November 1, 2006
JotSpot Acquired By Google
I blogged the news at Search Engine Watch that JotSpot has been acquired by Google. Bill has some additional thoughts on it over there. Bill explains in a Cre8asite Forums thread;
The two who started Jotspot, and sold it to Google look like they are now Google employees. That's kind of interesting because they are two of the five co-founders of excite.com.
Interesting, indeed.
Also, so Google owns Writely. In a sense, Writely is very similar to JotSpot - so why not just put a few developers at Writely to work on a Wiki editor?
Anyway...
Forum discussion at Search Engine Watch Forums, Cre8asite Forums, DigitalPoint Forums, and WebmasterWorld.
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rustybrick in Other Google Topics at November 1, 2006 6:49 AM
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Thanks, Barry.
I'm pretty excited over how Google could integrate some of the services that they have, together. There are some things about Writely that I like a lot, and the same with Jotspot. If they could come up with something that tied together the best parts of both, they might have something pretty remarkable.
As for the excite.com angle, the amount of people who have founded and launched world class search engines over the course of the history of the web really isn't all that large. Getting many of those people under the same roof sharing their experiences sounds like a great idea.
Posted by Bill at November 1, 2006 09:37