This is just the latest in a number of purchases Google has made that will enable it to add telephone-style services as part of its suite of products, both for homes and businesses.

Google hopes to connect the service with its nascent TV ad-brokering business, allowing it to target ads to individual households based on search and viewing data.

The co-founder of Google got divorced in 2015. If Swift ever wants to settle down and start a family, she'd never need to worry about money ever again with Brin.