Google buys graphics program Trendalyzer

Google Inc., which runs the most popular Internet search engine, bought a software program called Trendalyzer that lets users display information using moving graphics.

Google said it bought the program from Gapminder Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Stockholm.

The team that created Trendalyzer has joined Google, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company said Friday on its weblog

Terms of the purchase weren’t disclosed.