By using InfoNgen, contributors will eliminate mundane and time-intensive searches by gaining access to unique and relevant information from the wealth of cyberspace, within emails, in desktop documents or on network drives.

Transcripts are also provided by Thomson (TRI) and FactSet (FDS), though as a paid subscription service. With Xignite, we're making it easy for other web sites to enhance their offering by providing access to free transcripts via a free web service. Here's the full press release:

1. Followers/Following

Until recently, our readers were able to follow their favorite authors via watchlists. Adding a Seeking Alpha contributor to your watchlist meant that you could track new articles by your favorite authors on the home page and in a daily email alert. But watchlists were limited: contributors couldn't see who was following them, readers couldn't see which contributors other contributors thought worth reading, and readers weren't able to track comments by other readers.

The job consists of setting strategy for traffic and revenue generating partnerships, forming and cultivating business relationships with existing and potential partners, and management of the entire business development cycle, including negotiation, responsibility for contracts (with input from our lawyers), deal closing, and ongoing relationship development.

Gridstone Research offers subscription and research services to firms in the capital markets. Gridstone’s research platform is a powerful web-based stock research tool, provided to hedge funds and mutual funds on a subscription basis. Gridstone competes in the institutional investor market with Thomson Reuters (TRI), among others. The Gridstone system has just about any piece of data that a company makes available on a regular basis. Data is clearly laid out in spreadsheet form, viewable on the web or in Excel. Clicking on a data point accesses the exact location of the data in the original source document.

1. Recession

We're not economic forecasters, and there is a high degree of uncertainty in outlook based on the state of the economy. As a result we've adjusted our guidance approach as follows. At the top end we're assuming a mild recession, and a relatively modest growth rate for all IT-based products. While at the bottom end we're assuming a deeper recession in the economy an end-season lower growth for IT... Over the first two months of this quarter we experienced much the same economic conditions as we saw during the second half of fiscal 2008, with demand actually a little better than our historic seasonality. However, in September, as the credit crisis unfolded, many partners and customers were faced with market uncertainty and credit restrictions which impacted the rate at which they purchased software. We've seen this behavior continue into October and while we're optimistic about the actions the governments have taken to unfreeze the financial markets there will be some spillover into the real economy

These changes were driven by one goal: to make it faster and easier to find articles on Seeking Alpha.

Here are the key changes:

USG Corp. (USG)

With the seasonal decline in subscriber acquisition in Q2, our marketing expense declined by $15 million, or 27% sequentially to just under 10% of revenue. As a percent of revenue, this represents the lowest quarterly marketing spend in our history as a public company. In Q2, we expensed $40.1 million on marketing. That’s $5.2 million less than we expensed in Q2 of last year or about an 11% decrease in marketing expense. What’s remarkable about the lower spending is that gross subscriber additions continued to grow anyway on a year-over-year basis.

1. The future of movies by snail mail

1. Revenue growth

We had another strong quarter, with gross revenue increasing 39% over Q2 of 2007 to $5.4 billion. Google.com performed well, up 42% year over year to $3.5 billion, driven by strong traffic growth and to a lesser extent, monetization. AdSense revenue grew 22% over Q2 of 2007 but was down slightly on a sequential basis, reflecting a continued focus on delivering high quality traffic to our advertisers and typical Q2 seasonality.

1. Online revenue in Q2

Gannett can serve the digital world in ways no one else can. Today, an advertiser can come to Gannett and say I want to get my product in front of women ages 20 to 35 in small towns and large cities across the country. I want to create a national buzz but have a local connection that makes it easy for these customers to find me, and I don’t want to have to make hundreds of calls to get there. We can do that today. We have the content, lots of content. We have 60 local mom sites and a national version on the way. We have 104 local news websites. We have entertainment levers through Metro Mix and families who are organizing their kids sports through highschoolsports.net. We know who is going to these sites and we are getting better at these kinds of metrics every day.

Classified advertising at the daily newspaper of $12.1 million, which includes both print and online, decreased about 22% for the second quarter of 2008. This represents the eleventh consecutive quarter-over-quarter revenue decrease in classified advertising. Looking specifically at the verticals, employment was down 25.7%, auto declined about 18%, real estate was down about 31%, and the other classified vertical was up slightly year over year.

It is true that many of our competitors compete with us on price because that’s all they have to compete with us on. And we believe that kind of competition actually works in our favor. Some tools are even free as many of you know, which we do not view as negative. In fact, the company with the purported best free analytics tool placed a major order with Omniture in the second quarter, and that is probably the best estimate of all to the differentiation of Omniture from the free analytics tools.

Despite minimal impact on our business so far, we are concerned about the impact of energy prices on our customers, and we do expect that we could have more deferrals and some cancellations as our customers continue to wrestle with the new energy reality. In light of that, it is important to explain how we manage our commercial delivery schedules for Sky Line. Deferrals and cancellations are a normal part of the airplane manufacturing business. In our production and delivery planning, we assume we'll see a certain amount of both based on historical data and our judgment about each of the customers in our backlog and the potential impact of things like today's energy prices. We use these factors to determine our production rate in a disciplined manner and to balance our sales plan with delivery position availability.

Online business growth

1. Impact of a weak economy