Google Proves It's Mortal
Googles numbers cap a disappointing week for Internet search players Yahoo
on July 19 undershot secondquarter sales estimates see Online A Big Boo For Yahoo causing its shares to fall by 13 over the next two days
Google had blown past profit estimates by an average of 28 in its first three quarters as a public company making its secondquarter shortfall all the more surprising Jefferies amp Co analyst Youssef Squali for instance had expected Google to beat profit estimates by 5 to 10
Nevertheless its a small blemish on Googles otherwise torrid run...
Google Profits, Revenues Soar On More Ad Sales
Google Inc on Thursday reported nearly a doubling in revenues in the second quarter and more than a fourfold increase in profits as the company continued to benefit from the growth in online advertising
The Mountain View Calif search giant said net income for the quarter ended June 30 was 343 million or 119 a share compared with 79 million or 30 cents a share during the same period a year ago
Revenues surged 98 percent year over year to a record 14 billion from 700 million a year ago
We had an excellent quarter Eric Schmidt chief executive for Google said in a statement...
Second-Tier Search Engines Catching Up With Google, Yahoo, MSN
America Online Inc and Ask Jeeves saw doubledigit growth in the number of search queries in the second quarter outpacing the top 3 search engines Google Inc Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corps an Internet metrics firm said Thursday
The number of searches on and Ask Jeeves rose by 15 percent and 16 percent respectively from the first quarter while Google saw only a 6 percent increase and Yahoo 9 percent Nielsen47NetRatings said on the other hands had a 4 percent drop in search queries...
Google Q2 Profits Quadruple
Google Inc continued its rapid expansion reporting a more than fourfold increase in secondquarter profit Thursday although its shares fell as much as 10 percent in afterhours trading after the company merely beat expectations rather than smashing them
The Mountain View search engines strong results were driven by increased online advertising the companys primary source of revenue Analysts said that only perfection could have kept Googles shares from dropping after nearly a year of stellar performance since the firms initial public offering...
Stats, Facts and Organic SEO
Everybody loves lists and statistics From the annual Top100 movies of all time lists to the Top10 cities in which to live even the simplest comparative studies can captivate people and inform popculture opinions Folks use lists to prove points gauge their own successes and get a reckoning on whats going on around them Our love of lists affects us in both profound and subtle ways Todays search engine users have long been conditioned to believe that the stuff found at or near the top of a list ranks among the best of whatever vintage is being examined...