Google Owns a Search Engine Optimization Company

Google paid $3.1 billion for DoubleClick, Microsoft paid $6 billion for Aquantive, and Yahoo paid $680 million for the 80 percent

 

DoubleClick is a Digital Marketing Company ie Advertising, Google has no reason what so ever to but a SEO firm.

 

I hope this one is not bias to other SEO company.

 

google owns doubleclick which owns performics which is an seo company. so yes, google does own an seo.

 

If that's the case. Does google give priority to their clients in SEO firm in SERP?

 

Would be very interesting to check out, i can just image the sales phone call.

SEO: Yes we can give you #1 placement for Viagra in 5 minutes.
Client: Scammer, Bye

Doh!

 

I also don't see any point as to why google should own a SEO company. Infact that would result in conflict of intrest for Google and might affect its reputation.

 

They bought a big company DoubleClick for other reasons, DoubleClick owns a much smaller Performics, who does affiliate marketing and other things, in addition to SEO. So it is not like Google intended to buy a SEO firm.

 

All in the interest of making more money. Google's objective isn't to help SEO companies.

 

google is just buying everything...if its making money...chances are soon enough google will own it.

 

thanks for sharing.