Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. According to sources close to the situation, along with its pending bid for Yelp , Google has been in on-again, off-again acquisition talks with Trulia, the real estate search engine. It is unclear what price Google (GOOG) would pay, but sources estimate that Trulia’s valuation ranges between $150 million and $200 million, although there could be a…

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