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when we get back from the commercial break I want to talk about your strategy for building a business when you're essentially uh I think going to wind up dead dead against bang in Google
when we get back from the commercial break I want to talk about your strategy for building a business when you're essentially uh I think going to wind up dead dead against bang in Google
what we found was even though we could make a search result that's 20% better than Google's or 30% consumers didn't react strongly enough to it and Google wasn't going to rank those pages so Google says no xay on the ranking of you know Pages do they look at your stuff and say we won't rank those pages because they're search results I mean we do well with Google yeah for landing pages or for like the comparison Pages uh both yeah yeah yeah cuz I know that they they kicked out the comparison shop
Panda just absolutely decimated our business
Google tried it with Google Square they try to automate it right doesn't work doesn't work
Vertical Search is definitely going to be a contested area over the next 10 years
I think they're you know like here we we follow each other
I think LinkedIn is one of my I think it started out really kind of sketchy not not good at all uh how so like Ganky like poor design it wasn't yeah poor design just it didn't really makes sense and it's one of those startups I think that evolved and revealed itself over time and you realize everyone has just put all of their Prof professional personal information uh information into the system now it's you know it's huge huge lead gen sales sales lead generation
I think Reed Hoffman from LinkedIn would be the possible exception