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Google Acquires PostRank

Friday, social engagement data start PostRank announced that it had been acquired by Google.
Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed.PostRank released in 2007 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. PostRank staff will move to the Bay of San Francisco to join other Google users in the main Google campus in Mountain View. Last year, PostRank Analytics added activity streams, which the company calls "a FriendFeed for the content." The analysis service launched last year as a way of tracking the data in a large number of social media platforms like Twitter, Digg, Delicious and more.



PostRank CTO and founder of Ilya Grigorik blog wrote today in the implementation of, "We are extremely excited to join Google. We believe that there is simply no better company on the web today that both understands the value of the participation data that have focused, and has the platform and the power to bring its benefits to countless millions of daily users, active Internet . "

Grigorik said more details on the progress PostRank within Google coming in a few months.