Google shareholders had to be thrilled by the stock market's reaction to the company's first-quarter earnings report on Thursday afternoon.

And nobody could have been happier than Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Each saw the value of his stake jump about $2.2 billion in less than an hour as the stock jumped 17% to $526.50.

The stock took off after the company beat Wall Street estimates on revenue, net income and earnings per share for the first quarter and crushed just about all concerns that Google's business might be peaking.

At the end of the day, Page's 29.1-million share stake jumped in value from $13.1 billion to $15.3 billion. Brin's 28.6 million shares jumped in value from $12.9 billion to $15.1 billion.

While Page and Brin, who started Google while they were students at Stanford, are no doubt happy at their gains, they've also endured some real pain from the stock market's wild volatility in the last five months. Each man saw the value of his stake drop more than $9 billion as Google shares tumbled nearly 44% from a $732.94 closing high in November to a low of $413.62 in March.

WOW !

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Maybe they can spend of that money and get rid of all the porn on the internet. I was looking for some lapshades online from Google and ended up on porno site. GIVE ME A FRIGGIN BREAK GOOGLE!

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Someone please put me out of my misery....