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Google Adds Secure Search Across Popular Business Applications

Partnerships with Cognos, Oracle, Salesforce.com, SAS and others will offer businesses first real-time secure search of corporate data from Google enterprise search box

Mountain View, Calif. – April 19, 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the new Google Search Appliance, featuring Google OneBox for Enterprise, developed in partnership with some of the world’s leading enterprise applications vendors. Google OneBox for Enterprise – one of many new features of the Google Search Appliance – gives corporations secure access to information in any application in the enterprise from the convenience of the Google search box.

“OneBox” refers to the process of typing a query into Google.com for specific category information, such as airline flight times, local weather, or stock prices. With Google OneBox for Enterprise, corporate information – such as contact and calendar info, HR benefits, sales leads, or purchase order status – is now instantly searchable through a Google search box as part of the Google Search Appliance.

“With Google OneBox for Enterprise, businesses can unlock virtually all their information – securely and simply – using the familiar Google interface,” said Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google’s enterprise business. “With the help and cooperation of many of the world’s leading enterprise application vendors, search is breaking down the silos of information inside of businesses.”

New Partners Develop Extensions to OneBox for Enterprise

Google OneBox for Enterprise functionality was developed by Google as well as by some of the world’s leading enterprise companies, including:

• Cisco– integrate rich-media conference information from Cisco MeetingPlace Express, a component of Cisco’s Unified Communications system.
• Cognos– key business intelligence data and performance metrics, such as sales growth, gross margins, employee productivity.
• Employease–on-demand HR information including employee, benefits, recruitment and performance information.
• NetSuite– customer, product, financials, and business dashboards.
• Oracle– access to HR, ERP, CRM, and SCM applications across Oracle E-Business Suite, including personal information, managerial performance, and corporate services.
• Salesforce.com–leads, opportunity status, contact and account information – any data in Salesforce or AppExchange applications.
• SAS– enterprise business intelligence including key information in data, reports and analysis.

To learn more about Google OneBox for Enterprise and see a Google Video of what executives at some of these companies have to say about it, please go to www.google.com/enterprise/onebox.

New Enterprise Developer Program Open to All

This new Google OneBox for Enterprise API, and all of the development interfaces are open to the community of developers, system integrators or ISVs interested in making information more accessible from a search box with the Google Search Appliance. Google is also announcing the Google Enterprise Developer program, a community site where developers can get access to Google Enterprise SDKs, documentation, and post their work for sharing with other customers, partners, and developers.

Google partners LTech Consulting and SADA Systems have developed OneBox modules to enable access to employee directory and calendar information from Microsoft Exchange. Google partner BearingPoint has developed OneBox modules that provide access to SAP and Peoplesoft, plus access to employee contact information in LDAP directories. Google partner Persistent Systems has developed a OneBox module for directory and calendar information in Lotus Notes. All of these Google OneBox for Enterprise modules are free for download from the Google Enterprise Developer forum.

For more information, technical specs for developing OneBox for Enterprise extensions, and the full OneBox for Enterprise module gallery please go to code.google.com/enterprise/.

New Features For Enhanced Reach, Security, Relevancy, and Performance

The new Google Search Appliance includes a wealth of new features designed to improve the security, relevancy, reach and performance of enterprise information, specifically:

• Reach
  Google OneBox for Enterprise extensions add searchable content from any business application
  Native File System crawler reaches all content in Windows-based file systems (more than 220 file types such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, PDF, etc)
• Security
  Expanded enterprise security and authentication, including LDAP and standard SAML interfaces
• Quality
  Enhanced search relevancy through context-sensitive stemming and synonyms, learned from billions of searches on Google.com
  New index of external metadata repositories in document and content management systems
• Performance
  Up to 25 queries per second on one server (500 percent increase)
  Up to 3 million documents on a single server (100 percent increase)

These features, including Google OneBox for Enterprise, are available as part of the new Google Search Appliance or as free upgrades to current version 4 customers. To learn more about the Google Search Appliance, please visit www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/.

About Google Inc.

Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

Media Contact:

Mike Nelson
mnelson@google.com
415.566.7268

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The All-New Google Mini: Less is More

Mountain View, Calif. – April 19, 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced a smaller, faster Google Mini, with new features designed to make it even easier for smaller businesses to add Google search to web sites and corporate networks. The integrated hardware/software search appliance now searches multiple sites and can help businesses create an instant intranet by searching the contents of shared Windows file systems.

“True to its name, we’ve made the Mini even smaller, but added many features to make it even more useful for small businesses,” said Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google’s enterprise business. “For about the price of a PC, companies can make their web sites more usable and employees more productive by adding Google search.”

Starting at just $1995, new features for the Mini include:

Access to more, fresher content

• Search across multiple web sites with the ability to create an almost unlimited number of document collections and user interfaces
• Create an instant intranet by directly indexing shared file systems
• Choose between automated continuous crawling to maximize freshness and minimize network traffic, or crawl the entire site on a set schedule

Better performance

• Faster crawling and query serving, with support for up to 25 queries per second (a 25X increase) for growing websites
• Improved administrator dashboard and SNMP monitoring for remote management
• Easier search query and crawl diagnostics reporting to understand what users are looking for and discover site errors

Smaller

• About half the size and weight of the original, so fits in a rack or under a desk

The Mini is offered in versions that search from 50,000 up to 300,000 documents and include a year of support. The new Mini is available in the U.S., Europe and now Japan, and offers localized administration in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese.

Thousands of customers already rely on the Google Mini to provide fast and relevant search results for their business. To learn more about the new Google Mini, please visit mini.google.com.

About Google Inc.

Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

Media Contact:

Mike Nelson
mnelson@google.com
415.566.7268

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Google Calendar

Announcement
April 13, 2006

Today, Google announced Google Calendar, a free, web-based calendar service that enables users to access, manage and share all of their important appointments and special occasions in one place. Once users sign in at www.google.com/calendar with their Google Account, they can begin adding events and invitations to their calendar effortlessly, sharing events with their friends and family, and searching across the web for events they might enjoy.

In line with Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, Google Calendar helps users organize and access information related to how they spend their time.

Key features include:

* Ease of use: Users can easily add events just by clicking where an event belongs and typing a brief snippet that describes this new event. The natural language recognition feature (called Quick Add) enables users to make entries without filling out cumbersome forms. If users have a Gmail account, they may see an "Add to Calendar" link appear alongside a message that mentions an event, whereby they can add this event to Google Calendar with just one click.

* One central location for calendar information: Users can see the calendars of their friends, contacts and activity groups alongside their own schedules, making planning much easier. For example, they can view their personal calendar along with their family’s calendar, and major U.S. holidays. Additionally, users can import calendars from other applications that support the iCal and CSV formats, and also search for public calendars on the web.

* Sharing and publishing: Users have control over how much calendar information they share. They can keep their calendars private, share calendars with a small group of people, or make their calendars publicly available and searchable on the web. Event planning is a snap with the ability to send invitations and reminders using Google Calendar. Also, webmasters can add Google Calendar event reminder buttons to their pages, enabling their visitors to quickly add copies of events to Google Calendar.

* Staying connected: Users can set up automatic event reminders sent by email or text messages to their mobile phones to help them remember appointments. For Gmail users, Google Calendar connects to their Gmail contacts list, making it even easier to invite friends and family to events.

* Open calendar format: Google Calendar was developed using the open iCal and XML standards, enabling other calendar applications to interact directly with Google Calendar.

Google Calendar is currently available in beta at www.google.com/calendar in English only, and we’re exploring opportunities to globalize the product in the coming months. We’re actively monitoring the growth of Google Calendar to ensure a high quality experience for our users, and we’re looking forward to receiving feedback.

More information about Google Calendar can be found at www.google.com/googlecalendar/overview.html and www.google.com/press/guides.html.

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Google to Announce Q1 2006 Financial Results

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 10, 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)

What: Google Inc. will report its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2006.

Date: Thursday, April 20, 2006

Time: 4:30 PM ET / 1:30 PM PT

Webcast: The live webcast of Google’s earnings conference call can be accessed at investor.google.com/webcast. The webcast version of the conference call will be available through the same link for approximately two weeks following the conference call, after which time the link will be available from the webcast archive at investor.google.com/webcast.

About Google Inc.

Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

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Japan Mobile Ads

Announcement
April 7, 2006

Today, Google launched mobile ads in Japan, our first ads offering to mobile phone users. Now, when users in Japan search with Google on their mobile device, ads relevant to their search keywords will display on their result pages. Google mobile ads connect users who are actively looking for information with relevant and timely services and products.

Similar to ads that display in search done on a PC, Google mobile ads are text based. Rather, than displaying on the side, however, mobile ads display on the top and bottom of the search result page. The user can jump to the advertiser’s mobile webpage by clicking the link provided or can make a call directly to the advertiser just by clicking the "call" link in the ad.

Google continues to focus on making the mobile phone a more convenient and reliable device for accessing useful and relevant information while on the go. Google mobile ads provide a new way for Japanese mobile users to find the information they are looking for.

Google mobile ads also provide an opportunity for advertisers to expand their reach. Just like existing AdWords for the PC, advertisers can bid for keywords that will bring potential customers to them. The advertiser will be charged when a user clicks on the link to their mobile website or the "call" link.

For more information regarding Google mobile ads, please visit mobile.google.co.jp/mobile_ads.

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Google Announces 2006 Anita Borg Scholarship Winners

PALO ALTO, Calif. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 7, 2005 – The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the winners of the 2006 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship was established to honor the legacy of Anita Borg and her efforts to encourage women to pursue careers in computer science and technology. The award is a $10,000 scholarship for outstanding female undergraduate and graduate students completing their degrees in computer science or related fields. "We commend the dedication, achievement and contributions of these young, talented women in computing and technology," said Dr. Telle Whitney, President and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute. "Programs like Google’s Anita Borg Scholarships pay tribute to Anita’s enduring legacy. But they also pave the way for more women to excel in the technical professions, creating diversity that benefits us all."

"We are thrilled to award these scholarships to some of the brightest young women studying in technical fields today," said Alan Eustace, Vice President of Engineering & Research, Google. "By supporting the next generation of great technical minds we pay tribute to Anita and her vision of women in the computer sciences."

For the 2006-2007 academic year, Google received 324 applications from students at 90 different universities across the country. Eligible students must be entering their senior year of undergraduate study or be enrolled in a graduate program for 2006 – 2007 school year at a university in the United States. Selection criteria includes academic performance, letters of recommendation, answers to short essay questions and interviews with members of the review committee. More information about the Google Anita Borg Scholarship can be found at www.google.com/anitaborg/.

We are pleased to award 19 $10,000 scholarships to the following students:

• Brianna Bethel, University of Colorado – Boulder
• G. Ayorkor Mills – Tettey, Carnegie Mellon University
• Gillian Rachael Hayes, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Himabindu Pucha, Purdue University
• Karen Fullam, University of Texas at Austin
• Kristen Walcott, University of Virginia
• Kristina Chodorow, New York University
• Laura Rouse, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Marta Magdalena Luczynska, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Megan Olsen, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Michele Banko, University of Washington
• Neven Abou Gazala, University of Pittsburgh
• Parisa Michelle Tabriz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Rebecca Nancy Nesson, Harvard University
• Shana Kay Watters, University of Minnesota
• Sharmishtaa Seshamani, Johns Hopkins University
• Soumi Sinha, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Tracy Westeyn, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Vinithra Varadharajan, Carnegie Mellon University

$1,000 awards will go to the 28 other finalists:

• Alicia Avelon Permell, Michigan Tech University
• Anagha Mudigonda, Polytechnic University New York
• Anna Tikhonova, University of California, Davis
• Annie (Hsin-Wen) Liu, University of Washington
• Ashima Kapur, Carnegie Mellon University
• Cindy Rubio Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Delphine Nain, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Divya Arora, Princeton University
• Emily Grace Christiansen, University of Minnesota-Morris
• Emily Shen, Stanford University
• Erika Chin, University of Virginia
• Eva Mok, University of California, Berkeley
• Evelyn Mintarno, Stanford University
• Gina Upperman, Rice University
• Hayley Nicole Iben, University of California, Berkeley
• Jiayue He, Princeton University
• Jing Chen, University of Pennsylvania
• Laureen Lam, San Jose State University
• Lingyun Zhang, University of California, San Diego
• Lu Xiao, Pennsylvania State University
• Meeta Sharma Gupta, Harvard University
• Moushumi Sharmin, Marquette University
• Neha Rungta, Brigham Young University
• Rachel Weinstein, Stanford University
• Sunny Consolvo, University of Washington
• Tanya Lee Ann Crenshaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Valerie Hajdik, Texas A&M; University
• Xiaonan Zhao, Northwestern University

All 47 scholars are invited to Mountain View to meet each other, tour Google and participate in a workshop on educational and career issues of women in computer science. The day will also include discussions with Google engineers and executives, representatives from the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and former scholarship winners.

About the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

Founded in 1997, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) is a nationally recognized organization dedicated to changing the world for women and technology. ABI’s mission is two-fold: to increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology and to increase the positive impact of technology on the world’s women. ABI accomplishes its goals through collaboration with industry, academic and government organizations. The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology is 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. www.anitaborg.org

About Google Inc.

Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

Media Contact:

Megan Quinn
650.253.4944
meganq@google.com

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