Google reported a 27% enlarge in revenues is to final 3 months of 2011, but even that was not great sufficient to encounter Wall Street estimates, sending the shares tumbling.
Google shares fell 10% in after-hours trade to $575.
It reported 3-month revenues of $10.6bn (6.8bn). Its net distinction rose 6.4% to $2.7bn.
"Google had a unequivocally burly entertain finale a great year," mentioned arch senior manager Larry Page.
"I am super vehement about the expansion of Android, Gmail, and Google+, that right away has 90 million users globally - well over twice what we voiced only 3 months ago."
But analysts were reduction impressed.
"Expectations were very high and they have longed for that," mentioned Trip Chowdhry, from Global Equities Research.
"Unlike Microsoft and Intel, estimates for Google have been taking flight for a couple of months."
The number of clicks on Google's hunting adverts rose significantly in the fourth quarter, but the amount that Google was able to assign advertisers for any click fell 8%.
"Expectations had got forward of themselves for Google, mostly since investors do not have a great feel for what happens outward the US," mentioned Jordan Rohan from Stifel Nicolaus.
"North America has remained strong, but there are tools of the world where there's a lot of mercantile pressure. we would have to pretence Europe, quite Germany and a few others, undergoing purgation measures. The underlying urge in those countries is weak."
For the full year, Google reported a 29% way up in income to $37.9bn, with net distinction up 14% to $9.7bn.
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