Profits miss expectations – Google
Internet giant Google has reported a sharp rise in profits and revenue in quarterly results that nonetheless failed to impress Wall Street.
Net profit for the three months to the end of June came in at $1.84bn (£1.2bn), up by a quarter on the $1.48bn it recorded a year earlier.
Revenue was $6.82bn, also up sharply on the $5.52bn posted a year ago.
However, analysts had expected better and chose to focus instead on operating expenses, which increased sharply.
As a result, shares in Google fell more than 4% in after-hours trading.
'Strong growth'
"They're throwing more money into research and development than people were expecting and a little bit less into sales and marketing," said Colin Gillis at BGC Partners.
"Google has been pretty clear that it's going back into investment mode. They added 1,200 people in the quarter, which means more expenses are going to kick in in September."
WorldOMeters – Information Live
Okay I found this site while I was looking around the internet to find out a rough number of Google searches conducted each and everyday. WorldOMeters is an absolutly amazing website with information from almost every aspect of the world.
It uses information provided by governments and agencies and then finds trends and uses these to create expected levels of each thing for each day. These levels are then divided up throughout the day and added "live" to give a fairly accurate account of what the level of each topic is.
IT covers :
- World Population (6 aspects)
- Government & Economics (7 aspects)
- Society & Media (9 aspects)
- Environment (8 aspects)
- Food (7 aspects)
- Water (3 aspects)
- Energy (11 aspects)
- Health (15 aspects)
Obviously with each of these it covers numerous aspects each with its own little live counter. Some counters are even linked back to show you how and where their information was sourced.
Why Get Paid Blog Hosting ? – Part 2
I will continue with my previous post on the reasons to get and not to get paid hosting for your blog. Read bellow for the continuation.
Will my own domain gain me more users?
In many cases people just want to move becuase they believe their own domain will "make them better bloggers" or make "more visitors". This can be true, i wont deny it, however it is not really guaranteed to happen like this.
Infact it can have the opposite effect. You may want to "make a return" on your investments on hosting that you will just post anything to make sure you have posts (I have done it myself).
A good domain name is memorable so people may return over and over. But content is just as important. People will search hard if they know the content is good so if your members are high already it may be a good move to go private.
Support Adgitize
2010 looked set to be another memorable year for Adgitize, so far not for the reasons Ken and the team had hoped for.
for those of you who dont know Adgitize recently suffered almost 4 days of continuous downtime and when the site finally came back online users got less than 24 hours of access before the site dropped offline for another day or so.
Every new creation suffers problems and this is just one of Adgitizes problems, a problem which is being overcome and will most likely never happen again. For a small sized company such as Adgitize it takes longer to solve issues which take large companies, such as Google, to fix.
These small issues should not be looked at as "issues" or "problems" of the program but more of a learning exercise for Adgitize, perhaps even for yourself as you may come across a similar issue in the future. These learning exercises help to improve Adgitize and make it a much stronger and secure system for the future.
AdgiScore – New From Adgitize
As always Adgitize is working hard behind the scenes and giving us many new services. Now they have a system to allow you to compare your traffic to other members of Adgitize.
I am happy to announce a new service that we are launching. The AdgiScore and Traffic Rating are now available. Go to AdgiScore.
What is the AdgiScore and the Adgitize Traffic Rating? Well, let’s start with the Adgitize Traffic Rating. The Traffic Rating is our ranking of all active publishers by the amount of traffic (page views) they receive. The goal is to give information on how much traffic a blog receives. If you have a couple of blogs you would like to advertise on you can check out their Adgitize Traffic Rating and have another check on where to spend your hard earned money.