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Google Inc. paid around $125 million to buy restaurant-reviews company Zagat Survey LLC, said a person familiar with the matter.
The Internet giant on Thursday announced the deal but didn’t disclose the price it paid for the New York-based company, whose cache of millions of reviews about restaurants and other attractions will help Google beef up its search engine’s ability to provide information about local businesses.
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