List of acquisitions by Google

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This is a list of acquisitions by Google, a computer software and a web search engine company. Each acquisition is for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between Google and the subject of the acquisition. The value of each acquisition is listed in US dollars because Google is headquartered in the United States. If the value of an acquisition is not listed, then it is undisclosed. If the Google service that is derived from the acquired company is known, then it is also listed.

Google's largest acquisition as of March 2008 is the purchase of DoubleClick, an online advertising company, for US$3.1 billion. Because of the size of the acquisition, United States antitrust regulators took nearly a year to investigate the deal and clear it for approval. The majority of the companies acquired by Google are based in the United States, and in turn, a large percentage of these companies are based in or around the San Francisco Bay Area. A total of 51 companies have been acquired as of March 2008.

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[edit] Acquisitions

Acquisition date Company Business Country Value (USD) Derived services References
02001-02-12 12 February 2001 Deja Usenet Flag of the United States USA Google Groups [1]
02001-09-20 20 September 2001 Outride Web search engine Flag of the United States USA Google Personalized Search [2]
02003-02 February 2003 Pyra Labs Weblog software Flag of the United States USA Blogger [3]
02003-04 April 2003 Neotonic Software Customer relationship management Flag of the United States USA Google Groups, Gmail [4]
02003-04 April 2003 Applied Semantics Online advertising Flag of the United States USA $&0000000102000000.000000102,000,000 AdSense, AdWords [5]
02003-09-30 30 September 2003 Kaltix Web search engine Flag of the United States USA iGoogle [6]
02003-10 October 2003 Sprinks(a division of Primedia) Online advertising Flag of the United States USA AdSense, AdWords [7]
02003-10 October 2003 Genius Labs Blogging Flag of the United States USA Blogger [8]
02004-05-10 10 May 2004 Ignite Logic HTML editor Flag of the United States USA Google Page Creator [9]
02004-06-23 23 June 2004 BaiduA Chinese language search engine Flag of the People's Republic of China CHN $&0000000005000000.0000005,000,000 [10]
02004-07-13 13 July 2004 Picasa Image organizer Flag of the United States USA Picasa, Blogger [11]
02004-09 September 2004 ZipDash Traffic analysis Flag of the United States USA Google Ride Finder [12]
02004-10 October 2004 Where2 Map analysis Flag of the United States USA Google Maps [13]
02004-10-27 27 October 2004 Keyhole, Inc Map analysis Flag of the United States USA Google Maps, Google Earth [14]
02005-03-28 28 March 2005 Urchin Software Corporation Web analytics Flag of the United States USA Google Analytics [15]
02005-05-12 12 May 2005 Dodgeball Social networking service Flag of the United States USA Google Mobile, Google SMS [16]
02005-07 July 2005 Reqwireless Mobile browser Flag of Canada CAN Google Mobile [17]
02005-07-07 7 July 2005 Current Communications Group Broadband internet access Flag of the United States USA $&0000000100000000.000000100,000,000 Internet backbone [18]
02005-08-17 17 August 2005 Android Mobile software Flag of the United States USA Google Mobile, Google SMS [19]
02005-11 November 2005 Skia Graphics software Flag of the United States USA Picasa [20]
02005-11-17 17 November 2005 Akwan Information Technologies Search Engines Flag of Brazil BRA Internet backbone [21]
02005-12-20 20 December 2005 AOLB Broadband internet access Flag of the United States USA $&0000001000000000.0000001,000,000,000 [22]
02005-12-27 27 December 2005 Phatbits Widget engine Flag of the United States USA Google Desktop [23]
02005-12-31 31 December 2005 allPAY GmbH Mobile software Flag of Germany GER Google Mobile [24]
02005-12-31 31 December 2005 bruNET GmbH Mobile software Flag of Germany GER Google Mobile [24]
02006-01-17 17 January 2006 dMarc Broadcasting Advertising Flag of the United States USA $&0000000102000000.000000102,000,000 AdSense [25]
02006-02-14 14 February 2006 Measure Map Weblog software Flag of the United States USA Google Analytics [26]
02006-03-09 9 March 2006 Upstartle Word processor Flag of the United States USA Google Documents [27]
02006-03-14 14 March 2006 @Last Software 3D modeling software Flag of the United States USA Google Sketchup [28]
02006-04-09 9 April 2006 Orion Web search engine Flag of Australia AUS Google Search [29]
02006-06-01 1 June 2006 2Web Technologies Online spreadsheets Flag of the United States USA Google Spreadsheet [30][31]
02006-08-15 15 August 2006 Neven Vision Computer vision Flag of the United States USA Google Maps [32]
02006-10-09 9 October 2006 YouTube Video sharing Flag of the United States USA $&0000001650000000.0000001,650,000,000 Google Video [33][34]
02006-10-31 31 October 2006 JotSpot Web application Flag of the United States USA Google Sites [35]
02006-12-18 18 December 2006 Endoxon Mapping Flag of Switzerland CHE $&0000000028000000.00000028,000,000 Google Maps [36]
02007-01-04 4 January 2007 XunleiC File sharing Flag of the People's Republic of China CHN $&0000000005000000.0000005,000,000 [37]
02007-02-16 16 February 2007 Adscape In-game advertising Flag of the United States USA $&0000000023000000.00000023,000,000 AdSense [38]
02007-03-16 16 March 2007 Trendalyzer Statistical software Flag of Sweden SWE Google Analytics [39]
02007-04-17 17 April 2007 Tonic Systems Presentation program Flag of the United States USA Google Documents [40]
02007-04-19 19 April 2007 Marratech Videoconferencing Flag of Sweden SWE Google Talk [41]
02007-04-13 13 April 2007 DoubleClick Online advertising Flag of the United States USA $&0000003100000000.0000003,100,000,000 AdSense [42][43][44]
02007-05-11 11 May 2007 GreenBorder Computer security Flag of the United States USA Internal use [45]
02007-06-01 1 June 2007 Panoramio Photo sharing Flag of Spain ESP Blogger

Maps

 [46]
02007-06-03 3 June 2007 FeedBurner Web feed Flag of the United States USA $&0000000100000000.000000100,000,000 Google Reader [47]
02007-06-05 5 June 2007 PeakStream Parallel processing Flag of the United States USA Server (computing) [48]
02007-06-19 19 June 2007 Zenter Presentation program Flag of the United States USA Google Documents [49]
02007-07-02 2 July 2007 GrandCentral Voice over Internet Protocol Flag of the United States USA $&0000000045000000.00000045,000,000 Google Mobile [50]
02007-07-20 20 July 2007 Image America Aerial photography Flag of the United States USA Google Maps [51]
02007-07-09 9 July 2007 Postini Communications security Flag of the United States USA $&0000000625000000.000000625,000,000 Gmail [52]
02007-09-27 27 September 2007 Zingku Social network service Flag of the United States USA Google Mobile [53]
02007-10-09 9 October 2007 Jaiku Micro-blogging Flag of Finland FIN Google Mobile [54]

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[edit] Notes

  • ^A Purchased a 2.6% share.
  • ^B Purchased a 5% share.
  • ^C Purchased a 4% share.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Google Acquires Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from Deja.com. Google (2001-02-12). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  2. ^ McCaffrey, Cindy (2001-09-20). Google Acquires Technology Assets of Outride Inc. Google. Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  3. ^ Sherman, Chris (2003-02-18). Puzzling Out Google's Blogger Acquisition. Search Engine Watch. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  4. ^ Google acquires Neotonic Software. Search Engine Journal (2004-06-04). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  5. ^ Google Buys Applied Semantics. Search Engine Watch (2003-04-23). Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  6. ^ Orlowski, Andrew (2003-09-30). Google buys search engine – PageRank RIP?. The Register. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  7. ^ Grunberg, Ilana (2003-11-05). Google Acquires Sprinks. SearchNewz. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.
  8. ^ List of Companies Acquired by Google. SEO Consultants. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.
  9. ^ Google Quietly Acquires Ignite Logic. WebProNews (2004-05-10). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  10. ^ Google acquires sizeable stake in Baidu. People's Daily Online (2004-06-16). Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  11. ^ Mara, Janis (2007-07-13). Google Acquires Picasa. Clickz. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  12. ^ Bazeley, Michael (2005-03-30). Google acquires traffic info start-up Zipdash. SiliconBeat. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  13. ^ LeMay, Renai (2005-07-29). Google mapper advises: take browsers to the limit. CNET. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  14. ^ Google Acquires Keyhole Corp. Google (2004-10-27). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  15. ^ Google Agrees To Acquire Urchin. Google (2005-03-28). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  16. ^ Google buys Dodgeball. Engadget (2005-05-12). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  17. ^ Google turning Canada into mobile software mecca. The Register (2006-01-10). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  18. ^ Google invests in power-line broadband. ZDNet (2007-07-07). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  19. ^ Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal. Business Week (2005-08-17). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  20. ^ Krishnan, Anne (2007-01-06). Google already has foothold in Triangle. The News & Observer. Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  21. ^ Google Continues International Expansion, Opens Offices in Latin America. Google (2005-11-17). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  22. ^ Time Warner's AOL and Google to Expand Strategic Alliance. Google (2005-12-20). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  23. ^ Mills, Elinor (2007-06-27). Ex-Googler tells all to Microsoft. CNET. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
  24. ^ a b Google Subsidiaries. SEC. Retrieved on 2008-03-19.
  25. ^ Google Acquires dMarc Radio for $102 Million. Information Week (2006-01-17). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  26. ^ Here comes Measure Map. Official Google blog (2006-02-14). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  27. ^ Google buys Web word-processing technology. CNET (2007-03-09). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  28. ^ Google acquires @Last Software. CNET (2006-03-14). Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  29. ^ Oates, John (2006-04-10). Google buys Orion algorithm. The Register. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
  30. ^ Roberts, Paul (2006-06-07). Google bites the Big Apple. InfoWorld. Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
  31. ^ Chan, Rex (2007-02-01). Strategic Use of Information Technology. University of California, Irvine. Retrieved on 2008-03-19.
  32. ^ A better way to organize photos?. Official Google Blog (2006-08-15). Retrieved on 2007-04-02.
  33. ^ La Monica, Paul R (2006-10-09). Google to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion. CNN. Retrieved on 2006-10-09.
  34. ^ Google To Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock. Google. Retrieved on 2008-03-19.
  35. ^ Ames, Ben (2006-10-31). Google Buys JotSpot, Offers Free Wiki Pages. PC World. Retrieved on 2006-10-09.
  36. ^ Perez, Juan Carlos (2006-12-18). Google buys Endoxon. InfoWorld. Retrieved on 2007-04-02.
  37. ^ Google says bought stake in China's Xunlei. Reuters (2007-01-04). Retrieved on 2007-05-21.
  38. ^ Olson, Ryan (2007-02-15). Google Agrees to Buy Adscape. Red Herring. Archived from the original on 2007-08-07. Retrieved on 2007-04-02.
  39. ^ Rosmarin, Rachel (2007-03-16). Google Buys Data Visualization Software. Forbes. Retrieved on 2007-04-02.
  40. ^ We want to welcome the team from Tonic Systems to Google. Official Google Blog (2007-04-13). Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
  41. ^ Collaborating with Marratech. Official Google Blog (2007-04-19). Retrieved on 2007-04-19.
  42. ^ Wojcicki, Susan (2007-04-13). The next step in Google advertising. Official Google Blog. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  43. ^ US Clears Google Acquisition of DoubleClick. Economic Times (2007-12-23). Retrieved on 2007-12-22.
  44. ^ West, Ellen (2008-03-11). Google Closes Acquisition of DoubleClick. Google. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
  45. ^ Kawamoto, Dawn (2007-05-29). Google acquires GreenBorder Technologies. CNET. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  46. ^ Duncan, Geoff (2007-06-01). Google has announced plans to acquire Spain's Panoramio photo sharing service. Digital Trends. Retrieved on 2007-06-01.
  47. ^ Google buys Internet news delivery firm FeedBurner. The Age (2007-06-02). Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
  48. ^ Google shivs server crowd with PeakStream buy. The Register (2007-06-05). Retrieved on 2007-06-05.
  49. ^ We're pleased to announce that we've acquired the assets of Zenter. Official Google Blog (2007-06-19). Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  50. ^ We're pleased to announce that we have acquired GrandCentral Communications. Official Google Blog (2007-07-02). Retrieved on 2007-07-02.
  51. ^ We have acquired ImageAmerica, a company that builds high resolution cameras for the collection of aerial imagery.. Google LatLong Blog (2007-07-20). Retrieved on 2007-07-21.
  52. ^ Google buys Postini for $625m. vnunet (2007-07-09). Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  53. ^ Niccolai, James (2007-09-29). Google Buys Mobile Social Network Zingku. PC World. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
  54. ^ Google acquires Jaiku. Jaiku (2007-10-09). Retrieved on 2008-01-08.

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