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Apr. 21, 2008 at 8:25am by Greg Sterling
comScore Explains What Happened On Paid Click Decline But Great Google Earnings
With two reports about Google's paid clicks being down, comScore helped fuel a perception among financial analysts that Google might under-perform in Q1. However, Google's earnings handily beat estimates and the stock saw a 20 percent gain in a single day on Friday as investors were buoyed by Google's results....
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Apr. 17, 2008 at 4:34pm by Barry Schwartz
Google Beats Forecasts With 30% Increase In Profit
Google has done it again -- they announced impressive earnings, beating forecasts and showing a 30% increase in profit from the previous first quarter results. Google's reported revenues of $5.19 billion for the quarter ending March 31, 2008 and a net income of $1.31 billion. Previous quarter revenues were $4.83...
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Apr. 15, 2008 at 9:19am by Barry Schwartz
Google's VP, Marissa Mayer, On "Don't Be Evil" Company Motto
Don't Be Evil or Don't Lose Value? from The Sydney Morning Herald interviews Google's vice president, Marissa Mayer, on Google's famous company motto, "Don't Be Evil." In that interview, she explains that the motto "wasn't like an elected, ordained motto." She added, "It [the motto] is good PR but really...
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Apr. 2, 2008 at 5:22pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Selling Performics -- Thanks, Google!
Last month, I did an open letter to Google wishing they'd quickly sell off Performics, to avoid the conflict of having a search marketing firm that works to improve results on Google's own search engine. Well, thank you Google! They've acted far more quickly than I would have hoped for,...
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Apr. 2, 2008 at 5:02pm by Danny Sullivan
Megachart & Analysis: Google Executive Management Changes, 2000-2008
With two high-ranking Google executives leaving the Big G within a month's time, I thought it would be interesting to go back through Google's executive management page over the years and see how it reflects changes among the higher-ups. Below, there are a series of tables and commentary that hopefully...
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Mar. 27, 2008 at 7:19pm by Danny Sullivan
Drilling Into Google's Decline In Paid Clicks
More doom and gloom on the paid search side for Google. comScore is once again reporting a drop in sponsored clicks, something that also happened last month. After last month's fallout, comScore did a lot of further analysis shared at the Searchscape panel at our SMX West conference and online...
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Mar. 26, 2008 at 9:22am by Barry Schwartz
Google Founders Take $1 Salaries Again; Tell Investors To Say No On Anti-Censorship Proposal
Google founders: $1 salaries, $13B in stock from CNN Money reports Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with CEO Eric Schmidt, renewed their contracts again at a $1 per year salary, in 2007. You would think that with the falling stock price, the founders might want some extra...
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Mar. 25, 2008 at 8:36am by Greg Sterling
White Spaces: Google's Second Bite At The Wireless Apple
Now that the 700MHz auction is over and Verizon and AT&T are the winners of the largest spectrum blocks, Google is placing renewed emphasis on its shared bid for a piece of unlicensed TV "white spaces." We've written about the so-called "white space coalition" previously....
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Mar. 12, 2008 at 7:45am by Danny Sullivan
Open Letter To Google: Do The Right Thing, Divest Yourself Of Performics
At long last, Google owns DoubleClick. In doing so, the company has done something else that many people would have never believed possible. Become an SEO. That's right -- Google's in the SEO business now, selling services through DoubleClick's Performics to people who want to rank well on -- um...
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Mar. 11, 2008 at 4:06pm by Danny Sullivan
Google: It's Official, We Own DoubleClick
With the EU's blessing, Google has finally acquired DoubleClick after nearly a year in trying. Google has blogged that the acquisition has been completed, with CEO Eric Schmidt saying: Integration work can now begin, with detailed plans to come There may be a "reduction in headcount" as Google matches...
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Mar. 11, 2008 at 10:27am by Barry Schwartz
EU Approves Google-DoubleClick Acquisition
The European Commission has approved the Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, valued at $3.1 billion. The EU started their investigation in November 2007. The commission found that the "transaction would be unlikely to have harmful effects on consumers, either in ad serving or in intermediation in online advertising markets."...
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Mar. 11, 2008 at 8:39am by Greg Sterling
Google Expects To Be "Very Significant" In Display Ad Segment
Display advertising currently represents about 32 percent of total US online advertising, according to the IAB. That's roughly $6.7 billion. Google already dominates the roughly $8.5 billion US search market. But Google's Tim Armstrong told the Bear Stearns Media Conference in Palm Beach, Florida yesterday that Google expects, in the...
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Mar. 3, 2008 at 9:17am by Barry Schwartz
comScore Paid Search Data & How The Sky Might Not Be Falling
Last week comScore came out with a report that showed a 7% sequential decline vs. December 2007 in paid search ad clicks. Plus, they showed an 8% drop in the number of clicks per Google searcher from December 2007. The report set shock-waves through Wall Street and caused the stock...
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Feb. 18, 2008 at 8:32am by Barry Schwartz
Google 10K: 55% More Employees, 99% Of Income Via Ads & More
PaidContent.org reported on Google's recent 10-K filing with the SEC this past Friday. PaidContent summarized some of the key details in that filing. I will summarize only a few points from paidContent's article:...
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Feb. 15, 2008 at 11:57am by Greg Sterling
Google Snubbed By Dow Jones
As Canada's Globe & Mail reports, Google wasn't invited to join the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) when other, arguably less impressive companies were, in the first changes to the composition of the DJIA since 2004....
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Feb. 4, 2008 at 7:29am by Danny Sullivan
Can Google Save Yahoo By Taking Over Search?
Does Yahoo have any choice but to get purchased by Microsoft? Over the weekend, there's been much analysis and discussion of other suitors. While Google isn't seen as an outright buyer, there's more talk that it could help Yahoo by taking over search ads in various counties, with reports...
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Feb. 4, 2008 at 6:26am by Danny Sullivan
Google Objects To Microsoft & Yahoo Wedding; Microsoft Responds -- Irony All Around
Not surprisingly, Google's not happy about Microsoft's overture to buy Yahoo. The company has blogged an official statement suggesting that the move will hurt what it calls the underlying principles of the internet: "openness and innovation." Microsoft responds to say it is open and that only the shotgun marriage...
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Feb. 4, 2008 at 6:23am by Greg Sterling
EU Prepares "Objections" To Google-DoubleClick Acquisition
Now back to news of that other acquisition that was dominating headlines and speculation until last Friday: Google-DoubleClick. DowJones newswires reports that "the European Union's antitrust regulator has prepared a draft 'statement of objections' to Google Inc.'s planned $3.1 billion takeover of DoubleClick." This does not mean that the EU...
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Jan. 31, 2008 at 6:11pm by Greg Sterling
Google Revenues Up 51 Percent, Social Networking Monetization "Disappointing"
Google posted Q4, 2007 revenues that represented 51 percent growth vs. 2006. Quarterly revenues were $4.83 billion, compared with $3.21 billion a year ago. However, earnings and revenue per share fell short of analyst consensus estimates. The headline that everyone is repeating is that social network monetization is not performing...
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Jan. 25, 2008 at 10:11am by Greg Sterling
Doerr And Moritz: A Tale Of Two (Very Wealthy) Google Investors
Forbes offers an interesting profile, "The Golden Touch," of two of Google's initial VC investors, John Doerr and Michael Moritz. Both of these men got fabulously rich off their Google shares: "Their personal gains, according to Forbes' estimates, are likely north of $800 million apiece." Moritz has kept his stock...
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Jan. 25, 2008 at 9:05am by Greg Sterling
Will Google Suffer In A Recession?
Will Google get hurt by a recession, as some are wondering? According to statements made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland yesterday, the answer to that question appears to be "no." The Financial Times reports the view of several tier-two Google execs who expressed confidence in the continuing...
