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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This Slate story goes a long way to getting at the core of Search vs.
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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.
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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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.
Verne's heroes - the eccentric Professor Lidenbrock and his long-suffering nephew, Axel - discover a clue encrypted in an old Icelandic manuscript that sends them to the island in search of a passage to the core of the planet.
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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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.
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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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.
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.
The Blu-ray player also employs a dual core processor to handle the All-in-One search function.
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Against that backdrop, White House officials and some Republicans are arguing that the best way out of the impasse is to resume the search for a comprehensive deficit-cutting deal that gets to the core of the long-term problem through a rewrite of tax policy and a revamp of entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
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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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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"The core of all these apps--map display, waypoint search, tracking and routing--is the same, " notes TrailBehind Chief Executive Andrew Johnson.
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.
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.
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.
The SEO benefit of the responsive Web design approach is that it provides the flexibility to maintain and build search equity to a single set of core HTML pages.
As you'll no doubt be aware having read our headline above, there actually isn't a 1GHz CPU at the helm, as AnandTech and IOSnoops report the dual-core ARM chip is dynamically clocked around 900MHz, likely in search of reduced power consumption.
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.
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).
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.
Google will still stay a search and software company at its core, Steinberg and Parr believe, but the move into e-commerce is a sign of bigger things to come.
The search committee and the entire Board concluded that he is the right leader to return the core business to a path of robust growth and industry-leading innovation.
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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