Category Archives: google

Are LivingSocial, Google Offers and the rest as bad as Groupon?

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Rakesh Agrawal

IMPORTANT: Please see this page to see my current interests in Groupon. Whenever I get into Groupon mode, people ask me about how LivingSocial and Google Offers are different from Groupon. In many ways, they are the same. Any model … Continue reading →

Posted in daily deals, google, groupon, livingsocial | 1 Comment

Facebook has 100 million more U.S. users than Google did at IPO

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Rakesh Agrawal

In December, Facebook had more than 100 million more unique users than Google did when it went public in August 2004. In December 2011, Facebook had 162.5 million unique users in the United States. In August 2004, Google had 61.9 … Continue reading →

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Twitter and Google are both responsible for you not being able to search tweets

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Rakesh Agrawal

Chris Dixon ignited a firestorm on his blog when he said it was Twitter’s fault that Google doesn’t index tweets. It’s the fault of both parties, really. Neither has the moral high ground. Twitter does not block Google from crawling … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, google, search, twitter | 4 Comments

Funny juxtaposition of Google Offers ad on anti-Groupon story

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

Original story on Mail Online.

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Google and antitrust: looking at the good and bad effects of monopolies

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

This is the last in a multi-part series on Google and antitrust. Part 1: Competing in Web search against Google would be extremely hard Part 2: How Google favors its own products Part 3: Looking at the good and bad effects of monopolies Disclosures: I … Continue reading →

Posted in google, search | 3 Comments

Google and antitrust: How Google favors its own products

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

This is the second in a multi-part series on Google and antitrust. Part 1 looked at how difficult it would be for a new player to start in Web search today. Part 1: Competing in Web search against Google would be … Continue reading →

Posted in google, search | 6 Comments

Google and antitrust: competing in Web search against Google would be extremely hard

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

This is the first in a multi-part series on Google and antitrust. Part 1: Competing in Web search against Google would be extremely hard Part 2: How Google favors its own products Part 3: Looking at the good and bad effects of monopolies … Continue reading →

Posted in google, search | 8 Comments

Google Offers merchant agreement

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

Note: Page 1 is the term sheet. The only substantive item on the term sheet is the revenue share. In this case, the merchant received between 50 and 60 percent. GOOGLE PREPAID OFFERS BETA PROGRAM ADDENDUM Google Prepaid Offers Beta … Continue reading →

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Why Google’s acquisition of Zagat matters

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

Today, Google announced its acquisition of Zagat, the company that publishes the venerable restaurant and hotel review guides. It’s a terrific acquisition. If Google executes correctly, this deal could be as significant as the YouTube deal has been. (I was … Continue reading →

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There are only two deal companies that matter: Facebook and Google

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

Much has been made of Facebook’s decision last week to exit the daily deals space. Yesterday, Yelp told Bloomberg’s Doug MacMillan that it is also exiting the daily deals space. A lot of the analysis has used these examples to … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, google, groupon | 7 Comments