Google In Talks To Buy DoubleClick

Apr 2, 2007 at 8:29am ET by Barry Schwartz

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Google joins race to buy DoubleClick: report from MarketWatch reports that Google is now interested in buying DoubleClick, a provider of internet ad serving software. Now that Google is vying against Microsoft for DoubleClick, the estimates on the purchase price have jumped “beyond $2 billion.” Other potential buyers include Yahoo and AOL. More discussion covered over at Techmeme.com.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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