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Graham, Jefferson. “Google’s Happy Holidays End With $5.7B Revenue.” USA Today. 23 January 2010.
I’d like to change the pace up a bit today. With everyone blogging about Haiti, as tragic as it is, I wanted to end the semester with a happy article. Google’s great fortune struck my fancy as just that. At the end of the fiscal quarter, Google owe’s a large portion of it’s success to AOL. Surprised? I was. I was unaware that Google also ran America Online. In any event, the happy tone took a downturn when Graham wrote, “Net income, however, tumbled 68% to $382 million, from $1.2 billion a year ago.” Apparently when he titled it “Google’s Happy Holidays End,” he meant it.
For the upcoming quarter I have some suggestions for Google. To start, Google Chrome should be advertised more widely. As a Yahoo user myself, Google just lacks the many of the extras Yahoo has, or so it appears. A friend of mine introduced me to the Chrome program, which contains many of these same features for free! Given this fact and its user-friendly interface I myself have even been converted to a Google user (while the habit of typing yahoo.com still isn’t quite gone…). If this product was made more public, I believe the sales of Google’s paid services would increase.
Go get ‘em Google! I’m rooting for you!
I heard it was your birthday. Happy Birthday, Kevin.
haha thanks David. Seemed like it took forever to get here.
Iam not a computer gadget.sight finder,lets play arouind and see what i can come up with kind of guy. Kevins blog is very informative to me and does help answer some of my questions about google , aol and the likes. I like what he said.I hope to read more from him.
Thank you Frank! The goal is to post weekly, so hopefully I can keep that trend up and I’ll have some new stuff up for you.
Watch out for Gmail. It gets hijacked. If it happens, change your password and check your signature and vacation boxes for spam.
Good information, I do both Yahoo and Google, but now I am going to lose the Yahoo and go googling. Thanks for the info.
Kevin, I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ve been a Google guy since the early days of AOL. Back when dail up was popular. AOL has lost alot of it’s appeal. I do continue to Google and new to Google Chrome. Thanks for your info.
Jim
Hope to follow you blog. Quite impressive.