Pressure is mounting to be more forthcoming

Advertisers, competitors and Wall Street analysts are frustrated

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Even people who are making money from Google are puzzled by its secrecy. Google shares the revenue with the publisher. But Google won't tell most website owners how much commission it's taking.

CEO Schmidt said if Google were to start releasing specific data, the company's market valuation could swing by billions of dollars in a single day because investors don't understand how those metrics fit into the big picture

LA Times [latimes.com]

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An article in the LA Times does not constitute pressure.

[bostonseo]

My advice: If you own Google stock - sell it now.

[toddb]

CNBC is conducting a poll right now entitled, "is google too secretive?" I think the media is wondering about it.

[jimbeetle]

So Google has kept its ranking formula — which the company says includes more than 200 signals — more secret than the recipe for Coca-Cola.

Ah, so the ingredients of the secret recipe have doubled?