google q4 2007 financial result chart

Google released their financial results for the fourth quarter of 2007 today. Here are my highlights:

  • $4.83 billion in revenue: a 51% year-over-year and 14% quarter-over-quarter increase
  • Google-owned sites generated 65% of total revenues ($3.12 billion)
  • AdSense generated 34% of total revenues ($1.64 billion)
  • 16,805 full-time employees worldwide, up from 15,916 last quarter (889 more Googlers)

Fell short of analysts’ expectations, Google stock’s price dropped 6.5% in the after hour trading, to $527.40.

number of googlers q4 2007 chart

Our friends at Zorgloob created a graph showing the number of Googlers worldwide over time. As you can see, the growth slowed down between September and December of 2007.

In other news,  in an interview with the Fortune Magazine (recently named Google the “Best Company to Work For” for the second time), Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt “promised to stay at Google for 20 years.”