You just cannot keep Google out of the newspapers these days! The Times this morning reports on how comments by Google's chief Financial Officer, George Reyes to investors yesterday managed to wipe more than $8 billion (£4.5 billion) off its market value by admitting that the 'internet company's search for revenue was running out of steam'. I guess George's comments weren't quite on the scale of Gerald Ratner's a few years back but it did mean that Google had to circulate a somewhat modified version of his comments so that the shares only ended down 7.2% on the day on Wall Street.

You can read the complete article here:

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2063696,00.html

You may also have read articles surrounding the demise of the butler in Ask Jeeves over the past week or so. The decision to dismiss Jeeves and become plain old ask.com was influenced by the feeling that teenage boys (one of their key target audiences) don't really see butlers as role models these days. Well, that's not quite how The Times reported it on 27th February but I think that's the gist of it!

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2060961,00.html

In order to accommodate the wishes of people attending our workshops over the next couple of months, we swapped round the dates so you need to make a note in your diaries that the April Workshop will now take place in Southampton and the May one in Richmond upon Thames rather than the other way round! We find it helps if we get students to the correct venue on the right day;-) See our up-to-date search engine
marketing workshop, Google Analytics and pay per click training dates.

In fact, you don't just need to make a note, you need to register right now as Southampton is proving to be a popular venue!