‘We’re all helping to create the Google monster,’ Exalead CEO, SES Paris

Andy Atkins-Krüger  Nov 28, 2006

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8 Responses to “‘We’re all helping to create the Google monster,’ Exalead CEO, SES Paris”

1. » Exalead CEO warnt: “We’re all helping to create the Google monster” Says:
   November 28th, 2006 at 3:07 pm

   […] Exalead CEO warnt: “We’re all helping to create the Google monster” Des deutschen SEO liebste Suchmaschine ist natürlich Exalead. Der CEO von Exalead hat in seiner Keynote auf der SES Paris jetzt ein paar “erwähnenswerte” Worte von sich gegeben. Infos dazu finden sich bei Multilingual Search: The press in particular should be worried about becoming sub-contractors of Google, he said. Whilst at present Google News brings plenty of traffic to sites under the brand names of the press outlets, this would change to Google’s brand in the future. […]

2. B. Smith Says:
   November 28th, 2006 at 5:07 pm

   It seems he failed to mention that this all comes after a failed attempt by he and others at Exalead to sell their company to Google. Sources close to the matter said that Google declined to accept an unsolicited offer from Exalead.

3. Andy Atkins-Krüger Says:
   November 28th, 2006 at 5:42 pm

   One could argue that trying to sell one’s company to the ‘Monster’ may well be a rational approach to deal with its domination. That doesn’t then change the validity or not of his general thrust.

4. Exalead CEO Critical of Google at SES Paris » Online Marketing Blog Says:
   November 28th, 2006 at 8:36 pm

   […] Andy Atkins-Krüger is covering the Search Engine Strategies conference in Paris this week and today quotes Francois Bourdoncle, CEO and founder of France-based search engine Exalead in the opening keynote of Search Engine Strategies Paris as saying . “We’re all helping to create the Google monster” and calls the major search engines the “Walmarts of the digital world.” Bourdoncle also has thoughts about the Google, Yahoo MSN Sitemaps collaboration: “The sitemaps specification is not nice and open and it is not nice and closed”. He believes the initiative aims to close the door to new entrants to the market place. […]

5. Exalead ускорится - SEO блог - инструменты вебмастера Says:
   November 29th, 2006 at 7:55 am

   […] Francois Bourdoncle, СЕО европейской поисковой системы Exalead, решившей бросить вызов главным поисковикам в Европе, критикует новый совместный протокол Sitemaps, введённый Google, Yahoo! и MSN, полагая, что это закроет двери для новых участников рынка. Что касается поисковика Exalead, то Francois Bourdoncle считает, что его развитие продвигалось медленно, и обещает ускорить процесс. Written by on November 29th, 2006 with no comments. Read more articles on Поисковые системы. […]

6. Castor Says:
   November 29th, 2006 at 9:48 am

   FBourdoncle is all big mouth. He’s just less than 0.5% of the french search market, and never published any data related to traffic increase since he changed its design recently.

7. Search Engine Ranking Guides » Blog Archive » 8 ways to build a really bad web site for Search Engines Says:
   December 2nd, 2006 at 7:04 pm

   […] We re all helping to create the Google monster, Exalead …Multilingual Search, UK - Nov 28, 2006… the new sitemaps collaboration announced by Google, Yahoo and MSN at Pubcon in … research initiative by bringing new technologies to the search engine which, he … […]

8. stereophone » About Exalead Says:
   February 6th, 2007 at 4:08 am

   […] Letztes Jahr machte Francois Bourdoncle , Gründer von Exalead, mit folgender Behauptung Schlagzeilen: ‘We’re all helping to create the Google monster’. Er erklärte, dass laut einer Studie, 75% der Menschen Probleme haben Sachen im Internet zu finden. Aber mal ehrlich, wenn alle Menschen Exalead benutzen würden hätten 100% aller Benutzer Probleme Sachen im Internet zu finden und zwar massive. […]

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