Google Buys CellPhone Software Company Android

[Brett_Tabke]

[businessweek.com...]

In what could be a key move in its nascent wireless strategy, Google (GOOG ) has quietly acquired startup Android Inc., BusinessWeek Online has learned. The 22-month-old startup, based in Palo Alto, Calif., brings to Google a wealth of talent, including co-founder Andy Rubin, who previously started mobile-device maker Danger Inc.

[Clark]

Cool!

(Don't forget the Mantra, laser focus on wireless)

[rj87uk]

Its all happening for Google at the moment, It looks like they're next big master plan is in full swing.

I wonder what else they will need...

[Munster]

a secret underground lair and a gigantic frickin laser on the moon....

[trillianjedi]

Very interesting. I don't think it's just about search either - I believe they have presence on their mind.

[DamonHD]

Sharks with LASER BEAMS, he he he!

[cellularnews]

Does Google dream of electric sheep?

[perfectlover]

May be this is next one:)

Google set to buy the GoGooroa Island

googland dot com

[Clark]

Did anyone visiting the Google headquarters see a white cat running around?

[DamonHD]

What, the white cats with the diamond collars?

[Munster]

maybe some ill tempered mutated nerds...

[shri]

Looks like a good entry point into what I've coined as 4 dimensional searching -- the KEY to localsearch.

Think of a search which takes into account a users location and time. Only possible with GPS and phones with assisted GPR or cell based location data.

Type in "happy hour" or Pizza Delivery into any google search today and you get fairly irrelevant results.

I'd personally like to see some protocols being developed based around bluetooth for crawling location data ... think of shops broadcasting their special deals via bluetooth, this getting picked up by cell phone based crawlers.....

[Import Export]

What I find most interesting about this article is that:

The company mentions that the 22-month-old startup, based in Palo Alto, California, brings a wealth of talent, including co-founder Andy Rubin, who previously started mobile-device maker Danger Inc.

Danger Inc. was the company that created Dodgeball.com, another company that G purchased.

[WarmGlow]

..netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, "the next frontier in search"

This is a remarkable coincidence. I submitted my WAP Deck URL to Google Wireless Search 33 months ago. The URL was added to Google WEB Search within 30 days but it did not show up in Google Wireless Search until this week.