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Chris Winfield in the Associated Press: ‘Google 3Q Profit Soars 46 Percent’Oct 20 2007 | Press |
On Thursday morning, I spoke with AP reporter Michael Liedtke about Google’s upcoming earning announcement. I told Mike that I expected them to report really strong earnings (especially based on Yahoo’s) and to exceed expectations. That educated guess wasn’t exactly rocket science if you’re in our industry and see how much Google controls…
Chris Winfield, who runs the search engine ad firm 10e20, says Google has become the Internet’s equivalent of the Beatles during that rock group’s heyday in the 1960s. ”It’s pretty amazing. It’s almost like they are in control of the world.”
Beatles reference? Yeah — my exact quote there was that ‘Google is more popular than Jesus right now’. Taken from John Lennon’s infamous quote about his own band and the power they held in the 60’s. GOOG is big right now. Really big. Is that a good thing? Well it certainly is to Wall Street.
Here’s a link to the article at the NY Times: Google 3Q Profit Soars 46 Percent
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October 22nd, 2007 at 12:51 am
Congrats Chris. I caught the article a day or two ago on my phone no less. I get AP articles with my data plan.
I’m reading and a couple of paragraphs in I saw your name and thought it was pretty cool to see you mentioned.
I like your original quote better than the one in the article, though I wonder if the reporter wanted to stay away from the controversy that surrounded John Lenon’s quote way back when.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Thanks Steven - I think you are right!
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Congrats Chris! Also, interesting to see how the NY Times internal links keywords in articles.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Thanks Michael! Yeah - the nytimes.com is definitely an interesting site to study…