The death of Google

Puzzled tech analysts are beginning to ask the unimaginable: is Google’s historic run finally over? The numbers don’t look promising. Google’s U.S. paid click-throughs – to be sure, its bread and butter revenue-generator – may rise by just two percent in the first quarter, according to Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider, citing proprietary ComScore data. That would compare to a 25 per cent quarterly growth rate a year ago for Google, and down from a 40 per cent quarterly growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2007. From 40 per cent to 2 per cent in the span of three months? What happened?

Bernhard Warner, Times Online, 16 de abril de 2008

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