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   List of acquisitions by Google

   The majority of the companies acquired by Google are based in the United States, and in turn, a large percentage of these companies are based in or around the San Francisco Bay Area.
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   History of Google

   The vast majority of Google's 271 million shares remained under Google's control. ... In early 2006, Google acquired Upstartle, a company responsible for the online collaborative word processor, Writely.
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   Google

   The vast majority of the 271 million shares remained under the control of Google. ... In 2004, Google acquired a company called Keyhole, Inc. , which developed a product called Earth Viewer which was renamed in 2005 to Google Earth.
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   YouTube

   In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for US$1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13, 2006. ... The ten minute limit was introduced in March 2006, after YouTube found that the majority of videos exceeding this length were unauthorized uploads of television shows and films.
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   Google Book Search

   Some European politicians and intellectuals have criticized Google's effort on "language-imperialism" grounds, arguing that because the vast majority of books proposed to be scanned are in English, it will result in disproportionate representation of natural languages in the digital world.
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   British Empire

   In 1919 the frustrations caused by delays to Irish home rule led members of Sinn Féin, a pro-independence party that had won a majority of the Irish seats at Westminster in the 1918 British general election, to establish an Irish assembly in Dublin, at which Irish independence was declared. ... http://books.google.com/books?id=ennqNS1EOuMC
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   Xunlei

   On January 5, 2007, Google acquired a 4% stake for a reported $5 million in the company that developed Xunlei, with hopes of expanding Google's market base in China. Contrary to rumours earlier in the year, Google did not purchase a majority stake in the Chinese company.
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   Google Street View

   Also, many nearby metro areas were included, but they did not receive their own camera icons. ... ↑ Google Street View - Soon in 3D? at Educating Silicon
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   Google Summer of Code

   Also, a majority of the projects initiated by participants at the 2005 SoC stalled immediately afterward. ... ↑ Was Google's Summer of Code a Boon or Bust?
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    Yahoo!

    On January 28, 1999, Yahoo! acquired web hosting provider GeoCities. ... ↑ "Yahoo Ends Talks With Microsoft, Signs Search-Ad Deal with Google".

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