4 ms·
What Google Looks For in Potential Acquisitions
- Tichy 18y agoI suspect the one major thing Google is looking for in acquisitions is "will this product help me to collect more data". Off the top of my head I can't think of a Google acquisition without that property very high on the list of perks.
- terpua 18y agoOne can make an argument that buying Zenter and Writely didn't have this property. Unless, they are doing evil and scanning said docs.
- Tichy 18y agoIf they are scanning emails, why wouldn't they scan docs? I think they would only consider it evil to publish the results of their analysis, internal use is probably fine. With Zenter and Writely they also learn about business relations between people.
- terpua 18y agoBy that definition, you can say all web apps have that property.