A Critical Analysis of a Google; a net-enabled e-business.
Contents
1.0 Abstract 3
2.0 Background of Google 3
3.0 E-Business Model 3
3. 1 Mission 4
3.2 Structure 5
3.3 Processes 5
3.4 Revenues 6
3.5 Legal issues 7
3.6 Technology 7
4.0 Competitive Analysis 8
4.1 SWOT Analysis 8
4. 2 Strengths 8
4.3 Weaknesses 10
4.4 Opportunities 10
4.5 Threats 11
5.0 Google’s Strategy 12
5.1 Diversification 12
5.2 Innovation 13
5.3 Emergent 14
6.0 Conclusion 15
7.0 References 16
Abstract
This essay will firstly look at a brief overview of Google and its history. It will then use Alt and Zimmerman’s (1991) Generic Elements of Business model to discuss the
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Google shows relevant advertisements with the results of each search requested. Whenever a user clicks on an advertisement, Google collects a fee from the advertiser. They use a Business to Business (B2B) approach for generating revenue as they target other businesses that will advertise and pay Google a fee.
Google operate on a global scale; providing results in over 35 languages. Google provides worldwide support to their advertiser base through 60 offices in over 20 countries (Google Annual Report, 2007). Google’s main headquarters are in Mountain View, California, USA, however it also has offices in over 26 countries worldwide and has over 16,000 employees. (Google Annual Report 2007, p.36)
3.3 Processes
In order to emphasise the value creation of Google I will focus on how they primarily generate revenue '' targeted online advertising, and how they provide value and service to their B2B customers '' advertisers.
AdWords and AdSense allow Google to generate revenue through its breakthrough technology.
Pricing: It costs a user 5 dollars to create an account and there is no minimum advertising spend required. Google operate an auction based pricing system. This is based on the value (cost-per-click or CPC) an advertiser allocates to certain keywords. The advertisement’s position on Google’s search page will be determined by a “combination of the CPC and the click-through rate (number of times the ad is
Describe Google’s customer value proposition and profit formula linked to its business model. What strategies has Google relied upon to build competitive advantage in the
Online advertising must go beyond affiliate marketing and display ads increase page views and attract a larger audience. Search engine marketing “represents nearly half the total online ad spend in the United States, with $12 billion in 2010 and projections of $24.45 billion
There are various types of advertising: contextual advertising; in-text video contextual; billboards; viral videos; pricing with the best offers; Java-scripts, and etc. All these advertisements are displayed not in a random way. The way ad appears at your
Google’s business model is geared towards mobile computing and the Internet. The company wants versatile smartphones that allow access to the Web and the use of applications that can be used on different devices. Google also has strength in advertising, in that they appeal to many potential customers on the Web.
Google Inc. was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. By 2000 it had become the world 's largest search engine. This case study will examine the rise of the Google search engine, how it differs from its competitors, and possible threats it may face going forward.
This type of advertising uses keywords to trigger ads. Typically, advertisers select a set of keywords related to the product or service they wish to advertise. The ads are then
Sutherland, A (2012, Pg 4). “What turned Google into the internet business phenomenon it is today, was realizing they could advertisers to pay for sponsored links”.
AdWords is Google's advertising product and main source of revenue. AdWords offers pay-per-click advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads. The AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution. Advertisements are short, consisting of one title line and two content text lines and/or image. The "content network" shows AdWords ads on sites that are not search engines. These content network sites are those that use AdSense, the other side of the Google advertising model. AdSense is used by website owners who wish to make money by displaying ads on their websites. User’s click on ad displayed on a Web page means that advertiser pays Google and Google give percentage of that amount to the webpage. The third way in which they make money is through its Google Search Appliance, which they sell to their customers. This Google’s search technology can be integrated into a third party’s Web page or intranet. This appliance delivers accurate search results throughout a number of documents. Meaning your company would have its own search engine and it would work just as well as google.com. Licensing fees ranged from $30,000 to $600,000. There is also Google MiniSearch Appliance designed for small businesses. Some of the most important strengths of the Google’s business model are: Reliable pricing system, scalable architecture, disruptive business model, and efficient ad system and relevant ads.
Google Inc. is a popular American company most known for its robust search engine. Google was established in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, headquarters located in Mountain View, California. More than 70 percent of worldwide online search requests are handled by Google, placing it at the heart of most Internet users’ experience (Britannica, Google Inc). This paper will cover the impact of Google’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders on its overall success; analyze the five forces of competition to determine how they impact the company; create SWOT analysis to determine their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, discuss the various types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competiveness; and assess efforts by Google to be a responsible corporate citizen. Google Inc. started out as an online search company. Today, Google offers well over 50 products and internet services ranging from online document creation, e-mail, software for tablet computers and mobile phones, and online document creation. Their wide ranging product portfolio and size makes Google one of the top prominent companies in the technology market to include IBM, Microsoft, and Apple. In spite of their countless products, the core of its success is based on their original search tool. In 2011, Google earned 97 percent of its revenue through advertising based on users’ search requests (Britannica, Google, Inc.).
Google is a multinational corporation that serves thousands of consumers worldwide. Through Internet related products such as Internet searches, maps, emails, mobile apps, and other online contents for users Google became the company it is today. Every employee of Google is different in his or her own way; making it a well-diversified organization similar to the global audience they serve. Google’s mission statement is to organize information from all around the world and make it universally accessible at a quick and orderly fashion. This means creating a search engine smart
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While 96% of Google's revenue comes from advertising, the company is so big that that still leaves $1.5 billion unaccounted for. Again, quoting Google's annual report, "[Google] derive[s] most of [its] additional revenues from [its] enterprise products, as well as [its] display advertising management services to advertisers, ad agencies and publishers." Google might have started off (and be primarily identified) as exclusively about search, but its size has allowed it to aggressively buy up companies that stray from the advertising-heavy business model(Greg McFarlane).
Google is the most successful information technology and web search company in the world. It was founded in 1998 by two Stanford Ph.D. students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The company name, Google, is a play on the word “googol” which is a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Larry Page and Sergey Brin chose this name to reflect the large amount of information on the web. The two created this search engine so that people can find anything on the web all in one place. The company’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Now, the company is far more than a search engine website, it has grown to be a substantial collection of products and services that are
The strategy of focusing on getting information to millions of people internationally is the foundation of Google. Another strategy in which Google is unique is their culture. Google creates an atmosphere of creativity, teamwork and brainstorming which has helped win them a spot in the top 10 of Fortune magazine’s best companies in which to work.
- Advertisers and publishers form the main source of revenue for the company. They consist of both pure-clicks and bricks-and-clicks merchants and retailers wishing to capitalize on the Internet as a form of marketing tool to push their line of products and services to the consumers. Online publishers may include small time business operators that attempt to sell their products or services to the customers as well. The revenue source includes advertising fees, transaction fees and referral fees to affiliates.