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Google is buying the Frommer’s  brand of travel guides.

Google, which bought the Zagat restaurant review service in  September, plans to use Frommer’s guides to hotels and destinations  around the world to complement the Zagat listings.

Google is buying Frommer’s from publisher John Wiley & Sons in a deal that includes John Wiley’s other travel-related businesses.  Financial terms were not disclosed in Monday’s announcement.

Frommer’s got its start in 1957 with the publication of Arthur  Frommer’s Europe on $5 a Day. Frommer’s now publishes more than 300 guidebooks and runs the  Frommers.com website. John Wiley is trying to sell off a number of businesses that no  longer fit with its long-term focus on professionals and education.

In addition to travel, businesses up for sale include the  company’s culinary, general interest, nautical, pets, crafts,  Webster’s New World and CliffsNotes businesses. John Wiley, which is based in Hoboken, New Jersey, says it plans  to use the proceeds from the sales to support growth opportunities  in its other businesses.

- AP