<<Our charge at Adscape has always been to honor the game that was developed and find new ways to enable that game to continue so others can enjoy it. That's why we are so stoked to join Google—because these guys get it, and are committed to helping us continue our mission.>>
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/let-passion-continue-were-acquiring.html

Kinda weird that the WWW version of their site is dead but the non WWW version is up. Seems like they forgot to tweak a server setting.

http://adscapemedia.com/

Valleywag & Techcrunch are reporting the purchase price was 23 million. Both posts suggest this purchase was inline with the rumor of a Google Virtual world type game (Second Life or World of Warcraft).

Valleywag post:
http://valleywag.com/tech/advertising/google-buys-adscape-media-for-23-million-237348.php

Techcrunch post:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/16/google-to-buy-adscape-for-23-million/

Yeah, I was searching for "AdScape" on Google and found that the first result, with the "www." doesn't work, but it I just enter "adscapemedia.com" in the address bar, it work. Weird indeed.

A site called SEObytheSea.com has a very interesting list of patents that Adscape Media has in their portolio.

http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=512

"Kinda weird that the WWW version of their site is dead but the non WWW version is up."

That's more than likely a DNS CNAME problem. Google never cached their page so either they don't have HTML based backup pages (vice their flash page) or never set up the site DNS correctly.