<story><title>Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/business/dealbook/zagat-google-infatuation.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buckhx</author><text>CTO of The Infatuation here. We&amp;#x27;re excited to get rolling on this and have some really unique challenges ahead to extract Zagat from internal Google technology. Feel free to reach out with any questions.&lt;p&gt;If you want to help us tackle this, check out our openings on our Engineering team: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theinfatuation.com&amp;#x2F;careers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theinfatuation.com&amp;#x2F;careers&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/business/dealbook/zagat-google-infatuation.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>This is interesting. What’s the data use agreement like on this sale? Does google get to retain all of Zagat’s historical data? Or is it sold to the Infatuation?&lt;p&gt;They just bought Zagat in 2011, so selling it so quickly seems odd. It’s an undisclosed amount, so I assume it’s at a loss from its $151M purchase. I hope it eventually becomes public knowledge through Google’s SEC filings.&lt;p&gt;If this is just a way to buy deep data sets, then this makes sense. $150M for likely the best training set for food review in existence makes sense and therefore isn’t Google stupidly investing in review sites. It would also explain the buy and sell technique used on Boston Dynamics, Moto, and others.</text></comment>