Acquisition expected to increase search engine’s market share, presence in Asia.

September 17, 2008—Google, Inc announced today that it has purchased Korean-based Tatter and Company, a blogging software firm.

“We are excited to welcome Tatter and Co.’s engineering team to Google Korea,” a spokesperson for Google wrote in an email to DMNews. “Acquiring Tatter and Company will allow us to enhance our online publishing tools in Korea, benefiting the large number of users who already depend on and enjoy Google and Tatter and Company’s products.”

TNC co-CEO Chan-Won-Kim compared TNC to the open source blogging project, Automattic in a blog entry last Friday.

“To my knowledge,” added Kim, “we are one of the first major acquisitions done by Google in Asia let alone Korea, if we don’t count Australia and also exclude share-taking activities in China for licensing purposes.”

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed at press time.