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Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is poised to announce a record quarter today... not only on financial metrics including revenue, revenue growth, earnings and earnings growth, but also on user metrics including traffic, volume, impressions, clicks, users. Why the bullish sentiment for Google? Fourth quarter is a holiday quarter with major online shopping events: Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Christmas shopping. All these translate to more people searching online for the best deals, and using Google for searching, researching and finding what they need. Google is a Top 20 innovator of the Innovation Index .  What to watch out for? Overall search volume, net traffic, number of clicks, unique users. But perhaps the most important metric that smartphone users would be thinking about is: Daily Android activations - would it surpass 2 million? Is Android winning the smartphone war? And whether Google can profit from Androids. Would Google charge smartphone makers for new Android acti...