Over the first quarter of 2011 Google raked in a cool $8.58 billion across all it’s myriad products and services, which is up 27% on the same period last year. However once Google’s operating costs (which rose 33% to $2.8billion) and traffic acquisition costs are taken into account the search giant’s net income for the period is $2.3billion, up only slightly on Q1 2010’s figure of $1.96 billion.
This was also the first quarter in the companies history that more than half (53%) of it’s revenue came from outside the United States.
Google also dropped some interesting figures about their operations and expansions. The company took on a massive 2,000 extra staff over the three months from January – which accounts for those increased operating costs. The search giant also spent around $890 million on new gear such as server farms and networking equipment.
Google also spilt some Android figures – the number of apps being downloaded onto the popular mobile OS has risen a full 50% since the end of 2010, with a total of 3 billion apps installed worldwide. Google also confirmed a widely-reported figure – 350,000 Android devices are now being activated every day.