It was interesting to see the first quarter revenue announcement that Google published yesterday. Thankfully the analysts seem to see the 3% decrease, from $5.7 billion reported in Q4 of 2008 to $5.51 billion in Q1 of 2009, as slightly better than  expected. Ok, not that interesting but a good indication that the world’s situation might not be quite as bad as all that.

Of real interest, to us Search Marketers anyway, are Google’s announcements on the new referring URL format and one line sitelinks. (more…)