Tale of the tape: Google versus Facebook

 Facebook is the hottest internet company to hit the stock market since Google went public in 2004.

The Silicon Valley companies, located seven miles apart, also happen to be locked in a bitter battle for web surfers' allegiance and online advertisers' money.

The duel is likely to intensify now that the IPO has given Facebook Inc.'s social network billions of dollars to battle Google Inc.'s dominant search engine.

Here's the two rivals stack up, based on the latest available data:

Annual revenue

Google, $38 billion
Facebook, $3.7 billion

Advertising revenue

Google, $36.5 billion
Facebook, $3.2 billion

 Annual net income

Google, $9.7 billion
Facebook, $668 million

Social networking users

Facebook, more than 900 million
Google, more than 170 million

Employees

Google, 33,100
Facebook, 3,500

Amount raised

Google, $1.67 billion
Facebook, $16 billion

IPO stock price

Google, $85
Facebook, $38

Market valuation at debut

Google, $24.6 billion
Facebook, $104 billion

Date of stock market debut

Google, August 19, 2004
Facebook, May 18, 2012

Closing price of stock on first day of trading and percentage gain: 

Google, up 18 per cent to $100.34
Facebook, up less than 1 per cent to $38.23.

Current market value

Google, $196 billion
Facebook, $105 billion