Evo malo relevantnih vijesti , kome treba prijevod neka pošalje 50 kuna:
Google Rivals Scramble to Keep Up
Tuesday November 28, 4:05 pm ET
By Jessica Mintz, AP Business Writer
How the Runners-Up in the Search Business Have Fared This Year in Google’s Shadow
NEW YORK (AP) — As the top search provider in the U.S., Google Inc. has defined the criteria for success for its competitors. The company’s resounding success in building a business on tiny text-based links beside search results has left others scrambling to catch up — even if search isn’t their core business.
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This year, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp., IAC/InterActive Corp. and Time Warner Inc. have all focused more attention on their search and other online operations.
As Mountain View, Calif.-based Google’s closest competitor in search share, Yahoo has been under heavy scrutiny from investors around the performance of its own search advertising business.
When Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., announced in July that a major overhaul of its search algorithm and related ad technology would be delayed into 2007, dismayed investors send shares plunging nearly 22 percent.
Clayton Moran, senior vice president at Stanford Financial Group, said, “Yahoo will continue to lose favor to Google as Google will likely continue to build its advantage” into next year, when the search platform is upgrade is finished.
Yahoo boosters say the Web portal business’s supremacy in display advertising balances out Google’s text-ad dominance. That argument may not carry weight for long, Moran said, as “we believe Yahoo is losing share on display advertising to smaller advertising networks.” Just last quarter, a slowdown in advertising hurt the company’s earnings — and was widely seen by analysts to be tied to Yahoo’s display advertising business.
Google isn’t just leading Yahoo in the search game. When Google acquired YouTube, a video-sharing start-up in October, investors looked to Yahoo to close a rumored acquisition of the social networking site Facebook. But as weeks went by, nothing happened.
Yahoo’s No. 2 spot in the search rankings hasn’t budged this year, according to data from both Nielsen/NetRatings and comScore Networks, but shares have declined 30 percent year-to-date.
The No. 3 search provider, Microsoft Corp., launched its own proprietary search advertising platform, adCenter, and devoted more resources to updating online offerings, including e-mail, under the “Live” brand this year. The Redmond, Wash.-based company said in April and again in July that it would spend heavily on research and development beyond traditional desktop software.
But since the summer, investors have focused more on the forthcoming launch of the new Windows operating system, Vista, and Microsoft’s newest video game console, the Xbox 360.
Google’s success hastened the company’s spending in online development, said Canaccord Adams senior technology analyst Peter Misek in an interview.
As a result, he said, “I think you’re going to see huge improvements in Microsoft’s search over the next six to 12 months. They’re becoming very aggressive on that.”
While the investment community doesn’t think the search and advertising business is a critical part of Microsoft’s overall scope immediately, it will grow in importance, especially as content is moved from the television to the PC and the mobile phone, Misek said.
“Microsoft is one of these relentless competitors, where they start off behind position and they continually try to catch up,” he said. “They’re going to make sure they’re competitive in search.”
So far this year, Microsoft’s share of U.S. search queries has declined, while shares gained nearly 13 percent.
Depending on who’s counting,
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Puno dobrih vijesti koliko vidim za google, toliko nema niti Končar , evo jedne:
Google radio ads ready to roll
Google’s next move to sell advertising off line may be just weeks away, according to Donna Bogatin, a blogger at ZDNet. She posted that Google “is actively pitching Google Audio Ads and is claiming that it will be able to give advertisers access “to thousands of stations through Google’s digital, automated platform.” Google says its system talks to radio stations’ traffic operations “to search for inventory that fits advertiser criteria,” and will deliver information as ads are broadcast.
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Ovo mi je skoro promaklo:
Caught streaking
It’s been an amazing run to watch, but alas, it’s over. Bill Miller’s 15-year streak of market-beating returns at his Legg Mason Value Trust looks like it will end this year, with the fund about 9 percentage points behind the S&P 500 average as of this writing. This is not a knock against Miller — or his portfolio. It’s more an acknowledgment that “it happens,” especially when a 2006 screamer like Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is one of your top 10 holdings.
Miller remains — rightly — an investing legend. His 15-year streak is in no way diminished by this late-coming comeuppance. Over the past decade, the fund’s annualized returns have clocked in at 12.6%, nearly four percentage points better than the benchmark.
As I see it, this year’s “failure” is owed to only two factors. First is the arbitrariness of our calendar-year scorekeeping. The next is luck.
A lesson on luck
“Luck?” you ask. “What has that got to do with anything?”
Alas, in investing, luck is everything and nothing. In fact, Miller himself has remarked that the now-broken streak was only enabled by a long run of good luck.
But I submit that it’s a peculiar kind of luck, the kind that comes — to paraphrase Pasteur — only to the prepared mind.
Sure, Miller and crew were “lucky” that their bet on Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) worked out so well, so quickly, but the only reason they made the bet at all was because they’d put in plenty of hard work and figured the stock to be sorely undervalued at its IPO. And they were right, many times over, just as they were on another major recent multibagger, Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD). But even continued strength in those two powerhouses wasn’t enough to put Miller over the top this year.
Fools, prepare to get lucky
That’s why I say only a fool (with a little f) would claim that luck has nothing to do with investment returns — especially in the short run. On the flip side, only a fool would claim that a history of market-beating returns can be owed entirely to luck.
That’s something we believe down to our bones here at The Motley Fool. It’s why we pick stocks for ourselves. It’s why we love helping other people do it, and it’s why we like to begin every year with a few dozen of our best-prepared stock write-ups.
This year’s guide to the months ahead is Stocks 2007, and a brief look back at its older siblings might give you an idea of just how lucky you can get if you take the time to prepare with us.
Average Return to Date
S&P 500 Return
Difference
Stocks 2006
17.7%
11.7%
5.9
Stocks 2005
26.3%
21.5%
4.8
Stocks 2004
48.1%
36.3%
11.8
Results from respective publication dates through Nov. 7, 2006. Dividends considered reinvested.
Last year, the companies my colleagues and I chose for Stocks 2006 put up average returns of just under 18%. Led by stocks like American Eagle Outfitters (Nasdaq: AEOS), an 85% gainer; Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG), a 31% gainer; and Pixar, since acquired by Disney (NYSE: DIS), this group bested the S&P 500 index almost six percentage points.
Lucky? You bet. But we only got “lucky” because we were well prepared for what turned out to be a booming market. More amazing to me is that those returns came despite a couple of pretty steep meltdowns, like the (44%) plunge at Urban Outfitters.
Luck cuts both ways
Of course, it doesn’t always go that way in the short term. Last year at this time, we had the sad duty to report that Stocks 2005 — then a year old — was lagging the S&P 500 by nearly five percentage points.
Luck was not with us that year, but I submit that we were plenty well prepared to get lucky in 2006. The latest numbers show that the Stocks 2005 slate has returned an average of more than 26%.
ma ja si mislim da je ulaganje u Google sada na ovim razinama vrlo riskantno jer:
1. sve vijesti prvenstveno su vezane za englesko govorno područje te se zbog toga dodatno nagomilavaju ove provizije za prijevod i time povisuje ulaz
2. google kao takav ima dva slova 0 u svom imenu i podsjeća na dooooooviđenja zarado
3. google jednostavno ima premalo zaposlenih s obzirom na preveliku zaradu te time ne ulazi u krug ozbiljnih velikih firmi
4. postoji visoka vjerojatnost ne da će otići u stećaj već da će se pretvoriti u d.o.o. (kome treba prevesti na engleski 100kn)
siguran sam da Ivana7 ima još štošta toga za dodati te time prepuštam i njoj mjesto…
Starino, legendo…[smiley2][smiley2][smiley2]
a sta je taj google?
jel imate mozda neki link?
a sta je taj google? jel imate mozda neki link?
Najbolje da probaš na googleu [smiley2].
Gospodine ppeco.
– google vam je jedna obična tražilica koja puno košta, pa vidiš i sam da se cartmanić bolje od njih razvija (mislim na njegov forum).
– ja bih ti ipak preporučila da prićekaš malo dok naš cartmanić ne iziđe na burzu s svojim IPO forum d.o.o.
Evo , kako onda nebi tvrtka bila profitabilna, nije ni Cartman lud:
Američka Komisija za vrijednosne papire (SEC)
Plaće čelnika Googlea i Yahooa ove godine u visini jednog dolara
Trojica milijardera, čelnika tvrtke za pretraživanje interneta Google ove će godine zaraditi plaću od svega jednog dolara, sudeći prema izvješću podnesenom američkoj Komisiji za vrijednosne papire (SEC)
Riječ je o Sergeyu Brinu, Larryju Pageu i Ericu Schmidtu. Prema časopisu Forbes, vrijednost udjela u Googleu u vlasništvu Sergeya Brina i Larryja Page iznosi po 14 milijardi dolara dok je Schmidtov udjel vrijedan oko pet milijardi dolara. Treću godinu zaredom Google je tako odlučio da se plaće Schmidta, izvršnog direktora te u svijetu popularne internetske tražilice, te njezinih suosnivača Pagea i Brina ograničavaju na dolar. Terry Semel, izvršni direktor Yahooa, također će ove godine dobiti plaću od tek jednog dolara. Prošle godine je dobio bonus od 25,7 milijuna dolara unatoč snažnom padu cijena dionica Yahooa, izazvanim teškim nastojanjima te kompanije da održi korak s Googleom na tržištu oglašavanja. (H)
za slobodno vrijeme: još jedan dokaz da se u navedenu kompaniju ne isplati ulagati:
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ne plaćaju čelnike, radnici se zaje… umjesto da rade … užas!
Koja ti je to onda logika?!
Mislim da kompanija savrseno funkcionira, zato što su važni međuljudski odnosi koji pridonose uspješnoj suradnji cijeloga tima; Googlu je na prvom mjestu sam čovjek, te ga na taj način nastoji potaknuti na što bolje obavljen rad, odnosno posao. Pristup koji oni imaju stvarno je fenomenalan što i ne čudi, jer se sve to vidi na financijskim rezultatima.
Kod nas imaš nešto slično, ali to je tek u ‘ povojima’, ( vip i hypo-alpe adria bank)
Ako se to bude primjenjivalo kod nas, u bliskoj budućnosti bi kompanije imale bolje poslovne rezultate.