Zagat, which first was put up for sale in early 2008 and failed to close a deal, has been acquired by Google. Terms were not disclosed (for now; they will probably be disclosed when Google files their quarterly report). The company’s Marissa Mayer blogs, “Their surveys may be one of the earliest forms of UGC (user-generated content)—gathering restaurant recommendations from friends, computing and distributing ratings before the Internet as we know it today even existed…. I’m incredibly excited to collaborate with Zagat to bring the power of Google search and Google Maps to their products and users, and to bring […]
