Google announced Monday that it has purchased Meebo, the social media and advertising company, to add a team of engineers and some publisher-frien dly social tools to its Google+ efforts. ¹

As expected, Google has agreed to buy social-messaging and advertising company Meebo, a move that will help the search giant fill out its growing Google+ team. ²

Meebo has been around in Silicon Valley for seven years, starting off with a site that let users chat with each other across different instant message services - then becoming a social toolbar, and ad platform and much more. ³

An interesting twist in the world of social media came today with confirmation that Google has entered into an agreement to purchase Meebo, a company known for its eponymous Meebo Bar. ⁴

1. Google Purchases Meebo to Work With Google+ Team (paidContent)
2. Google Agrees to Acquire Meebo to Expand Its Google+ Team (VentureBeat)
3. Confirmed: Google Is Buying Meebo, the Startup That Turned Chat Into a Business [Updated] (TechCrunch)
4. Google Set to Gobble Up Meebo, Plans to Expand the Social Platform to New Heights (Engadget)
5. Google Is Buying Meebo, the Online-Chat Startup That Reinvented Itself as an Ad Play (Silicon Alley Insider)
6. Google Is Buying Meebo (Updated) [Google] (Gizmodo)
7. Google Acquires Meebo (Mashable!)
8. Google Officially Acquiring Social Startup Meebo (Between the Lines)
9. Google Buys Meebo for Social Sharing and Chat (SlashGear)
10. Google to Acquire Ad Firm Meebo (Boy Genius Report)
11. Google to Acquire Instant Messaging Service Meebo (Fast Company)
12. Confirmed: Google Buying Meebo (Electronista)
13. Google Buys Meebo to Help Social Networking Push (AP)
14. Meebo Merger Will Create Ad Space for Google+ (BetaNews)
15. Google Buys Meebo (PE Hub)