List of acquisitions by Google - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

is a computer software

Computer software

Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....

and a web search engine

Web search engine

A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented in a list of results often referred to as SERPS, or "search engine results pages". The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other...

company. Each acquisition listed is for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified. The acquisition

Takeover

In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company by another . In the UK, the term refers to the acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.- Friendly takeovers :Before a bidder makes an offer for another...

date listed is the date of the agreement between Google and the acquisition subject. The value of each acquisition is listed in US dollars

United States dollar

The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....

because Google is headquartered in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. If the value of an acquisition is unlisted, then it is undisclosed. If the Google service that is derived from the acquired company is known, then it is also listed here.

Google has acquired over 100 companies with its largest acquisition being the purchase of Motorola Mobility

Motorola Mobility

Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. , formerly the Mobile Devices division of Motorola Inc. until January 2011, is a communications corporation headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Motorola's networks division pioneered the flip phone with the StarTAC in the mid-1990s...

, a mobile device manufacturing company, for USD $12.5 billion. Most of the firms acquired by Google are based in the United States, and in turn, most of these are based in or around the San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...

Acquisitions

Number	Company	Business	Country	Used as, integrated with
1	Deja Google Groups Google Groups is a service from Google Inc. that supports discussion groups, including many Usenet newsgroups, based on common interests. The service was started in 1995 as Deja News, and was transitioned to Google Groups after a February 2001 buyout....	Usenet Usenet Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...	United States	Google Groups Google Groups Google Groups is a service from Google Inc. that supports discussion groups, including many Usenet newsgroups, based on common interests. The service was started in 1995 as Deja News, and was transitioned to Google Groups after a February 2001 buyout....
2	Outride IGoogle iGoogle , a service of Google, is a customizable Ajax-based startpage or personal web portal . Google originally launched the service in May 2005...	Web search engine Web search engine A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented in a list of results often referred to as SERPS, or "search engine results pages". The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other...	United States	Google Personalized Search Google Personalized Search Google Personalized Search is a feature of Google Search and provided by Google. When a user is logged into a Google Account, all of their searches on Google Search are recorded into Google Web History... (iGoogle IGoogle iGoogle , a service of Google, is a customizable Ajax-based startpage or personal web portal . Google originally launched the service in May 2005... )
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| Pyra Labs

Pyra Labs

Pyra Labs is the company that coined the word Blog, creating the service Blogger.The co-founders were Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, and the company's first product, also named 'Pyra', was a web application which would combine a project manager, contact manager, and to-do list...

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| Blogger

Blogger (service)

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish...

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| Neotonic Software

Neotonic Software

Neotonic Software was a San Francisco based company that produced technology for email customer support, founded by David Jeske and Brandon Long in 2001. Google acquired the company in April 2003 , bringing its Trakken CRM product in-house where it was still in use as recently as March 2009 .The...

| Customer relationship management

Customer relationship management

Customer relationship management is a widely implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing,...

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| Google Groups

Google Groups

Google Groups is a service from Google Inc. that supports discussion groups, including many Usenet newsgroups, based on common interests. The service was started in 1995 as Deja News, and was transitioned to Google Groups after a February 2001 buyout....

, Gmail

Gmail

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well via POP3 or IMAP protocols. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though...

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| Applied Semantics

Applied Semantics

Applied Semantics is the study and application of semantics which have many uses, e.g. advertising, text analysis, web traffic of search engines, web page rankings, and the indexation of words.Applied Semantics is also the name of a company....

| Online advertising

Online advertising

Online advertising is a form of promotion that uses the Internet and World Wide Web to deliver marketing messages to attract customers. Examples of online advertising include contextual ads on search engine results pages, banner ads, blogs, Rich Media Ads, Social network advertising, interstitial...

United States
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| AdSense

AdSense

Google AdSense which is a program run by Google Inc. allows publishers in the Google Network of content sites to automatically serve text, image, video, and rich media adverts that are targeted to site content and audience. These adverts are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google, and they...

, AdWords

AdWords

Google AdWords is Google's main advertising product and main source of revenue. Google's total advertising revenues were USD$28 billion in 2010. AdWords offers pay-per-click advertising, cost-per-thousand advertising, and site-targeted advertising for text, banner, and rich-media ads. The AdWords...

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| Kaltix

Kaltix

Kaltix Corp. was a web search engine that was formed by Stanford University in June 2003 in Palo Alto, California. It was established to personalise and contextualise web searches by designers Taher Haveliwala, Glen Jeh and Sepandar Kamvar...

| Web search engine

Web search engine

United States
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| iGoogle

IGoogle

iGoogle , a service of Google, is a customizable Ajax-based startpage or personal web portal . Google originally launched the service in May 2005...

Online advertising

United States
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| AdSense

AdSense

, AdWords

AdWords

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| Genius Labs

Blogger (service)

| Blogging

Blog

A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

United States
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| Blogger

Blogger (service)

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| Ignite Logic

Ignite Logic

Ignite Logic, Inc. was a company that was developing a web site creation application for small businesses. It was founded in January, 2003 by Dave Ferguson. In May 2004, before the company had publicly launched any of its products, it was acquired by Google for an undisclosed figure.- References :*...

| HTML editor

HTML editor

An HTML editor is a software application for creating web pages. Although the HTML markup of a web page can be written with any text editor, specialized HTML editors can offer convenience and added functionality. For example, many HTML editors work not only with HTML, but also with related...

United States
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| Google Sites

Google Sites

Google Sites is a structured wiki- and web page-creation tool offered by Google as part of the Google Apps Productivity suite.- History :Google Sites started out as JotSpot, the name and sole product of a software company that offered enterprise social software. It was targeted mainly at...

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| Picasa

Picasa

Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my...

| Image organizer

Image organizer

An image organizer or image management application is application software focused on organizing digital images. Image organizers represent one kind of desktop organizer software applications.- Common image organizers features :...

United States
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| Picasa

Picasa

, Blogger

Blogger (service)

Traffic

Traffic on roads may consist of pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using the public way for purposes of travel...

analysis

Analysis

Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle , though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent development.The word is...

United States
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| Google Maps

Google Maps

Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free , that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API...

Google Maps

| Map analysis

Map analysis

A map analysis is whereby a study is made regarding map types i.e.political maps, military maps, contour lines etc., and the unique physical qualities of a map i.e. scale, title, legend etc....

Australia
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| Google Maps

Google Maps

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| Keyhole, Inc

Keyhole, Inc

Keyhole, Inc., founded in 2001, was a pioneering software development company specializing in geospatial data visualization applications and was acquired by Google in 2004...

| Map analysis

Map analysis

A map analysis is whereby a study is made regarding map types i.e.political maps, military maps, contour lines etc., and the unique physical qualities of a map i.e. scale, title, legend etc....

United States
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| Google Maps

Google Maps

, Google Earth

Google Earth

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency funded company acquired by Google in 2004 . It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite...

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| Urchin Software Corporation

Urchin Software Corporation

Urchin Software Corporation was a web analytics company based in Southern California. In April 2005, the company was purchased by Google.-Corporate history:Urchin was founded by Paul Muret and Scott Crosby in December 1995 in San Diego, California...

| Web analytics

Web analytics

Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage....

United States
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| Google Analytics

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. The product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website...

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| Dodgeball

Google Latitude

Google Latitude is a location-aware mobile app developed by Google as a successor to their earlier SMS-based service Dodgeball. Latitude allows a mobile phone user to allow certain people to view their current location. Via their own Google Account, the user's cell phone location is mapped on...

| Social networking service
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| Google Latitude

Google Latitude

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| Reqwireless

Reqwireless

Reqwireless was a software company specializing in delivering HTML and rich email content to Java ME/MIDP-capable cellphones. Reqwireless was acquired by Google in July 2005.Reqwireless WebViewer is a Web browser for Java ME MIDP devices....

| Mobile browser
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Current Communications Group

CURRENT Group provides real time distribution grid visibility through intelligent sensing and analytics for Smart Grid projects with utilities worldwide...

| Broadband Internet access

Broadband Internet access

Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is a high data rate, low-latency connection to the Internet— typically contrasted with dial-up access using a 56 kbit/s modem or satellite Internet with inherently high latency....

United States
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| Internet backbone

Internet backbone

The Internet backbone refers to the principal data routes between large, strategically interconnected networks and core routers in the Internet...

Mobile application development

Mobile application development is the process by which application software is developed for small low-power handheld devices such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones...

Skia Graphics Engine

The Skia Graphics Engine is a compact open source graphics library written in C++. It was originally developed by Skia Inc., which was subsequently acquired by Google in 2005 , who then released the software as open source licensed under the Apache License 2.0 free software license.Now known as...

| Graphics software

Graphics software

In computer graphics, graphics software or image editing software is a program or collection of programs that enable a person to manipulate visual images on a computer....

United States
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| Android, Google Chrome

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or...

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| Akwan Information Technologies

Akwan Information Technologies

Akwan Information Technologies was a search engine company based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It was acquired by Google on July 20, 2005.-External links:*...

| Search Engines

Web search engine

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| Internet backbone

Internet backbone

The Internet backbone refers to the principal data routes between large, strategically interconnected networks and core routers in the Internet...

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| Phatbits

Google Desktop

Google Desktop is desktop search software made by Google for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. The program allows text searches of a user's e-mails, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and other "Google Gadgets"....

| Widget engine

Widget engine

In computer software, a widget engine is a software service available to users for running and displaying applets on a graphical user interface, such as that of the desktop.The widget model in widget engines is attractive because of ease of development...

United States
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| Google Desktop

Google Desktop

Mobile application development

Mobile application development

DMarc Broadcasting

dMarc Broadcasting is an advertising company started by Chad Steelberg & Ryan Steelberg. It was acquired by Google on January 17, 2006 for $102 million US dollars.-External links:*...

| Advertising

Advertising

Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...

United States
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| AdSense

AdSense

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| Measure Map

Google Analytics

| Weblog software
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United States
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| Google Analytics

Google Analytics

Word processor

A word processor is a computer application used for the production of any sort of printable material....

SketchUp

SketchUp is a 3D modeling program marketed by Google and designed for architectural, civil, and mechanical engineers as well as filmmakers, game developers,...

| 3D modeling software

3D computer graphics software

3D computer graphics software refers to programs used to create 3D computer-generated imagery. This article covers only some of the software used.-Uses:...

United States
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| Google Sketchup

SketchUp

SketchUp is a 3D modeling program marketed by Google and designed for architectural, civil, and mechanical engineers as well as filmmakers, game developers,...

Web search engine

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| Google Search

Google search

Google or Google Web Search is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. Google Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, receiving several hundred million queries each day through its various services....

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| 2Web Technologies

2Web Technologies

2Web Technologies was a New York City based software company which was acquired by Google in mid-2005 as the base technology behind the spreadsheets application in Google Docs. The original product created by 2Web Technologies, XL2Web, was further developed at Google to become the first launched...

| Online spreadsheets
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Picasa

| Computer vision

Computer vision

Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analysing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions...

(Face detection

Face detection

Face detection is a computer technology that determines the locations and sizes of human faces in arbitrary images. It detects facial features and ignores anything else, such as buildings, trees and bodies....

, Facial recognition system

Facial recognition system

A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source...

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| Picasa

Picasa

& Google Goggles

Google Goggles

Google Goggles is a downloadable image recognition application created by Google Inc. which can be currently found on the Mobile Apps page of Google Mobile. It is used for searches based on pictures taken by handheld devices...

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| YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

| Video sharing

Video hosting service

A video hosting service allows individuals to upload video clips to an Internet website. The video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view this video...

United States
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| YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

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| JotSpot

Google Sites

| Web application

Web application

A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...

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| Google Sites

Google Sites

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| Endoxon

Endoxon

Endoxon is a mapping company that was acquired by Google in December 2006. The company is based in Switzerland. Endoxon now provides the maps for European countries in Google Maps. It has created geo-mapping software since 1988, and currently has 75 employees...

| Map

Map

A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes....

ping
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Switzerland
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| Google Maps

Google Maps

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| Adscape

Adscape

Adscape is a San Francisco in-game advertising company that was acquired by Google in February 2007.Google purchased San Francisco-based Adscape, a company that specializes in in-game advertising for video games, on February 15, 2007 for US$23 million. Adscape was founded in 2002 by Dan Willis, a...

| In-game advertising

In-game advertising

In-game advertising refers to advertising in computer and video games. IGA differs from advergaming, which refers to a game specifically made to advertise a product.The IGA industry is large and growing...

United States
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| AdSense

AdSense

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| Trendalyzer

Trendalyzer

Trendalyzer is an information visualization software for animation of statistics that was initially developed by Hans Rosling's Gapminder Foundation in Sweden. In March 2007 it was acquired by Google Inc....

| Statistical software
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Sweden
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| Google Analytics

Google Analytics

Presentation program

A presentation program is a computer software package used to display information, normally in the form of a slide show...

Marratech

Marratech is a Swedish company that makes software for e-meetings .Marratech was founded in 1998, as a spin-off company from the at the Luleå University of Technology. Founders include Dr. Dick Schefström, Dr. Peter Parnes, Johnny Widén, Dr...

| Videoconferencing

Videoconferencing

Videoconferencing is the conduct of a videoconference by a set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously...

Sweden
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| Google Talk

Google Talk

Google Talk is a freeware voice over Internet protocol client application offered by Google Inc. The first beta version of the program was released on August 24, 2005...

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| DoubleClick

DoubleClick

DoubleClick is a subsidiary of Google that develops and provides Internet ad serving services. Its clients include agencies, marketers and publishers who serve customers like Microsoft, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Motorola, L'Oréal, Palm, Inc., Apple Inc., Visa USA, Nike, Carlsberg among others...

| Online advertising

Online advertising

United States
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| AdSense

AdSense

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| GreenBorder

GreenBorder

GreenBorder was a security software company that specialized in using virtualization to create safe zones for online activities for Internet users. GreenBorder let computer operators combine hardware and software to create "virtual" machines where tasks such as reading e-mail or exploring websites...

| Computer security

Computer security

Computer security is a branch of computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to...

United States
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| Google Chrome

Google Chrome

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| Panoramio

Panoramio

Panoramio is a geolocation-oriented photo sharing website. Accepted photos uploaded to the site can be accessed as a layer in Google Earth and Google Maps, with new photos being added at the end of every month. The site's goal is to allow Google Earth users to learn more about a given area by...

| Photo sharing

Photo sharing

Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others . This function is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images...

Spain
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| Panoramio

Panoramio

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| FeedBurner

FeedBurner

FeedBurner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner was founded by Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski, and Matt Shobe. Costolo, a University of Michigan graduate, became CEO of Twitter in 2010...

| Web feed

Web feed

A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator...

United States
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| FeedBurner

FeedBurner

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| PeakStream

PeakStream

PeakStream was a parallel processing software company located in Redwood Shores, California founded by Matthew Papakipos and Asher Waldfogel in April 2005 and backed by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins. PeakStream released a high-performance parallel processing library targeting ATI graphics...

| Parallel processing

Parallel processing

Parallel processing is the ability to carry out multiple operations or tasks simultaneously. The term is used in the contexts of both human cognition, particularly in the ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli, and in parallel computing by machines.-Parallel processing by...

United States
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| Server (computing)

Server (computing)

In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...

Presentation program

A presentation program is a computer software package used to display information, normally in the form of a slide show...

Google voice

Search by voice is a branded name for a technology to "search by voice on your [digital device]", such as a mobile phone or PC, i.e. have the device search for data upon entering information on what to search into the device by speaking....

| Voice over Internet Protocol
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United States
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| Google Voice

Google voice

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| ImageAmerica

ImageAmerica

ImageAmerica is an aerial photography company that was acquired by Google in July 2007. The company specialized in creating aerial photos with "accuracy, quick delivery and low cost". It previously sold its services primarily to city, county, state, and federal governments and to corporate customers...

| Aerial photography

Aerial photography

Aerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated position. The term usually refers to images in which the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. Cameras may be hand held or mounted, and photographs may be taken by a photographer, triggered remotely or...

United States
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| Google Maps

Google Maps

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| Postini

Postini

Postini is an e-mail and Web security and archiving service owned by Google since 2007. It provides cloud computing services for filtering e-mail spam and malware , offers optional e-mail archiving, and protects client networks from web-borne malware.-History:Postini was a startup company founded...

| Communications security

Communications security

Communications security is the discipline of preventing unauthorized interceptors from accessing telecommunications in an intelligible form, while still delivering content to the intended recipients. In the United States Department of Defense culture, it is often referred to by the abbreviation...

United States
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| Gmail

Gmail

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| Zingku

Zingku

Zingku is a mobile social network service that was acquired by Google in September 2007....

| Social networking service
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Jaiku

Jaiku is a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter. Jaiku was founded in February 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland and launched in July of that year...

| Microblogging

Microblogging

Microblogging is a broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregate file size...

Video hosting service

United States
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| YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

South Korea
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| Blogger

Blogger (service)

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| On2

On2 Technologies

On2 Technologies , formerly known as The Duck Corporation, was a small publicly-traded company , headquartered in Clifton Park, New York, that designs video codec technology. They created a series of video codecs called TrueMotion...

| Video compression
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United States
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| WebM

WebM

WebM is an audio-video format designed to provide a royalty-free, open video compression format for use with HTML5 video. The project's development is sponsored by Google....

& YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

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| reCAPTCHA

ReCAPTCHA

reCAPTCHA is a system originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University's main Pittsburgh campus. It uses CAPTCHA to help digitize the text of books while protecting websites from bots attempting to access restricted areas. On September 16, 2009, Google acquired reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is currently...

| Security

Security

Security is the degree of protection against danger, damage, loss, and crime. Security as a form of protection are structures and processes that provide or improve security as a condition. The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies in the OSSTMM 3 defines security as "a form of protection...

AdMob

AdMob is a mobile advertising company founded by Omar Hamoui. The name AdMob is a portmanteau for "advertising on mobile". It was incorporated in 2006 and is based in San Mateo, California. In November 2009 it was acquired by Google for $750 million. The acquisition was completed on May 27, 2010....

| Mobile advertising

Mobile advertising

Mobile advertising is a form of advertising via mobile phones or other mobile devices. It is a subset of mobile marketing.- Overview :...

United States
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| Gizmo5

Gizmo5

Gizmo5 was a Voice over Internet Protocol communications network and a proprietary freeware soft phone for that network. On November 12, 2009, Google announced that it had acquired Gizmo5...

| Voice over Internet Protocol
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United States
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| Google Talk

Google Talk

Google Talk is a freeware voice over Internet protocol client application offered by Google Inc. The first beta version of the program was released on August 24, 2005...

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| Teracent

Teracent

Teracent is an American start up company situated in San Mateo, California.Teracent was founded in 2006 by Vikas Jha, former vice president of Inktomi, a software company which was acquired by Yahoo.-Products and Technology:...

| Online advertising

Online advertising

United States
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| AdSense

AdSense

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| AppJet

AppJet

AppJet was a website that let users create web based applications in a client web browser, with no other client software. AppJet was founded by 3 MIT graduates, 2 of whom were engineers at Google before starting AppJet...

(EtherPad

EtherPad

Etherpad is a web-based collaborative real-time editor, allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time, with the ability to display each author's text in their own color...

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Aardvark (search engine)

Aardvark was a social search service that connected users live with friends or friends-of-friends who were able to answer their questions, also known as a knowledge market...

| Social search

Social search

Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search that takes into account the Social Graph of the person initiating the search query...

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| Aardvark

Aardvark (search engine)

Aardvark was a social search service that connected users live with friends or friends-of-friends who were able to answer their questions, also known as a knowledge market...

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Gmail

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Picnik

Picnik is an online photo editing service. It is headquartered in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. Currently it can import photos natively from Facebook, Myspace, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo Image search, Google Plus and also offers options to upload from a computer or to upload...

| Photo Editing

Image editing

Image editing encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they be digital photographs, traditional analog photographs, or illustrations. Traditional analog image editing is known as photo retouching, using tools such as an airbrush to modify photographs, or editing illustrations with any...

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| Picasa

Picasa

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of...

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Video hosting service

platform start-up

Startup company

A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets...

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YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

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PlinkArt

Plinkart is a mobile phone application designed to identify works of art, created by Mark Cummins and James Philbin. They were one of three winners of the Education/Reference category of the Google ADC2 . PlinkArt was acquired by Google in April 2010....

| Visual search engine

Visual Search Engine

A Visual Search Engine is a search engine designed to search for information on the World Wide Web through the input of an image or a search engine with a visual display of the search results. Information may consist of web pages, locations, other images and other types of documents...

Mobile start-up

Startup company

A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets...

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Google Goggles

Startup company

A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets...

Gadget

A gadget is a small technological object that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty. Gadgets are invariably considered to be more unusually or cleverly designed than normal technological objects at the time of their invention...

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BumpTop

In computing, BumpTop is a desktop environment that simulates the normal behavior and physical properties of a real world desk, and enhances it with automatic tools to organize its contents. It is aimed at stylus interaction, making it more suitable for tablet computers and handheld PCs. It was...

| Desktop environment

Desktop environment

In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface derived from the desktop metaphor that is seen on most modern personal computers. These GUIs help the user in easily accessing, configuring, and modifying many important and frequently accessed...

Travel

Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. 'Travel' can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.-Etymology:...

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Google

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| Invite Media

Invite Media

Invite Media is a display advertising and exchange bidding company that was acquired by DoubleClick, a subsidiary of Google Inc. on June 3, 2010 for $81 million...

| Advertising

Advertising

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| DoubleClick

DoubleClick

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ITA Software

ITA Software is a travel industry software company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was founded by computer scientists from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1996. On July 1, 2010 ITA agreed to be acquired by Google. On April 8th, 2011 the US Department of Justice approved the...

| Travel technology

Travel technology

Travel technology is a term used to describe applications of Information Technology , or Information and Communications Technology , in travel, tourism and hospitality industry...

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| Google Flights

Google Flights

Google Flights is an online flight booking service which facilitates the purchase of airline tickets through third party suppliers.-History:In April 2011 the Federal government of the United States approved Google's $700 million purchase of ITA Software...

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| Metaweb

Metaweb

Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a United States company based in San Francisco that developed Freebase, described as an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was founded by Danny Hillis in July, 2005, and operated in stealth mode until 2007. Metaweb was acquired by Google in...

| Semantic search

Semantic search

Semantic search seeks to improve search accuracy by understanding searcher intent and the contextual meaning of terms as they appear in the searchable dataspace, whether on the Web or within a closed system, to generate more relevant results. Author Seth Grimes lists "11 approaches that join...

Mobile Payment

Mobile financial services, also referred to as mobile money, mobile payment, mobile banking, mobile money transfer and mobile wallet generally refer to payment services operated under financial regulation and performed from or via a mobile device....

, NFC

Near Field Communication

Near field communication, or NFC, allows for simplified transactions, data exchange, and wireless connections between two devices in proximity to each other, usually by no more than a few centimeters. It is expected to become a widely used system for making payments by smartphone in the United States...

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| Google Web Toolkit

Google Web Toolkit

Google Web Toolkit is an open source set of tools that allows web developers to create and maintain complex JavaScript front-end applications in Java. Other than a few native libraries, everything is Java source that can be built on any supported platform with the included GWT Ant build files...

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| Slide.com

Slide.com

Slide, Inc., operator of the Slide.com website, is a Web 2.0 company founded by Max Levchin and based in San Francisco, California. Originally formed to make photo sharing software for social networking services such as MySpace, the company achieved its greatest success as the largest developer of...

| Social gaming

Social network game

A social network game is a type of online game that is played through social networks, and typically features multiplayer and asynchronous gameplay mechanics. Social network games are most often implemented as browser games, but can also be implemented on other platforms such as mobile devices...

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| Jambool

Jambool

Jambool was an ecommerce company. It operated Social Gold, a virtual goods monetization platform. Social Gold enables developers to create and manage their own white-labeled virtual currency, to provide an in-app payments experience to their users, and analytics to monitor their virtual economy...

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| Like.com

Like.com

Like.com is a price comparison service website that bills itself as a visual search engine for products.-History:The website was created by Riya, a company built to create a search engine used to search for similar faces among photos. The company found it difficult to monetize the service, however,...

| Visual Search Engine

Visual Search Engine

Social gaming

Social gaming commonly refers to playing games as a way of social interaction, as opposed to playing games in solitude, like some card games and the single-player mode of many video games...

Video hosting service

Israel
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| Google Maps

Google Maps

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|Google Calendar

Google Calendar

Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google. It became available on April 13, 2006, and exited the beta stage in July 2009...

Touch typing

Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. Specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. Touch typing typically involves placing the eight fingers in a horizontal row along the middle of the keyboard and having them...

Speech synthesis

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware...

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Google voice

, Google Translate

Google Translate

Google Translate is a free statistical machine translation service provided by Google Inc. to translate a section of text, document or webpage, into another language.The service was introduced in April 28, 2006 for the Arabic language...

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Digital rights management

Digital rights management is a class of access control technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale. DRM is any technology that inhibits uses of digital content that...

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| Google TV

Google TV

Google TV is a Smart TV platform from Google. It was announced on May 20, 2010, at Google’s Google I/O event and was co-developed by Google, Intel, Sony and Logitech...

E-book

An electronic book is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital...

Speaker recognition

Speaker recognition is the computing task of validating a user's claimed identity using characteristics extracted from their voices .There is a difference between speaker recognition and speech recognition . These two terms are frequently confused, as is voice recognition...

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Google voice

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| fflick

Fflick

fflick was a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films based on information collected on Twitter the microblogging and social media service.-History:...

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| YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

Security

BeatThatQuote.com

BeatThatQuote.com is a British price comparison site specialising in personal finance products.-History:BeatThatQuote.com was launched by John Paleomylites in February 2005 based in London's Kentish Town., by 2006 it was awarded the 'young company of the year' by the CBI/Real Business Growing...

| Price comparison service

Price comparison service

On the internet, a price comparison service allows individuals to see different lists of prices for specific products. Most price comparison services do not sell products themselves, but source prices from retailers from whom users can buy...

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YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development Group

The YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development Group, founded originally as Next New Networks is a web television company based in New York City, New York, that was launched in March 2007 by Fred Seibert, Herb Scannell, Emil Rensing, Timothy Shey and Jed Simmons with $8 million in funding from...

| Online video

Video hosting service

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YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

Digital video

Digital video is a type of digital recording system that works by using a digital rather than an analog video signal.The terms camera, video camera, and camcorder are used interchangeably in this article.- History :...

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YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

Service provider

A service provider is an entity that provides services to other entities. Usually, this refers to a business that provides subscription or web service to other businesses or individuals. Examples of these services include Internet access, Mobile phone operators, and web application hosting...

Mobile application development

Price comparison service

Social media

The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0,...

analytics

Analytics

Analytics is the application of computer technology, operational research, and statistics to solve problems in business and industry. Analytics is carried out within an information system: while, in the past, statistics and mathematics could be studied without computers and software, analytics has...

service
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Online advertising

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| DoubleClick

DoubleClick

, Invite Media

Invite Media

Invite Media is a display advertising and exchange bidding company that was acquired by DoubleClick, a subsidiary of Google Inc. on June 3, 2010 for $81 million...

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SageTV

SageTV Media Center was a proprietary, commercial DVR and HTPC software for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It requires that the host computer have a hardware based TV tuner card. The SageTV software has an integrated Electronic Programming Guide that is updated via the Internet...

| Media Center

Home theater PC

A Home Theater PC or Media Center appliance is a convergence device that combines some or all the capabilities of a personal computer with a software application that supports video, photo, music playback, and sometimes video recording functionality...

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| Google TV

Google TV

Google TV is a Smart TV platform from Google. It was announced on May 20, 2010, at Google’s Google I/O event and was co-developed by Google, Intel, Sony and Logitech...

Loyalty program

Loyalty programs are structured marketing efforts that reward, and therefore encourage, loyal buying behavior — behavior which is potentially beneficial to the firm....

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| Google Wallet

Google Wallet

Google Wallet is a mobile payment system developed by Google that allows its users to store credit cards, loyalty cards, and gift cards among other things, as well as redeeming sales promotions on their mobile phone...

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| Google+

Google+

Google+ is a social networking and identity service, operated by Google Inc.The service was launched on June 28, 2011, in an invite-only "field testing" phase. The following day, existing users were allowed to invite friends who were over 18 years of age to the service to create their own accounts....

Facial recognition system

A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source...

One deal a day

Deal of the day is a type of ecommerce in which a website offers a single product for sale for a period of 24 to 36 hours...

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| Google Offers

Google Offers

Google Offers is a deal-of-the-day website that will be localized to major geographic markets in the United States and abroad. Google confirmed the website in January 2011, after an attempted buyout by Google of established competitor Groupon for a reported sum of US$ 6 billion was turned down...

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| Motorola Mobility

Motorola Mobility

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Google TV

Google TV is a Smart TV platform from Google. It was announced on May 20, 2010, at Google’s Google I/O event and was co-developed by Google, Intel, Sony and Logitech...

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Google Offers

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Zagat Survey

Zagat Survey was established by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979 as a way to collect and correlate the ratings of restaurants by diners. For their first guide, covering New York City, the Zagats surveyed their friends. As of 2005, the Zagat Survey included 70 cities, with reviews based on the input of...

| Restaurant reviews
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One deal a day

Deal of the day is a type of ecommerce in which a website offers a single product for sale for a period of 24 to 36 hours...

service
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Germany
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Google Offers

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Google+

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| Apture

Apture

Apture is a service that allows publishers and bloggers to link and incorporate multimedia into a dynamic layer above their pages.Apture is currently being used by several large organizations and publishers including The Washington Post, The Economist, Scribd, and the World Wide Fund for Nature as...

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| Google Search

Google search

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| Google+

Google+

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