Google has what amounts to a licence to print money. By inserting itself between the shops and shoppers of the world, the search provider takes a small commission every time it connects the two. Dwarfing the competition, it has barely slowed under the weight of recession. First-quarter numbers from Google this week showed the first quarter-on-quarter drop in revenues for 11 years, but sales were still up 6 per cent on the same period last year – and that growth will naturally accelerate once more when economies start to recover.
谷歌(Google)仿佛有一張印鈔許可證。通過(guò)充當(dāng)全球商家與購(gòu)物者的中介，這家搜索服務(wù)提供商每次讓二者建立起聯(lián)系就會(huì)抽取一小筆傭金。競(jìng)爭(zhēng)在谷歌面前相形見(jiàn)絀，在衰退重壓之下，它幾乎未曾放慢增長(zhǎng)的步伐。谷歌上周公布的第一季度數(shù)字顯示，季度收入11年來(lái)首次出現(xiàn)環(huán)比下降，但同比卻仍增長(zhǎng)6%——在經(jīng)濟(jì)開(kāi)始復(fù)蘇時(shí)，增長(zhǎng)速度自然還會(huì)加快。