El imperio Google

Google es un motor de bùsqueda pero no es solo eso. Hoy en dìa es un enorme imperio informàtico-publicitario-multimedial que va desde la compra de empresas productoras de software hasta la adquisiciòn de empresas que podrìan representar una verdadera y propria competencia hacia su principal producto publicitario: AdSense. Me refiero especìficamente a la ùltima compra "importante" de Google en este ramo: DoubleClick, importante referente de la publicidad online, sin descuidar la telefonìa celular, los feeds rss (FeedBurner) o el acceso a internet a travès de la banda ancha.

Es verdaderamente impresionante la lista de competidores de AdSense que ha absorbido Google. Basta darle una ojeada este elenco de Wikipedia.

Esta lista contempla solamente las empresas adquiridas por Google a lo cual habrìa que agregarle todos los productos desarrollados directamente por la compañìa.

Recordemos que Google fue fundada el 7 de septiembre de 1998 por Larry Page, con experiencia en diseño web y el título de Ingeniero Eléctrico, y Sergey Brin, un experto en tratamiento de datos y Licenciado en Informática y Ciencias Matemáticas (dos estudiantes de doctorado en Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Stanford).

Acquisitions

Number	Acquisition date	Company	Business	Country	Value (USD)
1	02001-02-12 February 12, 2001	Deja	Usenet	USA
2	02001-09-20 September 20, 2001	Outride	Web search engine	USA
3	02003-02 February 2003	Pyra Labs	Weblog software	USA
4	02003-04 April 2003	Neotonic Software	Customer relationship management	USA
5	02003-04 April 2003	Applied Semantics	Online advertising	USA	$102,000,000&0000000102000000.000000
6	02003-09-30 September 30, 2003	Kaltix	Web search engine	USA
7	02003-10 October 2003	Sprinks	Online advertising	USA
8	02003-10 October 2003	Genius Labs	Blogging	USA
9	02004-05-10 May 10, 2004	Ignite Logic	HTML editor	USA
10	02004-06-23 June 23, 2004	BaiduA	Chinese languagesearch engine	CHN	$5,000,000&0000000005000000.000000
11	02004-07-13 July 13, 2004	Picasa	Image organizer	USA
12	02004-09 September 2004	ZipDash	Traffic analysis	USA
13	02004-10 October 2004	Where2	Map analysis	AUS
14	02004-10-27 October 27, 2004	Keyhole, Inc	Map analysis	USA
15	02005-03-28 March 28, 2005	Urchin Software Corporation	Web analytics	USA
16	02005-05-12 May 12, 2005	Dodgeball	Social networking service	USA
17	02005-07 July 2005	Reqwireless	Mobile browser	CAN
18	02005-07-07 July 7, 2005	Current Communications Group	Broadband internet access	USA	$100,000,000&0000000100000000.000000
19	02005-08-17 August 17, 2005	Android	Mobile software	USA
20	02005-11 November 2005	Skia	Graphics software	USA
21	02005-11-17 November 17, 2005	Akwan Information Technologies	Search Engines	BRA
22	02005-12-20 December 20, 2005	AOLB	Broadband internet access	USA	$1,000,000,000&0000001000000000.000000
23	02005-12-27 December 27, 2005	Phatbits	Widget engine	USA
24	02005-12-31 December 31, 2005	allPAY GmbH	Mobile software	GER
25	02005-12-31 December 31, 2005	bruNET GmbH	Mobile software	GER
26	02006-01-17 January 17, 2006	dMarc Broadcasting	Advertising	USA	$102,000,000&0000000102000000.000000
27	02006-02-14 February 14, 2006	Measure Map	Weblog software	USA
28	02006-03-09 March 9, 2006	Upstartle	Word processor	USA
29	02006-03-14 March 14, 2006	@Last Software	3D modeling software	USA
30	02006-04-09 April 9, 2006	Orion	Web search engine	AUS
31	02006-06-01 June 1, 2006	2Web Technologies	Online spreadsheets	USA
32	02006-08-15 August 15, 2006	Neven Vision	Computer vision	USA
33	02006-10-09 October 9, 2006	YouTube	Video sharing	USA	$1,650,000,000&0000001650000000.000000
34	02006-10-31 October 31, 2006	JotSpot	Web application	USA
35	02006-12-18 December 18, 2006	Endoxon	Mapping	CHE	$28,000,000&0000000028000000.000000
36	02007-01-04 January 4, 2007	XunleiC	File sharing	CHN	$5,000,000&0000000005000000.000000
37	02007-02-16 February 16, 2007	Adscape	In-game advertising	USA	$23,000,000&0000000023000000.000000
38	02007-03-16 March 16, 2007	Trendalyzer	Statistical software	SWE
39	02007-04-17 April 17, 2007	Tonic Systems	Presentation program	USA
40	02007-04-19 April 19, 2007	Marratech	Videoconferencing	SWE
41	02007-04-13 April 13, 2007	DoubleClick	Online advertising	USA	$3,100,000,000&0000003100000000.000000
42	02007-05-11 May 11, 2007	GreenBorder	Computer security	USA
43	02007-06-01 June 1, 2007	Panoramio	Photo sharing	ESP
44	02007-06-03 June 3, 2007	FeedBurner	Web feed	USA	$100,000,000&0000000100000000.000000
45	02007-06-05 June 5, 2007	PeakStream	Parallel processing	USA
46	02007-06-19 June 19, 2007	Zenter	Presentation program	USA
47	02007-07-02 July 2, 2007	GrandCentral	Voice over Internet Protocol	USA	$45,000,000&0000000045000000.000000
48	02007-07-20 July 20, 2007	Image America	Aerial photography	USA
49	02007-07-09 July 9, 2007	Postini	Communications security	USA	$625,000,000&0000000625000000.000000
50	02007-09-27 September 27, 2007	Zingku	Social network service	USA
51	02007-10-09 October 9, 2007	Jaiku	Micro-blogging	FIN
52	02008-07-30 July 30, 2008	Omnisio	Online video	USA	$15,000,000&0000000015000000.000000
53	02008-09-12 September 12, 2008	TNC (Tatter and Company)	Weblog software	KOR