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Google Growth Flattens, Yahoo Still Stalls

Posted Mar 27, 2008 01:10pm EDT by Sarah Lacy in Investing, Internet, Venture Capital, M and A, IPOs, Recession
Some updates on the Internet titans' drama today: Neither Google nor Yahoo had a good February, according to Henry Blodget's sources. And according to the New York Post, Microsoft can't find anyone to propose to Yahoo's alternative board.  Bad news all around, but as usual on the Internet the news seems to be worse for Yahoo and Microsoft than Google.

18 Comments

john
john - Thursday March 27, 2008 01:49PM EDT

Henry Blodget what is this piece of con artist garbage doing on the web and this puppet chick is asking his opinion... didn't this shyster lie thru his teeth in the world com fiasco? explain please...!

Ruben
Ruben - Thursday March 27, 2008 01:50PM EDT

Google is Clickety Split!

Harold R
Harold R - Thursday March 27, 2008 01:54PM EDT

Microsoft should just up the anti and be done with it.

Richard
Richard - Thursday March 27, 2008 01:57PM EDT

Agree... Google Ads are not delivering, and customers are dropping Rich Business Networking

Steve
Steve - Thursday March 27, 2008 02:07PM EDT

Blodgett has had a short position in Goog for some time.

Pete
Pete - Thursday March 27, 2008 02:10PM EDT

Google will be the next Berkshire Hathaway. Don't sweat Blodget, or the zaftig oogle.

Yahoo! Finance User
Yahoo! Finance User - Thursday March 27, 2008 02:11PM EDT

Can you also provide text of the news along with video? Sometimes, i would like to read the news rather than hearing to Stacy all the time.

Dirk
Dirk - Thursday March 27, 2008 02:20PM EDT

Jim Cramer says Yahoo only woth $12. Yahoo's slowing growth means its high P/E is no longer justified.

Chris
Chris - Thursday March 27, 2008 02:28PM EDT

Google and Microsoft will both be downsizing in the next 3 - 4 months as the economy weakens.

The Poobah
The Poobah - Thursday March 27, 2008 02:33PM EDT

Jim Cramer is wrong more often than right, so don't belive the hype dirkdiggler! Yahoo! shall rise like a phoneix from the ashes! Google ain't all that!

Yahoo! Finance User
Yahoo! Finance User - Thursday March 27, 2008 03:20PM EDT

huh? how distracting was the chest...

Yahoo! Finance User
Yahoo! Finance User - Thursday March 27, 2008 04:15PM EDT

It's a plot! They put that good looking Sara on with Blodget so people will hopefully forget what a two-faced creature he really is. Hadn't seen him for a few days-thought Yahoo might have fired him-no such luck!

jamie
jamie - Thursday March 27, 2008 04:22PM EDT

googles search is all marketing it aint all that , yahoo has a better search result than google in my view. as soon as microsoft buy yahoo and go into pay per click , google's search share will go down

madmilker
madmilker - Thursday March 27, 2008 05:48PM EDT

duh! Blodget's source.........duh! again! If the source is anything like Henry.....that "source" needs to get out more often.

ekw
ekw - Thursday March 27, 2008 08:26PM EDT

Cramer is actually right more often than he is wrong but not by a lot. He gets something like 56=58% of his calls right. That's better than even. Try doing this yourself: watch what actually happens to your own picks over a 12-month period. And don't cheat! The thing is this, it's not so much the percentage you get right but where you choose to put the most money. If you put more money on your better picks and less on your losers then you don't even have to be a 50% stock picker. Easier said than done. I consider Cramer's picks as just ideas to explore. It's worth listening to him and the Fast Money gang as well. But to me they're not picks, they're ideas. In the end it's I who make the picks not Cramer or Jeff Mackey or Guy Adami.

Peter
Peter - Thursday March 27, 2008 08:50PM EDT

Why does Mr. Blodget believe that Google will gain 90% of the market share while Yahoo will disappear? Is there a Google! Finance? No. Google! Weather? No. News headlines right on the home page? No. Is Google's search engine better than Yahoo!'s? No: Success is 100% with both engines and I think that Yahoo!'s handy Search Assist feature makes it easier to use. So why do people think that Google is better than Yahoo!? Because Google tells them they're better. Over and over and over again (to the point where I want to throw up if I hear it one more time). That's all. And if investors have built into GOOG stock price an expectation that they will eventually have 90% market share, imagine how far it will fall when they end up with only around 40-50%. So if you want to be the sheep and follow the other Google investors to the slaughter, go ahead. If you want to make a sound investment decision, go YHOO.

Alistair
Alistair - Friday March 28, 2008 01:53AM EDT

Great rack

Yahoo! Finance User
Yahoo! Finance User - Friday March 28, 2008 12:25PM EDT

This deal is unravelled. yahoo/microsoft... no deal . China's against it. EU is against and the US is going to pounce on it as soon it's announced. Google is sitting back and looking more and more stable each day. yahsoft just both focus elsewhere for growth and opportunity. As far as the economy, the liberal agenda media is getting what it wants, everybody believing we are in a recession....so it's slowly happening, they love "thinking" they pursuade the American public.......

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