Google Newsbites 2/28/06

Google to Wall Street: "Clearly our growth rates are slowing...We are going to have to find new ways to monetize the business"

YHOO and GOOG stocks plummet after Google's announcement to analysts

GOOG stock sold by insiders at high rates recently, coincidence or did Googlers know it was going bearish?

Google Code Jam India has just opened registration, qualified southeast Asian coders can win fabulous cash and prizes

Google announces Google News for mobile devices

USAToday summarizes Google's ambitions to become advertising brokers for "old media," TV, radio, print

MIVA ad system to take on AdSense/AdWords, lets publishers target ads both manually by unit and contextually to the page

Jeremy Zawodny notices that the new Ask.com copies Google.com

CEO Barry Diller says Ask will battle Google

DoJ rejects Google's privacy concerns in releasing its users' search information

Google Earth fans meet NASA's World Wind

PC Magazine picks up the Valleywag social bookmarking rumor

Lawrence Lessig, tech lawyer and IP expert, lectures on Google Print and Book Search (YouTube 30 minutes), conclusion: Google's projects constitute "fair use" of the copyrighted materials they scan/store

From SES 2006, "The Search Landscape"

Google and Yahoo offices are inches apart in Santa Monica