GOOGLE IS continuing its mountaineering growth, chalking up another billion dollars in profit for its first quarter. Profit was up 69 per cent year on year and that was almost matched by revenue gains of 63 per cent to $3.7bn.
CEO Eric Schmidt said he was "ecstatic" with the numbers. So would you if you’d managed to move from the valley of doom with Novell to the infinite riches of the G-men. He should be wearing a straw hat at a jaunty angle, twirling a cane, flashing a dazzling smile at all and sundry, whistling a show tune and saying to himself, "Yup, Eric my boy, life really is pretty darn good."

Can it get better for Google? Well, Yahoo’s new Panama ad system doesn’t seem to be helping the firm too much, Microsoft is also becalmed and there is little sign of a killer new search technology out there.

Google’s market cap is $147 billion, making it more valuable than little guys like IBM and Intel. Who knows, maybe Google will even be able to drill some holes into the Microsoft Office franchise with its web productivity programmes and find a new revenue spurt. And then watch them go

a billion dollars in 1 quarter!!!! b4 u know it google will practially own the planet lol

That would be a pretty cool company to work for. At least to the media all the employees are pretty chill and the company is pretty relaxed. They play hockey once a week in the parking lot.. Thats tight.

lol woo i didnt no google was that big of a company

Google is GIGANTIC its pretty crazy.. I have to admit its most definitely the best search engine, but it has developed into the best... everything lol.

I can remember the days when google just came out. It was all about ask and yahoo but google killed off all competition

Actually back in the day my search engine of choice was altavista.

In essence a search engine is bigger than one of the largest computer companies. I acknowledge the fact that google now no longer remains under the search engine category but thats really what it is.

whappakk!!! i can't just can't imagine how did google able to pull it of!!! lucky joo!!!

Faar, Google is awesome lol

remeber syndicate wars?? yeah.... google...microsft... wallmart.... LVL3 CYBERNETIC IMPLANTS COMIN RIGHT UP!

Check out google in 1998:





Man it has grown over the years. WELL DONE TO THEM LOL!!!

u know a company is big wen companys like Microsoft an Yahoo are teaming together to take them on!!!! i hope google wins!!!

wow. thats pretty lame. lol. i didnt even know the internet existed back then.
in just under 10 years, they have grown so huge, just think for whats to came in the next 10

damn wish I would of bought stock back in the day from google! I could retire off of it right now!

yeah Google is the best.. search engine of course

I remember google way back than when it was a small search engine. Lycos and other search engine were bigger, glad to see that i've used the right engine from the start.

...i was 6 when this came out...now its bigger than the planet...maybe they'll discover new lifeforms and then take them on in the search engine world lol

I only use google for their search engine. To me thats all they are good for.

lol how does google make so much money

lol, my school is against google, they say "i doenst have accurate information" which google usually does
but they like wikipedia which has a bigger chance to be fake since any old cook can edit it lol..

google is pretty cool, what makes people NOT hate GOOGLE like MICROSOFT is the fact that they started and have been a free service, imagine earning billions by giving free service. haha in your face microsoft.