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Danny Sullivan’s Ad Age Column & Fast Company Debate

I’ve been spreading the word about search in print recently and wanted to share more about that. At the end of January, I started doing a regular monthly column in Ad Age on search marketing. Meanwhile, this month I took part in a Fast Company debate about Google. For those interested, more on both below. […]

Danny Sullivan on March 1, 2007 at 11:06 am

I’ve been spreading the word about search in print recently and wanted to
share more about that. At the end of January, I started doing a regular monthly
column in Ad Age on search marketing. Meanwhile, this month I took part in a
Fast Company debate about Google. For those interested, more on both below.

What Makes
Search Magical
was my first Ad Age column that ran at the end of January.
You have to be a paid Ad Age subscriber to read it, sorry! It was written
especially for traditional marketers, to try and explain why search is a
different creature than they might be used to. Here’s the top of the column:

Yes, search is magical. For years, I’ve described search as a "reverse
broadcast system." In a broadcast system, advertisers spend lots of money to
reach a mass audience, hoping to build desire for a product or service. But
most of the audience is not interested in their pitches. Search is the
reverse. Each search is an expressed desire, something that someone at a
particular time actually wants. Advertisers can tune in to the "desire-cast"
that’s going on.

On Search
Marketing: A New Google? Not Likely
is my second column now out — and it’s
open to anyone to read. It covers the "network" model of search I’ve long used
to explain why I don’t expect some upstart service to wipe out Google any time
soon. Again, here’s the top of the column:

Who’s the next Google? Many ask this question, assuming it’s just a matter
of time before a new upstart search champion appears. Trust me, it’s not. To
understand, consider that you rarely hear people pondering who is going to be
the next ABC, NBC or CBS. Yes, there’s a search war going on. But rather than
it being a winner-take-all battle, the landscape is far more like a network-TV
ratings fight. The major TV networks might get stronger or weaker relative to
each other, but they don’t disappear. Nor do new ones easily emerge to take
away share.

Think Google’s overrated? Think it’s going to stick around? That was the
focus of the debate in Fast Company between me and Donna Bogatin of ZDNet’s
Digital Markets blog. You’ll
find us squaring off in
Is
Google overrated? Tapped out? Due for a fall? Two experts take sides
at Fast
Company. It was fun to do. That debate is also in print — last page of the
March 2007 edition that’s out now, complete with pictures of both of us, though
I’m sure you can do without the picture of me :)


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here.


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Danny Sullivan
Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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