Google profits leap

Google profits leap 46%Andrew Clark in New York

Google's money-making juggernaut rolled on as world's top internet search company produced a 46% leap in profits to $1.07bn (£523m) during the third quarter of the year.
The Silicon Valley behemoth enjoyed growth in the popularity of tailor-made Google personal homepages. It reaped the benefit of improved mobile phone searches and broader use of its on-line document-sharing applications.

In results which came out after the markets closed, Google said its revenue had jumped by 57% to $4.23bn fuelled by a 45% surge in so-called "paid clicks" - the number of times users alighted on advertising links.