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Google Acquisitions

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Google is one of the fastest growing companies if not the fastest growing company in the history of companies.

It all started with a simple search page, I remember the first time I used them in 2000. There wasn’t even an image
search in place yet, just a web search.The big feature was that it worked well and had the “I’m feeling luck” option. Over the past 9 years they have grow quite quickly and have purchased
over 50 different companies.

Here’s the list of the 50 companies and the service they derived from each company.

#	Acquisition date	Company	Business	Value (USD)	Derived services
1	February 12, 2001	Deja	Usenet		Google Groups
2	September 20, 2001	Outride	Web search engine		Google Personalized Search
3	February 2003	Pyra Labs	Weblog software		Blogger
4	April 2003	Neotonic Software	Customer relationship management		Google Groups, Gmail	^[4]
5	April 2003	Applied Semantics	Online advertising	$102,000,000	AdSense, AdWords	^[5]
6	September 30, 2003	Kaltix	Web search engine		iGoogle	^[6]
7	October 2003	Sprinks	Online advertising		AdSense, AdWords	^[7]
8	October 2003	Genius Labs	Blogging		Blogger	^[8]
9	May 10, 2004	Ignite Logic	HTML editor			^[9]
10	June 23, 2004	Baidu^A	Chinese language search engine	$5,000,000	Google Search/http://www.google.cn	^[10]
11	July 13, 2004	Picasa	Image organizer		Picasa, Blogger	^[11]
12	September 2004	ZipDash	Traffic analysis		Google Maps for Mobile	^[12]
13	October 2004	Where2	Map analysis		Google Maps	^[13]
14	October 27, 2004	Keyhole, Inc	Map analysis		Google Maps, Google Earth	^[14]
15	March 28, 2005	Urchin Software Corporation	Web analytics		Google Analytics	^[15]
16	May 12, 2005	Dodgeball	Social networking service		Google Latitude	^[16]
17	July 2005	Reqwireless	Mobile browser		Google Mobile	^[17]
18	July 7, 2005	Current Communications Group	Broadband internet access	$100,000,000	Internet backbone	^[18]
19	August 17, 2005	Android	Mobile software		Android	^[19]
20	November 2005	Skia	Graphics software		Android, Google Chrome Browser	^[20]
21	November 17, 2005	Akwan Information Technologies	Search Engines		Internet backbone	^[21]
22	December 20, 2005	AOL^B	Broadband internet access	$1,000,000,000		^[22]
23	December 27, 2005	Phatbits	Widget engine		Google Desktop	^[23]
24	December 31, 2005	allPAY GmbH	Mobile software		Google Mobile	^[24]
25	December 31, 2005	bruNET GmbH	Mobile software		Google Mobile	^[24]
26	January 17, 2006	dMarc Broadcasting	Advertising	$102,000,000	AdSense	^[25]
27	February 14, 2006	Measure Map	Weblog software		Google Analytics	^[26]
28	March 9, 2006	Upstartle	Word processor		Google Documents	^[27]
29	March 14, 2006	@Last Software	3D modeling software		Google Sketchup	^[28]
30	April 9, 2006	Orion	Web search engine		Google Search	^[29]
31	June 1, 2006	2Web Technologies	Online spreadsheets		Google Spreadsheet	^[30]^[31]
32	August 15, 2006	Neven Vision	Computer vision		Google Maps	^[32]
33	October 9, 2006	YouTube	Video sharing	$1,650,000,000	YouTube	^[33]^[34]
34	October 31, 2006	JotSpot	Web application		Google Sites	^[35]
35	December 18, 2006	Endoxon	Mapping	$28,000,000	Google Maps	^[36]
36	January 4, 2007	Xunlei^C	File sharing	$5,000,000		^[37]
37	February 16, 2007	Adscape	In-game advertising	$23,000,000	AdSense	^[38]
38	March 16, 2007	Trendalyzer	Statistical software		Google Analytics	^[39]
39	April 17, 2007	Tonic Systems	Presentation program		Google Documents	^[40]
40	April 19, 2007	Marratech	Videoconferencing		Google Talk	^[41]
41	April 13, 2007	DoubleClick	Online advertising	$3,100,000,000	AdSense	^[42]^[43]^[44]
42	May 11, 2007	GreenBorder	Computer security		Google Chrome	^[45]
43	June 1, 2007	Panoramio	Photo sharing		Blogger Maps	^[46]
44	June 3, 2007	FeedBurner	Web feed	$100,000,000	Google Reader	^[47]
45	June 5, 2007	PeakStream	Parallel processing		Server (computing)	^[48]
46	June 19, 2007	Zenter	Presentation program		Google Documents	^[49]
47	July 2, 2007	GrandCentral	Voice over Internet Protocol	$45,000,000	Google Voice	^[50]^[51]
48	July 20, 2007	Image America	Aerial photography		Google Maps	^[52]
49	July 9, 2007	Postini	Communications security	$625,000,000	Gmail	^[53]
50	September 27, 2007	Zingku	Social network service		Google Mobile	^[54]
51	October 9, 2007	Jaiku	Micro-blogging		Google Mobile	^[55]
52	July 30, 2008	Omnisio	Online video	$15,000,000	YouTube	^[56]
53	September 12, 2008	TNC (Tatter and Company)	Weblog software		Textcube.com	^[57]