Google acquires Postrank.com

This is the first time I've ever heard of Postrank. Can someone provide a brief of what they do and why google would buy them?

I don't use PostRank but I read all of Ilya's articles. His articles are awesome. He is awesome. Congratulations. You deserve a pay day.

Wow, congratulations PostRank! I remember hearing your pitch at one of the WatStart meetings when I lived in Waterloo, back when you were AideRSS.<p>This is also seems like a smart move by Google. They want to "get more into social" (whatever that means), and PostRank has been aggregating and analyzing social interactions across the web for longer than most.

Wow!! This is amazing!<p>Huge congratulations to Ilya and the crew at PostRank. Consistent and best-in-class execution. Awesome job and hope it was a huge pay day :)<p>I know it's hypocritical for me to say but rather unfortunate they're moving to MV. Would be nice to have some rich young people in Waterloo to act as investor/mentors.

Congrats! Keep pushing for Waterloo interns hiring ;-)

Congratulations Ilya. I first saw postrank (aiderss) at an Amazon AWS meetup years ago and grabbing a beer with you guys. Google's a great company of super smart people and you guys will fit right in.<p>And please continue blogging!

Great to see a company out of Waterloo get some well-deserved recognition. Definitely agree that it's sad to see them all get moved to MV, but such is life. We still have Kik and RIM though :)<p>Kudos to them!

Well deserved. Postrank has been the best example of usage of EventMachine.

Is this the same guy who made vimgolf? And is it in any way related to <a href="http://www.vimgolf.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.vimgolf.com</a> being down right now?

It was only a matter of time before Google started using Cassandra... :)<p>(Re <a href="http://webpulp.tv/post/4184040219/scaling-postrank-using-ruby-and-eventmachine-with-ilya" rel="nofollow">http://webpulp.tv/post/4184040219/scaling-postrank-using-rub...</a>)

What will this mean for the users of the service? Will it be shut down in the future?

There is something reasonably similar to PostRank in PHP: <a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/want_to_do_something_similar_to_postrank/" rel="nofollow">http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/want_to_do_something_similar_to_po...</a>

Nice to see another Canadian Company get acquired!<p>Go Canucks Go!

Anyone have a API key from Postrank they don't use and wouldn't mind parting with? Really need something like this.

Shouldn't the headline be "Entire Postrank team quits and is hired by Google"?