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Presented by Benno Marbach Charleston Sin Emily Chang William Cheng. Agenda. About Google Business Model Challenges Future Strategy. About. Founded by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page in 1998
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Presented by Benno Marbach Charleston Sin Emily Chang William Cheng
Agenda About Google Business Model Challenges Future Strategy
About • Founded by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page in 1998 • “Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” • Public listed at NASDAQ in 2004 • Reported USD $2 Billion Revenue and USD $200 Million profits in 2004 Source: Google web site
Online and Offline Information • Web pages, Image, Usenet, News, Group, Phonebooks, Maps, Mail order catalogues, Numbers (parcel tracking, patent), Blog, Keyhole • Print, Video program, Academic research papers
Search … How they do it? • Crawling • Index using PageRankTM • Similar to citation index, i.e., high citation imply high impact • Performs an objective measurement of the importance of web pages • No human involvement or manipulation of results -- untainted information by paid placement • Hypertext-Matching Analysis • Analyzes page content
4160 results in 0.11 second 2245 results in 0.1 second 1300 results in 0.38 second Same as Google
Premium Sponsorship AdWords AdSense Paidlisting -- AdWords and AdSense AdWords – add Ad sites to Google AdSense -- add Google Ad to sites
Two Sided Market On the one side – End Users On the other side – Advertisers
Network Affiliates End User Side Click on the ads in Google’s or affiliates’ websites Advertisers End Users
NetworkAffiliates End User Side Customers get redirected to the advertiser’s websites Advertisers End Users
NetworkAffiliates Advertiser Side Advertisers pay Google based on CPC and ad’s position Advertisers End Users
NetworkAffiliates Advertiser Side Revenue split between Affiliates & Google Advertisers End Users
Competition U.S. Search Traffic Market Share, August 2003 Global Market Share of Paidlisting in 2003 Source: Bartley & Weinstein, P.5
Competitive Environment to Google Work in Progress Threat
Choices for • Become an internet portal, self built or merge with AOL Advantage: Securing higher number of end users Disadvantage: Outside of core competence 2. Focus on developing superior search solutions Advantage: Keep alliance with AOL and be focus Disadvantage: Niche player
How to Compete in the future? • Provide more relevant features, much faster • Provide more accurate information, much faster
No one is perfect! • I'm taking part in a new web project...
The End Any Questions?
Questions? • Which are the two markets Google is serving? • What are the three key differences between Google and Yahoo, as mentioned in the presentation?