Google CEO Releases 'Mega Ambitious' Letter, Still Not Evil. Integration, integration and more integration.
That's the theme of a lengthy state-of-Google blog post by CEO Larry Page, which was published on the company's Investor Relations blog on Thursday. "We have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil," Page writes, echoing the company's recent statements to Congress. "In fact, healthy revenue is essential if we are to change the world through innovation, and hire (and retain) great people. " The update runs through Google's successes, as well as its plans for this year and beyond. Page wrote about Google's desire to focus on big ideas and take "uncomfortably exciting" risks. "It may sound nuts, but I’ve found that it’s easier to make progress on mega-ambitious goals than on less risky projects," he writes. "Few people are crazy enough to try, and the best people always want to work on the biggest challenges. Some key highlights: More than one million businesses now use Google’s advertising products, Page writes.
How Google keeps your secrets private - Jan. 26. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- How does a company that collects so much information from its users keep all that data private?
Video: Your Google Information Is Worth up to $5,000 a Year to Marketers. Who Buys All Those Google Ads? An Infographic Breakdown. Google cleared $37.9 billion in 2011 revenue, which equates to more than $3 billion a month, mostly from those little text ads next to your search results that neither you or anybody you know will admit to ever clicking on.
Insurance and finance buys for Google Adsense words accounted for $4.2 billion of that total — more than 10 percent — according to Larry Kim, the founder of Wordstream, a company that sells software to analyze text ad campaigns and commissioned the infographic above. The most expensive search term in that niche was “Self employed health insurance” — not surprising in the aftermath of the recession and the Affordable Care Act, which will eventually require nearly everyone to have health care insurance (unless the Supreme Court nullifies the law later this year). That phrase cost $43.39 per click, nearly $10 more than the next most expensive term, “cheap car insurance”.
Eric Schmidt: 'Google grew out of a system that rewarded innovation.
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More data, more transparency around government requests. DatenDialog - Big Tent goes to Berlin. In May, we held our first Big Tent conference near London, where we debated some of the hot issues relating to the Internet and society with policy-makers, academics and NGOs.
The term "big tent” not only described the marquee venue but also our aim to include diverse points of view. After the U.K. success, we decided to export the concept. Yesterday we welcomed more than 200 guests in Berlin, Germany to the second Big Tent event, entitled DatenDialog. This dialogue about data tackled the issue of online privacy from a variety of angles. It was appropriate to hold it in Germany, which is a pacesetter both in its concern about privacy and its ideas for safeguarding personal data. Speakers included the German State Secretary for the Interior Cornelia Rogall-Grothe and the Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar, alongside international authors and bloggers Cory Doctorow and Jeff Jarvis who appeared via live video chat from the U.S.
Making Public Data More Accessible on the Web. Last year, we launched the Google Public Data Explorer, an online tool that organizes public statistics and brings them to life with interactive exploration and visualizations.
Since then, we’ve added dozens of new datasets and received enthusiastic feedback from users around the world. Several data providers, such as the UN Development Programme and Statistics Catalunya, have even integrated the tool into their web sites.