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Google Acquisitions by Year, 2001-2007
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Google has just acquired yet another company, telephony service GrandCentral, leading me to the conclusion that they’re on an acquisition spree. The hastily-made graph above is an attempt to represent that - although it’s extremely hard to get good data on Google acquisitions, it’s still a startling reminder that Google has bought more companies and services in the first six months of this year than in the whole of 2006.

Below, I’ve embedded a table of all the Google acquisitions from 2001-2007 (acquisitions, not investments). It’s essentially Wikipedia’s data on Google acquisitions, with a couple of additions from Stan Schroeder’s big list. Considering that even Wikipedia has missed out a couple, you can see how hard it is to get good data here. But the point remains: Google is on an acquisition spree like at no other time in its history.

Update: We’re told that Google may actually be doing more than 1......

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