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well , on etherpad website, it is said that it is being bought by google and that there is a transition plan

google has google docs , wave... y did they have to buy etherpad and are they gonna buy everything eventually ?

I am just making a list of small startup that google imitated or bought :

bought :
- feed burner
- etherpad

imitated
- yamli


plz help me build up the list, your comments on the topic are welcomed
imitated
- yamli
-actually i like Google's transliteration app more than Yamli and Maren combined :D
Google's app actually learns how the user types because of course each user has his own way, so it doesn't make a stupid mistake twice like the others which makes it error free after some time of training the A.I. of the program , pretty neat .

-they bought Etherpad to integrate it with WAVE (read that somewhere)

adding to the list :
Google Has Bought Picasa, Orkut, You Tube, Blogger, @Last Software makers of SketchUp
Gaaah... google is buying all the good things!
Hate to break it to you, Google rarely innovates.