Google grows revenue and profit in Q4

21.01.2010

Google-owned sites generated 66 percent of the total revenue, while ad-network partner sites generated the rest.

Paid clicks, which are ads on which users clicked, thus generating a fee for Google, increased 13 percent compared with 2008's fourth quarter. The average value of clicks rose 5 percent.

Google ended 2009 with $24.5 billion in cash, cash equivalents and short-term marketable securities, and a staff of 19,835 full-time employees, 170 more than in 2009's third quarter.