Joi Ito在Seven years in the search business回顾了当年Infoseek的一个战略失策:
We also talked about how Steve Kirsch, the founder and Chairman of Infoseek was right and the others were wrong. Steve wanted to keep working on the Infoseek search engine, but in the "portal days" Infoseek tried to become a media portal, hiring media people and eventually being acquired by Disney. Infoseek pursued a big media strategy and dropped its focus on search. It's not clear whether Infoseek would have been able to compete with Google, but if they had stayed "just a search engine" maybe they could have given Sergey and Larry a run for the money.如今我们许多人都看好Blog和SS的未来,更直接地说是商人的敏锐天性让他们嗅到了潜在的商机和无限整合的可塑未来;对许多人而言,所谓的商机逐渐丧失的时候,逐利的本能会驱使他们转向新的热点趋势---投机型的Hopper们是否想到在撤移前做一次破坏性的尝试呢?如果Infoseek预见到了搜索的未来并坚持在门户狂潮下的睿智和保持洞察深度本色而专注搜索领域,这个世界又会是谁家搜索独霸的天下?不管怎么说,我害怕以前每次怀着崇敬心情在地址栏里输入infoseek.com,结果去进去go.com那种经历.Anyway, seven years after I was getting all excited about search, the search engine has finally become an essential part of the Internet. Even Yahoo has built its own search engine. Too bad it's Google and not Infoseek. ;-p
无从深入去探究诸如国家或地区创新氛围(Innovative Milieux)的问题,事实上我关注的"One Dream One Team"式Startups们的成长(毁灭)经历已经足够说明这个世界不为人知的潜在控制力.
(Forbes:The Coming RSS Revolution)
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