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Google Announces First Quarter 2007 Results — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2007. — "The global growth of our core search and ads business and our focus on building our partnerships drove …
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Google Q1 2007 Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Larry Page - Founder, President of Products — Sergey Brin - Founder, President of Technology — Jonathan Rosenberg - SVP, Product Management — Omid Kordestani - SVP, Global Sales and Operations — Analysts
Jonathan Thaw / Bloomberg:
Google's Profit Rises 69% as Advertising Sales Gain (Update2) — April 19 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the most-used Internet search engine, said first-quarter profit rose 69 percent as it increased advertising sales worldwide and took more market share from Yahoo! Inc.
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Your slice of the web — I'll probably visit more than 100 web pages today, and so will hundreds of millions of people. Printed and bound together, the web pages you'll visit in just one day are probably bigger than the book sitting on your night table. Over the next month alone, that's an entire bookcase full!
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Search History Expands, Becomes Web History — Google's Search History feature, which was switched on as a default option for many Google searchers in February, has now been renamed Web History to reflect how it has expanded to track what Google users do as the surf the web.
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Collaborating with Marratech — As a company, we thrive on casual interactions and spontaneous collaboration. So we're excited about acquiring Marratech's video conferencing software, which will enable from-the-desktop participation for Googlers in videoconference meetings wherever there's an Internet connection.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Petition Against Alexa's Statsaholic Lawsuit — To join this this petition, please scroll to the bottom and leave a comment expressing your support for Statsaholic. — Update: Commenters are proposing boycotts of Amazon coverage in the blogosphere, in addition to their services and the Alexa toolbar.
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Rod / TechFold:Boooo to Amazon - Suing Statsaholic: Amazon API/ECS Boycott time?
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:Amazon sues Statsaholic...Web as Platform is Bullsh*t
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MySpace News...Kinda Sucks — Update: Ironically, I just saw this post at the top of MySpace News. Feel free to vote for it. — Mashable was the first blog to announce the imminent launch of MySpace News on Wednesday evening, but now the site is live, it seems to, well, suck a little bit.
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:HANDS-ON WITH MYSPACE NEWS: FAR FROM A DIGG KILLER
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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Digg API, Flash Application Toolkit, and Contest Announced! — Many of you have been asking about the Digg API and I'm happy to announce that it is now publicly available at services.digg.com along with a Flash application toolkit. This will be a great tool for Digg users and partners …
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John Musser / ProgrammableWeb:
Google AJAX Feed API — Google this week announced the release of the Google AJAX Feed API. What is it? It's a JavaScript library that lets you mashup RSS and Atom feeds entirely on the client, thus no need for server-side coding. In addition, one of the useful core features …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Big Money in Little Screens — Searching the Web on a mobile phone has been a lot like getting online via dial-up modem circa 1995: slow, tedious and not terribly useful. Typing on tiny buttons, squinting at a list of links and clicking through to a page that won't display properly is enough to test anyone's patience.
Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Most frequently visited websites - not what you'd expect — March's Comscore numbers just came out. I took a look at the top 2000 web domains, but this time I ranked them by number of visits per month. The results were a little surprising. Here are the 41 sites that were visited 10 times …
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Lots of new stuff just added to Spaces — Some new stuff and some interesting numbers from Spaces: it's now available in 51 countries in 25 languages, there have been 93 million spaces created since Spaces was released, and more than 111 million people a month use Spaces.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
"remove the web developer and the web gets developed" — Nat Torkington wrote on the Radar backchannel: "From my friend Jeff Root, one of the people behind this NZ gig guide": … Nat added: "That last parenthetical has got my mind going. MySpace did simplify something in how to get a web presence, that's for sure.
Aleister Kronos / 3pointD.com:
SAP Office Opens in Second Life (Unofficially) — SAP, the German software giant, is about to open its doors officially in Second Life. Rather than going for an out-and-out island build, they have opted for a more conservative approach, opening a relatively small office on the Second Life developer island …
