Google's Earnings Cause Trouble For comScore

Overjoyed investors have made Google's stock go up by about 20 percent since the company reported its earnings.  comScore, on the other hand, temporarily lost eight or so percent of its value.

The research company had predicted that Google would achieve a pathetic two percent year-over-year increase in search click volume.  Google came back with 20, and that's when onlookers got a little bit upset.

Also, "Comscore alerted analysts to a surprising deceleration in the US, one that was borne out in the Q1 results.  If analysts had dismissed the Comscore data out of hand and refused to cut their estimates, they'd be nursing some major wounds this morning."

Blodget's lines of thought may be winning converts; at the moment,