Comments on: Google FeedBurner, Analytics and Webmaster Tools should be combined http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/12/google-feedburner-analytics-and-webmaster-tools-should-be-combined.html Tech' views that are 667% more interesting than the tech' news itself... Wed, 23 May 2012 06:43:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Wayne Smallman http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/12/google-feedburner-analytics-and-webmaster-tools-should-be-combined.html#comment-1646 Wayne Smallman Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:59:46 +0000 http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/12/google-feedburner-analytics-and-webmaster-tools-should-be-combined.html#comment-1646 Hi Al, thanks for the comment. Here's the thing — I could probably program something up in PHP, but I'm not on their payroll. So I won't. And these are precisely the kind of things Google should be doing right out of the trap, because they add value to services Google are offering us... Hi Al, thanks for the comment.

Here’s the thing — I could probably program something up in PHP, but I’m not on their payroll. So I won’t.

And these are precisely the kind of things Google should be doing right out of the trap, because they add value to services Google are offering us…

]]> By: AL http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/12/google-feedburner-analytics-and-webmaster-tools-should-be-combined.html#comment-1644 AL Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:22:15 +0000 http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/12/google-feedburner-analytics-and-webmaster-tools-should-be-combined.html#comment-1644 All of this "I want" stuff could be done with a good db and a few minutes of programming. Or, wait until some company happens to do EXACTLY what you happen to want/need. Either way. All of this “I want” stuff could be done with a good db and a few minutes of programming. Or, wait until some company happens to do EXACTLY what you happen to want/need. Either way.

]]> By: Wayne Smallman http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/12/google-feedburner-analytics-and-webmaster-tools-should-be-combined.html#comment-1392 Wayne Smallman Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:33:08 +0000 http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/12/google-feedburner-analytics-and-webmaster-tools-should-be-combined.html#comment-1392 Google's CEO Eric Schmidt announced a while ago that they would be concentrating specifically on bolstering what applications they currently have, rather than work on new stuff. As an example of this, Google's Analytics works quite closely with AdWords. The main problem for Google is that not all of their applications are based on the same coding languages or systems. So it's difficult for them to make App A work with App B without some intermediary service, like an adjoining API. They're a victim of their own fast & loose style... Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt announced a while ago that they would be concentrating specifically on bolstering what applications they currently have, rather than work on new stuff.

As an example of this, Google’s Analytics works quite closely with AdWords.

The main problem for Google is that not all of their applications are based on the same coding languages or systems. So it’s difficult for them to make App A work with App B without some intermediary service, like an adjoining API.

They’re a victim of their own fast & loose style…

]]> By: Jerad Kaliher http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/12/google-feedburner-analytics-and-webmaster-tools-should-be-combined.html#comment-1384 Jerad Kaliher Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:47:48 +0000 http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/12/google-feedburner-analytics-and-webmaster-tools-should-be-combined.html#comment-1384 For some reason I suspect that Google tends to like to keep their mergers independent from the rest of the organization. Even when it comes to YouTube/Google Video you see a bit of a disconnect. It's almost as if Google is sucking up market share from great ideas and wants to see them out as separate entities. This may have something to do with anything from the integration of workforce/culture to the ability to track the success of each as subgenres of Google's mass. Either way, I think that you're right. FeedBurner and Analytics should have been merged long ago. The larger issue at hand might be that Google doesn't adopt an instant-integration attitude. As a consumer of everything Google I'd like to see that change. For some reason I suspect that Google tends to like to keep their mergers independent from the rest of the organization. Even when it comes to YouTube/Google Video you see a bit of a disconnect.

It’s almost as if Google is sucking up market share from great ideas and wants to see them out as separate entities. This may have something to do with anything from the integration of workforce/culture to the ability to track the success of each as subgenres of Google’s mass.

Either way, I think that you’re right. FeedBurner and Analytics should have been merged long ago. The larger issue at hand might be that Google doesn’t adopt an instant-integration attitude. As a consumer of everything Google I’d like to see that change.

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