Google silences doubters with blockbuster quarter

San Francisco

IT'S good to be Google. Sometimes it's just plain great.

Revenue regularly increases at a clip rarely achieved by firms of its size. The same goes for profits. Seven of its products have more than one billion users, a scale unimaginable in the pre-digital era. A re-organisation last year into a holding company called Alphabet, accompanied by some related high-level personnel moves, was unexpected but generally applauded.