List of Companies Acquired by Google Inc.

Here is a list of companies acquired by Google Inc.

2008 Google Acquisitions

1. TNC (Service : Weblog software)
2. Omnisio (Service : Online video)
3. Begun (Service : Online advertising)

2007 Google Acquisitions

1. Jaiku (Service : Micro-blogging)
2. Zingku (Service : Social network service )
3. 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
4. 2007-07-02 - Google Acquires GrandCentral Communications
   http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/all-aboard.html
   - Services for Managing Voice Communications
5. 2007-06-19 - Google Acquires Zenter
   http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-sharing.html
   - Online Slide Presentations
6. 2007-06-05 - Google Acquires PeakStream Inc
   - Multiprocessor and GPU Software
7. 2007-06-01 - Google Acquires Feedburner http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/adding-more-flare.html
   - Feed Distribution and Management Tools
8. 2007-05-30 - Google Acquires Panoramio http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/pictures-worth-thousand-clicks.html
   - Community Photos Website (Works with Google Earth)
9. 2007-05-11 - Google Acquires Green Border Technologies
   - Secure Connections for Web Browsing and Email
10. 2007-04-19 - Google Acquires Marratech http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/collaborating-with-marratech.html
    - Video Conferencing Software
11. 2007-04-17 - Google Acquires Tonic Systems http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/were-expecting.html
    - Presentation Creation and Document Conversion Technology
12. 2007-04-13 - Google Acquires Doubleclick http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/next-step-in-google-advertising.html
    - Advertising Technology Platform
13. 2007-03-16 - Google Acquires Trendalyzer http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/world-in-motion.html
    - Presentation Software
14. 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
15. 2007-01-00 - Google Acquires Xunlei (Partial Acquisition)
    - File Sharing Website

2006 Google Acquisitions

1. 2006-01-17 - Google Acquires dMarc Broadcasting http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/dmarc.html
   - Digital Solutions for Radio Broadcasting Industry
2. 2006-12-00 - Google Acquires Endoxon
   - Geo Mapping Software
3. 2006-11-13 - Google Acquires YouTube Inc http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/youtube.html
   - Consumer Media Company (Watch and Share Videos)
4. 2006-10-31 - Google Acquires Jotspot Inc
   http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/spot-on.html
   - Wiki Technology for Collaborative Websites
5. 2006-08-15 - Google Acquires Neven Vision http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/better-way-to-organize-photos.html
   - Automatic Information Extraction from Photos
6. 2006-04-09 - Google Acquires Orion
   - Referential Search Engine
7. 2006-03-14 - Google Acquires @Last Software
   - SketchUp 3D Modeling
8. 2006-03-09 - Google Acquires Upstartle (Writely)
   - Web Based Collaborative Document Editor (Online Word Processing)
9. 2006-02-14 - Google Acquires Measure Map
   - Web Analytics for Blogs

2005 Google Acquisitions

1. 2005-12-20 - Google Acquires 5.0% Stake in AOL
2. 2005-11-17 - Google Acquires Akwan Information Technologies
   - Latin American Operations Center (Brazil, Mexico, Latin America)
3. 2005-11-00 - Google Acquires Skia
   - Graphics Software Engineering
4. 2005-09-15 - Google Acquires Transformic Inc
   - Search Engines for the Deep Web
5. 2005-08-17 - Google Acquires Android
   - Software for Mobile Phones (Operating Systems for Cell Phones?)
6. 2005-07-07 - Google Acquires Current Communications Group
   - Broadband Internet (BPL - Broadband over Power Line)
7. 2005-07-00 - Google Acquires Reqwireless Inc
   - Java ME Browser
8. 2005-05-12 - Google Acquires Dodgeball
   - Mobile Social Networking
9. 2005-03-28 - Google Acquires Urchin Software
   - Web Analytics Software
10. 2005-01-00 - Google Acquires 2Web Technologies
    - Google Spreadsheets

2004 Google Acquisitions

1. 2004-12-00 - Google Acquires ZipDash
   - Maps and Traffic for Mobile Devices
2. 2004-10-00 - Google Acquires Where 2 Technologies
   - Digital Mapping (Google Maps)
3. 2004-10-27 - Google Acquires Keyhole Corp http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/keyhole.html
   - Digital Mapping (Google Earth)
4. 2004-07-13 - Google Acquires Picasa http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/picasa.html
   - Digital Photo Management
5. 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
6. 2004-05-10 - Google Acquires Ignite Logic
   - Web Templates for Law Firms and Small Businesses

2003 Google Acquisitions

1. 2003-10-07 - Google Acquires Genius Labs
   - Blogging
2. 2003-09-30 - Google Acquires Kaltix Corp http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/kaltix.html
   - Personalized and Context Sensitive Search Engine Technology
3. 2003-04-23 - Google Acquires Applied Semantics http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/applied.html
   - Advertising Technology
4. 2003-04-00 - Google Acquires Neotonic Software
   - Technology for Email Customer Support (CRM)
5. 2003-02-00 - Google Acquires Pyra Labs
   - Blogger

2001 Google Acquisitions

1. 2001-09-20 - Google Acquires Technology Assets of Outride Inc http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/outride.html
   - Online Information Retrieval Technologies
2. 2001-02-12 - Google Acquires Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from Deja.com
   http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html
   - Google Groups

GAudi : Google Audio Indexing

Google Audio Indexing is a new technology from Google that allows users to better search and watch videos from various YouTube channels. It uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets the user jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken.

 Google Audio Indexing is also known as GAudi, is a widget for iGoogle, a beta product which indexes the audio of YouTube videos in the "politicians" channel.

Google's mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". As more video content is being created everyday, Google Audio Indexing tries to make it easier for people to find and consume spoken content from videos on the Web.

Google Audio Indexing is a showcase for speech technology. Political videos and election materials are a special case of broadcast news content, a domain that has received a lot of academic and industry attention and is known to perform well.

Google Audio Indexing uses speech technology to transform spoken words into text and leverages the Google indexing technology to return the best results to the user.

The returned videos are ranked based -- among other things -- on the spoken content, the metadata, the freshness.

GAudi is still in the experimental phase but it offers a glimpse as to what is to come for video search and the possibilities this brings for Video SEO. Speech-to-text offers video content publishers the opportunity to blow out video landing pages with relevant and keyword rich content. 

An interesting point in all the GAudio talks is that GOOG-411, Google’s directory assistance service, is the technology that made the Google Audio Indexing possible or a least better. Back in late 2007, when GOOG-411 launched, Google said that it would be using the acquired service to improve speech-to-text technology

Searching for a word in a video will bring up a whole list of search results with hits for that particular word, along with a text snippet from the video where the word was mentioned to give the searcher an idea about the context. Google even takes it a step further by highlighting at which points in the video the keyword was mentioned.

Google Audio Indexing searches only those videos uploaded on the You Tube political channels. If a video is on the YouTube political channels, it will be in the index. Candidates control the video content released to the public using Google Audio Indexing technology by controlling the content they upload to YouTube channels.

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