Google does it again... or did they?  The internet giant increased profit by 9 percent in the 1st quarter, but much of this was due to cost savings rather than robust growth.  Google is the proud owner of youtube.com and also Android software for mobile phone devices... neither has been a profit machine thus far, but the long term potential of these applications is unlimited.  Google's growth has slowed with the rest of the economy, but when things start picking up the internet search almost monopoly will be at the forefront.  Check out previous article on google.

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 How big is a google?  I mean a googol?  It's this big (see above).  A googol is greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe (courtesy of Wikipedia).  And google.com basically is the observable universe, receiving around 3.6% of all global page views on any given day.  Check out more google facts here.  (Hopefully everyone reading this also knows about the ability to text google for answers on the go... if you don't click here.)

In case you were wondering, Google pulled in $4.1 × 10^7 ($4.1 billion) in revenue in the first quarter of 2009 (or $4.95/share).  That's a lot of ad money. 

Note: Thank you very much to Descartes for inventing scientific notation... he very well may have invented the mullet as well.