With Google scheduled to report earnings after the close of the market on Thursday, the question is will this be Google's first down quarter? Yes amazingly, since going public in August 2004, Google has never had a down quarter; a quarter in which its gross revenue was lower the previous quarter. However, according to TechCrunch at least one analyst, J.P. Morgan's Imran Khan predicted that … [Read more...]
WSJ: Yahoo’s May Lose 15% Of Its Search Traffic & Keyword Prices May Fall
According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo may lose up to 15% of its search traffic over the next 12-to-18 months after failing to renew deals with two computer makers. Yahoo was the default search tool on HP and Acer computers. However those deals expired last year and Yahoo's failure to renew them, according to WSL, could cost Yahoo, as much as 3% of U.S. search market share. In … [Read more...]
Google: Revenues Won’t Decline
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt said the economic storm will affect all forms of advertising, including the online ads that Google depends on, but said that he doesn't expect Google to experience a decline in revenue. "We don't predict things like that," Schmidt said in a CNBC television interview on Wednesday, when asked if the company's diversity would shield it from the economic slowdown. But, … [Read more...]
Google’s CEO Schmidt: “Economic Situation is Pretty Dire” & Mobile Search Will Surpass PC Based In A “Few Years”
Google's Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Tuesday the economic situation is "pretty dire," adding that he does not expect to see improvement until 2010. "Everyone is assuming 2009 is a tough, tough year," he said during an appearance at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco. Schmidt went on to say while Google and other Internet advertising giants may be better … [Read more...]
Yahoo Rolls Out New Targeted Ad Products For PPC and Display: Will It Effect Your Bottom Line?
Yahoo announced today the launch of three new targeting products for advertisers. Two of the products are for display advertising, and one if for the PPC channel. The new products include: Search Retargeting, which gives advertisers the ability to target display advertising based on user … [Read more...]
Marchex Down Over 15% on Earnings
Marchex, Inc. one of the stocks in our Domain Parking Stock Index, is down over 15% today after reporting earnings, yesterday. Marchex as of noon is trading, at $4.25 down $.78 Last night after the market closed Marchex announced earnings for the 4th quater of 2008. Highlights from the earnings report were: Revenue was $34.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2008, compared to … [Read more...]
Think TradeMark Domains Are Bad; Look What Google & Yahoo Are Doing With iTunes
I've been watching Google's ad results for the term "itunes" for a couple of months and the results under the search term's sponsored ads are generally for non-apple sites, advertising themselves as the "official" itunes site. A couple of months ago a friends teenager boy asked me to help him an itunes account. I told him to download the software and then I would come over and set the account … [Read more...]