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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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