It was bound to happen. It was just a matter of when. |
It was just a matter of time before the expectations exceeded the results. |
It was just a matter of time before there was some consolidation of these gains. |
Key word and paid searches should continue to grow at a rapid rate, as will the online advertising market and retail sales. We are forecasting double-digit growth for each of these sectors. |
Microsoft is the wild card here. |
More detail to allow analysts to better understand and engage in forecasting would be great. There's a grey area where they're not providing guidance, but they can give us more information. |
MSN was the one that may have been a logical acquiring company but they are clearly building as opposed to buying, |
No matter how big and successful you are, there is always the prospect in the blink of an eye that the business can go down for a period of time, |
Nobody really believes that the consensus is what the company is being measured by at this point. It's some other number. |
Nothing (Reyes) said was unreasonable. It was just a matter of interpretation. |
Now with Visa and MasterCard losing some power, it allows these smaller networks to compete. |
People are ready and able to pay for such services. For free isn't always the case anymore. |
That's a substantial beat when it comes to the second quarter, but the expectations were just way, way too high. |
That's one of the problems of not providing guidance and not having a specific line of communication. |
The company has not adequately invested in investor relations during the past couple of years. It's pretty obvious. |