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Google’s Q1 Better than Expected
Just another typical Google quarterly earnings report…
* Net income rose 69% to $1 billion compared to $592 million a year earlier.
* Gross revenue up 63% to $3.66 billion.
Analysts had expected gross revenue of around $3.57 billion and much less profit per share than Google actually delivered.
Goodbye Froogle
Froogle has been renamed “Google Product Search†says Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of Search & User Experience. It also sports a redesign, and product results are now returned at the top of normal Google search results at appropriate times.
Thus ends the name Froogle as a Google brand. It was launched in 2002, never really went [...]
What’s in Store for the Future of the Internet and Google?
“There’s a possibility that Google will integrate Marratech web
conferencing features into Google Apps (Premier Edition) and
Google Office to make these “virtual office” offerings more
complete and compelling for the corporate world,” Agarwal said.
Those are certainly options for Google, as those products are
oriented toward users similar to WebEx’s target market. Microsoft
plays in these waters as well, just [...]
Video May Come To Google Talk
Google’s acquisition of Swedish-based Marratech, a video
conferencing software company, should lead into Google Talk
becoming more competitive with eBay’s Skype and other services.
Google Talk has been a relatively stripped down option for
online communication, especially when comparing it to messaging
products from Skype, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Now that the company
has celebrated its first quarter earnings by announcing
tremendous revenue [...]
Google Base Tips from ToolBarn.comÂ’s Brian Mark and NeO1SEOÂ’s David Brown
Google Base has become a very interesting and popular topic, especially for retailers. Google Base is an online database in which any user has the ability to add almost any type of content. As of this year, Google Base is available to the public as a beta version. Users can simply describe their items online [...]
Googler Games Google
A week after Google’s Matt Cutts set the SEO world ablaze by asking webmasters to report cases of link-buying, his area of the Googleplex is decidedly silent – and so is the media relations department regarding a double-dipping Google executive’s association with a questionable made-for-AdSense company.
Is there are connection between Cutts’ standoffishness and Google’s unwillingness [...]
