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35 views | GoGoHub: New Search Engine To Rival Google, Craig’s List Lexington, NC, December 4, 2008-The soon-to-be launched GoGoHub website has a very lofty but achievable goal: to rival Google and Craig’s List. GoGoHub aims to rival Google and Craig’s List in terms of providing ng more benefits to its users. The online classified ad market all over the world generates nearly $100 billion every year. Google earns $19 billion in terms of ad revenues yearly. Amazon, on the other hand, generated $10.7 billion in classified ads in 2006. “While these companies are earning this much thanks to your continued patronage you can never expect them to share a larger part of their income with you,” GoGoHub Professional Marketer Vid Artukovic said. However, GoGoHub aims to rival these companies in terms of providing greater benefits and larger incomes to their members. GoGoHub positions itself as a direct competitor to Craig’s List because it offers the GoGoHub Free Classified Ads. Unlike Craig’s List though, GoGoHub will use banner ads and featured ads which adds value to the site. GoGoHub is a lso a search engine just like Google which will allow users to type in a certain keyword and do a quick Geo-Targeted search of the item they are looking for. The search is limited to the categories and subcategories indicated in the GoGoHub website. What makes GoGoHub unique and possibly bigger than Google and Craig’s List in terms of benefits given to their members, is the ability to share in the company’s growth from the beginning stages, by investing in the GoGoHub Investment Opportunity. If you are among the millions of workers who want to get away from the Bundy Clock, then take advantage of the GoGoHub Home Business 2008-12-05 05:37:14 |
Why Negroponte’s $100 laptop failed — the 100-word version [One Laptop Per Child]
November 26th, 2007 at 4:30 amSource:Valleywag
Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal devoted nearly 3,000 words to the saga of Nicholas Negroponte’s plan: “Design a $100 laptop and, within four years, get it into the hands of up to 150 million of the world’s poorest schoolchildren.” What went wrong? “Mr. Negroponte’s ambitious plan has been derailed, in part, by the power of his idea.”
For-profit companies threatened by the projected $100 price tag set off at a sprint to develop their own dirt-cheap machines, plunging Mr. Negroponte into unexpected competition against Intel and Microsoft.
Intel, which normally doesn’t sell computers, introduced a small laptop for developing countries called the Classmate, which currently goes for between $230 and $300. It hopes to prevent AMD, whose chips are in Mr. Negroponte’s competing computer, from becoming a standard in the developing world.
Some potential buyers are having second thoughts. Officials in Libya, who had planned to buy up to 1.2 million of the laptops, became concerned that the machines lacked Windows, and that service, teacher training and future upgrades might [therefore] become a problem.
It now sells for $188, plus shipping. The higher price has made the laptop vulnerable to competition. Taiwanese, Indian and Israeli sellers of inexpensive Windows laptop see the developing world’s more than one billion potential young customers as a big opportunity.
Bonus anecdote:
At a private meeting with a group from Rwanda, Negroponte announced that 20,000 laptops, courtesy of the “Give One. Get One.” program, would soon be distributed. Carine Umutesi, who works for Rwanda’s Information Technology Authority, questioned who would fix them if they break.Mr. Negroponte said some initial tech support would be provided by Brightstar Corp., a Miami-based wireless equipment distributor. Just who would provide support a few years from now, he said, was “a frightening question.” The students, he said, will need “to do as much maintenance as possible.”
