Sitting here at SMX West in Santa Clara CA. Danny Sullivan is about to open the conference and give his keynote. Here is my take-away from his speech. Follow me on Twitter for micro updates: http://twitter.com/atraine.
Danny Sullivan Keynote Congrats to winner of the biggest search geek contest for SMX West 2009: Keri Morgret. Congrats Keri! Average search share of current market for Google 68%, Yahoo 18%, MSN 7%. Stats taken from Comscore and many other sites as an average as they don’t always line up with their stats. Stats from 2003: Google 33%, Yahoo 25%, MSN 18%. Google has really taken it way up from the end of 2003 when they basically doubled their share (and Yahoo’s) in the next 2 years. Danny’s Google wish-list:- Google to show real-time CPC for ads.
- Tell publishers what AdSense split is.
- Solve map spam issues.
- Think carefully before moving into further Google-hosted content.
- Google Book Search
- Time-Life @ Google Images
- Knol
- Leadership is in disarray.
- Loss of talent and “mojo” factor.
- Throw search to the wolves to survive.
- Google wasn’t allowed to catch search.
- Microsoft ain’t giving up.
- Restore faith, if possible
- Keep innovating
- Search Monkey, Search Pad.
- Enough with the “open” solution.
- Don’t do stupid things like angering your advertisers.
- Told advertisers basically, hey we’ll do what we want with your ads and shove it if you don’t like it.
- Love search and show us you love it; we are rooting for you! (Google is too, sort of).
- Pick a brand to run with…Live is not it.
- Do the hard things too.
- Giving up on book search sucked!
Great post. Thanks for the updates. Can’t wait to hear more about it!