YouTube's popularity provides Google with a lucrative channel through which to sell advertising, alongside its core search business.
Once again, this is a key missing piece in the quest for ultimate value delivery in the core search engine business model.
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Baidu has faced growing competition in its core search business from Qihoo, putting pressure the profitability of its once high-flying main profit engine.
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Asked how its new clean-tech initiative fits into Google's core search and advertising business, Brin said it's part of the company's 70-20-10 rule.
It is the first time Google has yielded to antitrust pressure on its core search business, which handles almost 90 per cent of queries in Europe.
McNamee sees other great Google products with high profit potential like YouTube and Gmail, but none with the ability to replace the loss of their core search business.
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Kurt Abrahamson, CEO of the share-button company ShareThis and a former Google sales director, says he thinks neither Google search nor its core search ads are threatened for now.
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Ever since it bought the display-ad serving system DoubleClick in 2007, Google has been steadily buying up more pieces of the online ad-buying process beyond its core search ads.
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But the company later threw in the towel, and now licenses core search functionality from a third party, which is widely believed to be Google, although the company declines to say officially.
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According to data released from comScore (SCOR), AOL had only 1.5% share of the U.S. core search market in June 2012 compared to 66.8% for Google, 15.6% for Microsoft and 13.0% for Yahoo!
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We will continue to develop a broad range of services that complement our core search platform, including maps and personal services on the desktop and on mobile platforms, emphasizing collaboration with our strategic partners.
While the firm has portfolio guidelines currently 70% of projects focus on core search and ads, 20% on extensions to search such as news and 10% on speculative ideas there is a highly decentralized system to determine which projects move ahead.
Google has surged, along with the broader market, as Apple has sunk, as its mobile business has proven to be incremental, rather than cannibalistic, to its core search competency, and as YouTube has gradually taken a bigger bite of TV ad budgets.
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Aside from its core search business and the dozens or hundreds of private desires we type into its search box daily, its projects like Chrome OS and now Google Drive illustrate that Google wants private users and even businesses to someday store everything in the cloud.
This Slate story goes a long way to getting at the core of Search vs.
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Google has previously updated its core Web search technology.
Google is at its core a search engine.
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Google has rapidly branched out from its previous core business of search in recent years.
Google didn't explain why it missed fourth-quarter estimates, but analysts suggested the slowing economy may have impacted Google's core business: search advertising.
Indeed, the addition of upscale products in key future growth areas is an important tool to attract new customers without alienating the company's core shoppers in search of the lowest prices for basic goods.
Still, Google's determination to keep innovating has served it well in its core business of search, where it commands nearly two-thirds of the market in America and an even higher share elsewhere (see chart).
Traffic for core products such as search and mail were down 24% and 12%, respectively, in December 2012 compared to December 2011.
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Recently Baidu announced that it will hire 30 software engineers in the United States, and this group will probably be the core team for developing search engines in other languages.
Bock says the company is prepared to see a number of people move on and has identified the people it feels it must keep, particularly in Google's core business of Internet search.
The concept of the huge, sprawling conglomerate which owned everything and anything seemingly fell out of favor decades ago, replaced by a search for core brands and core values with branding cohesiveness.
She too will probably search within the core of her being for anything she could have done to avoid this, and how to move into a role of single parent.
Third, we have made important investments in our core computing infrastructure that provides us greater scalability and increases the rate of iteration on core technologies, like algorithmic search, as much as tenfold.
Their core businesses are gaming, online search, web 2.0, and e-commerce.
In the past few years, it has closed down under-performing and non-core sites like social bookmarking service Delicious, search engine AltaVista, online news aggregator Buzz, and social network MyBlogLog.
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