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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In its first full quarter under the direction of new chief executive officer Jerry Yang, Internet media titan Yahoo! reported that sales and profits for the third quarter beat analysts' expectations.
Yang also outlined an updated strategy for Yahoo. He stressed that the company was planning to more effectively integrate its numerous assets more directly into the Yahoo home page, add more online advertising partners and open up applications on Yahoo to outside developers.
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| Wall Street cheered Yahoo's first full quarter of results under co-founder and new CEO Jerry Yang. Shares of Yahoo surged 10 percent after hours after Yahoo beat sales and earnings estimates. |
Shares of Yahoo surged nearly 10 percent in after-hours trading following a more than 4 percent decline in regular trading on the Nasdaq Tuesday.
Yahoo's good news also helped lift shares of Google in after hours trading. Google's stock rose nearly 2 percent after the closing bell.
Yahoo (Charts, Fortune 500) reported sales of $1.77 billion, up 12 percent from a year ago. Excluding advertising sales that Yahoo shares with partners, the company reported revenue of $1.28 billion, an increase of 14 percent. Wall Street had been expecting revenue of $1.24 billion, according to estimates from Thomson First Call.
The company reported net income of $151 million, or 11 cents a share, a slight decrease from the $159 million, or 11 cents per share generated in the third quarter of 2006. But Yahoo's profits came in well ahead of analysts' forecasts of 8 cents per share.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has been struggling to stay competitive against Google (Charts, Fortune 500), which will report its third quarter results on Thursday. Yahoo also has to contend with challenges from smaller search rivals such as Microsoft's (Charts, Fortune 500) MSN, IAC's (Charts, Fortune 500) Ask.com and Time Warner's (Charts, Fortune 500) AOL. (Time Warner owns CNNMoney.com)
Web research firm Hitwise reported Tuesday that Google accounted for 63.6 percent of all searches in the U.S. in September, up from 60.9 percent a year ago. Yahoo was second with 22.6 percent market share, up only slightly from 22.3 percent in September 2006.
Google has widened its market share lead in search over Yahoo in recent months despite the fact that Yahoo has unveiled a new search advertising platform called Project Panama. Yahoo also recently rolled-out updated consumer features on its search sites.
But one analyst said that since expectations were so low for Yahoo, the fact that Yahoo didn't disappoint was a good sign. In other words, people may have been assuming the worst and were pleasantly surprised.
"Things may be more stabilizing. Advertisers are not defecting. If you read into these numbers it seems that Panama must be doing pretty well," said Martin Pyykkonen, an analyst with Global Crown Capital.
Yahoo also gave guidance for the fourth quarter that was roughly in line with what analysts were expecting, news that also probably soothed the Street. Yahoo said it expected sales for the fourth quarter, excluding revenue shared with affiliates, to be between $1.31 billion and $1.45 billion. The current consensus estimate for the fourth quarter is $1.37 billion.
Nonetheless, Pyykkonen said that Yahoo's 14 percent revenue growth in the third quarter was "nothing to get totally jazzed about," particularly since Google is expected to report a sales increase of 58 percent for the third quarter.
Jeffrey Lindsay, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein, also said Yahoo's results were not that inspiring and that the company may have benefited from having a relatively low bar to clear on the expectations front. He pointed out that even though sales were up in the quarter, earnings still decreased.
"Year-over-year, profit margins were down. That's an issue. If there was a definite, clear sign of radical improvement, it would have showed up in both the revenue and profits," he said.
In addition, Wall Street has expressed concerns that Yahoo may be losing ground to companies like News Corp.'s (Charts, Fortune 500) MySpace and privately held Facebook in the burgeoning social networking market.
For these reasons, investors were eager to hear what strategic plans, including possible acquisitions and asset sales, Yang has to get Yahoo back on track.
When Yang took over for ousted CEO Terry Semel in June, he promised to provide investors with a new road map for Yahoo within 100 days and added that there were no "sacred cows" at the company.
During a conference call with analysts, Yang said that as a result of the company's strategic review, Yahoo plans to do a better job of integrating sites such as its social networking offering Yahoo 360 and photo sharing site Flickr into other Yahoo sites.
He added that the company plans to open up the site to applications from other developers, a strategy that has won raves for Facebook. He also said the company will try and become a premier online destination for advertisers by partnering with more companies.
To that end, Yahoo announced Tuesday that it had signed multi-year advertising agreements with Cars.com, a site targeting car buyers and sellers owned by a consortium of newspaper publishers, Forbes.com, Ziff-Davis Media and WebMD.
These announcements follow a string of deals announced earlier this year by Yahoo, including partnerships with cable company Comcast, media conglomerate Viacom and social networking site Bebo.
"While we still have a lot to do we have made some important steps and some progress," Yang said.
Clayton Moran, an analyst with Stanford Group, said that Yahoo's new plan was not a major departure but that he thought the company did not need to undertake a massive overhaul.
"There is nothing dramatic they can do to turn around the company on a dime. There's a lot at risk if you change things too much too quickly. New partnerships help and that's the path they should take," Moran said.
Yahoo president Susan Decker added during the call that Yahoo saw an acceleration in growth in the third quarter in display advertising, i.e. sales of ads tied to banners, videos and other non-search ads. She said display ad sales were up 20 percent.
The improvement was a relief to some investors who had been worried that turmoil in the mortgage market would hurt Yahoo since lenders such as Countrywide are big online advertising spenders.
Last year, Yahoo disappointed Wall Street due to what it described as weakness in demand for ads from the automotive and financial services sectors.
"I was most encouraged by the strength in display advertising. That's a nice improvement and it's something people weren't expecting Yahoo to be able to turn around so quickly," Moran said.
Decker also noted that Yahoo hopes to take advantage of the fact that online ad networks and exchanges, companies that help advertisers buy ads across a broad array of sites, are growing more rapidly than stand-alone sites like Yahoo.
Yahoo recently completed the acquisition of online ad exchange firm Right Media and online ad network BlueLithium.
Analysts quoted in this story do not own shares of Yahoo and their firms have no investment banking ties with the company. ![]()

국내•외의 방대한 양의 연구논문들을 구글 한글사이트에서도 검색할 수 있는 구글 학술검색 서비스가 오늘부터 시작되었다. 구글
학술검색(*글로벌사이트의 Google Scholar 와 동일)은 사용자들이 학술 비평, 학위논문, 저술, 견본 인쇄, 논설 및
기술 보고서 등의 학술 자료를 무료로 검색할 수 있는 서비스이다. 기존 글로벌 논문 검색 이외 국내 학술논문 검색까지 추가
확대되어 국내에 선보이는 구글 학술검색은 추후 사용자 편의를 위해 메인페이지를 통한 바로가기가 추가될 예정이라고 한다.
구글 학술검색 서비스 출시로 인해 이제 국내 사용자들도 전세계의 학술논문 뿐 아니라 국내 유수 논문들에 대한 자료를 더욱 편리하고 쉽게 검색할 수 있게 되었습니다. 구글코리아는 국내 학술정보를 위해 한국의학학술지편집인협의회 (www.koreamedi.org
사이트 운영), 누리미디어등 주요 학술정보 제공자들과의 협력 하에 상당한 분량에 해당하는 한글 논문에 대해 본문 검색 서비스도
제공하고 있다. 특히 검색 알고리즘을 통해 자동 추출된 논문들간의 인용정보 및 참조논문 정보는 연구자들이 특히 유용하게 사용하는
자료다.
구글 학술검색이 차별화되는 가장 큰 요인은 구글 협력사들로부터 제공된 데이터베이스와 웹사이트로부터 추출된
메타데이터를 학술검색에 활용하여, 다른 사이트가 쉽게 제공할 수 없는 각 논문에 대한 인용횟수에 대한 정보도 구글 학술검색은
제공할 수 있다는 것이다. 이 인용횟수는 많은 연구자들에게 있어 자료의 신뢰성을 판단하는 참조기준입니다. 또한 구글 학술검색에는
참조자료(reference)에 대한 링크가 설정되어 있어 논문을 읽다가 관련 자료로 아주 편리하게 넘어가서 볼 수 있다는 게
장점이 있다.
예를 들어, IT에 관한 보고서를 작성하고 있는 학생이 구글 학술검색에서 "검색기술"이라는 단어를
검색하면 구글 학술검색은 논문의 본문을 모두 자동으로 수집(Crawling)한 다음 사용자가 입력한 검색 키워드에 적합한 연구
논문, 논설 및 저술 등을 인덱스 방식으로 보여준다. 검색 결과 페이지에는 저자, 출처, 출판년도, 인용횟수 및 현황, 참조링크
자료까지 제공된다. 사용자가 논문의 전문을 보기 위해서는 해당 사이트로 가야 하며, 그 사이트에서 열람 혹은 구매를 할 수 있다.
국내의 논문검색을 위해 구글코리아는 국내 대표적인 논문 DB사인 누리미디어와 제휴를 맺고 있으며, 현재 제휴사인 누리미디어를 통해서는 850여 종의 간행물, 62만 여 개의 논문에 대한 본문 검색이 이루어지고 있다.
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The Google Online Marketing Challenge is a great hands-on exercise for undergraduate or graduate students in classes such as advertising, ecommerce, integrated marketing communication, management information systems, marketing and new media technologies.
The goal for students is effective online marketing via sound marketing analysis to optimize, manage and update a Google AdWords campaign.
The challenge works like this:
To accommodate students all over the globe, your students can compete over any three consecutive weeks between the 10th of February and the 24th of May 2008. Remember - you should allow sufficient class time to cover online marketing and Google AdWords, and for students to recruit their businesses.
Global and Regional winners will be announced in July 2008.
A two page outline of the Challenge is available here.