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Old Jul 5, 2011 | 6:00 pm
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Originally Posted by cordelli
Google paid over $700 million for ITA.

Of course they are going to launch a search tool based on it soon. They didn't buy it because they liked the initials.

I wouldn't be so sure. Maybe the ITA ceo had a hot secretary and someone at GOOG wanted her for himself... who knows what those crazy kids do with their trillions.
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