According to a post on Google's blog, Google is going to extend its US policy on advertising keywords which allows companies to advertise on other companies trademarks to Europe and Canada. Here is the official announcement: ""Last year, in an effort to provide better ads and a higher quality experience for our users, we adjusted our trademark policy in the U.S. to allow some advertisers to … [Read more...]
Did You Know Sedo.com Is A Public Company? Our Domain Parking Stock Index Updated: Sedo.com is In, Dark Blue Sea is Out
We just updated our Domain Parking StockIndex tracking the prices of public companies. We dropped Dark Blue Sea which was bought out, and went private earlier this year, and added Sedo.com (Sedo Holdings) which is traded on the Xetra, part of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Shares of Sedo.com have a 52 week high of $4.33 a share and a low of $2.52 and are currently trading at $2.72. The … [Read more...]
Fortune.com: “Google: The Search Party Is Over”
A new post by Fortune.com, entitled Google: The Search Party Is Over" is an interesting read especially for domainers who do any significant domain parking. The article which in large part discusses the business operations of Google says about search: That there is a real shift going on within the internet where search will soon be less used. ""The shift going on within the Internet, one … [Read more...]
Oversee.net Share Price Is Falling Like A Rock
We wrote about some insiders at Oversee.net were offering shares in the company for sale on SharesPost.com back in may of this year for $7.35 a share. Today a new seller hit the Sharespost site, offering 5,500-20,000 shares for sale for only $4.97 a share. For Oversee a sale of a block at shares at its former asking price of $7.35 would have meant according to Sharespost a valuation of over … [Read more...]
Yahoo Japan Switches To Google
Yahoo Japan just signed a deal to use Google's search engine rather than Microsoft's Bing. Daniel Alegre, vice president of Google's Asia Pacific and Japan operations, said in a post on Google Japan blog, "Yahoo Japan will use Google search results and Google's technology for supplying the accompanying search ads. With such partnerships, revenue from the search ads is shared between … [Read more...]
Google’s Global Search Share Declines
According to research firm Strategy Analytics, Google's share of the global online search market fell to 69.7% in the second quarter from 71.1% in the first quarter. Baidu the largest search engine in China, now has a global share nearly as large as that of Microsoft and Yahoo . The report shows that Baidu's global market share is 4.5% compared to 4.8% for Microsoft and 5.4% for … [Read more...]
Yahoo Profits Up But Revenue Falls Short Of Expectations & Stock Sinks
Yahoo Inc reported earnings after the market closed today for the second quarter ending June 30, 2010 (2Q). Yahoo said its revenue in 2Q rose to $1.60 billion, a 2% increase from the 2Q of 2009 Yahoo's net revenue, however was $1.13 billion, below the average analyst expectation of $1.16 billion. Yahoo's search business declined 8%year-over-year. Analysts had been expecting search to … [Read more...]