Strong Google results renew debate over weight investors give to comScore paid-click reports

Google's strong first-quarter results threw into question the weight many investors place on data from a leading Web measurement company that had shown slowing growth in Google's U.S. paid clicks. That data can be misread or simply wrong. Before Google Inc. released its earnings late Thursday, the company's market value had plunged 35 percent since December as Wall Street analysts worried that the faltering U.S. economy could bog down Google. Many analysts had cited the monthly paid-click reports from the Internet measurement company comScore Inc. as confirmation of their fears.
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