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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... especially outside the US. But in a February call with financial analysts, Google cofounder Sergey Brin conceded that the investments “didn’t pan out as well as we had hoped…. I don’t think we have the killer best way to advertise and monetize the social networks yet.” Neither has anyone else, apparently, even though millions of people worldwide are spending more and more time on...
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Open Source (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The vision of Larry Page and Sergey Brin still holds. In a word, search. In another word, find. Maybe its cloud will bring a third word, host, but so far it is mainly a set of services built around that one word, search, again.
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Google Operating System (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
At the most recent Google earnings call , Sergey Brin said some interesting things regarding the ads from search results pages. Google tries to reduce the number of ads that are displayed and the number of queries that show ads as it improves the targeting and the ads are more effective. We try to reduce our coverage at the same time as improving the monetization. But clearly that's not...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Tesla Motors, the automobile startup with backers that include Sergey Brin and Larry Page, held a party tonight to mark the launch of its Menlo Park storefront. The store, which is the company’s second, will be open to the general public beginning this Tuesday. Despite Tesla Motors’ well deserved reputation as a high-end car manufacturer, [...]
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Unfortune (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Tesla Motors, the automobile startup with backers that include Sergey Brin and Larry Page, held a party tonight to mark the launch of its Menlo Park storefront. The store, which is the company’s second, will be open to the general public beginning this Tuesday. Despite Tesla Motors’ well deserved reputation as a high-end car manufacturer, [...]
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
For starters, looks are great -- but brains are even better. Take, for example, the women who recently nabbed two of the world's most eligible bachelors, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Blonde beauty Lucy Southworth, who married Page in December, is a biomedical informatics doctoral student at Stanford University, where both Page and Brin studied as graduate students...
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Yes, ladies, there are apparently 110 eligible bachelor billionaires out there — not including Peter Thiel. Sergey Brin's taken, and too bad, because he finds the most thoughtful ways to funnel... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Jaffe Juice (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... Steve :) The rock stars of 2.0 - mildly humorous (read: ridiculous) that I'm above Larry Page + Sergey Brin, Jimmy Wales, Stowe Boyd, Doc Searls, Steve Jobs, Steve Chen and more. Vote early and often. First prize is the real rock start accolade: Guitar Hero. The 5 creepiest ad techniques of the (near) future. And they are: 5) Tracking every site you browse and every show you watch,...
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
p2pnet news view | Advertising:-“There is some evidence we have been a little more aggressive in decreasing coverage than we should have been.” That’s Google co-founder and semi-supremo Sergey Brin, quoted by the New York Times. Translated, as the headline to the story says, it means, “Google Deliberately Sells Fewer Ads —- and May Have Gone Too [...]
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Completetosh, by Neil McIntosh (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... directory services. Still, maybe Dave and Jerry will appreciate the irony of being wiped out by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, two more Stanford graduates armed with a great idea and a wacky name. Google ( www.google.com ) indexes Web pages using an ingenious algorithm which ranks a site on the basis of who links to it. It’s a kind of automated peer-review of the kind that created the...
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
During Google's Q2 earnings call yesterday, Sergey Brin admitted to a rare mistake: The company had pulled back on the number of keyword ads it displayed, and the strategy had backfired. Why would Google (GOOG) cut back on keywords ads to begin with? The idea was to enhance their performance: eliminating lower-performing ads would mean higher click-through and conversion rates for those...
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The Register (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Sergey grabs the knob Google's ginormous second quarter profits didn't quite match Wall Street expectations, driving share prices down as much as 7 per cent in after hours trading. But it sounds like Sergey Brin will soon crank that big dial on the company's secret money machine , making everything A-OK in Q3.…
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Moco News (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Google's ( NSDQ: GOOG ) conference call is getting underway, and it should be an interesting one, following the miss. They spent a good portion of the call talking up mobile activity… -- Mobile thoughts : Sergey Brin is asked to riff on mobile: revenue per query will vary from market to market. iPhone users do some 30x queries compared to others, though no comments yet on the iPhone...
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BetaNews (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... coverage is going to change much."Reflecting the company's notorious transparency, co-President Sergey Brin weighed in on that topic later, effectively countermanding what Rosenberg had just stated. "There is some evidence that I think we've been probably a little bit more aggressive in decreasing coverage than we ought to have been," Brin said. "Historically we've had this...
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Mashable (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
... Bookmarking PlanetOut is Down and Out: Looking to Sell Live Blog: What Google Knows about Spam Sergey Brin To Conquer The Final Frontier News Corp’s Jamba Loses CEO Wine Library TV Moving to Revision3 Is Ask.com’s Deal with Google Dead?
