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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (7680)	2/15/2006 8:18:05 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15857

I wonder why Google doesn't have the email icon on their toolbar? Yahoo has had it for quite some time now. They should have a lot more available on the toolbar. Such as mapping, Video's, etc. I'll bet half of all computers have either Google or Yahoo's toolbar at the top. That's an opportunity search companies are not taking full advantage of imho.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (7680)	2/15/2006 9:32:24 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15857

What was I thinking, of course the google guru's had already thought of improving their toolbar. I just hadn't seen the new beta out yet. toolbar.google.com You can add all kinds of icon favorites with this toolbar. New! Custom Buttons You can add buttons to your Toolbar that will let you visit and search your favorite websites and keep up with interesting feeds. Our Button Gallery offers a selection of ready-made buttons for popular sites, and you can make your own buttons in seconds by right-clicking within the search box on any site and selecting "Generate Custom Search…" Or make your own buttons. google.com

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (7680)	2/16/2006 12:24:14 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15857

this is from Cramer James J. Cramer: I remain upbeat on the company's outlook, even though it seems like everyone is suddenly ganging up on Google after the most recent quarterly report. Barron's took the latest swipe at the stock last weekend. I believe that Google is attractive to purchase below $350 a share. The company remains at the lead of a burgeoning Internet advertising business -- an area that could see its share of the overall ad market double from just 5% to 10% by the end of the year. thestreet.com I wonder if this was just an over the top comment by Cramer or he really has evidence that this is true. The US ad market is 300 billion per year with current internet advertising at around 15 billion total. If the internet pie doubles from 5% to 10%- this means a 30 billion dollar market of which GOOG will get a huge percentage. If this happened GOOG would probably earn $12 or something in 06.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (7680)	2/16/2006 12:55:37 AM
From: Roy	Respond to of 15857

You're right, goog/googUK relationship is the bulk of it and it sure is fishy how traffic seems to move to/from UK and goog in December. (also given UK miss and intl taxes) Note you can click on the months and all the global data is there. From this it is easy to calculate goog global share. If my spreadsheet is correct, goog global share is flat comparing Jan to Q4, and comparable to oct and nov. They need to continue to increase share or monetize even better to continue to outperform overall search growth rate. I think we've seen that they are approaching limits on monetization improvements. At this point how much more share can they take. Jan so far indicates flat. Thanks for sharing the site. Roy