Google has done far better in quarter two of this year than it did in Q2 2011, having generated 21 percent more revenue growth this year than it did a year ago, getting in $12.21 billion in revenue and generating $2.79 billion in profit for the quarter.
About $10.96 billion of that revenue comes from advertising and other such businesses. $7.54 billion of this revenue derived from sites directly owned by Google.
Google recently acquired Motorola, and chose to focus on these numbers separately. Google said its new acquisition generated $1.25 billion by itself, about $843 million of which was after the acquisition was completed. Success with the Droid RAZR MAXX in the United States was offset by the continuing overall decline of basic feature phones everywhere else in the world and prevented a loss of $38 million for Motorola if Google hadn’t snatched it up.
These numbers, of course, do not factor in the Nexus 7, nor the new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean devices. We’ll have to wait for a few more months to know for sure, but it looks to be like a terrific summer for the house that search and advertising built.