Google Acquisitions and Investments (Graphic).

A subway map of Google's Acquisitions.

It was interesting for me, as I studied this article that I found through Digg. It was about Google’s Acquisitions over the years. We hear about them all the time, it isn’t anything new, but I guess what shocked me is how many of them that we haven’t heard about. And on top of that, how many of the technologies that Google has, have come directly through these acquisitions. I always assumed that Google was actually developing these technologies (silly me). This makes Google more of a holding company than anything else.

On top of that, when you look at the history of Google’s hiring and they have been known to sort of “buy out” the best in the industry. Everyone has heard about their wonderful accommodations and the benefits that their employees get, but does anyone ask why?

I have been increasingly more surprised lately at how easy it has become to get on the web. I don’t think a lot of people truly realize how simple it can be  now, and how it really doesn’t take a “coding genius” to do so. I know that in the past, in the early years of web development it took someone who had either invested a lot of time to learn to write HTML code, or someone who could invest a lot of money in paying someone who had already done so, in order to get presence on the web.

Now, I am actually thrilled at how many options are available out there to get yourself online with absolutely NO knowledge of web coding. I have been working to launch a web site lately (which you will all get to see very soon), and I honestly do not know a thing about web codes. However, with that handicap, I have still been able to really put together a site that could fool many people into thinking I am some sort of a web genius. It looks really beautiful, and is very functional, and ironically it took 10x more coding in order to get this blog up and running, then it did to create my site.