Google Acquisitions in last one-year period

Google is the King of search engine and Online advertising market. I heard so many news of Google acquisitions in past few months. All the Google deals are major and most are related to online advertising market.

Buying some companies Google is aiming to compete with Microsoft products like Microsoft Office and tools. You can find the Google's corporate acquisition list here.

Some of the major acquisitions are:

Feedburner
Green Border Technologies
Marratech AB’s Video Conferencing Software
Tonic Systems
Doubleclick
Gapminder’s Trendalyzer Software
Adscape Media
Jotspot, Inc.
YouTube, Inc

These are some of the deals that recently took place and no doubt Google will keep the same graph in future also.

So after few years there will be no competitor for Google in online advertising. Right? This is what I think!

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Google is Testing New search page layout!

Anything google do is certainly now becomings a big news. Google is now testing new search result page layout. You might have observed this in some recent searches. Did you?


In this new lookout they have introduced new search features at left side panel like Image, video, blog, news, products, books, groups and direct links to these searches.

The look is cool but seeing a lot whitespace on left panel. Will they continue this look or change to old one? don't know but certainly they will continue to have new evolution of look and functionality in future. Ya they might do some thing worse than current, but they have to keep on changing, like changing day to day market. right?

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