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Over the long labor day weekend Google announced a serious change in the way Google News will relate to the various wire services and the newspaper industry. The change could have a dramatic impact on the traffic Google News sends to newspaper web sites. There have been several commentaries on the developments and Techmeme has [...]

When Google acquired YouTube in a $1.65bn deal, earningscast.com made the call available via podcast. Here it is:

Google had a great quarter (earnings up 82% year over year and revenues up more than 22% quarter over quarter).
But they missed Wall Street expectations by more than 15%.
The stock took a 15% hit in the aftermarket. It is now down almost $100 from its previous high.
My personal opinion - huge buying opportunity.
Links:
EarningsCast
Business 2.0
Inside [...]

Google launched GoogleBase last night. What a disappointment. Whilst Google Reader clearly points to somebody at Google “getting” the importance of edge published content and real-time indexing, GoogleBase is a throw back. Basically a dumb flat-file database system for the world to throw content into. It’s actually embarrasing for the whole of Silicon Valley. [...]

This is a screen dump of my Google personalized home page. Note the Techcrunch and Earningscast modules on the top right. These are the result of adding their respective RSS feeds to Google.
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