Marchex Reports Revenues Down 33% for 2009 - Marchex reported earnings after the market closed today and although revenues for both the 4th Q of 2009 and the year ending December 31, 2009 were down, they beat the street estimate by $.01. Revenue for the 4th Q of  2009 was $23.4 million, compared to $34.8 million for the same period of 2008. Revenue for the year ended December 31, 2009 was $93.3 million, compared to $146.4 million for the same period of 2008. Some other interesting points: Publishing  revenue from proprietary traffic sources ... read more ...

Tucows Reports Record Revenues For 2009; YummyNames: “Transactions Grow 10 Fold” - Tucows announced earnings today after the market closed, reporting Net revenue for the 4th quarter of 2009 increased 6.1% to $20.3 million from $19.2 million for the 4th quarter of 2008, marking Tucows 4th consecutive quarter of revenue in excess of $20 million. Net income for the 4th quarter of 2009 was $1.7 million, or $0.03 per share, compared with $1.0 million, or $0.01 per share, for the 4th quarter of 2008. Tucows reported record high revenues for 2009 surpassing the $80 million mark for the ... read more ...

TechCrunch: Google Buys Social Networking Site Aardvark For $50 Million - According to a report in TechCrunch, Google has acquired Aardvark, a San Francisco start-up whose service melds Internet search and social networking for an estimated $50 million dollars. Aardvark, which counts two ex-Google employees among its founders, has pioneered a new type of Internet search dubbed “social search.” Instead of looking at Web pages to find answers to search queries, Aardvark’s service taps a person’s network of social contacts. The deal is Google’s sixth purchase announcement ... read more ...

Company That Bought Insure.com For $16M; QuinStreet Fails To Impress Wall Street On IPO - The highly-anticipated QuinStreet IPO received a lukewarm reception on its trading debut on Thursday. The company, which competes with Google and Yahoo to sell advertising, raised $140 million selling 10 million shares for $15 each. This was below its expected range of $17 to $19 a piece. Shares of QuinStreet which is trading under the symbol QNST traded down $.06 to close at $14.94 after its first session. Quinstreet bought the domain name insure.com for $16 Million back in November 2009. Google+Michael ... read more ...

Google To Build Out Its Own High Speed Broadband Network - Google announced on its blog this morning that they are planning to build and test their own “ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States.” “”We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.”” “””Our goal is to ... read more ...

Monster Buys HotJobs.com From Yahoo For $225 Million Cash - Monster Worldwide, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Yahoo’s,  HotJobs.com for  $225  million cash. Monster and Yahoo! have also entered into a three year traffic agreement, to take effect upon the closing of the acquisition, in which Monster will become Yahoo!’s provider of career and job content on the Yahoo! homepage in the United States and Canada. The traffic agreement calls for performance based ... read more ...

Yahoo’s Reports Earnings Beating Estimates - Yahoo reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009. Revenues were $1,732 million for the fourth quarter of 2009, exceeding the top end of the Company’s business outlook range. Revenues decreased 4% from the fourth quarter of 2008 and increased 10% from the third quarter of 2009. Revenues were $6,460 million for 2009, a decrease of 10% compared to 2008. Excluding the impact of currency rate fluctuations and divested business lines, revenues for ... read more ...

Google Founders To Sell 10 Million Shares Giving Up Controlling Interest Over Next Five Years - According to a regulatory filing submitted today the founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin, plan to sell off 5 million Google shares each over the next five years, which would cause them to surrender majority voting control over the company. If they followed the plan, the stock sales would reduce their voting power over Google’s stock from 59% today to around 48%, depriving them of majority control. However CEO Eric Schmidt currently holds shares accounting for almost 10% of Google’s ... read more ...

Google Earnings, Revenue, Clicks and Price Per Click All Up, Stock down - After the market closes today Google’s announced its results for the 4th quarter beating analyst estimates. Revenue rose 17% from a year ago on strong ad sales. Revenue for the quarter ended December 31, excluding traffic acquisition costs, was $4.95 billion, slightly higher than the $4.92 billion analysts were expecting. Including those costs, Google posted total revenue of $6.67 billion. Earnings were $2.19 billion, or $6.79 a share, higher than the analyst expectations of earnings per share ... read more ...

AdGooroo: Google Advertisers Down 5%, But PPC spending adult 13% & Ad Prices Are UP. - According to AdGooroo, a marketing data and keyword tools provider, Google has lost 5% of its active advertisers. However they found that spending on Google is up nearly 13% among the top 80 U.S. retailers. AdGooroo said retailers’ Google spend grew from approximately $264 million in the third quarter to about $298 million in the fourth quarter. “Google experienced a quality purge this quarter and banned what we believe to be more than 30,000 advertisers, accounting for about 5.3% of its active ... read more ...

How Google Ranks Tweets and Real Time Search Results - The Technologyreview.com, interviewed Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow, who led development of real-time search for Google. Back in December Google announced that is was going to being to index real time search results for Twitter and Facebook entries. This is the first time I have read an account of how Google is actually going to rank and index real time searches. According to Mr. Singhal, “In the case of tweets, the key is to identify “reputed followers” “You earn reputation, and then you ... read more ...

Breaking News: Google May Pull Out Of China - According to Google’s blog it may pull out of China. Google said it detected a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China” in mid-December and that the attack resulted in “the theft of intellectual property from Google.” “These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered, combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web, have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business ... read more ...

Google Files Suit Against Sites and Domains Promoting “Making Money With Google” - I’m sure you have received spam advertising promoting programs that promise that you can make money at home using Google Adsense. Yesterday, Google filed a federal lawsuit in district court in Utah, alleging that Pacific WebWorks and other companies, infringed on  Google’s trademark by incorporating it name into ads for unauthorized, and what Google says are phony products. According to the suit: “Defendants deceive the public by misusing the famous Google brand and Google marks to sell to ... read more ...

Google Search Announces It Now Is Indexing “Real Time Results” From Facebook, Twitter & MySpace - Google announced on its blog today that it has revamped its search engine to integrate real-time search results from users of Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. “I would say that real time search is the natural evolution of universal search,” Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and user experience, said at an event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Mayer said that Google was not currently selling keyword ads alongside real-time search results, and ... read more ...

Yahoo Allows Users To Turn Ads Off Completely - Today, Yahoo released a beta version of a new consumer tool called Ad Interest Manager which allow users of Yahoo to opt out of seeing all internet interest ads. “”To make our ads more relevant and useful for you, we make educated guesses about your interests based on your activity on Yahoo!’s sites and services. Some of the ads we show you reflect these interests. You can opt out of interest-based advertising altogether using the tools on this page.”” “””We use information ... read more ...

Worth $160 Billion Less; AOL.com Goes Back To The Future & Starts Trading All Over Again On Dec 10th - Earlier this year Time Warner, Inc. announced that it would be spinning AOL off back into a separate public company. Today Time Warner announced that AOL will begin trading on December 10th, 2009. It will mark the return to the stock market for AOL, which was bought by Time Warner about 9 years ago in what is largely regarded as being one of the most disastrous corporate mergers in history. Time Warner shareholders of record on Nov. 27 will receive one share of AOL stock for every 11 shares of Time ... read more ...

Yahoo Earnings: Total Revenues Down, Search Revenue Down, Profits Up - Yahoo reported earnings after the market closed today saying its 3rd Quarter profit tripled to $187 million, or 13 cents a share, from $54.3 million, or 4 cents a share in the same period last year, topping expectations. Net revenues declined 12% from the 3Q last year to $1,575 million, but were slightly above the second quarter of 2009 Other details from the report were: Marketing services revenues from Owned and Operated sites were $851 million for the third quarter of 2009, a 15% decrease ... read more ...

Google 3Q Earning Up 27% As It Beats Expectations, Again - Google announced it earning for the third quarter after the market closed today, easily beating the street’s estimates for both earnings and revenue. Google said sales in the 3rd Quarter totaled $5.94 billion, up from $5.52 billion in the second quarter and $5.54 billion in in 3Q 2008. Excluding traffic acquisition costs, revenue was $4.38 billion higher than the Street’s estimate of $4.24 billion. Google said net income was $1.64 billion, or $5.13 a share, compared with $1.29 billion, or $4.06 ... read more ...

Google: Ad Recession Is Over - The CEO of Google,  Eric Schmidt said today, that the worst of the advertising recession is over and Google started to see signs of a recovery in May and June. Schmidt said that the largest U.S. Internet search engine has increased its hiring and investment in anticipation of a recovery. “The worst is behind us,” he said. “We’re clearly seeing aspects of recovery, not just in the U.S. but also Europe.” Schmidt also said Google plans to resume its average pace of one acquisition per month ... read more ...

Google CEO Schmidt: We Overpaid A Billion Dollars For YouTube.com - According to Cnet.com, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said under oath,  that he told  Google’s board of directors that his estimate of YouTube’s worth was somewhere between $600-$700 million, at the same time it went out purchased YouTube.com in 2006 for $1.65 Billion dollars. It’s a very interesting and unique insight to one of the most successful company in the world decision to overspend on YouTube.com and acquire it for a Billion dollars more than they thought it was worth. You can read ... read more ...

Yahoo’s New Program To Lower PPC Click Prices To Advertisers Can’t Be Good For Domainers - According to MediaPost.com, Yahoo has plans to issue a  “variety of tools for advertisers aimed at lowering costs for paid search campaigns” On Friday Yahoo is going to announce it will allow advertisers to participate in its BOSS (Build your Own Search Engine) search program through a deal with Domain Development Corp.,(an Advertiser on This Blog). “””Advertisers will bid within the same search marketplace, Panama, but the ads will appear on third-party Web sites participating in BOSS. ... read more ...

Has Bing.com Maxed Itself Out Already? - According to a report by analytics firm StatCounter, Bing.com’s share of the Internet search market decreased by more than 1 percentage point in September. Bing had 8.51% share in September compared with 9.64% in August. So you must think that Bing’s decline helped Yahoo. No. Actually, Google’s share of the U.S. search market increased to 80.08% in September compared with 77.83% in August despite Bing.com’s massive ad campaign. Yahoo’s share of the search market decreased from 10.5% to ... read more ...