Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-07-24
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001652044-25-000062
Chunk: 62

Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-24
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 costs and expenses4,000 5,281 7,517 9,952 Total Google Cloud costs and expenses$9,175 $10,798 $17,849 $20,881 

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Google Services and Google Cloud employee compensation expenses include the costs associated with direct and allocated employees. Google Services and Google Cloud other costs and expenses primarily include direct costs, such as advertising and promotional activities and third party services fees as well as allocated costs, such as technical infrastructure and office facilities usage costs. Additionally, Google Services other costs and expenses include content and traffic acquisition costs and device costs.See Note 2 for information relating to revenues by geography.The following table presents long-lived assets by geographic area, which includes property and equipment, net and operating lease assets (in millions):As of December 31, 2024As ofJune 30, 2025Long-lived assets:United States$138,993 $160,877 International45,631 56,609 Total long-lived assets$184,624 $217,486 

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ITEM 2.MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Please read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with "Note About Forward-Looking Statements" and our consolidated financial statements and related notes included under Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as well as our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, including Part I, Item 1A "Risk Factors."

Understanding Alphabet’s Financial Results

Alphabet is a collection of businesses — the largest of which is Google. We report Google in two segments, Google Services and Google Cloud; we also report all non-Google businesses collectively as Other Bets. For further details on our segments, see Note 15 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Revenues and Monetization Metrics 

We generate revenues by delivering relevant, cost-effective online advertising; cloud-based solutions that provide enterprise customers of all sizes with infrastructure, platform services, and applications; sales of other products and services, such as fees received for subscription-based products, apps and in-app purchases, and devices. For additional information on how we recognize revenue, see Note 1 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part II, Item 8 in our Annual Report on Form