Google Punts Questions About Mobile Ads, Touts Now, Driverless Cars

Wall Street analysts were predictably concerned about Google's falling cost-per-click as users shift to mobile devices after the company released its fourth-quarter earnings today, but executives insisted that good user experiences will bring the cost of mobile advertising up.

Wall Street analysts were predictably concerned about Google’s falling cost-per-click as users shift to mobile devices after the company released its fourth-quarter earnings today, but executives insisted that good user experiences will bring the cost of mobile advertising up.

Asked when mobile cost-per-click will equal that brought in by desktop Web advertising, CEO Larry Page hinted that he thought mobile advertising prices would eventually — hopefully soon — outpace desktop rates.

“I don’t think they’ll be equal.

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