Google agrees to acquire Urchin, statistic software.
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.
Urchin press release. Read at
webmaster forum what people think about it.
I think that Urchin can be used in Google AdSense or can be one of the additional google software/services like Picasa. Urchin is a very robust software, easy to use and very cheap - Rackspace provides it for $50 a month, Interlant provides it for $20 a month. Compared to other softwares, which cost a bomb and cannot work as good as urchin on Linux. They have nice marketing strategy: work with large hosting companies. It can be "Hey, you can buy software for $495.00 per month at my website or I can make an offer for your clients - only 20$ per month."
I'm evaluating it and it is not working properly yet. It look like we need to have several days for Google to add extra hardware and fix broken links.