Google has a reputation as an innovative company, but in fact it owes a lot of its success to acquisitions.
Google basically bought AdSense, the paid search platform that made it a financial powerhouse, from Applied Semantics in 2003.
In addition, three of the four non-search businesses that Google has identified as its future -- YouTube, Android, and display advertising -- were acquired and run more or less independently today. The fourth -- enterprise apps -- was helped greatly by the acquisition of Postini.
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Author: Matt Rosoff
