The relentless, daily stream of Google news tends to hide one important fact about the company: They've been buying a lot of smaller companies, in their ever-evolving quest to dominate the online ad market and shore up their defenses against disruptive innovations or nagging patent lawsuits.
Here's an infographic illustrating that, created by Antonio Lupetti, the founder of Italian tech site Woorkup:
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Author:Cliff Kuang
