Google to enter ecommerce & web design?

Yesterday we received a request from Google to participate in its latest customer feedback survey. Anyone with an Adwords account probably received one. However professional agencies may have received a slightly different range of questions related to the professional agency features of Adwords.

An interesting thing to note about our survey was a range of questions related to popular ecommerce packages and website maintenance tools. Could Google be looking to integrate more closely with the three most-used ecommerce packages on the market? Or perhaps even (gasp) - does an acquisition loom?

One can only wonder what the big-wigs may be thinking, however Google’s track record of making canny buys (such as Urchin) would lead us to suspect a grander plan is afoot.

As pointed out in this SMH article, further diversification of Google’s revenue stream is likely on the radar.

That’s our bet. Let’s see if it pans out.