Who Is The Next Web Conglomerate?

[PalmBeach]

Forbes

Richard Rosenblatt, who sold MySpace to Rupert Murdoch, is a mogul on the make. He's raised $320 million to build Demand Media into the next Web conglomerate.

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I wounder if Google Local Search will eventually eat New Web mogul Marchex or Next Web Conglormerate Demand's billion dollar lunch or for that matter will Google eat All of Our Lunches;-(

If you Google Miami Pizza or New York City Deli you get a nice map, description, phone number... A Direct line etc. for free...Yah!

The business listed Do Not Even Need A DOMAIN NAME to get the free listing ;-O

Do you think Google's master plan could be to eventually do away with the need for a domain name or mitigate their relevance/Value :-\

Just a thought......... What do you think?

 

[friday]

Yep, Google are chipping away at the very search engine they successfully created by replacing successful ranked sites with their own services. This is becoming a huge problem as they destroy traffic to many successful niche websites in the process. Their will be a huge backlash if they are not careful. Tbh, the google free search engine can be compared to the right to free speech, start tampering with it too much and it will spurn a severe reaction.

It is not lost on savvy webmasters that every new service/perk that Google introduces like Time City/Country display, Conversion tools etc added to the free search engine is taking traffic away from the legitimate sites that made them so successful in the first place. Google is slowly killing off the free algorithmic part of the search engine by making it redundant.

 

[PRED]

cheers for post PalmBeach

 

[PalmBeach]

This is what you get when you Google New York City Attorney. Then check out the Local Business Results

You would think that newyorkcityattorneys.com would be a valuable domain name... especialy for a firm like Watson Farley & Williams to own (they have [SIZE=-1]100 Park Ave NYC address[/SIZE] but are listed on page 13 of the local results;-( YUCK

To me it would make lots of cents for a Madison Ave marketing firm to purchase newyorkcityattorneys.com in order to promote their big bucks New York City clients. ;-)

What kind of SEO do you need to do to get the top ranking in the local BZ results? Curently newyorkcityattorneys.com is just a link page but if someone purchased it do you think NewYorkAttorneys.com could get a top ranking in Google if it had great SEO?
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The same thing is true when you Google Chicago Stock Brokers

You would think that Smith Barney Chicago would snap that up and optimize it...... seeing they are listed #14 in the Google local search;-|yuck.

And Now Google is selling preferred placement in their local search:undecided:

What advantage will a great domain name have in the future except for direct navigation? Will that even matter...or is it just going to be up to Google, who receives 50% of the search requests, to decide where the traffic goes. Who makes up the rules for the search engines?

Does anyone else feel a hand in their pocket?