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Competition from Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple and smaller competitors
Reliance on Google network members
Privacy issues around content ownership
Slowdown in online ad-spend
Criticism against StreetView service
Increasing worldwide online ad spending
New acquisitions
Worldwide internet growth usage
Move into non-internet markets (i.e. Magazines, TV, Travel)
Opportunities
Threats
SWOT
Weaknesses
Strengths
Brand equity
Internet search leader
Strong market position
AdWords and AdSense programs
Ancillary services (Youtube, Gmail, etc)
Strong presence in professional networking space
Inability to monetize Youtube
Weak presence in social networking space
Lack of product integration
Stock problems
No strategy for contraction
Skyrocketting cost for datacentre
http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline/#start
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Internal
23 October 2000
Google AdWords
Timeline
Google’s First Dog
$10,578
Google vs Yahoo
Google Calendar
1 April 1999
Translate in 41 Languages
26 February 2009
13 April 2006
Communities
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=YHOO
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG
Google AdWords launches with 350 customers. The self-service ad program promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting and performance feedback
Google Translate is capable of automatic translation between 41 languages after adding Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese, and Galician. These 41 languages cover 98% of the languages read by Internet users.
They launched Google Calendar, complete with sharing and group features.
Yoshka,
the first “company” dog, comes to work with the senior vice president of operations, Urs Hoelzle.
Gmail
21 May 2002
1 April 2004
Google Chrome browser
No joke: they launched Gmail on April Fool’s Day.
(At the time, you needed an invitation to get an account.)
1 September 2008
They released Labs for users to try out beta technologies fresh from the R&D team.
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Word gets out about Google Chrome a bit ahead of schedule when the comic book that introduces the new open source browser is released earlier than planned. The browser officially becomes available for worldwide download a day later.
Customers
Stockholders
benefit 1
cost 1
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1998
1999
benefit 2
cost 2
4 March 2003
Google AdSense
26 June 2000
Governments
Pages
Search index:
Google named
Top Search Engine
benefit 3
cost 3
December 1998
Google Maps
Google becomes the world’s largest search engine; they announce the first billion-URL index.
Street View for Maps
8 February 2005
Employees
Google announced a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling publishers large and small to access their vast network of advertisers.
(Weeks later, on April 23, they acquired Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense.)
They unveil Google Earth: a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search.
29 May 2007
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Google Maps goes live.
Street View debuts in Google Maps in five U.S. cities: New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver
Google Image Search
benefit 4
Google Earth
cost 4
”PC Magazine” reports that Google “has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results” and recognizes them as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.
28 June 2005
28 July 2001
Image Search launches,
offering access to 250 million images.
Strategic Analysis
Internal
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Strengths
Weaknesses
Threats
Opportunities
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