Partnerships+&+Take+Overs

Google then took steps to tightened its strangle hold on the corporate world. Since 2001, Google has acquired several small companies. In 2004, Google acquired Keyhole Inc., which was developing "Earth Viewer" which was renamed in 2005 to Google Earth. Google also bought Youtube.com for $1.65 billion in stock. Google formed partnerships with other companies and government agencies to improve production and services, usually in fields that aren't usually associated with Google. Such as building offices and work on research projects for NASA Ames Research Center, share and distribute each other's technologies with Sun Microsystems, and a partnership with AOL to enhance each other's video searches. Google also invested in .mobi for mobile devices. In September 2007, Google launched, "Adsense for Mobile", which provides mobile text ads, and acquired the mobile social networking site, to provide people with Mobile access to Google. In 2006, Google accepted a $900million to to provide search and advertising on the popular social networking site, Myspace. Google has developed a partnership with Geoeye to launch a satellite providing Google with high-resolution imagery for GoogleEarth. Google announced last year that it was hosting an archive of LifeMagazine's photographs. Some of the images in the archive were never even published in the magazine. In 2007, Google acquired Postini, and continued to sell their technology as Google Security Services.