{"id":184590,"date":"2026-02-04T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/google-q4-results-paint-picture-of-an-internet-powerhouse-getting-stronger-in-ai-age\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:00:10","slug":"google-q4-results-paint-picture-of-an-internet-powerhouse-getting-stronger-in-ai-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/google-q4-results-paint-picture-of-an-internet-powerhouse-getting-stronger-in-ai-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Q4 results paint picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory\/googles-quarterly-results-paint-picture-internet-powerhouse-stronger-129864346\">Google Q4 results paint picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory\/googles-quarterly-results-paint-picture-internet-powerhouse-stronger-129864346\">https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory\/googles-quarterly-results-paint-picture-internet-powerhouse-stronger-129864346<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-04 17:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"abcnews.go.com\">abcnews.go.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are six key points from the article on Google&#8217;s latest quarterly report:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Google&#8217;s digital ad business has seen a third consecutive quarter of double-digit growth above 10% year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The company&#8217;s AI-driven data center sales division experienced over 30% growth in sales, propelling overall stronger-than-expected earnings for Alphabet Inc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Alphabet&#8217;s fourth-quarter profit rose by 30% year-over-year to $34.5 billion, while revenue climbed 18% to $113.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The collective surge from Google&#8217;s main search and ads business, along with its nascent AI services, has bolstered Alphabet&#8217;s stock price, now valued at $4 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; To stay competitive and avoid being outpaced by rivals like OpenAI, Alphabet plans to invest heavily in AI, projecting capital expenditures of $175-185 billion for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Google&#8217;s digital ad revenues are supporting the capital expenditure increases and helped offset potential setbacks such as legal challenges to its search engine monopoly.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Q4 results paint picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory\/googles-quarterly-results-paint-picture-internet-powerhouse-stronger-129864346&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/662084cf-3a7f-48e9-b4ee-21f43c1511a9\/wirestory_73922dd5d0c2398e1d4f23ddfccd0277_16x9.jpg?w=1600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184590","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\/184590"}],"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=184590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184592,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184590\/revisions\/184592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}