{"id":2282,"date":"2006-04-14T09:54:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T09:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2006-04-14T09:54:41","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T09:54:41","slug":"quarterly_googl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2282","title":{"rendered":"Quarterly Google Earnings &#8211; Blodget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetoutsider.com\/2006\/04\/time_for_the_qu.html\">Henry Blodget<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Okay, Google gamblers.  This one&#8217;s going to be interesting. <\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, Google&#8217;s modest deceleration last quarter suggests that the company is going to once again deliver (relatively) ho-hum results and disappoint investors conditioned to expect the astounding.  It takes a long time for a supertanker to change speeds or course, and, last quarter, anyway, it did seem that the Google supertanker was finally beginning to slow down.  This diagnosis seemed confirmed by possible canary-in-the-coalmine announcements from advertisers who were cutting back on search spending because prices had gotten out of hand.  And then there was CFO George Reyes&#8217; lucid mid-quarter explanation of why growth had slowed in Q4&#8211;because previous growth had been accelerated by a monetization program that had now run its course.  This convincing explanation kneecapped the stock for the eight hours it took for the company to issue a press release that said, effectively, George was wrong.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Blodget: Okay, Google gamblers. This one&#8217;s going to be interesting. On the one hand, Google&#8217;s modest deceleration last quarter suggests that the company is going to once again deliver (relatively) ho-hum results and disappoint investors conditioned to expect the astounding. It takes a long time for a supertanker to change speeds or course, and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}