<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1eb004f7-1786-434e-be8c-2b5d0a057787/176E689D-D5EB-441D-8C18-11CFA1591E22/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/03/20/everybody-hates-google.aspx" href="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/03/20/everybody-hates-google.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">www.fool.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/03/20/everybody-hates-google.aspx">It's bearing the full brunt of fears that an economic slowdown will dry up online advertising budgets.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/03/20/everybody-hates-google.aspx">Paid-search advertising is the last thing that sponsors will retreat from. Because they typically only pay for generated clicks that result in leads, paid search is fully accountable</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/03/20/everybody-hates-google.aspx"><P> That's a silly notion, frankly. . Different dynamics may force the actual bids higher or lower, but as long as they want business, it's the most transparent lead generator out there. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/03/20/everybody-hates-google.aspx"> This doesn't mean that one should bail on Google now. I sure wouldn't, since it's trading at just 17 times next year's earnings</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/03/20/everybody-hates-google.aspx">There may be no near-term positive catalysts awaiting, but there's a similar shortage of negative catalysts, too. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/03/20/everybody-hates-google.aspx"><P> If you can get past that possible burn, then it's wrong to hate Google. There is no Google killer looming in the distance, nor much reason to believe that Google will be challenged for its online-advertising throne for several years at least. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/176E689D-D5EB-441D-8C18-11CFA1591E22/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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