GOOGLE 
Strategic Analysis 
Sandeep Dutta
The Vision 
To make search engines so powerful they would 
understand "everything in the world". 
The Mission 
To organize the world's information and make it 
universally accessible and useful. 
The Focus 
Google continues to focus on innovation and on the 
user experience.
Google Strategy 
• It’s the same as of Capgemini, IBM, HP, 
Microsoft etc…. 
• All these companies have major share in world 
products & services share of Engines and IT 
domain 
• Google wants world wide web’s major share.
QUESTION? 
• IS GOOGLE IN THE RIGHT INDUSTRY? 
Let’s Analyze the Industry
The Industry Stats
Country Analysis 
Country Users (Mn) Usage Growth 
(2006-2012) 
US 210.00 120.80% 
China 162.00 620.00% 
Japan 86.30 83.30% 
India 63.00 992.00% 
Brazil 39.15 682.8% 
World 1173.00 225.00%
QUESTION? 
IS GOOGLE IN THE RIGHT BUSINESS? 
Lets Look at Products and Rev Model.
Google Products (>60) 
Standalone 
Applications 
AdWords Editor 
Gmail Notifier 
Hello Pack 
Photo Screensaver 
Picasa 
Secure Access 
GTalk 
SketchUp 
Desktop Extension 
Blogger Web 
Comments 
Browser Sync 
Dashboard Widgets 
Send to Phone 
Toolbar 
Communication & 
publishing 
3D Warehouse 
Blogger 
Calendar, Docs& 
Spreadsheets 
Dodgeball 
FeedBurner 
Gmail, Orkut 
YouTube 
Reader 
Mobile Products 
Blogger Mobile 
Calendar 
Gmail 
News 
iGoogle 
Reader 
Maps Mobile 
Web 
Search 
Maps 
Ride Finder 
Analytics 
Directory 
Google Mini 
SMS 
Search Mash 
Advertising 
AdSense 
AdWords 
Audio Ads 
Click-to-Call 
Grants 
TV Ads
Core Products & Revenue Model 
• Core Products – Search and Adwords. 
• Revenue Sources - 
• Contextual Ads - Adsense. 
• Adwords. 
• Licensing Google search. 
• Approx – 100 Billions Dollars.
Internet Advertising Trend 
and Predictions 
Global - By Zenith Optimedia
Global Market Share 
in Search 
Total search in year 2006  99.57 Bn 
Google is doing 138.1 Mn search per day
QUESTION? 
• WHAT MAKES GOOGLE? 
ANDAR KI BAAT
Leadership 
• Dr. Eric Schmidt, 
• Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer 
• Larry Page, Co-Founder & President, Products 
• Sergey Brin, Co-Founder & President, Technology
Philosophy of Google 
• Focus on the user and all else will follow. 
• It's best to do one thing, and do it well. 
• Fast is better than slow. 
• Democracy on the web works. 
• You don't need to be at your desk to need an answer. 
• You can make money without doing evil. 
• There's always more information out there. 
• The need for information crosses all borders. 
• You can be serious without a suit. 
• Great just isn't good enough.
Google’s Culture 
• Heart of Small Company 
• Hand’s on contribution to the Products by each employee 
• Flat Hierarchy 
• Each employee having several responsibilities in different departments 
• Hiring Policy 
– Non Discriminatory 
– Preference of ability over experience 
• Multilingual company environment 
• Multidomestic culture 
• Recreation along with work 
• Common café for all employees
Google’s Global Presence 
•21 countries at present
Uniqueness about Google 
SEARCH 
• Speed, Accuracy, Objectivity and Ease of use of. 
• Fit between their technology and the consumer 
behavior. 
• Page Rank technology – Orkut merged 
• Solved the scale up problem 
• Positioned as “Fastest Crawling Technique” 
• Keeps the search “Up to date”
Uniqueness about Google 
• 1st to get it right advantage 
• Advertisers tie up as “CPC” 
• Trade off between “Speed” & “Compression” 
• Best asset utilization (Efficient storage space) 
• R&D expenditure = 50% Net Income(10% of 
Revenue)
Continuous Innovation
Biz Model 
• User Info 
• Social Networking 
• Page Rank 
• Relative Importance 
• Customization 
• Contextual Advertising
• competitive advantage comes from its core competencies in computer 
hardware and software engineering
Value Chain
Dynamic View 
Resource 
Endowments 
Resource 
Commitment 
Activities 
Buying many sites, 
Opening offices in many 
Countries, Huge investment in 
R&D, Continuous investment in 
increasing Database 
Searching for various 
avenues, Continuous 
innovation, Developing 
people, learning new 
technologies
QUESTION? 
• WHAT IS GOOGLE PITTED AGAINST? 
THE BATTLE ZONE
Competitive Landscape 
Search
Competitive Landscape 
Advertising
Competitive Landscape 
Video Blogging
Competitive Landscape 
Social Networking
QUESTION? 
• HOW WOULD GOOGLE CLASSIFY THESE 
PLAYERS AND WHO ARE THE TOP 
COMPETITORS? 
THE BATTLE ZONE – Part Deux
Direct Competitors 
OR Complementors? 
• Internet companies, 
• web search providers, 
• Internet access providers, 
• Internet advertising companies
Indirect Competition 
Or Complementors? 
• Competition from traditional media 
companies. 
• Most large advertisers have set advertising 
budgets, a very small portion of which is 
allocated to Internet advertising.
Top Competitors
Google Identifies Top 2 
• Primary competitors - Microsoft and Yahoo! Inc. 
• Both Microsoft and Yahoo have more employees than 
Google. – Microsoft 6 times. 
• Microsoft also has significantly more cash resources. 
• Longer operating histories and more established 
relationships with customers and end users. 
• Microsoft and Yahoo also may have a greater ability to 
attract and retain users - because they operate Internet 
portals with a broad range of content products and 
services.
Strengths Analysis 
Weaknesses Analysis
Threats Analysis 
Common Opportunities 
• BRIC Countries 
•Computer literacy is on the rise 
•Telecommuting and at-home-businesses growth 
•Mobile technologies offer another opportunity. 
•Cheaper global telecommunication costs open new markets 
Google Yahoo Microsoft 
Traditional ad domain 
Office Suites 
Other Software 
Apps. 
Pay Per Use office 
Internet Ads
Competitor Analysis 
• Google – Aim – To make everything free for the Virtual User.
QUESTION? 
• SO WHAT IS GOOGLE DOING AND WHAT 
SHOULD IT DO? 
ACTION ITEMS
Inorganic Growth - List of 
Google acquisitions 
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 
Xunlei 
Adscape – Video 
Game advertising 
Trendalyzer 
Tonic Systems 
Marratech 
GreenBorder 
Panoramio 
FeedBurner 
PeakStream 
Zenter 
Grand Central – 
VOIP 
dMarc 
Broadcasting– 
Radio Advertising 
Measure Map 
Upstartle 
@Last Software 
Orion 
Neven Vision 
JotSpot 
YouTube- Video 
Sharing 
Endoxon 
2Web Technologies 
Phatbits 
Urchin S/W Inc. 
Dodgeball 
Reqwireless 
Current Comm. Group 
Android 
Skia 
Akwan InfoTech 
AOL (5% stake) 
-Internet
5 year Performance
5 year Performance 
• R&D -> More than 10% increase Y/Y since 
2002 
– Continuous Innovation, creating new products. 
– New products every year, Need Based Positioning, 
Depth rather than Breadth. 
– Ready to deal with dramatic change. 
• Cost of Revenue – around 40% increase Y/Y 
since 2003 
– Find new sources of Revenue, margins reducing.
Recommendations 
• Diversify earnings not products 
Country Revenue % 
US 61% 
UK 14% 
Rest Of 
25% 
World
The Growth Share Matrix
Recommendation 
• Search : Competition from both big web companies and 
well-funded startups will force Google to remain focused on 
continuing to innovate in search. 
• Contextual Ads – Continue good work 
• Other Ad formats - With Google clearly intent on spreading 
its advertising platform to the offline world, go for more 
acquisitions. 
• Video – Continue Good work. Consolidate position. 
• Social Networking – Acquire other players. 
• Office Suite – Continuous R&D
Recommendations 
• Be Multi-domestic company 
• Find new sources of revenue. 
• Continuous Innovation is the key to maintain 
dominance in such an aggressive 
environment. 
• Concentrate on BRIC nations.
Recommendations 
• Balance Scorecard
Have we left any 
QUESTIONS unanswered? 
“THE POWER OF GOOGLE IS ENPOWERMENT.”

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    The Vision Tomake search engines so powerful they would understand "everything in the world". The Mission To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. The Focus Google continues to focus on innovation and on the user experience.
  • 3.
    Google Strategy •It’s the same as of Capgemini, IBM, HP, Microsoft etc…. • All these companies have major share in world products & services share of Engines and IT domain • Google wants world wide web’s major share.
  • 4.
    QUESTION? • ISGOOGLE IN THE RIGHT INDUSTRY? Let’s Analyze the Industry
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    Country Analysis CountryUsers (Mn) Usage Growth (2006-2012) US 210.00 120.80% China 162.00 620.00% Japan 86.30 83.30% India 63.00 992.00% Brazil 39.15 682.8% World 1173.00 225.00%
  • 7.
    QUESTION? IS GOOGLEIN THE RIGHT BUSINESS? Lets Look at Products and Rev Model.
  • 8.
    Google Products (>60) Standalone Applications AdWords Editor Gmail Notifier Hello Pack Photo Screensaver Picasa Secure Access GTalk SketchUp Desktop Extension Blogger Web Comments Browser Sync Dashboard Widgets Send to Phone Toolbar Communication & publishing 3D Warehouse Blogger Calendar, Docs& Spreadsheets Dodgeball FeedBurner Gmail, Orkut YouTube Reader Mobile Products Blogger Mobile Calendar Gmail News iGoogle Reader Maps Mobile Web Search Maps Ride Finder Analytics Directory Google Mini SMS Search Mash Advertising AdSense AdWords Audio Ads Click-to-Call Grants TV Ads
  • 9.
    Core Products &Revenue Model • Core Products – Search and Adwords. • Revenue Sources - • Contextual Ads - Adsense. • Adwords. • Licensing Google search. • Approx – 100 Billions Dollars.
  • 10.
    Internet Advertising Trend and Predictions Global - By Zenith Optimedia
  • 11.
    Global Market Share in Search Total search in year 2006  99.57 Bn Google is doing 138.1 Mn search per day
  • 12.
    QUESTION? • WHATMAKES GOOGLE? ANDAR KI BAAT
  • 13.
    Leadership • Dr.Eric Schmidt, • Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer • Larry Page, Co-Founder & President, Products • Sergey Brin, Co-Founder & President, Technology
  • 14.
    Philosophy of Google • Focus on the user and all else will follow. • It's best to do one thing, and do it well. • Fast is better than slow. • Democracy on the web works. • You don't need to be at your desk to need an answer. • You can make money without doing evil. • There's always more information out there. • The need for information crosses all borders. • You can be serious without a suit. • Great just isn't good enough.
  • 15.
    Google’s Culture •Heart of Small Company • Hand’s on contribution to the Products by each employee • Flat Hierarchy • Each employee having several responsibilities in different departments • Hiring Policy – Non Discriminatory – Preference of ability over experience • Multilingual company environment • Multidomestic culture • Recreation along with work • Common café for all employees
  • 16.
    Google’s Global Presence •21 countries at present
  • 17.
    Uniqueness about Google SEARCH • Speed, Accuracy, Objectivity and Ease of use of. • Fit between their technology and the consumer behavior. • Page Rank technology – Orkut merged • Solved the scale up problem • Positioned as “Fastest Crawling Technique” • Keeps the search “Up to date”
  • 18.
    Uniqueness about Google • 1st to get it right advantage • Advertisers tie up as “CPC” • Trade off between “Speed” & “Compression” • Best asset utilization (Efficient storage space) • R&D expenditure = 50% Net Income(10% of Revenue)
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    Biz Model •User Info • Social Networking • Page Rank • Relative Importance • Customization • Contextual Advertising
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    • competitive advantagecomes from its core competencies in computer hardware and software engineering
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    Dynamic View Resource Endowments Resource Commitment Activities Buying many sites, Opening offices in many Countries, Huge investment in R&D, Continuous investment in increasing Database Searching for various avenues, Continuous innovation, Developing people, learning new technologies
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    QUESTION? • WHATIS GOOGLE PITTED AGAINST? THE BATTLE ZONE
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    QUESTION? • HOWWOULD GOOGLE CLASSIFY THESE PLAYERS AND WHO ARE THE TOP COMPETITORS? THE BATTLE ZONE – Part Deux
  • 30.
    Direct Competitors ORComplementors? • Internet companies, • web search providers, • Internet access providers, • Internet advertising companies
  • 31.
    Indirect Competition OrComplementors? • Competition from traditional media companies. • Most large advertisers have set advertising budgets, a very small portion of which is allocated to Internet advertising.
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    Google Identifies Top2 • Primary competitors - Microsoft and Yahoo! Inc. • Both Microsoft and Yahoo have more employees than Google. – Microsoft 6 times. • Microsoft also has significantly more cash resources. • Longer operating histories and more established relationships with customers and end users. • Microsoft and Yahoo also may have a greater ability to attract and retain users - because they operate Internet portals with a broad range of content products and services.
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    Threats Analysis CommonOpportunities • BRIC Countries •Computer literacy is on the rise •Telecommuting and at-home-businesses growth •Mobile technologies offer another opportunity. •Cheaper global telecommunication costs open new markets Google Yahoo Microsoft Traditional ad domain Office Suites Other Software Apps. Pay Per Use office Internet Ads
  • 36.
    Competitor Analysis •Google – Aim – To make everything free for the Virtual User.
  • 37.
    QUESTION? • SOWHAT IS GOOGLE DOING AND WHAT SHOULD IT DO? ACTION ITEMS
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    Inorganic Growth -List of Google acquisitions 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Xunlei Adscape – Video Game advertising Trendalyzer Tonic Systems Marratech GreenBorder Panoramio FeedBurner PeakStream Zenter Grand Central – VOIP dMarc Broadcasting– Radio Advertising Measure Map Upstartle @Last Software Orion Neven Vision JotSpot YouTube- Video Sharing Endoxon 2Web Technologies Phatbits Urchin S/W Inc. Dodgeball Reqwireless Current Comm. Group Android Skia Akwan InfoTech AOL (5% stake) -Internet
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    5 year Performance • R&D -> More than 10% increase Y/Y since 2002 – Continuous Innovation, creating new products. – New products every year, Need Based Positioning, Depth rather than Breadth. – Ready to deal with dramatic change. • Cost of Revenue – around 40% increase Y/Y since 2003 – Find new sources of Revenue, margins reducing.
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    Recommendations • Diversifyearnings not products Country Revenue % US 61% UK 14% Rest Of 25% World
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    Recommendation • Search: Competition from both big web companies and well-funded startups will force Google to remain focused on continuing to innovate in search. • Contextual Ads – Continue good work • Other Ad formats - With Google clearly intent on spreading its advertising platform to the offline world, go for more acquisitions. • Video – Continue Good work. Consolidate position. • Social Networking – Acquire other players. • Office Suite – Continuous R&D
  • 44.
    Recommendations • BeMulti-domestic company • Find new sources of revenue. • Continuous Innovation is the key to maintain dominance in such an aggressive environment. • Concentrate on BRIC nations.
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    Have we leftany QUESTIONS unanswered? “THE POWER OF GOOGLE IS ENPOWERMENT.”