Google announced their earnings in a conference call. Financial details are in their Omid
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"We are also expanding our business to offline media."
"If you think about it user benefit is the key thing we focus on. Lots and lots of new products coming out and there is no end in sight.
We are still at the beginning of our core business of search. Lots of room for growth there. Our primary focus is on end user happiness and end user growth."
"We don't insist on a direct link for a product to generate
"Clear Channel is not a remnant deal and includes a lot of prime ad time."
"Google is building a tool to automate the
"As I reflect on the quarter Google is very much benefiting from the growth rate of the industry. We have benefited from the very hard work of advertisers, agencies and publishers. All of this is centered around the positive experience of our users. This is a scale business and the scale looks very good to us."
"We have made many improvements in the quality and relevance of search."
"We have also made great strides in moving people toward web computing."
"We have made many improvements to
"We just know that the same principals that worked with site targeting in search can be expanded."
Sergey Brin, Co-Founder & President, Technology
"We even have a partnership with some of the Presidential candidates at
"We have launched pay per action in beta. That is the easiest way for an advertiser to pay for advertising. It ultimately speaks to what advertisers want to get most."
"This past quarter we announced a number of new partners for Google Checkout."
"We have 75% of the top 20 social networks in our Adsense network."
"We are very excited about our DoubleClick we think we can make more advertisers more efficient."
"We also have been trying to make it easier for advertisers to advertise offline. Recently, we signed a partnership with Clear Channel.
Ultimately, it comes down to viewers and consumers. We believe fundamentally we can make advertising better by making them more relevant to viewers and readers."
Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management
"We have been building on quality components with our ads. These changes created more accurate quality based scores. We also added to the front of adwords to see if particular words were poor, good or great. This substantially improve the click through rate. We also worked on landing page quality scores."
"Certainly a big story in the quarter is traffic and a big component is the Google Tool Bar. Tool bar users search significantly more."
"The UK was very quick in moving ad spending to Google Adwords from TV."
"Many of the improvements on a quality bases are reducing the
"We have done a must better job of providing a unified
"The more
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