BALDWIN: Google stock soaring to an all-time high, more than $1,000 a share today. That's up more than 40 percent this year. The search engine giant is super, super hot after its earnings and revenue blew past investors' expectations. Alison Kosik at the New York Stock Exchange for us today. Alison, what's going on? Why?</s>ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Brooke, I'm looking at this stock keep on going higher and higher. It's at a jaw-dropping $1,011 a share and it's because of what you said. Google reporting solid earnings, sales beating expectations, specifically Google is doing well because of you and me. We're clicking more on the sites' advertisements.</s>BALDWIN: You're welcome, Google.</s>KOSIK: Get a little money over here, right? That's how Google makes the bulk of its money -- people who go ahead and click on these advertisements. So these results came after yesterday's closing bell. We saw the stock pop immediately. It continues going up today. Look how well the stock has done since it went public in 2004. Price of $85 a share. Imagine if you bought a bunch of shares back then and sat on it until now. You would be sitting pretty now. You know, other companies, though, took a hit like Google back in 2008 because of the recession. You look at how well Google has done. It's weathered a lot of storms. It's really been a straight line up and analysts, Brooke, say this stock could go up to $1,200 -- Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: Do you even remember life before Google? I mean, it wasn't that long ago, but the world has changed. Alison, thank you.</s>KOSIK: It's a new verb.</s>BALDWIN: Coming up next, busted. An air marshal accused of taking pictures of women's skirts, shame, shame. We'll tell you how he was caught.
Google Stock Tops $1,000 A Share