Comments on: Google: A bellwether or giant losing its grip?

Surprising advertising numbers from ComScore show Google can suffer from a bad economy like everyone else. Wall Street is horrified.

[catch23]

The glass isn't half empty

nor is it half full.
Somewhere along the way, we overspent and bought a glass that is 2X too big...

which can be problematic into itself.

[suyts]

Why is it

that suddenly we're being told we have a bad economy? Look at the numbers. Quarter after quarter of continuous growth in the GDP. Inflation is low. Interests rates are even lower. Unemployment is hovering at about 5%. Sure, the housing market is taking a beating but it should. Lenders lent money to people that couldn't pay it back. Houses were selling at an ungodly prices. Apparently, we had too many viewers of "Flip that house". Stock market was over inflated and corrected itself. Some tech companies were over inflated more than others (Google and Apple)and had to take a correction. Nothing to jump out of a building for. Everything is fine. Google and Apple will be fine too. Hopefully home lenders and borrowers will be more prudent in the future and everything will be rotating on its proper axis.

[Commander_Spock]

"Hopefully home lenders and borrowers...

... will be more prudent in the future and everything will be rotating on its proper axis". Sure, and this would be particularly so as the cost of imported oil (around which the economy revolves) declines dramatically; or, will the imported oil prices climb even higher!!!

[t8]

And

the price of OS/2 Wart goes up while it's performance compared with Linux goes down.

[Commander_Spock]

Which Spread Sheet; and,...

... what formulas are you using? It looks like you have created a new "equation" quite recently. LOL!