Google Brought $2.76B in Economic Activity to Georgia in 2014
Press release from the issuing company
Thursday, May 28th, 2015
Today, Google released its annual Economic Impact Report — a study highlighting the economic benefits received by businesses and nonprofits across the country through the continued growth of e-commerce. The report also includes business examples and growth statistics from all 50 states. Last year alone, Google helped provide $2.76 billion of economic activity for 62,000 Georgia businesses.
“Google is well-known for helping people search for and find the information they want,” said Margo Georgiadis, Google’s President of Americas Sales. “Through our search and advertising programs, businesses find customers, publishers earn money from online content and nonprofits get donations and volunteers. The Economic Impact Report details how millions of businesses use our tools to make money. It’s these solutions that make Google an engine for economic growth,” concluded Georgiadis.
Across America in 2014, Google's tools helped provide $131 billion of economic activity for 1.8 million businesses, website publishers and nonprofits.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR GEORGIA?
The expansion of the Internet is building exciting new opportunities for web-based companies, as well as brick-and-mortar establishments.
Google selected Zyrobotics to serve as Georgia’s case study example of a business that is using the Internet to achieve better results with limited resources. An Atlanta-based inclusive technology company, Zyrobotics develops adaptive products based on different individual’s capabilities. Zyrobotics’ products include accessible interfaces and smart toys, social robot coaches and educational gaming apps that are specially designed to make learning accessible.
For more information about Zyrobotics and to view the full Economic Impact Report please visit www.google.com/economicimpact.
To speak directly with a Google representative, please contact A.T. McWilliams at [email protected].
