Google acquires analytics firm Urchin

March 30, 2005

Google is to acquire Urchin Software Corp., a San Diego-based Web analytical firm.

Urchin is a website analytics solution used by site owners and marketers to better understand their users' experiences, optimize content and track marketing performance.

Urchin tools are available as a hosted service, a software product and through large web hosting providers. These products are used by thousands of popular sites on the Internet.

Google plans to make these tools available to web site owners and marketers to better enable them to increase their advertising return on investment and make their web sites more effective.

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"We want to provide web site owners and marketers with the information they need to optimize their users' experience and generate a higher return-on-investment from their advertising spending," said Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president of product management, Google.

"This technology will be a valuable addition to Google's suite of advertising and publishing products."

The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions. Google anticipates that the acquisition will close before the end of April.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Source: Google

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