Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results [pdf]

This caught my eye, total employees<p>- 2022: 190,234<p>- 2023: 182,502<p>Total increase in revenue of 10 billion.<p>Not sure what conclusion to draw from this, but being a software engineer I found employment count interesting. Though 5% change in head count seems hardly major.

Google Cloud made $864M in profit in a single quarter, more than ever before.<p>Google Bets lost $86<i>3</i>M in the same period, much less than ever before.

Summary from the release for Q4:<p><pre><code> - Revenue increased from $76B to $86B (13% increase) - Operating income increased $18.1B to $23.7B - Net income increased $13.6B to $20.7B - Diluted EPS increased $1.05 to $1.64</code></pre>

From page 1: The following table summarizes our consolidated financial results for the quarters and years ended December 31, 2022 and 2023 (in millions, except for per share information and percentages<p>But the numbers appear to be billion (no way revunue 80mil) in the following table? what am i missing

I really think we are at the inflection point where Google is seen and perceived as the next IBM.<p>More and more people now realize that the ad&#x2F;attention economy is overall a bad thing for internet&#x2F;the world.<p>Googler who at some point were seen as above-average engineers are now seen as leetcoders TC-Maximizer with very little ethical thoughts or opinions on what they work on.<p>All of those changes are a positive thing.