Google staff get richer...

This year to date, 14 Google executives and directors had gained a total of $4.3 billion by selling 18.6 million of their shares.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, $1.3 billion (they still have $13 billion of shares each).

Omid Kordestani, Google's senior vice president of sales, $559.6 million

Ram Shiriram, a Google director who was among the company's earliest investors, $442.5 million

Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, $344.7 million

David Drummond, Google's vice president of corporate development, $118.7 million.