Great Google quarter--and a new quote feature

Google announced a great quarter today, with net income jumping 31 percent to $1.31 billion for the first quarter, and I was equally impressed by a new feature on Google News that extracts quotes from news stories.

It comes in handy if you are looking for quotes from individuals and the sources, and you can slice and dice the quotes by relevance, date and time. However, it is a bit inconsistent right now. The two screens below shows how "words that matter" works:

Google News shows a quote at the top of the page (above), with a link that goes to a full page of news quotes (below).

I did another Google News search on "Eric Schmidt" and I got this screen, sans the quote feature:

Searching on George Bush, the quote feature worked as expected:

Searching Google News for Bill Clinton didn't yield any quotes, but a search for Yankees captain Derek Jeter did. It appears that the news quote feature needs a little more work, or that Google News has deemed its CEO as unquotable. It must be the former...

[djc8080]

Hi Dan,

Google has managed search and international share growth well. However, this hides declining clicks in the US and devastation to the Long Tail of millions of US blogs. The US Long Tail of millions of blogs and publishers lose.

Read at: (The New Economics of Advertising)

-Dash Chang