Google would like to see Yahoo stay out of Microsoft’s embrace for competitive reasons, but Microsoft’s top lawyer says there’s no problem here.
Ad Blindness Is Nothing New … and it’s No Surprise Google Is Seeing It!
Google’s stock is down because its rate of growth is down according to Google’s latest quarterly financial report. Google still had a 30 percent increase in payments from clicking ads, but that was substantially down from the 45 percent increase they had a year earlier.
After Hours, Investors Flee Google
Google mildly missed analyst expectations for Q4 2007 (the company famously does not provide guidance) and late trading has punished the stock.
Google Strikes Back At Autonomy
Google is defending itself against enterprise search vendor Autonomy saying that its white paper needs some corrections concerning Google’s Search Appliance.
Google Redesigning Korean Search
Though Google’s strategy with the search engine is “the simpler the better,” it seems that cultural demands placed on the search giant is forcing it to tweak the philosophy a bit in Korea.
Google Earth Introduced To Teachers
Celebrities and star athletes endorse products; why not teachers? Granted, young boys may not be in a rush to imitate Mr. Oldman’s turkey neck or Mad Hatter hair, but he still spends a lot of time with the lads. Hence (we believe) Google’s new move to introduce educators to Google Earth.
Confirmed: Crusaders Google Bomb Scientology
An apparent Google bomb aimed at the Church of Scientology is just a part of all-out ideological (holy?) war perpetrated by a group called "Anonymous." The rest of the digital war has been carried out via social media as a highly organized and carefully orchestrated Internet campaign that’s getting the group a lot of attention.
Google Involved In Colorado Land Grab?
There have been periods in which Google seemed to buy or lease a major space at least once a week. Now, although the corporation isn’t fessing up, another huge purchase has taken place that seems to fit its profile.
Google Print Using Bar Code Technology
Google’s hoping to spurn more interest in their newspaper advertising service – Google Print – by adding bar codes to ads. If you have a cell phone that is compatible, you could point it at the bar code and go to a web site printed at the bottom of an ad.
Google Leads Others In CPC Inflation
Google takes in nearly 77% of the total search advertising spend, as of Q4 2007, and raked in 97% of all ad spend increases, according to a study by Efficient Frontier. Despite Nielsen’s recent report that Google search share had slightly decreased, numbers like these on the advertising revenue side could mean good things for a flagging Google stock price.