Who?
What?
When?
Where?
How?
Sometimes Why.
The questions above are used by journalists to capture all the most significant information about a story.
Why?
Why is on the list too because I wish to emphasize its double-meaning (i.e. “A,E,I,O,U, and sometimes Y”)
Let’s see what Google thinks about these questions vis-a-vis auto-suggest:
 
Who?

What?

When?

Where?

How?

Why?

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Earlier today, during a DoublePositive pizza lunch, I asked my fellow lunch-mates to name their favorite movie.
Wait. “Favorite” or “Best” they asked.
Good question.
Here’s my best/favorite list of all time:

The Wizard of Oz
West Side Story
The Sound of Music
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Amadeus
Back to the Future
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rocky
The Karate Kid
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Caddyshack
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the [...]

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It was a pleasant surprise to come to work today and see a late-night conversation I had at LeadsCon East 2010 with my friend Mike Ferree reflected on his blog.
Mike’s LeadCritic blog has blossomed in parallel with the blossoming of the LeadsCon franchise.  While chatting, we were reminiscing about how far the Lead Generation space [...]

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Google.com/Voice
You seldom see “Bad” in a subject line along with Google, but “Google Buzz” and “Google Wave” have significantly under-performed (as far as Google product launches go).
Here’s a Google product launch that is GUARANTEED to reverse that trend…
Google Voice:

I first blogged about Google Voice when Google acquired Grand Central back in 2007 (I’m still bothered [...]

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Agreement Represents another Top-tier Client Addition to the Managed Services offering from DoublePositive
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Education-Management-bw-55070469.html?x=0&.v=1
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/education-management-corporation-online-higher-education-edmc-ohe-selects-doublepositive-marketing-group-as-its-online-marketing-agency-of-record-2010-06-01?reflink=MW_news_stmp
BALTIMORE, Jun 01, 2010  — DoublePositive Marketing Group, Inc. announced today that it has been chosen by Education Management Corporation — Online Higher Education (EDMC OHE) as their Online Marketing Agency of Record for all Online Marketing across all EDMC OHE brands (including [...]

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WOW - just look at that chart below.

Looks like Spam lost.
Nobody is interested anymore - especially in Australia and USA.
The Wisdom of Crowds wins again.  Well done fellow Internet users.
Special thanks to Google for reporting on it.
SPF

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I never use coupons but I love Groupon.
And not just because they’re good for 1 acupuncture:
 

And not just because they’re a $1.35 billion dollar business:
Last month DST and Battery Ventures valued Groupon at $1.35 Billion.  http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/18/its-official-groupon-announces-that-1-35-billion-valuation-round/

And not just because it is a business that was founded in 2008.
This reminds me of a question I [...]

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I love Apple.
Not just because they’re huge:
At this moment, their market cap is $245 Billion — that’s more than Walmart, GE, Google, Cisco, and IBM. They’re only 10% less than Microsoft’s market cap of $272 Billion, and worth more than HP and AT&T combined (well… almost).

Not just because I’m a user of many Apple products:
I [...]

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The word “brackets” means different things to different people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket_(disambiguation)
Let’s check Google - see if Google has any concise Insights as to the meaning of the word:

Hmmm…
I wonder why the search term “brackets” spikes every March like clockwork?
SPF
p.s. It looks like Google is “forecasting” very light/mild spike this March 2010.  I respectfully disagree.

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The article below was sent to me by Sandy Kory of Media Venture Partners.
In three years desktops will be irrelevant - Google sales chief http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15446/business/in-three-years-desktops-will-be-irrelevant-google-sales-chief
Here is my reply, my thoughts, and my position:
I think that the Eric Schmidt quote is valid if not perfect, but mobile means portable, not best-possible-interface-experience.
I [...]

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