Here is the list of acquisitions by Google.
A total of 51 companies have been acquired as of March 2008.
Google’s largest acquisition as of March 2008 is the purchase of DoubleClick, an online advertising company, for US$3.1 billion.
Acquisition date |
Company |
Derived services |
| 12-Feb-01 | Deja | Google Groups |
| 20-Sep-01 | Outride | Google Personalized Search |
| Feb-03 | Pyra Labs | Blogger |
| Apr-03 | Neotonic Software | Google Groups, Gmail |
| Apr-03 | Applied Semantics | AdSense, AdWords |
| 30-Sep-03 | Kaltix | iGoogle |
| Oct-03 | Sprinks(a division of Primedia) | AdSense, AdWords |
| 10-Oct-03 | Genius Labs | Blogger |
| 10-May-04 | Ignite Logic | Google Page Creator |
| 23-Jun-04 | BaiduA | |
| 13-Jul-04 | Picasa | Picasa, Blogger |
| Sep-04 | ZipDash | Google Ride Finder |
| Oct-04 | Where2 | Google Maps |
| 27-Oct-04 | Keyhole, Inc | Google Maps, Google Earth |
| 28-Mar-05 | Urchin Software Corporation | Google Analytics |
| 12-May-05 | Dodgeball | Google Mobile, Google SMS |
| Jul-05 | Reqwireless | Google Mobile |
| 7-Jul-05 | Current Communications Group | Internet backbone |
| 17-Aug-05 | Android | Google Mobile, Google SMS |
| Nov-05 | Skia | Picasa |
| 17-Nov-05 | Akwan Information Technologies | Internet backbone |
| 20-Dec-05 | AOLB | |
| 27-Dec-05 | Phatbits | Google Desktop |
| 31-Dec-05 | allPAY GmbH | Google Mobile |
| 31-Dec-05 | bruNET GmbH | Google Mobile |
| 17-Jan-06 | dMarc Broadcasting | AdSense |
| 14-Feb-06 | Measure Map | Google Analytics |
| 9-Mar-06 | Upstartle | Google Documents |
| 14-Mar-06 | @Last Software | Google Sketchup |
| 9-Apr-06 | Orion | Google Search |
| 1-Jun-06 | 2Web Technologies | Google Spreadsheet |
| 15-Aug-06 | Neven Vision | Google Maps |
| 9-Oct-06 | YouTube | Google Video |
| 31-Oct-06 | JotSpot | Google Sites |
| 18-Dec-06 | Endoxon | Google Maps |
| 4-Jan-07 | XunleiC | |
| 16-Feb-07 | Adscape | AdSense |
| 16-Mar-07 | Trendalyzer | Google Analytics |
| 17-Apr-07 | Tonic Systems | Google Documents |
| 19-Apr-07 | Marratech | Google Talk |
| 13-Apr-07 | DoubleClick | AdSense |
| 11-May-07 | GreenBorder | Internal use |
| 1-Jun-07 | Panoramio | Blogger |
| Maps | ||
| 3-Jun-07 | FeedBurner | Google Reader |
| 5-Jun-07 | PeakStream | Server (computing) |
| 19-Jun-07 | Zenter | Google Documents |
| 2-Jul-07 | GrandCentral | Google Mobile |
| 20-Jul-07 | Image America | Google Maps |
| 9-Jul-07 | Postini | Gmail |
| 27-Sep-07 | Zingku | Google Mobile |
| 9-Oct-07 | Jaiku | Google Mobile |
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