Googlified

Google announced their earnings for the first quarter of 2008. The reported revenues of $5.19 billion beat most analysts’ expectation. The stock jumped 20% during today’s trade to $539.41 - the “largest one-day gain” for the Google stock.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo! is “moving “closer to outsourcing its search advertising to Google”, after a successful test run of AdSense for Search on its site. I think that if Yahoo!’s really doing this, then the two companies will be interdependent on each other and eventually merge. It’s not a bad thing, but people are tired of monopolies.

Continuing with the months-long depression, GOOG today hit a new 52-week low, at $413.04, and keep plunging in after hours trade. This is also the lowest since October 2006. It wasn’t that long ago when GOOG set its record high at $747 last December.

My math tells me $100+ billion has been flush down the toilet. Not really true, but close enough.

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.

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.”

After launching Google Finance Canada last July, the Google Finance Blog announced the launch of UK version of the site today.

Now it’s easier for us Brits to get our own European public and private company information as well as UK mutual fund data. In addition you can find GBP currency quotes on the home page, so we can feel smug about how much cheaper everything will be when we visit the U.S.

[Insert Jokes on U.S. Dollars Here]

Google just released their financial results for the third quarter of 2007. Here’s are my highlights:

• $4.23 billion in revenue: a 57% year-over-year and 9% quarter-over-quarter increase
• Google-owned sites generated 65% of total revenues
• AdSense generated 34% of total revenues
• 15,916 full-time employees worldwide, up from 13,786 last quarter

Google’s market cap is at all time high $199.65 billion.

You can find the full report here, or if you are like me, here’s the PDF slide with charts. :)

Google’s stock price has passed the $600 mark, closed at $609 today. I would exchange that for my paycheck. :)

On a related note, Google’s holding their “quarterly conference call to discuss third quarter 2007 financial results on Thursday, October 18, 2007.”

Google is set to launch the Canadian version of Google Finance next Tuesday, they “slipped” the words too soon on their blog, as Garett Rogers put it. Google edited the post soon after it was published with, “Oops. We hit the button too soon. Watch for news about Google Finance in Canada next Tuesday.”

Thanks for the beauty of the Internet, we can still recover the original text,

Posted by Dion Loy, Google Finance engineer

We’re pleased to introduce Google Finance Canada, a localized version of Google Finance tailored specifically, as you might guess, for Canadian investors. Canadians are the second largest group of Google Finance users, and as a Canadian myself, I’m excited to see Canadian financial information presented in the familiar easy to use Google Finance format. This new edition includes:

• Top financial news from Canadian sources
• Search with a preference for Canadian companies
• Front-page high level economic data from the Bank of Canada
• Portfolios in Canadian currency (or the currency of your choice)
• Equity data from the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, and Canadian mutual funds

In addition, stock quotes and charts for Canadian-listed companies are now available through the Google.com web search.

The Canadian version will likely to be located at http://finance.google.ca, which is currently redirecting to Google Finance.

Google today announced their financial results for the second quarter of 2007 that’s with $3.87 billion in revenue. Wow, a lot of money - to me, but that didn’t impress the Wall Street bankers/investors despite the mere 6% increase comparing to the last quarter.

Google’s stock price dropped over 7% in the after hour trading, setting it back to the mid-June level.

If you crunch numbers for a living and interested in these stuff, you can check out their Financial Release, or else you would probably want check out this PDF slideshow like me. :)

Google today added several new features to Google Finance that allows you to subscribe to news feeds of the stocks, and add recent and upcoming events to Google Calendar.

Further more, the “latest portfolio performance and transaction details from your portfolio” and “historical end-of-day prices for any U.S. or Canadian company” are now downloadable in CSV format.

Google News is now displaying relevant stock quotes under result snippets that link to Google Finance.

Google just released their financial results for the first quarter of 2007 ending March 31st with the revenues of $3.66 billion. That is “an 63% increase compared to the same period last year and 14% increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2006.”

“GAAP net income for the first quarter of 2007 was $1.0 billion as compared to $1.03 billion in the fourth quarter of 2006. Non-GAAP net income was $1.16 billion in the first quarter of 2007, compared to $997 million in the fourth quarter of 2006.”

The report says that Google-owned site generated $2.28 billion (62%) of the total revenues and 1.35 billion (37%) from partner sites that uses Google AdSense.

Trivia:

• Free cash flow: $623 million
• Googlers: 12,238 full-time employees, up from 10,674 full time employees as of December 31, 2006
• International Revenues: $1.71 billion (47%)
• Paid Clicks: Increased approximately 52% over the first quarter of 2006 and approximately 13% over the fourth quarter of 2006
• DoubleClick: Will cost Google $3.1 billion in cash

Checkout this slideshow[PDF] for more information.