Chart: Google revenue hits record high of $50 billion
THE tech giant posted a $12 billion revenue increase from last year. Not sure what that means? Let this handy chart do the work.
GOOGLE'S revenue has topped $50 billion for the first time.
That's a more than 12 billion dollar increase on its 2011 revenue posting.
The company posted record profits of $10.75 billion.
Surprisingly, while revenues beat analysts' estimates, their cost-per-clicks declined by about 6 per cent over the year as mobile ads started to gain influence.
If all of these numbers are hard to quantify, fear not.
Statistics company, Statista has prepared this handy chart illustrating Google's growth from 2004 to 2012.
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