Comments on: I Stand Corrected – Google Phone is Real http://www.michikono.com/2007/03/16/i-stand-corrected-google-phone-is-real/ Stuff only Michi cares to read Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: L33tminion http://www.michikono.com/2007/03/16/i-stand-corrected-google-phone-is-real/#comment-1127 L33tminion Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:07:21 +0000 http://www.michiknows.com/2007/03/16/i-stand-corrected-google-phone-is-real/#comment-1127 I wonder how location-sensitive the GooglePhone will be (either through GPS if they can make that cheap enough or through some clever signal-processing / triangulation-based method). That would be a boost for the popularity of Google Maps. Plus, that would be very useful information for context-based advertising. And I bet Google could do a lot by analyzing the travel / communication patterns of phone owners. Imagine your phone showing ads for businesses within sight of you, finding information about a business by pointing your phone at it and pushing a button, or searching for "pizza near me" on Google Maps and seeing a list of nearby pizza places ranked by popularity <I>according to call volume</I>. (That last example would require significant market share, of course, but I think that's the sort of thing Google is dreaming of for this sort of venture.) I wonder how location-sensitive the GooglePhone will be (either through GPS if they can make that cheap enough or through some clever signal-processing / triangulation-based method). That would be a boost for the popularity of Google Maps. Plus, that would be very useful information for context-based advertising. And I bet Google could do a lot by analyzing the travel / communication patterns of phone owners.

Imagine your phone showing ads for businesses within sight of you, finding information about a business by pointing your phone at it and pushing a button, or searching for “pizza near me” on Google Maps and seeing a list of nearby pizza places ranked by popularity according to call volume.

(That last example would require significant market share, of course, but I think that’s the sort of thing Google is dreaming of for this sort of venture.)

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