Oct 23, 2005
Does anyone know if Google or Yahoo offer a service where you can query your email account (that either of them serve) using SMS? The way that I can SMS Google a search term & they'll SMS me back the answers... (or the way I just MMS'd this question to my blog that you are looking at)?
Just now I was trying to dl an email to my phone in order to pull a phone number from it... But b/c of Cingular's crappy service, compounded by the rain, it couldn't connect...
As I write this email it occurs to me that this is a nifty feature they could even add to Google desktop - b/c I was thinking about how it may be potentially difficult for them to have already crawled & indexed my email... And how w/Google desktop - they've already done that!
And at this point, after thinking about this some more (while waiting extraordinarily long for a subway) I'm sure that they scan each email as it comes in, so that's not a problem either.
Either way, being able to SMS either one of those co's w/a query & being able to have my entire pc, server-based email, AND the Internet be searched is def. Something I'd pay for...
And w/all the talk earlier this week (prior to GOOG's release of their 10Q) of how GOOG needs to diversify their income stream b/c something like 94% of rev. comes from advert's... This is an easy one...
Which leads me to another thought (as this train crawls through the tunnel on my way to help out w/ NY Cares Day) - all week long, every would-be pundit (save for Jim Kramer, a genious in his own right) was talking about how GOOG was going to prob not have such stellar #'s b/c they rely too heavly on ad rev. I tend to agree that it's not a sustainable (or prudent, rather) course to be on. All they need is a slight downturn where co's advertise less & they're fucked (at least for that quarter). But GOOG came out w/great numbers and all of a sudden CNBC spends the whole next day talking about one thing & one thing only - how amazing GOOG is, how great being in the ad biz is, how new media is KILLING (not will kill, but has already killed) "old media"... Basically they had maybe one person sobering up everyone to remind us that what was being said not 24 hrs earlier was still true even though GOOG had a great quarter - that GOOG needs to start monetizing their many ventures & diversify their streams of rev. - in order to maintain their high P/E (which, btw was pointed out to be slightly lower than that of YHOO). Note: I love GOOG as a company & love how they don't pander (yet) to "the street". It just never ceaces to amaze me how the media jumps on whatever they perceive to be "hot" & because of how much they talk about smething, they make it an issue, when all they're doing is pushing their own fakakta ideas which usually are heavily flawed b/c they're far from experts. And CNBC takes it yet a step further by bringing on "experts" who get so enthralled by the limelight that they often ceace to be the "source" and quickly become part of the media machine... IMHO b/c CNBC brings the same people on - who get to enjoy a super-extended 15 min of fame... These people become regular "contributors" & don't want to be wrong, want to be invited back, so they say/do/act in whatever outlandish way they think will get them asked back... Thus their motivation changes...
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