When I first read this, I got a bit sad - not exactly sure why, I guess it was nice having Google around or not - I honestly don’t know. However, if you read it closely, you’ll see that they are only sell the search marketing division (keeping the affiliate division). They specifically state that it is a conflict of interest considering Performics helps companies optimize for Google search.
The neat thing is they go out of their way to say the following thing:

Google will keep the affiliate marketing arm of Performics and integrate it into existing Google services.

They’re going to integrate into the Google services? Hmmm…this will be interesting indeed.


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