Links Based Economy? No. Passion Based Economy? Yes

April 11th, 2009

Speaking at a conference for newspapers Eric Schmidt said:

“We’ve been careful not to bias it using our own judgment of trust because we’re never sure if we get it right. So we use complicated ranking signals, as they’re called, to determine rank and relevance. And we change them periodically, which drives everybody crazy, as or algorithms get better. … The usual problem is you’ve got somebody who really is very trustworthy, but they’re not as well-known and they compete against people who are better known, and they don’t ‘in their view’ get high enough ranking. We have not come up with a way to algorithmically handle that in a coherent way.”

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Stealing Passion to Create a Unique Sales Proposition

November 30th, 2007

So far this year I have probably come up with at least 4 multi-million dollar ideas. But I am uncertain if the market timing is right and I have the business acumen and finances to make them soar, but I will try. And, to be honest, some of the ideas were not even mine. They were simply extensions of other’s ideas and/or flaws to current market leading models…just like what Google was founded upon (though my ideas are far less ambitious than their idea is).

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Exploiting Passion for Profit

October 2nd, 2007

Buying Attention & Building Trust

With content that you freely distribute you are primarily trying to build relationships with people who don’t know you and have never bought from you. Since attention is limited you have to make your content accessible to gain market attention.

Highbrow = Low Readership

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