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title: "Google to buy New Zealand"
date: 2006-03-08
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Google to buy New Zealand

The Register [investigates](https://web.archive.org/web/20101118054557/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/08/you_only_search_twice/). \[[via](https://web.archive.org/web/20101118054557/http://www.drury.net.nz/?blog=942)\]

![google new zealand](https://web.archive.org/web/20101118054557im_/http://rww.readwriteweb.netdna-cdn.com/images/google_nz.jpg)[Full whiteboard image here](https://web.archive.org/web/20101118054557/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/08/google_whiteboard_large.jpg)

I knew Google was up to something big. It’s always the quiet ones you need to watch…

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_buy_n.php))*