Profits Up 69% at Google

For much of this year, the buzz around Google has been all about the flurry of new initiatives at the No. 1 Internet search company, from its YouTube video sharing site, to its new software for office workers, to its forays into television, radio and newspaper advertising.

Here is the take home message, check out my summery of the numbers below:

Google said first-quarter profit rose 69 percent, to $1 billion. Overall quarterly revenue was $3.66 billion, up from $2.25 billion a year ago. The number of searches conducted on Google in February reached 3.6 billion, up 40 percent from a year earlier. By comparison, searches on Yahoo grew 12 percent, to 1.3 billion, and on Microsoft, 9 percent, to 618 million.

Notice that AOL is not even mentioned in the article. I use Yahoo mail, Yahoo is my main mail reader and I have a Cultural Literacy 101 Club at yahoo. However, I now have gmail, I use Google reader watch the feeds from my 15 web properties, I have a google tool bar (most functional) and I find I am using more and more Google stuff. How about you?

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