Holy Crap, Search Advertising Actually Shrank In Q4

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U.S. search advertising spending fell an unprecedented 8% year-over-year in Q4, search marketing firm Efficient Frontier reports. It was the first time search advertising spending declined in a quarter year-over-year since Efficient Frontier began keeping track.

If true, it's particularly bad news for search advertising leader Google (GOOG), which EF said...