We put a lot of time and research into this list of companies acquired by Google.
We do not guarantee that it is 100% accurate. If you do see something that isn't correct or if we are missing information about a particular acquisition, please do let us know.
I'd like to thank William (Bill) Slawski (SEO by the SEA) for his continued coverage on Google Acquisitions and Patents.
I'd like to give credit to the Wiki Editor for their List of Google Acquisitions page.
And of course, credit is due to The Official Google Blog for keeping us informed as these acquisitions become final.
Google Acquisitions Timeline
2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2001
2007 Google Acquisitions
- 2007-07-09 - Google to Acquire Postini
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/postini_20070709.html
- Services for Message Security, Archiving, Encryption, and Policy Enforcement
- $625 Million - 2007-07-02 - Google Acquires GrandCentral Communications
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/all-aboard.html
- Services for Managing Voice Communications - 2007-06-19 - Google Acquires Zenter
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-sharing.html
- Online Slide Presentations - 2007-06-05 - Google Acquires PeakStream Inc
- Multiprocessor and GPU Software - 2007-06-01 - Google Acquires Feedburner
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/adding-more-flare.html
- Feed Distribution and Management Tools - 2007-05-30 - Google Acquires Panoramio
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/pictures-worth-thousand-clicks.html
- Community Photos Website (Works with Google Earth) - 2007-05-11 - Google Acquires Green Border Technologies
- Secure Connections for Web Browsing and Email - 2007-04-19 - Google Acquires Marratech
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/collaborating-with-marratech.html
- Video Conferencing Software - 2007-04-17 - Google Acquires Tonic Systems
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/were-expecting.html
- Presentation Creation and Document Conversion Technology - 2007-04-13 - Google Acquires Doubleclick
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/next-step-in-google-advertising.html
- Advertising Technology Platform - 2007-03-16 - Google Acquires Trendalyzer
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/world-in-motion.html
- Presentation Software - 2007-03-16 - Google Acquires Adscape Media
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/let-passion-continue-were-acquiring.html
- In-Game Advertising for Video Games - 2007-01-00 - Google Acquires Xunlei (Partial Acquisition)
- File Sharing Website
2006 Google Acquisitions
- 2006-01-17 - Google Acquires dMarc Broadcasting
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/dmarc.html
- Digital Solutions for Radio Broadcasting Industry - 2006-12-00 - Google Acquires Endoxon
- Geo Mapping Software - 2006-11-13 - Google Acquires YouTube Inc
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/youtube.html
- Consumer Media Company (Watch and Share Videos) - 2006-10-31 - Google Acquires Jotspot Inc
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/spot-on.html
- Wiki Technology for Collaborative Websites - 2006-08-15 - Google Acquires Neven Vision
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/better-way-to-organize-photos.html
- Automatic Information Extraction from Photos - 2006-04-09 - Google Acquires Orion
- Referential Search Engine - 2006-03-14 - Google Acquires @Last Software
- SketchUp 3D Modeling - 2006-03-09 - Google Acquires Upstartle (Writely)
- Web Based Collaborative Document Editor (Online Word Processing) - 2006-02-14 - Google Acquires Measure Map
- Web Analytics for Blogs
2005 Google Acquisitions
- 2005-12-20 - Google Acquires 5.0% Stake in AOL
- 2005-11-17 - Google Acquires Akwan Information Technologies
- Latin American Operations Center (Brazil, Mexico, Latin America) - 2005-11-00 - Google Acquires Skia
- Graphics Software Engineering - 2005-09-15 - Google Acquires Transformic Inc
- Search Engines for the Deep Web - 2005-08-17 - Google Acquires Android
- Software for Mobile Phones (Operating Systems for Cell Phones?) - 2005-07-07 - Google Acquires Current Communications Group
- Broadband Internet (BPL - Broadband over Power Line) - 2005-07-00 - Google Acquires Reqwireless Inc
- Java ME Browser - 2005-05-12 - Google Acquires Dodgeball
- Mobile Social Networking - 2005-03-28 - Google Acquires Urchin Software
- Web Analytics Software - 2005-01-00 - Google Acquires 2Web Technologies
- Google Spreadsheets
2004 Google Acquisitions
- 2004-12-00 - Google Acquires ZipDash
- Maps and Traffic for Mobile Devices - 2004-10-00 - Google Acquires Where 2 Technologies
- Digital Mapping (Google Maps) - 2004-10-27 - Google Acquires Keyhole Corp
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/keyhole.html
- Digital Mapping (Google Earth) - 2004-07-13 - Google Acquires Picasa
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/picasa.html
- Digital Photo Management - 2004-06-23 - Google Acquires 2.6% Stake in Baidu.com
2006-06-24 - Google Sells 2.6% Stake in Baidu.com
- Chinese Language Search Engine - 2004-05-10 - Google Acquires Ignite Logic
- Web Templates for Law Firms and Small Businesses
2003 Google Acquisitions
- 2003-10-07 - Google Acquires Genius Labs
- Blogging - 2003-09-30 - Google Acquires Kaltix Corp
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/kaltix.html
- Personalized and Context Sensitive Search Engine Technology - 2003-04-23 - Google Acquires Applied Semantics
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/applied.html
- Advertising Technology - 2003-04-00 - Google Acquires Neotonic Software
- Technology for Email Customer Support (CRM) - 2003-02-00 - Google Acquires Pyra Labs
- Blogger
2001 Google Acquisitions
- 2001-09-20 - Google Acquires Technology Assets of Outride Inc
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/outride.html
- Online Information Retrieval Technologies - 2001-02-12 - Google Acquires Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from Deja.com
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html
- Google Groups