Shaun Nichols in California, vnunet.com21 Apr 2008
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Google's report on the first quarter of 2008 shows an unexpectedly strong
start to the year for the search giant.
The company logged $1.31bn in profit between January and March on total
income of $5.19bn.
The $5.19bn in revenues marks a 42 per cent increase from the first quarter
of 2007, and a seven per cent rise on the last quarter of 2007.
The majority of Google's income came from its own properties. Sites owned by
Google accounted for $3.4bn, making up 66 per cent of the company's total
revenues.
AdSense accounted for nearly all the remaining income, bringing in $1.69bn
and accounting for 33 per cent of revenues.
Some 51 per cent of income came from outside the US, including $803m from the
UK.
Google credited a portion of this to the weak US dollar, estimating that
around $18m of its revenues were due to the favourable currency rate.
Chief executive Eric Schmidt said that the integration of DoubleClick into
Google's advertising platform would "increase value" for advertisers and
partners.
Investors shared Schmidt's rosy outlook on the earnings. Google stock rose 20
per cent following the release of the report, the largest single-day surge on
the stock market for the company since its IPO in 2004.
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