Google’s moving up in the world, or at least up in the UK. The search engine giant just became Britain’s second-highest advertising earner, only slightly behind – and on track to overtake – ITV, a commercial television network.

I’m not a huge Adsense earner, but at the beginning of this month I decided to more aggressively try to increase my revenues.

I’ve now seen a 50+% increase in my Adsense earnings since I began.

What does that mean in real terms? It means my earnings would now comfortably pay off the monthly mortgage repayments on a detached 4-bedroom house in the UK.

In advance of the earnings call, any bets on how high GOOG can go today on Wall Street? Analysts have high hopes, so to speak, as tipsters come rolling in with unbelievable numbers for Q4 2006.

The last studies and figures show that the gap between the pay of a FTSE 100 company’s chief executive and that of a regular worker has widened to its highest level this decade.

Google not only nearly doubled its earnings from the third quarter of 2005, but the company beat analysts expectations by about $50 million. The news sent GOOG shares soaring in after hours trading, rising $30 per share just an hour past closing to $456.52.

Google continued its redemption path after 2005′s year-end earnings miss by exceeding analyst expectations for a second straight quarter. “Exceed” is a mild term. A $2.46 billion quarter is a bit beyond “exceed.”

Computer Associates did it again – they have to restate earnings.

Although revenue increased by 35 percent compared to the same quarter last year, net income for eBay moved down by three percent as stock-based compensation expenses impacted the bottom line.

A strong quarter for Yahoo returned revenue of $1.08 billion driven by the company’s strength in brand-name advertising, which offset softer returns on the paid search side of the business.

During its earnings announcement, Google noted how higher than expected taxes caused the company to miss Wall Street expectations.

The VoiceOne Communications unit of VoIP Inc. signed a pact with Google in September 2005, and Google began implementing services from the company the following month.

After-hours trading in shares of the search advertising company declined slightly from the previous close, down $1.02 to $425.80.

Google looked the Wall Street suits in the eye and said, “we nearly doubled our earnings in the fourth quarter. Profit was up 82 percent. Revenue was up 86 percent. In all, we pulled in $1.29 billion. What do you think?” The Wall Streets suits scowled all in a row and shouted in unison, “You stink!”

Well, I guess I should be glad I didn’t leave Seattle before the Microsoft earnings report, otherwise having to post about it a day later.

After a year-plus of nearly continuous share price increases matched by equally lofty financial reports, a couple of stock market analysts think it’s time to sell Google investments.

Google was as good as gold in 2005, but any cracks that appear in the Googleplex facade could send hedge funds fleeing for safer pastures and pressure shares of GOOG downward.

Google will be announce its 2005 fourth quarter results via Webcast on January 31st at 4:30 EST, the search company announced yesterday.

Investors could be partying like it’s 1999 again if GOOG manages to clamber over the $400 per share barrier, hitting a price that even the height of the dot-com era would have seen as excessive.

Shares dropped 70 cents before Jupitermedia announced after market-close that revenues and net income grew for the company in the third quarter.

The monster of Mountain View known as Google released their third quarter earnings on Thursday and, as consistent with the industry, reported record revenues. This time they hit $1.578 billion, a notch above Yahoo’s reports for the same quarter. This number is up 96% from a year ago and 14% from last quarter.

Yahoo released an awesome third quarter earnings report on Tuesday afternoon and investors took it to heart. Yahoo stock shot up to $35.88 a share, up $2.18 or 6.47% and down from the day’s high of $35.94.