30 billion times a day, Google runs an ad (13 million times, it works)

October 25, 2012 11:23 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

13 million times a day, a product is sold, a white paper is downloaded, some personal information is taken. In short, some exchange of value takes place -- at huge, mind-boggling scale.

How Google makes $100 million a day — and how GOOG lost $21 billion last week (infographic)

October 25, 2012 5:00 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Last week Google stock crashed 10%, shedding about $21 billion in market value, when its earnings were prematurely released. Google revenue was up ... but profit was down.