With the ridiculous news coming out of comscore a few weeks back the stock was punished for comscore's paid click data. Google though had already told us that they were reducing bad clicks and that there click data could suffer, but that it would generate higher revenue per paid click. Obviously they were correct and comscore now has zero credibility!

Google's first-quarter profit climbed 30%, earning $1.31 billion, or $4.12 per share, during the first three months of the year. That compared with $1 billion, or $3.18 per share, in the first quarter of 2007. If not for expenses to cover stock given its employees, Google said it would have made $4.84 per share.

Analysts, on average, projected $4.52 per share.

Google is doing everything possible to make Microsofts job hard in this takeover. Google has agreed to help out Yahoo by participating in an unusual test that will gauge how much more advertising Google can sell for Yahoo!

The two-week experiment will be limited to ads posted alongside a small percentage of Yahoo's online search results in the United States.

The rumor mill is churning strong around Google and two rumored deals.

Recent drop in Google's share price finally makes stock a reasonable value. Attractive given its market position and long-run growth potential.

With the drop in Google's stock price over the past few months the question of how much Google Checkout could help the results next quarter comes to mind. After all, Google was literally giving it away for free for the past year, and it was one hell of a expensive promotion from the sounds of it!

Well if you are a long term investor no, but the short term could be a little rough as people digest the numbers. First of all, let me just say that most companies would kill for these kind of numbers, but Google is not most companies.

If your a long term investor, it is times like these that you need to be taking advantage of. The markets have just been terrible to start the year, losing everyday but today if your stocks are in the Nasdaq. As an investor you need to ask yourself, "does my stock have anything to do with Housing or a US bank", because if not the story behind when you invested in the first place hasn't changed.

Just came across this article on Nabloid.com. They believe that Yahoo can surpass Google in growth because of their size. They liken Google to a fat kid who will have a lot harder time doubling in size than a ?small? kid. I would have used the analogy, "it is easier to doubly a penny than a dollar," but that is just me.

Analysts at JP Morgan have released their 2008 investment guide for Internet stocks and say following outperformance in 2007 (Internet HOLDRs (HHH) +14% vs. S&P 500 +5%), they expect more of the same this year. Although revenue growth is seen decelerating to 21.2% from 25.6% last year, the analysts expect EPS growth of 34%, compared to only 8% for the S&P 500.

I thought I would share a report I found on Infectious Greed. These are the top ten stocks by dollars traded in 2007. It will be interesting to see how these compare in 2008. Will they still be heavily traded?

Symbol Company Rank Last Year Change
AAPL Apple Inc. 1 2 1