Talk:List of acquisitions by Google
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FYI, MSNBC links to this article, calling it "every worthwhile thing on the Internet" Jason McHuff (talk) 22:05, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
This page has many capitilization errors - could someone please fix them? Kungming2 01:30, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Merge this document into Google (main article) - Adil
- Sounds like a good idea. Also sounds like a pain to do. Dstanfor 20:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] 2002?
Nothing happened in 2002? --Jambalaya 20:32, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] iRows
IRows was not an acquisition: John Vandenberg 06:14, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- Removed your reference John as the article in question is full of Viagra links. --Jdevalk 23:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Fwiw here's an extract from the relevant blog post:
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As the title says, we have decided to join Google.
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We are really excited about this transition. When we started iRows, we wanted to do something that would make the web a better place, provide people with better tools, something that is both useful and fun (most people may not think spreadsheets are fun, we do).
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We launched iRows in January, and will shut it down on 31-Dec-2006. This has been a very busy year for us. We would like to thank all of our users who have been with us throughout the year, sent us ideas, suggestions, bug reports, or just kept using our product.
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Being at Google will allow us to continue doing what we love to do best but on a much larger scale. There is a lot of exciting work at Google waiting for us.
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We no longer accept new registrations. If you have created spreadsheets on iRows, you will need to move your spreadsheets to Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Below you can find instructions how to move your data.
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Thanks again,
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Itai and Yoah
- --John Seward 07:20, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
- This has been reported two ways. Some news sources report a "purchase" while others report hiring the founders. "Google Buys Israel Start-up iRows" "Google draws in iRows" "Google swallows another app maker" Lemon Lover 22:50, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
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- The reports that are saying "purchase" are all wording it their statements using the future or present tense; 'Google is planning to buy' and 'Google is buying spreadsheet maker iRows'. I think we should wait for a bit longer for a more conclusive source.
- I do think that iRows belongs on this list, but it needs to be added in such a way that doesnt mislead the reader. John Vandenberg 23:59, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DoubleClick
According to http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2007-04-14T014524Z_01_N13256678_RTRIDST_0_DOUBLECLICK-GOOGLE-UPDATE-3.XML&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=InvArt-C1-ArticlePage1 Google did not acquire it yet. It says " The all-cash deal, coming just six months after Google paid $1.65 billion for video-sharing site YouTube, is due to close by year-end, once it has the necessary regulatory approvals." Behun 03:08, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- I've removed DoubleClick from the article. Thanks. Martin Porcheron need help? just ask! 19:28, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
- Comment. I almost added doubleclick again, but thought that it can't be that it was missed and checked the talk page first. I figured that it must have something to do with the fact that the acquisition is not a done deal yet. However, I believe others will also think that it is missing. We might want to add a section in the article with acquisitions in progress, but not 100% completed yet. I guess there will be more to come in the near future. What do you think? --roy<sac> Talk! .oOo. 23:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
- Agree I agree with you roy. People will be looking for that, so it should be mentioned as a possible deal. LinguistAtLarge 22:40, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
- I've added this section for the unclosed deals and i've added the DoubleClick deal to the list. Martin Porcheron need help? just ask! 16:10, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
- See, next acquisition confirmed but not yet closed. Feedburner.com hehe. Good that we have the new section. --roy<sac> Talk! .oOo. 21:42, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] source for Grand Central dollar figure
Where is this $45 million figure coming from? As I understand it, the terms of the deal were undisclosed and the linked source doesn't cite a dollar number. Bobbyi 23:46, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Is Tusli acquisition real?
The reference was empty and I couldn't find anything on a google search about it. I have removed the suspect reference and added 'citation needed'. Should entry be removed altogether?.PeterIto (talk) 14:05, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Audit and citation cleanup
I have updated to format used for citations for the last few entries. Is it appropriate to propagate this through the article? Would it also be useful to audit the page and ensure that all the facts are verified by the provided references (including price paid when a claim is made - I see someone questioning the Grand Central valuationPeterIto (talk) 14:05, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
OK, I have now been through the article updating all the citations to the current format and have spotted and corrected various poor references, both coding mistakes and references to URLs will little content where better ones were available. I haven't yet been through to ensure that every reference confirms every presented fact. PeterIto (talk) 20:55, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Baidu
Um... someone just put Baidu was aquired by google... wtf? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mercury888 (talk • contribs) 14:17, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
