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coolgeek on July 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Earned Over $9 Billion In Revenue In Q2

(Sorry if this comes across as pedantic, but the dissonance here is striking.)

"Revenue" and "earnings" have fairly specific meanings, particularly with regard to each other.

"Google earned $2.85B on revenues of $9.03B in Q2" would have been a better title, as would "Google revenues top $9B in Q2".

zandorg on July 14, 2011 [–]

I once attended a job fair/event at my University, and the guy from HP said (to a crowd) they have PROFITS of $80 billion a year. I didn't inform him that was REVENUE, I just walked out on him.

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