Google Revenue Beats Expectation, Shares Surge - InformationWeek

Exceeding investor expectation, Google on Thursday gross of $5.19 billion for the first one-fourth of 2008, 42% More than it reported in the first one-fourth of 2007.

"Our in progress invention in search, ads, and apps helped thrust healthy growing globally across our merchandise lines, yielding another strong one-fourth for Google," chief executive officer Eric Helmut Schmidt said in a statement. "As we incorporate DoubleClick into our advertisement platform, we see exciting new ways to better the user experience and addition value for our advertizers and partners. Also, while exercising operational discipline, we go on to research chances that add value to users everywhere and to Google in the long term."

Google reported non-GAAP earnings per share of $4.84. A Bloomberg study of 25 analysts predicted $4.52.

in after-hours trading. As of 5 p.m. EDT, Google shares were up more than than 17%.

Google reported a decline, albeit a flimsy one, inch its traffic acquisition cost (TAC) as a per centum of advertisement revenue, which came to 29.2% inch the first quarter, compared with 30.3% in the 4th one-fourth of 2007. Since 2005, its TAC as a per centum of advertisement gross have been trending downward, with the exclusion of the 4th one-fourth of 2007. In the first one-fourth of 2005, Google's TAC per centum came to 37.2%. It was 31% inch the first one-fourth of 2007, 29.9% inch the 2nd quarter, and 29.1% inch the 3rd quarter.

In a conference phone call for investors, Helmut Schmidt said that Google's search, ads, and apps scheme have had a transformative consequence on the company's business.

"We're showing fewer but much better ads, ... and that's A cardinal portion of the Google success story," Helmut Schmidt said.

Schmidt also took a minute to disregard recent studies that Google's paid chink growing was flagging. "Paid chink growing is much higher than have been speculated by 3rd parties," he said.

Google reported that paid chinks on its land land sites and partners' sites grew approximately 20% from the first one-fourth of 2007 and 4% from the 4th one-fourth of 2007.

Schmidt also expressed optimism about Google's concern in China. "We are seeing marketplace share growing and gross growing as we larn to run in that environment," he said.

Responding to an analyst's question, Helmut Schmidt reiterated a former statement to the consequence that the U.S. economical downswing have no important impact on the company's business. "On the macro instruction side, we've looked at this really carefully and we make not see an impact as of this time," he said, adding that Google is well positioned should the economical state of affairs deteriorate because its advertisement theoretical account is so targeted.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin expressed optimism about Google's hereafter in visible light of growing in mobile hunt and mobile advertising. He did not offer specific figs to quantify his outlooks of the mobile market.

Schmidt declined to travel into item about Yahoo's experimentation with using Google to function its advertisements beyond saying that the diagnostic test is in its 2nd week. "It's nice to be working with Yahoo," he said. "We like them very much."