{"id":184584,"date":"2026-02-04T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/googles-quarterly-results-paint-a-picture-of-an-internet-powerhouse-getting-stronger-in-ai-age-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:35:11","slug":"googles-quarterly-results-paint-a-picture-of-an-internet-powerhouse-getting-stronger-in-ai-age-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/googles-quarterly-results-paint-a-picture-of-an-internet-powerhouse-getting-stronger-in-ai-age-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s quarterly results paint a picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/73922-googles-quarterly-results-paint-a-picture-of-an-internet-powerhouse-getting-stronger-in-ai-age\/\">Google&#8217;s quarterly results paint a picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/73922-googles-quarterly-results-paint-a-picture-of-an-internet-powerhouse-getting-stronger-in-ai-age\/\">https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/73922-googles-quarterly-results-paint-a-picture-of-an-internet-powerhouse-getting-stronger-in-ai-age\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-04 17:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wral.com\">www.wral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Google&#8217;s latest quarterly report showed three consecutive quarters of over 10% growth in its digital ad sales and more than 30% growth in AI services.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Alphabet\u2019s fourth-quarter profit increased by 30% to $34.5 billion, while revenue rose 18% to $113.8 billion, surpassing analyst expectations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The strong performance of Google&#8217;s core search and advertising sectors combined with growth in its AI division has boosted Alphabet\u2019s stock price by nearly 60% over the past five months, giving it a $4 trillion market valuation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Apple has turned to Google for AI enhancement, signing a deal to incorporate Google&#8217;s Gemini technology into its Siri assistant.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Google is embedding more of its Gemini AI in search, Gmail, and Chrome to fend off competition from newer players like OpenAI and Anthropic.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>To combat competition, Alphabet has increased its capital expenditure on AI from $91 billion last year to an expected higher budget this year.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Digital ad sales grew by 14% to $82.3 billion while Google Cloud services saw a 48% increase to $17.7 billion in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s quarterly results paint a picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wral.com\/9e2c7b0d-7a77-59f9-a17c-8337cfcf00c2?w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184586,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184584\/revisions\/184586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}