Google CEO Larry Page can be forgiven for being in a bad mood this weekend. On his company's Q1 2014 earnings call, his people delivered what he thought would be good news: revenues of $15.4 billion, up 19%. Very, very few business can deliver 20% growth on billions in revenues. By any measure, Google is on fire as a company.Yet investors hated it.They sold the stock, and it declined 5% immediately after the call. In 24 hours the price had lost $9, from $544 per share to $536. Google is growing, for sure. But, counter intuitively, it is not growing at the same time, as the following charts show. From a macro perspective, Google is boxed in by two factors: The available population on the Internet and the population on the mobile portion of the Internet.Google - according to numbers from Asymco, the quant-y tech analysts - may not be growing so much as it is merely floating in place on a rising tide of humanity.Unfortunately for Google, that tide is about to go out. Internet growth is slowing - and Google is the Internet Google handles about 80% of all search queries, and hundreds of millions of people use Gmail and YouTube, its most famous brands. Google is so dominant that its economics are, in many ways, a proxy for the Web as a whole. How grows the Internet, grows Google.But growth of the Internet won't go on forever.Already there are signs of an upcoming "inflection" in 2016, when the level of Internet penetration across the planet gets well past 50% of all humans - and the Internet itself enters a period of rapidly declining growth.

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