Google, er, Alphabet takes on 10,000 more staff, banks more and more billions from ads

% of tax paid?

Any indication of how much tax they paid over that profit, and where? I suspect you won't be able to Google that..

Wow!

There's that many people out there without ad blockers?

Shameful.

"I think the results are mixed," said Big Scientific Sounding Company's analyst Coke McCain, who had a hunch that sales were lighter than some arbritary number plucked out his arse. "From a cost control [perspective], it seems they will do fine. The question becomes: can they make moar money. I'm going to think of another arbritary number, and they'd better hit it on the head in three months time. Too little or too much and they're going to get punished for it. I don't understand shit about what they do, but that won't stop me."

Mobile mobile mobile, and flying cars!

"The strength of the figures is in mobile," he said. "Our investment in mobile underscores everything we do. We are building the engine that drives our future."

And when that crashes and burns, this pestilence will finally come to an end.

Here's to the future!

Google doesn't do long term bets

Watch for things to get ignored for a bit and then killed off.

Missed a trick

Given Google's love of special numbers, they should have stopped employing when they reached 65,536...