Google Recently released it’s third quarter numbers, and not surprisingly reported a 70% increase in revenues over last year. During the third quarter, Google handled over $2.69 billion in revenue, and kept over $700 million in profits. That’s a pretty staggering amount for one quarter, and we should expect these numbers to do nothing but increase as the search giant begins generating additional revenues from the recently acquired UTube.

This tells us that search is alive and well. Despite a certain level of pessimism and a somewhat jaded attitude to online marketing from etailers, there is still a tremendous amount of money to be made online. It is the retailers who use every available marketing avenue who will see the biggest slices of the growing online pie. Blogs, podcasts, social media, message boards, online video. These avenues are and will continue to help webmasters gain a competitive edge.