Google's 16 biggest purchases, and how they worked out

#6: Admeld, real-time bidding exchange for online advertising, $400 million (if regulators let it go through)

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Postini plays a major role in Gmail.

Google announced plans to buy Admeld in June to boost its display advertising business. Regulators announced last month that they're taking a close look at the deal, but that doesn't mean it will be blocked -- regulators also took a second look at ITA and DoubleClick, and both of those deals eventually closed.

#5: Postini email security and services, $625 million

Google bought this company in June 2007 and integrated its add-on email services, like spam-blocking and archiving, into Gmail for business users. It's been a critical part of Google's enterprise apps business ever since.

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