<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/d751c37a-9e66-47c8-b4b4-533eed8f39f3/45312D03-7D62-47EC-80DE-82C05A08279E/" 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.slate.com/id/2185926/?from=rss" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2185926/?from=rss" style="font-size: 11px;">www.slate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.slate.com/id/2185926/?from=rss"><H1>Have People Stopped Clicking on Google Ads?<SPAN class="h1_subhead">Or did a Web-traffic firm get the numbers wrong?</SPAN></H1></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.slate.com/id/2185926/?from=rss"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.slate.com/img/372CD414-EAC4-4D9E-A4B6-9E1BD5497499" alt="Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Click image to expand." /></div></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.slate.com/id/2185926/?from=rss"><P>On the morning of Feb. 26, the investment firm Bear Stearns sent out <A target="_blank" href="http://www.bearstearns.com/bservlet/BSFile?filePath=I60QwqJMFL1F9tehWYVWPmuS4QWtAmcbU1tHR3kIBXdO4Nhd5WnXxw==&preview=yes">an alert</A> (PDF) about some unwelcome news for Google. According to <A target="_blank" href="http://www.comscore.com/">comScore</A>, a leading Web-analytics company, the company's domestic paid clicks—that is, the number of times people in the United States clicked on a Google ad—were down 0.3 percent compared to last year and down 12 percent since October. By 7:16 a.m., former tech-securities analyst (and <A href="http://www.slate.com/id/3944/qp/40954/"><STRONG><EM>Slate</EM></STRONG> contributor</A>) Henry Blodget reported the news on Silicon Alley Insider under the headline "<A target="_blank" href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/2/2008/2/google_disaster__comscore_reports_awful_january">Google Disaster</A>." As news of the comScore report circulated, Google got killed on Wall Street: The stock opened the day down $25 a share and continued to fall, sinking to <A target="_blank" href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOOGLE_SLOWDOWN?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-02-26-16-45-54">an 11-month low</A> of $464.19 before staging a modest comeback. </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/45312D03-7D62-47EC-80DE-82C05A08279E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.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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