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Top 41 Google Acquisitions (Will Google buy your site?)

June 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments

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We all know Google loves to buy good companies. Here’s a list of Google Acquisitions since 2001.

  1. 2001/02/12 - Google Acquires Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from Deja.com

    - Google Groups

  2. 2001/09/20 - Google Acquires Technology Assets of Outride Inc.

    - Online Information Retrieval Technologies

  3. 2003/02/00 - Google Acquires Pyra Labs
    - Blogger
  4. 2003/04/00 - Google Acquires Neotonic Software
    - Technology for Email Customer Support (CRM)
  5. 2003/04/23 - Google Acquires Applied Semantics
    http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/applied.html
    - Advertising Technology
  6. 2003-09-30 - Google Acquires Kaltix Corp
    http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/kaltix.html
    - Personalized and Context Sensitive Search Engine Technology
  7. 2003/10/07 - Google Acquires Genius Labs
    - Blogging
  8. 2004/05/10 - Google Acquires Ignite Logic
    - Web Templates for Law Firms and Small Businesses
  9. 2004/06/23 - Google Acquires 2.6% Stake in Baidu.com
    2006/06/24 - Google Sells 2.6% Stake in Baidu.com
    - Chinese Language Search Engine
  10. 2004/07/13 - Google Acquires Picasa
    http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/picasa.html
    - Digital Photo Management
  11. 2004/10/27 - Google Acquires Keyhole Corp
    http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/keyhole.html
    - Digital Mapping (Google Earth)
  12. 2004/10/00 - Google Acquires Where 2 Technologies
    - Digital Mapping (Google Maps)
  13. 2004/12/00 - Google Acquires ZipDash
    - Maps and Traffic for Mobile Devices
  14. 2005/01/00 - Google Acquires 2Web Technologies
    - Google Spreadsheets
  15. 2005/03/28 - Google Acquires Urchin Software
    - Web Analytics Software
  16. 2005/05/12 - Google Acquires Dodgeball
    - Mobile Social Networking
  17. 2005/07/00 - Google Acquires Reqwireless Inc
    - Java ME Browser
  18. 2005/07/07 - Google Acquires Current Communications Group
    - Broadband Internet (BPL - Broadband over Power Line)
  19. 2005/08/17 - Google Acquires Android
    - Software for Mobile Phones (Operating Systems for Cell Phones?)
  20. 2005/09/15 - Google Acquires Transformic Inc
    - Search Engines for the Deep Web
  21. 2005/11/00 - Google Acquires Skia
    - Graphics Software Engineering
  22. 2005/11/17 - Google Acquires Akwan Information Technologies
    - Latin American Operations Center (Brazil, Mexico, Latin America)
  23. 2005/12/20 - Google Acquires 5.0% Stake in AOL
  24. 2006/01/17 - Google Acquires dMarc Broadcasting
    http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/dmarc.html
    - Digital Solutions for Radio Broadcasting Industry
  25. 2006/02/14 - Google Acquires Measure Map
    - Web Analytics for Blogs
  26. 2006/03/09 - Google Acquires Upstartle (Writely)
    - Web Based Collaborative Document Editor (Online Word Processing)
  27. 2006/03/14 - Google Acquires @Last Software
    - SketchUp 3D Modeling
  28. 2006/04/09 - Google Acquires Orion
    - Referential Search Engine
  29. 2006/08/15 - Google Acquires Neven Vision
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/better-way-to-organize-photos.html
    - Automatic Information Extraction from Photos
  30. 2006/10/31 - Google Acquires Jotspot Inc
    - Wiki Technology for Collaborative Websites
  31. 2006/11/13 - Google Acquires YouTube Inc
    http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/youtube.html
    - Consumer Media Company (Watch and Share Videos)
  32. 2006/12/00 - Google Acquires Endoxon
    - Geo Mapping Software
  33. 2007/01/00 - Google Acquires Xunlei (Partial Acquisition)
    - File Sharing Website
  34. 2007/03/00 - Google Acquires Adscape Media
    - In-Game Advertising for Video Games
  35. 2007/03/16 - Google Acquires Gapminder’s Trendalyzer Software
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/world-in-motion.html
    - Presentation Software
  36. 2007/04/13 - Google Acquires Doubleclick
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/next-step-in-google-advertising.html
    - Advertising Technology Platform
  37. 2007/04/17 - Google Acquires Tonic Systems
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/were-expecting.html
    - Presentation Creation and Document Conversion Technology
  38. 2007/04/19 - Google Acquires Marratech
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/collaborating-with-marratech.html
    - Video Conferencing Software
  39. 2007/05/11 - Google Acquires Green Border Technologies
    - Secure Connections for Web Browsing and Email
  40. 2007/05/30 - Google Acquires Panoramio
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/pictures-worth-thousand-clicks.html
    - Community Photos Website (Works with Google Earth)
  41. 2007/06/01 - Google Acquires Feedburner
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/adding-more-flare.html
    - Feed Distribution and Management Tools

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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 chshkt // Jun 6, 2007 at 3:04 am

    So who’s next? digg.com?

  • 2 HeHeHunter // Jun 9, 2007 at 2:56 am

    Perhaps the next one will be technorati?

  • 3 hello // Jun 27, 2007 at 12:26 am

    Will it acquire Yahoo!

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