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The Evolution of Paid Search and Why Google Won and Yahoo and Microsoft Lost

Posted by Arun in Adwords, General, Google, Pay Per Click, Yahoo on August 30, 2010

Google’s exponential growth and emergence as a technology juggernaut has been driven by one simple but incredibly successful business model : paid search advertising.  Google  appears invincible today because it dominates one of the largest and most lucrative  web businesses - 0nline advertising via  paid search.   Google’s  version of  this - the Adwords program [...]

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Top 10 Reasons Why the iPad will NOT Kill the Kindle

Posted by Arun in General, apple on January 28, 2010

There is a post on TechCrunch today about the Top 10 Reasons The Apple iPad Will Put Amazon’s Kindle Out of Business
Certainly the iPad will give some competition to the  Kindle - especially the $489 model - but put it out of business ?  Highly unlikely.    Here are the top 10 reasons why the iPad [...]

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Education and Public Schools in America - Some Insights & What The US Can Learn From India

Posted by Arun in General on January 23, 2010

It is now widely acknowledged that America’s  public school education system  is broken and needs fixing. Numerous studies rank US school children well below other countries in  science and math tests:
“The average science score of U.S. students lagged behind those in 16 of 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a [...]

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College too expensive? Try Youtube !

Posted by Arun in General, Tweets on April 9, 2009

College too expensive? Try YouTube http://bit.ly/uFFbo
This is a glimpse of the future of college education and education in general.  The convergence of digital multimedia and broadband together with global connectivity is paving the way for a new way to disseminate learning - 24 hour, on-demand   learning on any topic that may be of interest [...]

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