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Google

Google primarily 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 tools and platforms including its more popular products: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free because Google makes its money from highly integrated online advertising through its AdWords and AdSense platforms. 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 including Jotspot (documents), 2Web Technologies (spreadsheets) and Zenter (presentations). They have also made huge splashes with recent 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 Gizmo5 for $30M. (11/9/09)
  Posted 11/9/09 at 1:26pm
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  Google acquired AdMob for $750M. (11/9/09)
  Posted 11/9/09 at 1:26pm
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  Google added Don Dodge as Developer Evangelist. (11/09)
  Posted 11/15/09 at 8:05pm
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  Google — iLike and LaLa music services to be integrated into Google to stream song directly from search. iLike was acquired by MySpace in August 2009 (10/21/09)
  Posted 10/21/09 at 9:16am
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  Google acquired reCAPTCHA. (9/16/09)
  Posted 9/21/09 at 4:09am
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  Google acquired On2 Technologies for $107M. (8/5/09)
  Posted 8/5/09 at 10:02am
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  Google — Google sells its stake in AOL back to Time Warner for about 1/4 of what it paid for it in 2006. (7/27/09)
  Posted 7/27/09 at 3:19pm
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  Google invested in 23andMe. (6/18/09)
  Posted 6/18/09 at 3:45pm
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  Google invested in Life360. (9/19/08)
  Posted 6/22/09 at 9:37am
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  Google acquired Tatter & Co. (9/12/08)
  Posted 10/13/09 at 1:11am
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  Google acquired TNC. (9/12/08)
  Posted 9/12/08 at 3:10pm
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  Google — Google Sinks $10 Million Into New Geothermal Technologies (8/19/08)
  Posted 8/19/08 at 11:53am
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  Google acquired Omnisio for $15M. (7/30/08)
  Posted 7/30/08 at 12:48pm
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  Google acquired ZAO Begun for $140M. (7/18/08)
  Posted 7/18/08 at 1:54am
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  Google — More than 4 Billion videos viewed at Google Sites, 37.9% according to comScore (6/18/08)
  Posted 6/18/08 at 12:50am
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  Google invested in Fon. (4/10/08)
  Posted 4/10/08 at 9:49am

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1. Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5 (techcrunch.com) []
2. Google Acquires AdMob For $750 Million (techcrunch.com) []
3. Google Acquires reCaptcha To Power Scanning For Google Books And Google News (techcrunch.com) []
4. Google To Acquire Video Compression Developer On2 For $106.5 Million (washingtonpost.com) []
5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) []
6. Google buys Korean blog platform TNC (news.cnet.com) []
7. Google Acquires Omnisio To Spice Up YouTube (techcrunch.com) []
8. Google Buys Russian Contextual Ads Service for $140m (techcrunch.com) []
9. We've officially acquired DoubleClick (googleblog.blogspot.com) []
10. Google buys Jaiku, Twitter losing ground (venturebeat.com) []
11. Google Acquires Mobile Platform Operator Zingku (techcrunch.com) []
12. Google Acquires ImageAmerica (techcrunch.com) []
13. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/09/google-acquires-postini-for-625-million/ (techcrunch.com) []
14. Deal is Confirmed: Google Acquired GrandCentral (techcrunch.com) []
15. Proxy Watch: Google: $1 Million Stake In Comsenz; $20 Million For Peakstream; Salaries; Human Rights (washingtonpost.com) []
16. Google Acquires Zenter; Y Combinator Gets Another Payday (techcrunch.com) []
17. Citation Needed []
18. Google buys into security, acquires GreenBorder (infoworld.com) []
19. Google to Buy Geo-Tagging Site Panoramio (gigaom.com) []
20. Google Acquires Marratech; Gets Into WebEx Territory (techcrunch.com) []
21. Google’s Office Suite Complete: Google “PowerPoint” Confirmed (techcrunch.com) []
22. Google acquires Trendalyzer (infosthetics.com) []
23. Google acquired in-game advertising company Adscape for $23 million in February 2007. (blog.quintura.com) []
24. Google Buys Endoxon (googlesystem.blogspot.com) []
25. Google Acquires Wiki Collaboration Company Jotspot (techcrunch.com) []
26. Google has acquired YouTube (techcrunch.com) []
27. Google Acquires Neven Vision (seobythesea.com) []
28. Google acquires XL2Web, launches Google Spreadsheets (businessreviewonline.com) []
29. Google Acquires Orion Search Algorithm (technewsworld.com) []
30. Google has acquired @Last Software, a 3D-design toolmaker and developer of the SketchUp software, the start-up announced Tuesday. (news.cnet.com) []
31. Google acquires online word processing app provider (infoworld.com) []
32. Google Buys Measure Map (techcrunch.com) []
33. Google Buys Into Radio (clickz.com) []
34. Citation Needed []
35. Citation Needed []
36. Google acquires Widget Engine (digg.com) []
37. Google Continues International Expansion, Opens Offices in Latin America (google.com) []
38. Google Comes Out of the Shadows in N.C.: Search Engine Giant Has Software Operation in Chapel Hill (localtechwire.com) []
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40. Google buys Canadian wireless-software company (news.cnet.com) []
41. Google Acquires Mobile Social-Networking Company Dodgeball.com (informationweek.com) []
42. Google Acquires Urchin Software (nytimes.com) []
43. Citation Needed []
44. Google innovations, made in Australia (blogs.smh.com.au) []
45. Google acquires traffic info start-up Zipdash (siliconbeat.com) []
46. Google Acquires Picasa (clickz.com) []
47. Google acquires sizeable stake in Baidu (english.peopledaily.com.cn) []
48. Google Quietly Acquires Ignite Logic (webpronews.com) []
49. Google Acquires Sprinks (webpronews.com) []
50. Citation Needed []
51. Google Acquires Kaltix Corp.; New Technologies and Engineering Team Complement Google Search Engine (findarticles.com) []
52. Google Buys Applied Semantics (newsbreaks.infotoday.com) []
53. Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) []
54. Citation Needed []
55. Google Acquires Technology Assets of Outride Inc.; Transaction Complements Google's Technology Development To Provide Search Results with Greater Relevance (findarticles.com) []
56. Google Acquires Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from Deja.com (google.com) []
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59. Citation Needed [add]
60. Navigenics raises more than $25M for personal genetics (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
61. Ubiquisys Secures B Round Funding for Breakthrough Femtocell Technology (ubiquisys.com) [edit]
62. 23andme.com [edit]
63. Founder's Blog (english.martinvarsavsky.net) [edit]
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65. Google Acquires Stake in Chinese Web Site (nytimes.com) [edit]
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68. LightReading (lightreading.com) [edit]
69. Time Warner's AOL and Google to Expand Strategic Alliance (google.com) [edit]
70. Google invests in power-line broadband (news.cnet.com) [edit]
71. MarketWatch (marketwatch.com) [edit]
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74. 11 Billion Videos Viewed Online in the U.S. in April 2008 (comscore.com) []
75. Google Sinks $10 Million Into New Geothermal Technologies (techcrunch.com) []
76. Google Sells AOL Stake Back To Time Warner For $283 Million (businessinsider.com) []
77. Google To Partner With iLike And LaLa For New Music Service (techcrunch.com) []