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Even the worst earnings announcements try to spin things in a positive way; it's necessary to do a little deep-reading to find out what really happened.  comScore's first-quarter earnings just didn't have any bad components, though, and the company's stock is up about 20 percent this morning as a result.

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Google's first-quarter earnings report, scheduled for Thursday afternoon, just got a lot more interesting. Late Tuesday night, those Internet traffic trackers at ComScore put out some lousy news: growth in paid-search clicks in the United States is slowing down.

Information Week is out with a new story ranking the top Internet search firms (by number of searches) for the month of February, 2008.

The results may indicate why Microsoft wants a piece of Yahoo so badly, even though Bill Gates & Co. seem unwilling to up their share-per-price bid for Yahoo.

IW, in a headliner entitled "Microsoft's Search Share Continues To Decline" says that for the month of February, 2008, Google had 5.86 billion searches, Yahoo had 2.14 billion, and Microsoft had 953 million.

The magazine cited research provided by comScore. While framing the internet search in 30-day...