Google To Acquire BeatThatQuote.com

Money.co.uk reports that Google will be buying BeatThatQuote.com. Google and BeatThatQuote.com have not officially confirmed this as of yet.

BeatThatQuote.com is a price comparison websites for loans and financial products. The site offers comparison pricing on loans, mortgage rates, credit card rates, insurance products and more.

Google has been known to offer comparison ads for mortgage rates in the past, specifically in the U.K.

Although we do not have official confirmation of the acquisition, Ashley Fletcher, the Online Marketing Manager at Beat That Quote, confirmed the buy out on Twitter saying, “nope – its true and I’m over the moon: http://www.beatthatquote.com.”

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