Saturday, April 17, 2010

Google: 1.955 billion dollars in profits over the quarter

Google, the first recipient of the recovery of the advertising market? The world's largest search engine said Thursday night with a quarterly revenue up 23% year on year, reaching 6.77 billion dollars before being returned to publishers of their income sites in its advertising network. Once this deduction, Google garnered 5.06 billion dollars, on which the Mountain View firm stated that it made a net profit of 1.955 billion, up 37.4% year on year.

The sponsored link is the goose that lays the golden eggs Google. The engine shows and have recorded a number of paid clicks rose 15% year on year, with an average price that rose about him from 7% in the first quarter of 2009.

With a war chest now estimated at $ 26.5 billion, Google said Thursday it would continue its policy of external growth, with a number of acquisitions that were not specified. In parallel, the engine that claims to have received 800 new employees over the quarter, says it wants to continue to recruit.

"In the future, we intend to continue to invest heavily in innovation to stimulate growth in our core business but also in new, and to help build the future of the open Web," said in a statement Patrick Pichette, Google's chief financial officer.

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