This deal doesn’t involve Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, or any of the other companies we usually cover. But it does involve a heck of a lot of money – about $4 billion – and so the acquisition of ChoicePoint by Reed Elsevier seems worth a mention.
Elsevier Has No Fear Of Google Scholar
Publishing power Reed Elsevier will have its scholarly journals crawled and indexed by Google, under the terms of the Google Scholar program.