After the Market closed today Google announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2011: The highlights: "Google reported revenues of $8.58 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2011, an increase of 27% compared to the first quarter of 2010." "Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition costs … [Read more...]
Story Of The Year? Court Orders Google To Disclose Parked Domain Metrics
Media Post May have just found the story of the year for domainers. A judge presiding over a potential class-action lawsuit by search marketers against Google, has ordered the company to divulge financial metrics associated with its parked domains program." "The data that Google must disclose concerns its assessment of the quality of sites within its AdSense network, including its parked … [Read more...]
The NASDAQ 100 Rebalances With Apple Losing and Google and Microsoft Winning
The Nasdaq-100 index will be rebalanced on May 2, to reduce the weight of Apple's stock by about 40%. The NASDAQ-100 weighted index, which reflects the stocks of 100 of the top Nasdaq stocks, meaning that the index does not own an equal amount of all stocks. Apple currently represents 20.5% of the index. On May 2, Apple weight will be reduced to 12.3%. Of course where there are losers, … [Read more...]
Microsoft Files Anti-Trust Complaint With The EU On Google Where They Have a 95% Market Share
According to Microsoft's blog, by Brad Smith, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, of Microsoft, the Company filed "a formal complaint with the European Commission as part of the Commission’s ongoing investigation into whether Google has violated European competition law." "We thought it important to be transparent and provide some information on what we’re doing and why." "By … [Read more...]
Disco.com, Bought At DomainFest For $255K Is Owned By Google & Launched As A “Group Texting ” Site
The domain name Disco.com sold at Domainfest, New York in September of last year for $255,000. Disco.com was ranked by DnJournal.com as the 31st highest domain sale of 2010. The domain name is now owned by Google and has been launched as a Group Texting site. ""Group Texting on Any Phone Now that's groovy!"" says the sign up form. And yes there is an App for that. And its free and … [Read more...]
Yahoo Answers Google’s Instant By Rolling Out Search Direct: Guess Who Owns The Domain
According to TechCrunch.com, Yahoo has countered Google's Instant Search Product with it's own named "Search Direct" "It looks a lot like Google Instant: as you start typing a query into Yahoo Search, the site will begin populating results with each new character entered (in other words, you don’t have to hit the ‘return’ key). The feature is now live at search.yahoo.com." "Yahoo says that … [Read more...]
Google Starts Allowing Users To Block Sites: Worse For Content Farms Or Parked Pages?
According to a post on its blog, Google as of today is allowing users to block sites as they surf. "You’ll start seeing a new option to block particular domains from your future search results. " "Now when you click a result and then return to Google, you’ll find a new link next to “Cached” that reads “Block all example.com results.” "Once you click the link to “Block all … [Read more...]