Google Drops More Than 160 Points

“Since its peak back in the Fall at nearly 750, Google has dropped to 584 currently, a 166 point drop (it’s dropped more in after hours, all the way down to 568). It’s on a steep decline in the past few days, perhaps due to the new search stats from Nielsen, as well as jitters about the economy at large.”

No, I really don’t think Google is making anything big of it. They have other things on their mind;

Google’s Big Mobile Move in Japan
The Internet search giant has made its second big wireless linkup in the country, this time with market leader NTT DoCoMo

“Google (GOOG) is on a roll in Japan. On Jan. 24, the 800-pound gorilla of Internet search joined NTT DoCoMo (DCM) onstage to announce plans to wed elements of Google’s search technology and other online services with the No. 1 Japanese wireless operator’s i-mode mobile Net service. The deal is the second major partnership with a carrier since the Mountain View (Calif.) company formally launched its Google Mobile services here with KDDI back in July, 2006.

By cozying up to the two carriers, which combined account for 80% of Japan’s 100 million cell-phone users, Google improves its chances of being the leader in mobile search. Though not everyone in Japan has a handset that works on the fast third-generation, or 3G, wireless broadband airwaves, more than 70 million DoCoMo and KDDI subscribers do.”

P.S. – They also have this “auction thingy” going on… and a health thingy too! :)

Post from: EveryJoe

I Don’t Think Big G Noticed

Good for you, bad for others? Interesting…

“If you have a mobile-compliant website that complies with our program policies, you’re welcome to participate in AdSense for mobile.”

Well, of course Darren would somehow be the first to let us know about Adsense for Mobile, followed by soooo many others including Duncan. Its the comments that have piqued my interest. Consider;

Kat: “For those of us on pay-by-the-byte services, it’s expensive enough to download a regular page, even with images turned off.”

Andrey: “Another issue is that screens of mobile devices have very small resolution, so small that many users immediately abandon the idea of using these devices for more or less practical things. Imagine what would happen if a part of this originally insufficient space is eaten by ads?”

Paul: “Maybe it’s just because I only get a limited number of GPRS Mb bundled with my contract, but when I’m using my phone to get information, the last thing I need is adverts of any kind.

They are a waste of bandwidth, and trying to persuade me whilst I’m on the move, to waste my time looking at a plug for a product is just a waste of everybody’s effort.”

Tom: “I had just decided a mobile website wasn’t really worth the trouble since quite a few mobile devices are coming out that do very well for browsing regular websites (and work just fine with regular Adsense ads).”

On the positive side;

Bert: “WOW! Great….Good news to all the publishers that ad sense is using mobile websites. This will be beneficial to all the money makers and its very easy to create mobile website and once we get this it will be very simple to set up ads.”

Lexx: “The next generation of adverts when they roll out on Google maps will not only be tolerated by mobile users it will be demanded. Cheers!”

“For the time being, publishers are welcome to add one ad unit to any mobile website that complies with our program policies.”

Post from: EveryJoe

Ads On The Move