Comments on: Yahoo Restructuring, Google Questions Arise? http://visiblefactors.com/blog/31-yahoo-restructuring-google-questions-arise/ Online Marketing, Product Strategy Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:34:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jimbo jansen http://visiblefactors.com/blog/31-yahoo-restructuring-google-questions-arise/#comment-62 jimbo jansen Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:40:32 +0000 http://tonyadam.com/blog/yahoo-restructuring-google-questions-arise/#comment-62 Clearly Google has problems creating and developing online communities. They have mothballed the Answers service. They recently bought YouTube which is (presumably) a poor implementation of the Google Video service. But it has a community. Their most popular product, search, has zero switching costs. The stickiest aspect of Google at the moment is Gmail, but that could be bested by another upstart competitor quite easily. Google is in a precarious position. Clearly Google has problems creating and developing online communities. They have mothballed the Answers service. They recently bought YouTube which is (presumably) a poor implementation of the Google Video service. But it has a community. Their most popular product, search, has zero switching costs. The stickiest aspect of Google at the moment is Gmail, but that could be bested by another upstart competitor quite easily.

Google is in a precarious position.

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