Google Acquires FeedBurner

[Richie]

Adding more flare

6/01/2007 11:05:00 AM

Posted by Susan Wojcicki, VP, Product Management

As you know, we're constantly looking for ways to identify and offer new tools for content creators and website publishers. Likewise, we constantly aim to give AdWords advertisers broader distribution to an even wider audience of users. For these reasons, we're very pleased to tell you that we've just acquired FeedBurner.

For those of you who aren't bloggers, podcasters, or feed creators, Chicago-based FeedBurner is a leading provider of feed distribution and management tools. A web feed is a way for online publishers to syndicate their content and deliver it straight to readers. Each day, FeedBurner delivers feeds to millions of users around the world and offers unique and useful tools for publishers to analyze, optimize, and monetize their content. Further, FeedBurner offers a feed advertising platform for advertisers to reach engaged feed readers through targeted in-feed ads and innovative techniques like RSS feed-driven ads.

We're excited to continue offering the exceptional tools of FeedBurner to content creators throughout the world, and our teams will work together to improve the experiences of feed users, advertisers, and publishers. You can sign up for FeedBurner's services and take advantage of their feed tools and features immediately.


Official Google Blog: Adding more flare
Burning Questions • It's True-gle!

[temi]

Nice info Richie, not sure I like Google just buying up everything

[Richie]

I hope G will buy some of my sites one day.

[temi]

Its not imposible, just keep plugging away and distinguish yourself and who knows

[Richie]

Thanks for the encouragement,will keep working hard.

[gkd_uk]

Imagine, you receive an email from Google stating that they would like to purchase one of your sites for £10 million.

What would your first reaction be?

[Richie]

It must be a joke.

[fimc2007]

it will be really nice if google can do this