16 Jul 2010
| by John Reynolds
Google's profits climbed to $1.84bn in the second quarter, up from $1.48bn a year ago...by around a quarter on the previous year.
Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, said the company felt ...
earlier.
Google also boosted its employee numbers significantly over the quarter. It said that by 30 ...
growth, the company's performance fell shy of analysts' expectations.
Google last week received a ...
25 Aug 2010
| by Sarah Shearman
The Google logo is viewed once every nine minutes in the UK, making it the most-seen logo...which logo they see the most on an average day, said that Google was the most prominent. Of those, 47% said this was because Google was their homepage or the first page they logged on to once online.
The majority of participants estimated they saw the Google logo more than 50 times every working day, and 52 ...
02 Feb 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Google has accused Microsoft of borrowing from its search results to improve the performance...Evidence for the claim can be read on Google's blog , but to summarise, Google's suspicions were aroused in the summer of 2010 from monitoring Bing.
Google's engineers decided to test their hypothesis ...
result, to prove if Microsoft was taking results from Google.
Twenty Google engineers were given ...
09 May 2011
| by Ed Owen
Apple has leapfrogged Google and IBM to become the world's most valuable brand, according...and risk profiles, to arrive at a brand's value.
Google's brand value slipped by 2% to $111.5bn ( 67.9bn ...
)
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13 Apr 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
Google's net income for the first quarter has risen 60.7% to $2.89bn (£1.81bn), while revenues from...with generally accepted accounting practices, Google reports its revenues on a gross basis, including traffic ...
to ads served on Google sites and the sites of network members, decreased by approximately 12% from Q1 ...
-per-click, the number of paid clicks across Google's sites and those of its partners increased by 39% year on year in Q1 ...
15 Apr 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Google's UK revenues for the first quarter were $969m (£593m), up 15% year on year, compared to a...,316 employees.
Google has had to raise wages to stop employees jumping ship to rivals such as Facebook ...
and video.
Patrick Pichette, CFO of Google, said: "These results demonstrate the value of search ...
21 Mar 2011
| by Ed Owen
Google has supplanted Wal-Mart and Microsoft to become the world's leading brand, according...In Brand Finance's annual survey, Google has topped the global list with a brand valuation $44.3bn ( 27.3bn), edging Microsoft at $42.8bn ( 26.3bn) into second place.
Vodafone is the largest telecoms ...
Brand
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Brand Value 2010 (US$ millions)
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14 Oct 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Google's quarterly UK revenues have passed $1bn for the first time, as the company delivered an eye...traffic acquisition costs, helped Google to boost overall net income by 26% year on year to $2.73bn ...
on the progress of Google+, the company s attempt to catch up to Facebook s runaway success in the social networking space.
Google+ launched as an invitation-only service at the end of June, notching up 10 ...
01 Jun 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Google continues to attract the greatest number of unique visitors in Europe to its sites, although...The data shows that Google sites attracted 329.7 million unique visitors in April, accounting ...
, with 269.3 million uniques.
While both Google and Microsoft saw a slight decline in the number ...
, at 283.6 minutes per visitor, compared to 170.9 minutes for Google sites, and 177.7 minutes for Microsoft ...
07 Mar 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
Record viewing figures, big spending retail clients and Google's debut television campaign helped...The TV sector attracted 887 new or returning advertisers (classed as those absent for five years or more) in 2011 including Google, Avios, Asics, Majestic Wine, and Unum, according to figures from commercial TV marketing body Thinkbox.
Combined they accounted for 2.6% of total TV ad revenues ...