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

- 2001/02/12 - Google Acquires Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from Deja.com
- Google Groups
- 2001/09/20 - Google Acquires Technology Assets of Outride Inc.
- Online Information Retrieval Technologies
- 2003/02/00 - Google Acquires Pyra Labs
- Blogger - 2003/04/00 - Google Acquires Neotonic Software
- Technology for Email Customer Support (CRM) - 2003/04/23 - Google Acquires Applied Semantics
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/applied.html
- Advertising Technology - 2003-09-30 - Google Acquires Kaltix Corp
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/kaltix.html
- Personalized and Context Sensitive Search Engine Technology - 2003/10/07 - Google Acquires Genius Labs
- Blogging - 2004/05/10 - Google Acquires Ignite Logic
- Web Templates for Law Firms and Small Businesses - 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 - 2004/07/13 - Google Acquires Picasa
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/picasa.html
- Digital Photo Management - 2004/10/27 - Google Acquires Keyhole Corp
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/keyhole.html
- Digital Mapping (Google Earth) - 2004/10/00 - Google Acquires Where 2 Technologies
- Digital Mapping (Google Maps) - 2004/12/00 - Google Acquires ZipDash
- Maps and Traffic for Mobile Devices - 2005/01/00 - Google Acquires 2Web Technologies
- Google Spreadsheets - 2005/03/28 - Google Acquires Urchin Software
- Web Analytics Software - 2005/05/12 - Google Acquires Dodgeball
- Mobile Social Networking - 2005/07/00 - Google Acquires Reqwireless Inc
- Java ME Browser - 2005/07/07 - Google Acquires Current Communications Group
- Broadband Internet (BPL - Broadband over Power Line) - 2005/08/17 - Google Acquires Android
- Software for Mobile Phones (Operating Systems for Cell Phones?) - 2005/09/15 - Google Acquires Transformic Inc
- Search Engines for the Deep Web - 2005/11/00 - Google Acquires Skia
- Graphics Software Engineering - 2005/11/17 - Google Acquires Akwan Information Technologies
- Latin American Operations Center (Brazil, Mexico, Latin America) - 2005/12/20 - Google Acquires 5.0% Stake in AOL
- 2006/01/17 - Google Acquires dMarc Broadcasting
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/dmarc.html
- Digital Solutions for Radio Broadcasting Industry - 2006/02/14 - Google Acquires Measure Map
- Web Analytics for Blogs - 2006/03/09 - Google Acquires Upstartle (Writely)
- Web Based Collaborative Document Editor (Online Word Processing) - 2006/03/14 - Google Acquires @Last Software
- SketchUp 3D Modeling - 2006/04/09 - Google Acquires Orion
- Referential Search Engine - 2006/08/15 - Google Acquires Neven Vision
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/better-way-to-organize-photos.html
- Automatic Information Extraction from Photos - 2006/10/31 - Google Acquires Jotspot Inc
- Wiki Technology for Collaborative Websites - 2006/11/13 - Google Acquires YouTube Inc
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/youtube.html
- Consumer Media Company (Watch and Share Videos) - 2006/12/00 - Google Acquires Endoxon
- Geo Mapping Software - 2007/01/00 - Google Acquires Xunlei (Partial Acquisition)
- File Sharing Website - 2007/03/00 - Google Acquires Adscape Media
- In-Game Advertising for Video Games - 2007/03/16 - Google Acquires Gapminder’s Trendalyzer Software
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/world-in-motion.html
- Presentation Software - 2007/04/13 - Google Acquires Doubleclick
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/next-step-in-google-advertising.html
- Advertising Technology Platform - 2007/04/17 - Google Acquires Tonic Systems
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/were-expecting.html
- Presentation Creation and Document Conversion Technology - 2007/04/19 - Google Acquires Marratech
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/collaborating-with-marratech.html
- Video Conferencing Software - 2007/05/11 - Google Acquires Green Border Technologies
- Secure Connections for Web Browsing and Email - 2007/05/30 - Google Acquires Panoramio
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/pictures-worth-thousand-clicks.html
- Community Photos Website (Works with Google Earth) - 2007/06/01 - Google Acquires Feedburner
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/adding-more-flare.html
- Feed Distribution and Management Tools
credit: pageoneresults
Do you know of any more? Please comment!
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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