Deja's Usenet archive is the first acquisition made by Google in 2001 and then onwards it has acquired another 40 companies. With 41 acquisitions in 7 years Google has grown very rapidly. Today Google has almost every single application which a common Internet user looks for. Google growth is amazing!! The following graph shows the number of companies/products acquired by Google in each year
Here is the list of companies/products acquired by Google
| Year | Software or Company | Google Area of Interest |
| 2001 | Deja's Usenet archive | Google Groups |
| 2001 | Outride, Inc | Spin-off from Xerox PARC |
| 2003 | Pyra Labs | Blogging |
| 2003 | Neotonic Software | Customer Relationship Management |
| 2003 | Applied Semantics | Advertising |
| 2003 | Kaltix | Search engine |
| 2004 | Ignite Logic | Web site creation |
| 2004 | Picasa | Photo management |
| 2004 | Keyhole, Inc | Google Earth |
| 2004 | Where2 | Google Maps |
| 2004 | ZipDash | Google Ride Finder |
| 2005 | 2Web Technologies | Online spreadsheets |
| 2005 | Phatbits | Widgets engine |
| 2005 | Urchin Software Corporation | Google Analytics |
| 2005 | Dodgeball | Social networking |
| 2005 | Reqwireless | Web browser and Mobile email |
| 2005 | Current Communications Group | Broadband internet |
| 2005 | Android | Software for Handheld devices |
| 2005 | Skia | Graphics software |
| 2005 | Akwan Information Technologies | Latin American internet operations |
| 2006 | dMarc Broadcasting | Radio advertising software and platform |
| 2006 | Measure Map | Blog analysis |
| 2006 | Upstartle | Writely, online word processing |
| 2006 | @Last Software | SketchUp, 3-D modeling |
| 2006 | Orion | Advanced search method |
| 2006 | Neven Vision | Computer vision |
| 2006 | JotSpot | Website applications |
| 2006 | YouTube | Video sharing |
| 2006 | Endoxon | Mapping solutions |
| 2007 | Xunlei | Network, file-sharing |
| 2007 | Adscape | Video game advertising |
| 2007 | Trendalyzer | Software |
| 2007 | Tonic Systems | Presentation software |
| 2007 | Marratech video conferencing software | Video conferencing |
| 2007 | GreenBorder Technologies | Desktop enterprise security |
| 2007 | Panoramio | Geospatial Photo-sharing Service |
| 2007 | FeedBurner | Online RSS Feeds |
| 2007 | PeakStream | Parallel Processing |
| 2007 | DoubleClick | Online Advertising Network |
| 2007 | Zenter | Presentations Software |
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