Alphabetparent company Googlehe has made public his Results of the first 2025 quarterin which a 12% year -on -year growth in income until reaching 90,234 million dollars (about € 79,585). This robust performance has been mainly driven by the Google Search area.
Likewise, the Google Search divisions; YouTube Ads; Google subscriptions, platforms and devices; and Google Cloud, presented two -digit growth rates. Regarding Net benefitsthese were located in the 34,540 million dollars (about € 30,463), achieving a 46% increase with respect to the first quarter of 2024.
Pichai sundarCEO of Alphabet, said: «We are satisfied with the solid results of the first quarter, which reflect solid growth and great dynamism throughout the company. This growth is based on our exclusive comprehensive approach to AI. This quarter was extremely exciting, since we launched Gemini 2.5our smartest model, which is making progress in performance and constitutes an extraordinary basis for our future innovation.
The search sector experienced solid continuous growthdriven by the interaction we observe with functions such as Ai overViewswhich now has 1.5 billion users per month. Driven by YouTube and Google Onewe exceed 270 million payment subscriptions. AND Cloud He grew rapidly thanks to a significant demand for our solutions ».
Search represents 56% of Google's total income
During the first quarter of 2025, Google Search It was placed again as the main income motor For the company, since it generated 50,702 million dollars (about 44,700m €) in the first quarter of 2025, an increase of 9.8% year -on -year. Likewise, this figure represents 56.2% of Google's total income In this period.
The company is investing in technological improvements for search (Search)integrating more AI capabilities and automatic learning that continue to optimize the search process for users. One of the levers that the company has highlighted are Ai overViewswhich already have 1.5 billion users per month.
Google income breakdown / Source: Google
It should be noted that almost all areas of activity of the company have presented a positive evolution, except for Google Network (-2%) and Other Bets (-9%). The fall of this last contrasts with the great growth it experienced in the same period of the previous year, when its income increased by 71.8%.
Returning to positive figures, Google Cloud is the one that has grown the most. This division has achieved a 28% increase interannual in their income until reaching 12,260 million dollars (about € 10,800). Its main products, AI infrastructure and generative solutions have led the growth of this area.
The income from subscriptions, platforms and devices from Google increased 18.7%being the second area by growth levels. For its part, YouTube ADS grew by 10.3%.
Google increases its number of employees
In contrast to what is happening in other large companies, which are announcing rounds of layoffs, Google has increased its workforce. For the closing of the first quarter of 2025, the technological had 185,719 employeeswhich is a 2.7% more than in the same 2024 period.
As Google continues to develop its technology and expand its services and products, it is logical that its template increases for Promote the development of new technological solutions. This strategy allows the company to remain competitive and continue innovating in high growth markets.
Although everything can change because of multiple factors, such as the economic panorama, it seems that Google is moving along the right track and obtaining the fruits of its focus in key areas such as AI. Which takes her away from the situation facing other companies and from darker times such as the wave of layoffs he made in 2023.
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