google Just Getting Warmed Up?

Google is already a $155 billion company

Google advertising is targeted only two ways: search engine results and contextual website

placements.

THESE ALONE have built the largest advertising company in the history of the world in five short years.

BUT... imagine how even those big revenue streams could spike if Google expands those targeting options and advertising avenues further.


Theory Alert! Email. My email is already scanned by

Gmail (all of it, not just the Gmail).

Could Google start letting marketers target ads to my email based on the things I talk about in my email, keywords that appear frequently, the types of URLs I forward along, etc.?

(Doesn't have to be personally identifiable, just aggregate data).


Theory Alert! Phone. Google has voice recognition down as

well as anyone (Try Goog411). All calls are recorded.

If you're using Google Voice, you've actually given them ALL YOUR PHONE NUMBERS.

So isn't it possible that the voice data could certainly be recorded, databased, made searchable and then made targetable by advertisers?

All of your voicemails are transcribed and sent directly to your inbox, so even if you don't answer, you're gonna get the message.


Theory Alert!Browser: Ads can be built into the Chrome browser, served directly & continuously updated based on the sites you visit.


Theory Alert! Desktop: All computer brands do this with their crapplications. They just do it stupidly – expect Google to be smarter about it.

Mixed Feelings?

Mixed Feelings?

Consumer: Fearful

Advertiser: Hopeful

We’re Frogs. Google is Boiling Us.


Google is sitting back and letting us love all the free stuff.

Little by little, we will have to start paying, one way or another, for all these services.

Google’s value proposition is as good as any: “Our products will make your life much easier and much cheaper, and we’ll give you your time back.”


All that’s left for you to decide is….

How Much Anna Nicole is in you?

Questions?

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Google is a tremendous success story in American business because, and only because, Google advertising is tremendously effective.

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