Google帝國正在以神奇的速度擴張著，William Slawski 采編了一部Google收購其他公司的完整歷史，有些收購你可能從來沒聽說過。看看Google是怎樣成為今天的Google的。

http://solidot.org/article.php/20051227233059691

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Google Acquisitions

posted @ 1:11 am in [ Search Engines and Directories ] by William

Slawski

With all of the recent acquisitions by Yahoo! and Google, I decided to take a closer look at some of the companies that Google has purchased. I’m glad I did. I came across a couple of papers I hadn’t seen before, and learned a little more about some of Google’s employees that I didn’t know.

Android

Android (August 2005), software for mobile telephones
Founded by Andy Rubin, accompanied by Andy McFadden, Richard Miner, and Chris White.

Akwan Information Technologies

Akwan Information Technologies (July 2005)
Google Press Release: Google Continues International Expansion, Opens Offices in Latin America

The office in Sao Paulo, Brazil follows the acquisition of Brazil’s Akwan Information Technologies Inc. in July of this year. Akwan has become Google’s R&D centre in Brazil.

An example of the type of research being conducted by the people at Akwan: Distributed Processing of Conjunctive Queries (pdf)

Dodgeball

Dodgeball (May 2005), social-networking software for mobile devices

Founders Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert, see: Google Buys Social Networking Firm and The Future of Wireless

Urchin Software

Urchin Software (March 2005), Web Analytics software
Google Press Release: Google Agrees To Acquire Urchin

Urchin is a web site analytics solution used by web site owners and marketers to better understand their users’ experiences, optimize content and track marketing performance.

Patent Applications:

System and method for tracking unique visitors to a website

Abstract:

A system and method for analyzing traffic to a website is provided that is based on log files and that uses both server-side and client-side information channeled through one source to create a more complete picture of activity to a website. In one preferred embodiment, a sensor code is embedded in a requested web page, and sends information back to the web server where the website resides. This additional information is logged along with normal requests.

System and method for monitoring and analyzing internet traffic

Abstract:

A system and method for monitoring and analyzing Internet traffic is provided that is efficient, completely automated, and fast enough to handle the busiest websites on the Internet, processing data many times faster than existing systems. The system and method of the present invention processes data by reading log files produced by web servers, or by interfacing with the web server in real time, processing the data as it occurs. The system and method of the present invention can be applied to one website or thousands of websites, whether they reside on one server or multiple servers. The multi-sit