There are few things more frustrating, from a user’s perspective, than searching and finding what looks like the desired result only to click and meet a log-in page. Give us your money or all your information or go away! Personally, I usually go away, fairly confident I can find the same information elsewhere.
Google Seeking Arabic-Speaking Engineers
Yesterday afternoon, Patrick Pichette, Google’s chief financial officer, said something elegant about investing in the company’s core business both in and out of the U.S. It seems the man’s far from a liar, as a manager has now followed up with a call for Arabic-speaking engineers.
Google Gives You “First Click Free”
One of the most annoying things for a web user is to search the whole web, find what looks like a desired result and then end up being on a log-in-page. These pages have just one motto in mind… Give us money, else go away! Personally, I find it more convenient to move away from that page because I always feel that I can find that information on other pages as well.
Live: Google Realistic, But Optimistic
Let out that held breath, everybody – Google had a good third quarter. While the company didn’t destroy estimates as it’s done in the past, such behavior could hardly be expected at this point, and Google at least managed to improve its performance in most respects.All of this led to some rather happy and enthusiastic behavior on the part of investors. Google’s stock has gone up 7.86 percent so far in after hours trading. Here are notes from the live conference call:
Google Announces Third Quarter Results
Google has released its third quarter results, and things are looking all right so far. The company managed to bring in $5.54 billion in revenue, and this was up from both last quarter and the third quarter of last year. Net income increased in a similar manner, reaching $1.35 billion.Eric Schmidt wasn’t as positive as he’s been at other times, giving Google some wiggle room in terms of short-term performance, but seems to feel that things are solid and the company is heading in the right direction.
Google Explains Quality Scores
It’s kind of nifty how forthcoming Google has been with the transparency lately. For the longest time, trying to get anything out of them was like trying to squeeze a nickel out of Ed McMahon. The latest explanations of how things work is a blog post describing how quality scores work and why the highest bidder doesn’t always get highest placement in the sponsored results.
Google Strikes Two New Deals For TV Ads
Google is making a bigger push with its Google TV Ads and announced on Thursday that it has struck partnership deals with the Harris Corporation, makers of communications equipment and CoreMedia Systems, a direct response advertising company.The Harris Corporation will integrate Google TV Ads into the products it sells to media and communications companies. Harris says the partnership with Google will create a new sales channel for broadcasters, cable networks and cable system operators.
Google Doubles Book Search Partners
Google really has the ball rolling on the controversial Google Book Search project. Reuters is reporting that 20,000 publishers have signed on over the last year, doubling the number of partners that Google has. The company has also added two new library partners over the last year bringing that number up to 29.
Google Kicks it Old School with AdWords
Hot on the heels of the recently launched MySpace MyAds platform, which lets users easily create their own display ads to run across the social network, Google has decided to go down a similar path with its largely popular AdWords service.
Google Library Partners Making Their Own Database
A group of libraries that are participating in the Google Books Library Project want to make sure that their work lives on in case Google doesn’t. They’re forming a backup database of digitized books in case Google should go out of business in the future (insert joke or snide comment here). The database is called HathiTrust.