Washington, D.C. – The American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement in response to reporting from the Wall Street Journal, which indicates the Department of Justice and a group of state attorneys general are likely to file antitrust lawsuits against Google: 

  “An antitrust case against Google is long overdue,” said Economic Liberties Executive Director Sarah Miller. “We hope that state attorneys general and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division address the long-standing monopoly power of Google, which has more than 90% of the mobile search market and, alongside Facebook, dominates digital advertising.”  

  Economic Liberties’ Sarah Miller, Matt Stoller, and Zephyr Teachout recently published “Addressing Facebook and Google’s Harms Through a Regulated Competition Approach,” a new paper that explains how Facebook and Google developed business models toxic to democracy, civil rights, and public health, and breaks down a series of solutions to rein in big tech. 

 A list of Google’s publicly-disclosed acquisitions through 2019 is below. 

• February 2001: Deja  
• September 2001: Outride  
• February 2003: Pyra Labs  
• April 2003: Neotonic Software, Applied Semantics and Kaltix  
• October 2003: Sprinks and Genius Labs  
• May 2004: Ignite Logic  
• July 2004: Picasa  
• September 2004: ZipDash  
• October 2004: Where 2 Technologies and Keyhole  
• March 2005: Urchin Software Corp  
• May 2005: Dodgeball  
• July 2005: Reqwireless  
• August 2005: Android  
• November 2005: Skia and Akwan Information Technologies  
• December 2005: Phatbits, allPAY GmbH and bruNET GmbH  
• January 2006: dMarc Broadcasting  
• February 2006: Measure Map  
• March 2006: Upstartle and “@” Last Software  
• April 2006: Orion  
• June 2006: 2Web Technologies  
• August 2006: Neven Vision and Youtube  
• October 2006: JotSpot  
• December 2006: Endoxon  
• February 2007: AdScape  
• March 2007: Trendalyzer  
• April 2007: DoubleClick, Tonic Systems and Marratech video conference software  
• May 2007: GreenBorder and Panoramio  
• June 2007: FeedBurner, PeaksStream, Zenter and GrandCentral  
• July 2007: Postini and ImageAmerica  
• September 2007: Zingku  
• October 2007: Jaiku  
• July 2008: Begun and Omnisio  
• September 2008: TNC  
• August 2009: On2, reCAPTCHA and Eluceon Research  
• November 2009: AdMob, Gizmo5, Teracent and AppJet  
• February 2010: Aardvark  
• February 2010: reMail  
• March 2010: Picnik, DocVerse and Episodic  
• April 2010: PinkArt, Agnilux, LabPixies and BumpTop  
• May 2010: Global IP Solutions, Simplify Media, Ruba.com, Invite Media and Instantiations  
• July 2010: Metaweb  
• August 2010: Slide.com, Jambool, Like.com, Angstro and SocialDeck  
• September 2010: Plannr, Quiksee and MentorWave Technologies  
• October 2010: BlindType  
• December 2010: Phonetic Arts, Widevine Technologies and Zetawire  
• January 2011: eBook Technologies, SayNow and Motorola Mobility (SOLD 2013)  
• March 2011: BeatThatQuote.com, Next New Networks, Green Parrot Pictures, Zynamics  
• April 2011: PushLife, ITA Software and TalkBin  
• May 2011: 510 Systems, Anthony Robots, Modu and Sparkbuy  
• June 2011: PostRank, Admeld, and Sage TV  
• July 2011: Punchd, Fridge, PittPatt  
• August 2011: Dealmap  
• September 2011: Zave Networks, Zagat, DailyDeal  
• October 2011: SocialGrapple  
• November 2011: Apture and Katango  
• December 2011: RightsFlow and Clever Sense  
• March 2012: Milk  
• April 2012: TxVia  
• June 2012: Meebo and Quickoffice  
• July 2012: Sparrow, Wildfire Interactive and Cuban Council  
• September 2012: VirusTotal.com and Nik Software  
• November 2012: Incentive Targeting and Bufferbox  
• January 2013: Schaft, Industrial Preception, Redwood Robotics, Meka Robotics, Holomni, Bot & Dolly, and Autofuss  
• March 2013: Channel Intelligence, DNNresearch, and Talaria Technologies  
• April 2013: Behavio and Wavii  
• May 2013: Makani Power and MyEnergy (SHUT DOWN)  
• June 2013: Waze  
• August 2013: WIMM Labs  
• September 2013: Calico,  and Bump  
• October 2013: Flutter and FlexyCore  
• January 2014: Bitspin, Imprermium and DeepMind Technologies  
• February 2014: Nest, SlickLogin, spider.io  
• March 2014: GreenThrottle  
• April 2014: Titan Aerospace  
• May 2014: Rangespan, Adometry, Appetas, Stackdriver, Quest Visual, and Divide  
• June 2014: mDialog, Aplental Technologies, Baarzo, and Appurify  
• July 2014: Dropcam, Songza and drawElements  
• August 2014: Skybox Imaging, Emu, Directr, Jetpac, Gecko Design, and Zync Render  
• September 2014: Lift Labs, Polar and Input Factory  
• October 2014: Agawi, Firebase, Dark Blue Labs, Vision Factory and Revolv  
• November 2014: Lumedyne Technologies and RelativeWave  
• December 2014: Vidmaker  
• January 2015: Granata Decision Systems  
• February 2015: Launchpad Toys, Odysee, Softcard and Red Hot Labs  
• April 2015: Thrive Audio and Skillman & Hackett  
• May 2015: Timeful and Pulse.io  
• July 2015: Pixate  
• September 2015: Oyster and Jibe Mobile  
• October 2015: Digisfera  
• November 2015: Fly Labs and Bebop  
• February 2016: BandPage and Pie  
• May 2016: Synergyse  
• June 2016: Webpass  
• July 2016: Moodstocks, Anvato, Kifi and LaunchKit  
• August 2016: Orbitera and Apportable  
• September 2016: Urban Engines and Api.ai  
• October 2016: Apigee, FameBit and Eyefluence  
• November 2016: LeapDroid and Qwiklabs  
• December 2016: Cronologics  
• January 2017: Crashlytics and Fabric  
• March 2017: Kaggle and AppBridge  
• May 2017: Owlchemy Labs  
• July 2017: Halli Labs  
• August 2017: AIMatter and Senosis  
• September 2017: Bitium  
• October 2017: Relay Media and 60db  
• November 2017: Banter  
• January 2018: Limes Audio AND htc cORPORATION  
• February 2018: Xively  
• March 2018: Lytro Tenor  
• May 2018: Velostrata and Cask  
• August 2018: GraphicsFuzz  
• October 2018: Onward  
• November 2018: Workbench and rEDUX  
• December 2018: Where is My Train and Sigmoid Labs  
• January 2019: Superpod  
• February 2019: Alooma  
• March 2019: Nightcorn  
• June 2019: Looker  
• July 2019: Elastifile  
• October 2019: Socratic  
• December 2019: Typhoon Studios 

Learn more about Economic Liberties here.   

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Economic Liberties works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. AELP believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.