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Google SWOT Analysis

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h3>Strengths<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>• It has established a brand name for itself and is considered to be the number one search engine on the web&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• The speed and simplicity of its search engine is quite reliable and user friendly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It has a &OpenCurlyQuote;market cap’ of &dollar;185&period;61 billion according to &OpenCurlyQuote;Yahoo Finance’&comma; Dec 5&comma; 2009&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It has a &OpenCurlyQuote;war chest’ of &dollar;22 billion according to Adam Ostrow&comma; Oct 15&comma; 2009&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It is considered to be among the top 10 brands in the U&period;S&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It gets reputation by its popularity which proceeds by its word of mouth publicity&comma; so it doesn’t need to put much effort in marketing its search engine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>• It offers many products and services i-e&semi; Desktop products&comma; Mobile products&comma; Web products&comma; Hardware products&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It has a low operation cost regarding its products and services&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It has hired PhDs specially to work for enhancing the search engine algorithms which will render the search faster&comma; relevant and more efficient&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It provides its search engine interface to 88 languages which is quite helpful for the locals of the countries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It uses state-of-the-art technology to catalog the pages to give the most updated outcomes to its users<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It ranks the webpages with its Page-Rank technology that gives the users access to the important pages first&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It specializes in marking the results in differential scale i-e it separates the sponsored links from the regular links that are provided&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• The search engine also provides localized searching where the users get results according to their regions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It provides services such as Groups&comma; Email&comma; News&comma; Directory etc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It has come-up with ideas regarding solutions to wireless hand-held devices&comma; personalized toolbars&comma; and indexes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It directly routes its users to the webpage without lingering on another site for ad&period; Revenue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It has also acquired YouTube which provides video services to users across the web&comma; and which is regarded to be the number-one online video portal users&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It has AdWords and AdSense programs working as the main mechanism&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It has a strong professional networking space present&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;adsense&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Weaknesses<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>• It is dependent mostly on its search based advertising&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• There is the risk of facing dead ends for the users&comma; who find the citation but not the whole text&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It has lack of focus regarding the service of search engine&period;&lbrack;linkunit&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Spammers usually take advantage of google’s ranking technology bycreating sites that contain a lot of links by which they end up getting higher ranks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Its link-based ranking tech&period; mostly didn’t work on actual traffic analysis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Its cost-per-click advertising charge &amp&semi; ranking policy makes it difficult for the clients to predict the positioning of their ads and their costing as per se&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Its contextual advertising is considered less effective regarding sales generation&comma; and the algorithms behind the search are erroneous&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Its localized search also results in errors at times&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• It is the top player regarding the search engines yet it answers search queries with 50 to 60&percnt; accuracy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Its inability regarding YouTube to be monetized&period;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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