Love for Small Business or Love for the Query? (Score 1)

The old ways always were. New ways are a bit more creative. Google loves small business, big business, anybody who puts key words into their search engine. All key word searches are stored and I bet analyzed for betting on futures and selling to industry.

Take for example, Northrop Grumman employees are doing research for a new product or new technology. Google can tell where all searches are coming from (Northrop Grumman IPs)and can start anayzing what companies like Northrop Grumman are researching on the Internet (after filtering all the garbage). Not only does Google now have a nice research package; with some embellishments, they could possibly sell Northrop's research queries to Lockheed Martin - just a little bit more intelligence for Lockeed or whoever pays the highest price. I would also bet that Google knows more about Northrop Grummans queries than Northrop Grumman itself.

The queries themselves may possibly be more valuable than the advertising itself (on a per page basis).

The federal government recently wanted search phrases from the major search engines, under the guise of researching pornography access. Might they also start data mining the search words and anaylze what people, companies, forign countries are interested in - for future planning, or sharing with select industry contacts.

Call me paranoid - but I know questions (and every search is a question) lead someplace. After enough questions - search queries - you can visualize an individual, corporate, or national path to something.