Source:-https://nationalinterest.org Alphabet, Google’s parent company, on Thursday released its quarterly earnings, and had a huge third quarter. The company posted revenue of $46.17 billion, compared with analyst expectations of $42.90 billion, per CNBC. The $46.17 billion number represented a gain from $40.499 billion in the same quarter last year. And the blowout quarter followed a less-successful one in the second quarter, when Alphabet posted its first-ever quarterly revenue decline. “We had a strong quarter, consistent with the broader online environment,”