{"id":550585,"date":"2006-10-20T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T10:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550585-google-profits-double.html"},"modified":"2006-10-20T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T10:51:42","slug":"google-profits-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550585-google-profits-double.html","title":{"rendered":"Google profits double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The third-quarter profit grew from 381 million dollars in the same period last year, a 92 percent rise. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Excluding special items, the profit amounted to 2.62 dollars per share, topping Wall Street estimates of 2.42 dollars. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Revenues jumped 70 percent from a year ago to 2.69 billion dollars. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Our third-quarter results are a testament to the strength of our network of advertisers and partners, as well as our continuing focus on users,&quot; said chief executive Eric Schmidt. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;We were particularly pleased with the contributions of our international business in a seasonally weaker quarter,&quot; he said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;In addition, we continued to forge significant partnerships with companies such as eBay, Fox Interactive Media, and Intuit that will be of great value to all involved.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Google has been charging past its rivals like Yahoo in the market for Internet search, while garnering more revenues from &quot;sponsored&quot; advertising, which gives users corporate links related to search terms. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Thursday reported its net quarterly profits nearly doubled from a year ago to 733 million dollars as the Internet giant saw advertising revenues soar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}