From Google’s News Release:
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 28, 2005 – Google Inc. today announced it has agreed to acquire Urchin Software Corporation, a San Diego, California-based web analytics company.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Urchin is a web site analytics solution used by web site owners and marketers to better understand their users’ experiences, optimize content and track marketing performance. Urchin tools are available as a hosted service, a software product and through large web-hosting providers. These products are used by thousands of popular sites on the Internet.
Google plans to make these tools available to web site owners and marketers to better enable them to increase their advertising return on investment and make their web sites more effective.
“We want to provide web site owners and marketers with the information they need to optimize their users’ experiences and generate a higher return on investment from their advertising spending,” said Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president of product management, Google. “This technology will be a valuable addition to Google’s suite of advertising and publishing products.”
Urchin is a popular software program with small, medium and enterprise-level companies monitoring their web traffic characteristics and behavior over time. I’m guessing there will be some kind of close tie-in with Google Adwords.
I’m curious what the pricing will be for this – not free, I assume. I have quite a few clients using Urchin with their ISPs.
