Marianne Wolk Quotations

I find it illogical to make a case that it's better to be diversified when search is growing so much faster online.

I think he adds substantial credibility to the combination; it makes people very optimistic that he will build a significant and multibillion-dollar company over time,

Microsoft is much further along than people anticipated and it's clear that it will rely on its own search technology rather than acquiring.

We do get a sense that search advertising has picked up since mid-August and that this recovery will continue in the fall and the fourth quarter.

With $7 billion in cash, they are on more of a level playing field.

There has been a lack of liquidity, and this certainly makes more shares available to institutional investors.

The story that's coming out of their quarter include weakness in search and the indication that upgrades to the Yahoo search technology that should help improve momentum are not likely to become visible until 2007.

You might see the stock pause temporarily. For the longer term, we're still very bullish but in the very short term it wouldn't be a surprise to see the stock stabilize or pull back.

You might see the stock pause temporarily, ... For the longer term, we're still very bullish but in the very short term it wouldn't be a surprise to see the stock stabilize or pull back.

It was a very impressive quarter. I would expect fourth-quarter numbers to move higher.

It slows their progress. It doesn't eliminate their progress.

The investor focus has turned back to eyeballs and the value of traffic on the Internet, especially value you can derive from advertising,

In our view, this is a small price to pay to gain possible protection against other click fraud suits.

These are extremely strong results. There is nothing to quibble with.

A natural follow-up would be gaming and video offerings. Plus, I look at full-track music downloads as a given.