SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc announced a stock split designed to preserve the control of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin over the world’s No 1 web search engine, asking investors to trust their long-term vision.
The surprise decision, which its board unanimously approved, came as the company exceeded Wall Street’s profit expectations but revealed a worrying 12% drop in search advertising rates — the second consecutive quarterly decline.
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