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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Google beats estimates, acknowledges uncertainty

By John Letzing, April 16, 2009

Google Inc. on Thursday posted a first-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates thanks to continued spending by search advertisers and a clampdown on costs, helping bolster the impression that the company is weathering the economic downturn relatively well. But while Google's shares rose immediately after the earnings announcement, they turned lower in late trading as investors absorbed news of the company's first-ever sequential decline in net revenue since it went public, and heard Chief Executive Eric Schmidt acknowledge that he sees no end in sight for the recession.

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