This simple gadget uses Google translation and search data to provide an estimate of market opportunities across the world. Enter your products or services, target regions and languages to see detailed data and trends for each estimated opportunity.
[google.co.uk...]
Hat-tip to Sphn (not sure if they are permitted a link or a brand reference)
Cheers
Oh, wait . . . Won't this diminish or kill off many import-export and trade intermediaries and channels . . and simply replace them with a new, singular intermediary/channel . . not eliminate but only create new dependencies . . a perpetual need to serve the bot and feed the bot . .
The following characters are fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. No one would ever imagine and attempt to engineer a world that looks like this:
"Hello, this is your wake up call."
Gobble Real Estate Adviser will guide you in overcoming the major barriers to privately buying and selling real estate with useful tools, practical insights and relevant offers . .
Gobble Rental Property Adviser will guide you . .
Gobble Insurance Adviser will guide you . .
Gobble Travel Adviser . .
And when auto-piloted vehicles are allowed to travel the highways, guided by GPS, Google maps and Google ground imaging (Wanna bet?) and robots can turn a wrench . . then . .
Gobble Household Services Adviser
You don't think so? You don't get it? Guess whose money has funded the destruction . . err . . disintermediation . . err . . the disruptive technology that ate your business and destroyed your livelihood? Was it the funds in your PPC account? Funding the slow click . . click . . click-death of your business model?
Real Question: When every possible service is offered by or performed by a highly efficient collector of all the world's information and its fleets of bots then will humankind . . .
Nah. We are necessary, important, the chosen, . . For what I'm not certain, but I'm certain the machines will find use for humans . . although they're not accustomed to it . .
We now return to reality, where humans are and always will be very, very important and will always be cared for and will be taken care of, and have meaningful work and be a necessary part of the world . . . relax humans . . relax . . it is useless to resist . .
[edited by: Webwork at 1:06 pm (utc) on June 26, 2009]
I had a little play with the export adviser but it wasn't very useful to me. Every search I tried said the USA would be the biggest consumers.
I felt they were generalising so tried the model name of a car which was never exported to the USA and was made in a country the US doesn't seem to like.
Results were USA again, and while they did highlight the country of manufacture they didn't identify the major export markets.
Might have helped if queries within quotes were allowed. Or perhaps if they didn't pay quite so much notice of server location (they are cheaper in the US).
Much more helpful would be to already know your market through involvement in what you sell. And I wonder if the Google Terminator can be defeated using robots.txt
