Much of today’s discussion around Google Instant, which returns search results and suggests query refinements as you type in a query, is about how the new technology will change search engine optimization and advertising economics. What I haven’t seen is a discussion of how it will change the most fundamental interaction on the web: between people […]
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The New York Times’s Catherine Rampell might have been one of the first to notice that Silicon Valley’s magic isn’t creating an enormous number of jobs. Today’s front-page article cites Redfin’s endless demand for the world’s best engineers, but mostly it focuses on unemployed folks in markets like Corvallis, Oregon, the home of the Beaver and,
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The New York Times’s Catherine Rampell might have been one of the first to notice that Silicon Valley’s magic isn’t creating an enormous number of jobs. Today’s front-page article cites Redfin’s endless demand for the world’s best engineers, but mostly it focuses on unemployed folks in markets like Corvallis, Oregon, the home of the Beaver and,
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The more complicated a business gets, the more of a math problem it becomes. Running a lemonade stand, you don’t need to analyze gross margins or survey customers because you squeeze the lemonade yourself, and hand it to every customer. But once you have employees and customers you’ve barely met, numbers become more important. For
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan was once asked to campaign against Jesse Helms, the senator from Jordan’s home state. This should have been an easy decision. Helms had once argued that blacks were less intelligent than whites, and that the civil rights bill was the most dangerous legislation in
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Last week, we published research showing that more than half of all listings activated in 2009 failed to sell by August 2010. We argued then that would-be home-sellers should hire the agent with the best track record, not the one promising the best price, because the most likely outcome was that the listing agent wouldn’t
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