Google continues their amazing stint in the online world. Just days after they announced Google TV, the search engine giant have now bagged Slide, the eminent social gaming company.

The gaming company that has earned an established name for designing applications for various games that are found on social networking site, Facebook, has now come under the online king’s wing. It is reported that Google acquired the company for a whopping $182 million.

Slide was earlier founded in 2005 by co-founder of Paypal, Max Levchin.

“Slide has already created compelling social experiences for tens of millions of people across many platforms, and we have already built strong social elements into products like Gmail, Docs, Blogger, Picasa and YouTube. As the Slide team joins Google, we will be investing even more to make Google services socially aware and expand these capabilities for our users across the web,”

said Google’s Engineering Director, David Glazer.

Max Levchin also supports the cause by saying,

“Google is committed to building new, open and better ways for users to connect with others. At Slide, we have been focused on building online communities that foster self-expression, creativity and engagement across multiple platforms. Given our shared vision and values, this is a tremendous opportunity for the two companies to come together to change the way people socialize on the Web.”

This current take-over may well prove to be a path-breaking move in the digital world.