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February 2, 2005

Google on the Move

Posted by Adam Viener

Google has been on the move recently, a 7 Fold rise in net profit surprised Wall Street sending the stock up 14 points today.

A little more quietly, Google has become an ICANN registered registrar which will allow them to start selling domain names. There is a lot of speculation about what they will do with this status. The most obvious fit would be to offer cheap domain names as an up sell to their blogger and gmail services. Some have speculated that this could be a move towards the hosting market.

Finally, Google has announced a new beta API interface to their Adwords product that will enable creative programmers to provide add on services and let savvy marketers gain better control over their Adwords advertising. It will be fun to watch as new 3rd party services hit the market.