Microsoft 'v' Google

Google's age: 10
Microsoft's age: 33

Google's revenue in the last 4 quarters: $19.6 billion
Microsoft's revenue in the last 4 quarters: $60.4 billion

Microsoft's revenue at age 10: $140 million
($279 million in today’s dollars)

Google's revenue per hour in the last 4 quarters: $2.2 million
Microsoft's revenue per hour in the last 4 quarters: $6.9 million

Google's net income in the last 4 quarters: $4.85 billion
Microsoft's net income in the last 4 quarters: $17.6 billion

Google employees, as of June 30th 2008: 19,604
Microsoft employees, as of May 31st 2008: 89,809

Google's revenue per employee: $1 million
Microsoft's revenue per employee: $672,000

Market value of Google: $142 billion
Market value of Microsoft: $241 billion

Number of tech companies with a market value
larger than Google's: 3 (Microsoft, I.B.M. and Apple,
in that order)

Worldwide searches on Google in April: 48.7 billion
Worldwide searches on Microsoft in April: 2.3 billion

Worldwide searches per hour on Google in April: 65 million
Worldwide searches per hour on Microsoft in April: 3.1 million

For the record, the second most spoken
language within the Microsoft Corporation
is Romanian, Multumesc !!