Google earnings out early by mistake, misses revenues mark It was the "oops" heard round the world. Google blamed an error by the financial printer that handles its quarterly earnings for an early release of the report that fell short of Wall Street expectations and slammed Google shares Thursday. In a statement Google said its printer R.R. Donnelly had released a draft of the Internet giant's third quarter financial results without authorization and well before the scheduled release time after the market close. Earlier this morning RR Donnelley, the financial printer, informed us that they had filed our draft 8K earnings statement without authorization. We have ceased trading on NASDAQ while we work to finalize the document. Once it's finalized we will release our earnings, resume trading on NASDAQ and hold our earnings call as normal at 1:30 PM PT," the company said. Shares of Google tumbled more than 9 percent after the mistakenly-released earnings showed net revenue of $11.33 billion, versus market expectations of $11.86 billion. You can follow the action in Google's share price here. Reuters and CNBC contributed to this report.