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Google Doubles its Profits

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the selling-like-hotcakes dept.

WinEveryGame writes "Google just announced a very strong quarter. The internet search engine said it had net income of $721m, or $2.33 per diluted share, up from $343m a year earlier. Wall Street had expected earnings of $1.94 per share. Earlier this week Yahoo had announced lower than expected earnings."

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  1. Yawho? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously guys, thanks for playing.

  2. chairs.... by linRicky · · Score: 4, Funny

    I sure would be modded down for this.. but just can't help wondering how many chairs are being thrown at Microsoft after this announcement....

  3. Google is a verb now by William+Robinson · · Score: 5, Funny
    Offtopic -1

    Does somebody else find it funny, how the web sites have become verbs. Look at the button 'Google Slashdot'. Imagine 'Slashdot Google' or 'Slashdot University of California' buttons to kill the web sites.

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  4. Re:Google's Bad Business Model by Umbral+Blot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oops, I forgot: Microsoft isn't evil anymore. I guess the folks at Google can sleep safely.

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  5. Re:Google's Bad Business Model by bluebox_rob · · Score: 5, Funny

    And all this money comes from adwords?
    Are you kidding? Have you even been to the Google Store?! They do t-shirts, mugs - heck they even sell Lava Lamps! I'd like to see the adblocker that can block those babies...

  6. Re:I wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could buy a lot of chairs for $2.83 billion :)

  7. The extra money probably came from by SFSouthpaw · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yahoo's employees googling for better jobs.

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  8. Re:Am I missing something? by caluml · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just don't understand how people value stocks. Buy low, sell high?

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  9. Re:1 2 3 Profit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    1. Don't be evil
    2. Be Evil
    3. Profit!!!

  10. Re:Google Operating System by pedantic+bore · · Score: 5, Funny
    With the amount of revenue they have, it's not that far-fetched to think they aren't capable of creating their very own OS.

    People said the same thing about Microsoft.

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  11. Google ... and beta by corychristison · · Score: 2, Funny

    As much as I love to use Google [the search engine mostly] I am sick of this 'Beta' thing.

    Everything that comes out of any company is now branded as 'Beta' Software / websites. The new Microsoft Live crap, Yahoo is branding their crap as Beta... I'm sick of it.

    Now, perhaps they could hire Tom Cruise to utilize his witchcraft to somehow get Beta as a trademark -- then they could lay on the royalty fee's on any company using it for commerical use -- I'm sure that would quadruple their profits! :-)

    By the way -- did I mention how much I hate the word 'Beta'?