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Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results

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Re: Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results

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Post by jeffbee »

kevan wrote: post #13

>adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years and the estimated useful life of certain network equipment from three years to five years Another sign of the slowing advancement in CPU power/performance?

The 3-year figure was always totally unhinged from the actual useful life of cloud servers. As evidence, please refer to the fact that on EC2 you can still provision a C4 instance with a Haswell CPU made in 2014. In GCE you can still provision an N1 instance with a Sandy Bridge CPU from 2012.

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Post by strstr »

maattdd wrote: post #15

Google Cloud revenue is only up 30% YoY, which seems really low considering the marketing and the focus on it (and the growth of the competitors).

Not sure if this is really much different, but superficially it looks like its up ~45% (5.5 billion from 3.8)

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Post by carlsborg »

Summary: Full year 2021 revenue $257B, 41% year on year growth. Net income $76B, up from $40B yoy.

Quarterly: Q4 of 2021 they made $75B revenue, most of it came from Google Search, $43B up from $31.9B in Q4 2020. Youtube $8.6B of ads, Google Network $9.3B from ads.

Google cloud did $5B revenue for the quarter, up from $3.8B in Q4 2020. It lost $890m this quarter compared to $1.2B Q4 2020. "Other Services" did $8.1B revenue and "Other bets" did $181B

They have ~$140B in cash and liquid investments.

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Post by mupuff1234 »

carlycue wrote: post #16

To put Alphabets revenue this quarter ($75 billion) in perspective: Microsoft: $51.7 billion Apple: $123.9 billion.

I think operating income is probably a better metric to look at to compare.

Walmart has a higher revenue than all of the above (~140 billion)

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Post by blakesterz »

maattdd wrote: post #15

Google Cloud revenue is only up 30% YoY, which seems really low considering the marketing and the focus on it (and the growth of the competitors).

I don't know how many others think like I do, but I'd never use GCP. No one will ever convince me that it'll be around in 5 years. I just don't trust them to keep anything they made in the past decade or so going long term. Call me paranoid, call me whatever you want, but I just do not trust their ability to focus on anything anymore.

Re: Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results

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Post by [deleted] »

jeffbee wrote: post #17
endisneigh wrote: post #3

Man, Google’s poor search results sure do pay well /s. I wonder if Google will make any big acquisitions this year

Not sure if sarcasm or not. These results demonstrate that the HN zeitgeist about the utility of Google is not related to its actual utility to the public at large.

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