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Google

Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google’s highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information.

Google has also made strong moves into the web-based apps space with acquisitions of Jotspot (documents), 2Web Technologies (spreadsheets) and Zenter (presentations). The company has also made a splash with the acquisitions of YouTube, DoubleClick and Feedburner.

In 1996, Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page famously started the search company in a Stanford dorm room. The two eventually moved the company to a Menlo Park garage, which the company quickly outgrew. Sun Microsystems founder Andy Bechtolsheim was the company’s first investor with other notable investors including Ron Conway, John Doerr, Mike Moritz and Ram Shriram.

Eric Schmidt is the CEO and Chairman.

Major Search competitors include Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.

Milestones

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  Google acquired socialDeck. (8/30/10)
  Posted 9/5/10 at 7:53pm via insidesocialgames.com
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  Google acquired Angstro. (8/27/10)
  Posted 8/27/10 at 11:04am via techcrunch.com
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  Google acquired Like.com. (8/20/10)
  Posted 8/20/10 at 4:38pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google added Mike Quiqley as Head of Marketing, Jambool / Social Gold. (8/14/10)
  Posted 8/31/10 at 10:40am
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  Google acquired Jambool for $70M. (8/9/10)
  Posted 8/10/10 at 10:16am via techcrunch.com
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  Google acquired Slide for $182M. (8/6/10)
  Posted 8/6/10 at 9:39am via techcrunch.com
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  Google acquired Instantiations. (8/4/10)
  Posted 8/5/10 at 12:06am via techcrunch.com
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  Google — Google Buys Wind Power, First Deal for “Google Energy” (7/20/10)
  Posted 7/21/10 at 5:45pm
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  Google acquired Metaweb Technologies. (7/16/10)
  Posted 7/18/10 at 5:41pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google acquired ITA Software for $700M. (7/1/10)
  Posted 7/1/10 at 12:33pm via techcrunch.com
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  Google added Cristina Cordova as Search Quality Associate. (7/10)
  Posted 8/8/10 at 3:31pm
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  Google added Joseph Huang as Software Engineering. (6/15/10)
  Posted 8/8/10 at 7:52pm
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  Google invested in Zynga. (6/14/10)
  Posted 6/15/10 at 9:02am via nytimes.com
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  Google acquired Invite Media for $80M. (6/2/10)
  Posted 6/2/10 at 6:51pm via allthingsd.com
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  Google acquired Simplify Media. (5/20/10)
  Posted 5/21/10 at 1:20am via techcrunch.com
• 
  Google added Bindu Reddy as Group Product Manager. (5/19/10)
  Posted 5/1/10 at 4:10pm

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10. Google Buys Simplify Media To Power Music Syncing For New iTunes Competitor (techcrunch.com) []
11. Google To Buy Global IP Solutions For $68.2 Million In Cash (techcrunch.com) []
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14. Google acquires UK mobile visual search company Plink to bolster Goggles (deals.venturebeat.com) []
15. Google Acquires Online Video Hosting Platform Episodic (techcrunch.com) []
16. Google Buys Photo-Editing Site Picnik (paidcontent.org) []
17. Google To Acquire Video Compression Developer On2 For $106.5 Million (washingtonpost.com) []
18. Venturebeat (venturebeat.com) []
19. Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million (techcrunch.com) []
20. Google To Acquire DocVerse; Office War Heats Up (techcrunch.com) []
21. Confirmed: Google Acquires AppJet, The Maker Of EtherPad (techcrunch.com) []
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23. Google Acquires AdMob For $750 Million (techcrunch.com) []
24. Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5 (techcrunch.com) []
25. Google Acquires reCaptcha To Power Scanning For Google Books And Google News (techcrunch.com) []
26. Google buys Korean blog platform TNC (news.cnet.com) []
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28. Google Acquires Omnisio To Spice Up YouTube (techcrunch.com) []
29. We've officially acquired DoubleClick (googleblog.blogspot.com) []
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31. Google Acquires Mobile Platform Operator Zingku (techcrunch.com) []
32. Google Acquires ImageAmerica (techcrunch.com) []
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34. Deal is Confirmed: Google Acquired GrandCentral (techcrunch.com) []
35. Proxy Watch: Google: $1 Million Stake In Comsenz; $20 Million For Peakstream; Salaries; Human Rights (washingtonpost.com) []
36. Google Acquires Zenter; Y Combinator Gets Another Payday (techcrunch.com) []
37. Citation Needed []
38. Google buys into security, acquires GreenBorder (infoworld.com) []
39. Google to Buy Geo-Tagging Site Panoramio (gigaom.com) []
40. Google Acquires Marratech; Gets Into WebEx Territory (techcrunch.com) []
41. Google’s Office Suite Complete: Google “PowerPoint” Confirmed (techcrunch.com) []
42. Google acquires Trendalyzer (infosthetics.com) []
43. Google acquired in-game advertising company Adscape for $23 million in February 2007. (blog.quintura.com) []
44. Google Buys Endoxon (googlesystem.blogspot.com) []
45. Google Acquires Wiki Collaboration Company Jotspot (techcrunch.com) []
46. Google has acquired YouTube (techcrunch.com) []
47. Google Acquires Neven Vision (seobythesea.com) []
48. Google acquires XL2Web, launches Google Spreadsheets (businessreviewonline.com) []
49. Google Acquires Orion Search Algorithm (technewsworld.com) []
50. Google has acquired @Last Software, a 3D-design toolmaker and developer of the SketchUp software, the start-up announced Tuesday. (news.cnet.com) []
51. Google acquires online word processing app provider (infoworld.com) []
52. Google Buys Measure Map (techcrunch.com) []
53. Google Buys Into Radio (clickz.com) []
54. Citation Needed []
55. Citation Needed []
56. Google acquires Widget Engine (digg.com) []
57. Google Continues International Expansion, Opens Offices in Latin America (google.com) []
58. Google Comes Out of the Shadows in N.C.: Search Engine Giant Has Software Operation in Chapel Hill (localtechwire.com) []
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60. Google buys Canadian wireless-software company (news.cnet.com) []
61. Google Acquires Mobile Social-Networking Company Dodgeball.com (informationweek.com) []
62. Google Acquires Urchin Software (nytimes.com) []
63. Citation Needed []
64. Google innovations, made in Australia (blogs.smh.com.au) []
65. Google acquires traffic info start-up Zipdash (siliconbeat.com) []
66. Google Acquires Picasa (clickz.com) []
67. Google acquires sizeable stake in Baidu (english.peopledaily.com.cn) []
68. Google Quietly Acquires Ignite Logic (webpronews.com) []
69. Google Acquires Sprinks (webpronews.com) []
70. Citation Needed []
71. Google Acquires Kaltix Corp.; New Technologies and Engineering Team Complement Google Search Engine (findarticles.com) []
72. Google Buys Applied Semantics (newsbreaks.infotoday.com) []
73. Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) []
74. Citation Needed []
75. Google Acquires Technology Assets of Outride Inc.; Transaction Complements Google's Technology Development To Provide Search Results with Greater Relevance (findarticles.com) []
76. Google Acquires Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from Deja.com (google.com) []
77. Battle Cry? Google Buys Stealth Company Founded By Guys That Spurned Apple (techcrunch.com) []
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80. Life360 wins the Android challenge... (digital.venturebeat.com) [edit]
81. $3.2 Billion WiMax Deal Goes Through. Take Cover. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
82. Citation Needed [add]
83. Navigenics raises more than $25M for personal genetics (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
84. Ubiquisys Secures B Round Funding for Breakthrough Femtocell Technology (ubiquisys.com) [edit]
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86. Founder's Blog (english.martinvarsavsky.net) [edit]
87. TrialPay Backed By Investors of Skype, Google, and Akamai For Payment Platform (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
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92. Time Warner's AOL and Google to Expand Strategic Alliance (google.com) [edit]
93. Google invests in power-line broadband (news.cnet.com) [edit]
94. MarketWatch (marketwatch.com) [edit]
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97. 11 Billion Videos Viewed Online in the U.S. in April 2008 (comscore.com) []
98. Google Sinks $10 Million Into New Geothermal Technologies (techcrunch.com) []
99. Google Sells AOL Stake Back To Time Warner For $283 Million (businessinsider.com) []
100. Google To Partner With iLike And LaLa For New Music Service (techcrunch.com) []
101. Google Buys Wind Power, First Deal for “Google Energy” []