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Google Mini™ Integrated Solution Now Offers Secure Search for Businesses of All Sizes

Mountain View, Calif. – January 30, 2007 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) – Google today announced that the Google Mini ⁱ now offers sophisticated search features for finding and sharing information within small businesses and departmental groups, including document and user-level security, as well as access to any business content through Google Onebox for Enterprise ⁱⁱ.

"When the Google Mini was introduced two years ago, it set a new standard for sophisticated search features in a small, simple and affordable appliance," said Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager, Google Enterprise. "As search becomes more critical to businesses of all sizes, we continue to add even more sophisticated search features that, until now, had only been available to large businesses."

Starting at just $1995, the new Google Mini introduces:

• Secure Search
  Specially enhanced to support the information-sharing needs inside of small businesses and departmental workgroups, the Google Mini offers document and user-level security across all business content. Google’s access control capabilities integrate with existing security systems, ensuring that employees can access only information they are authorized to view.
• Google OneBox for Enterprise
  Introduced last year as part of the Google Search Appliance™ ⁱⁱⁱ, the Google OneBox for Enterprise feature lets businesses provide secure access to any information – such as contact and calendar info, HR benefits, sales leads, or purchase order status – through the convenience of a Google™ search box.

  Google OneBox for Enterprise is a feature developed in partnership with some of the world’s leading enterprise application vendors. With Google OneBox for Enterprise, employees can search across a greater variety of corporate information stored in such business systems as Business Objects, Cognos, Cisco, Employease, Microsoft Exchange, Netsuite, Oracle, Salesforce.com, SAP, SAS, and others. Organizations can also create OneBox modules to access applications built in-house.

• Site Search Improvements
  Site administrators can now link the Google Mini search results page with Google Analytics™ ^iv to provide more detailed information about how people use search on their site in order to improve the overall site experience. The new Google Mini also automatically generates sitemaps – allowing webmasters to expose more public content for crawling and indexing by Google.com.

The Google Mini is offered in versions that search from 50,000 up to 300,000 documents, includes a year of support and is available for purchase online. Thousands of small-business customers already rely on the Google Mini to provide fast and relevant search results for their businesses. 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
650.253.4718

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ⁱThe Google Mini™ is an integrated hardware and software product designed to help your organization make the most of its digital assets.
ⁱⁱGoogle Onebox for Enterprise is a front-end search capability that lets businesses provide secure access to any information through the convenience of a Google™ search box.
ⁱⁱⁱThe Google Search Appliance™ is an integrated hardware and software product designed to give businesses the productivity-enhancing power of Google search.
^ivGoogle Analytics™ is a webmaster tool that delivers detailed information on how people search and interact with an organization’s site. This information allows webmasters to improve the overall site experience.

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A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube

Announcement
January 25, 2007

In November, Google officially closed its acquisition of YouTube, and since then we’ve received a number of questions about what will happen next. The summary is that Google Video and YouTube will continue to play to their respective strengths. But here’s a bit more detail:

Google’s strength – and its history – is grounded in search and in innovating technologies to make more information more available and accessible. YouTube, meanwhile, excels at being a leading content destination with a dynamic community of users who create, watch and share videos worldwide.

Google search results already include links to content that’s hosted on YouTube. Starting today, YouTube video results will appear in the Google Video search index: when users click on YouTube thumbnails, they will be taken to YouTube.com to experience the videos. Over time, Google Video will become even more comprehensive as it evolves into a service where users can search for the world’s online video content, irrespective of where it may be hosted.

This is part of Google’s overall goal to give users the highest quality search results possible. For example, some users who do a Google search for Martin Luther King, Jr. may want to find websites about him. Others may want to see images of him. And others may want to watch video footage…

YouTube, as we’ve stated previously, will remain an independent subsidiary of Google, and will continue to operate separately. Google will support YouTube by providing access to search and monetization platforms and, when/where YouTube launches internationally, to international resources. YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and the rest of the YouTube team will continue to innovate exciting new ways for people to "broadcast themselves."

Ultimately, we envision most user-generated and premium video content being hosted on YouTube so that it can further enhance the YouTube experience. We also envision YouTube benefiting from future Google Video innovations – especially those involving video search, monetization and distribution.

Earlier this week, we announced one example of innovation in monetization and distribution with a new AdSense video test. We will be working with a wide set of content providers, grouping together high quality video content from providers with high quality ads and offering them as playlists which publishers can select from and display on their AdSense sites. (For more about that test, click adsense.blogspot.com).

Today represents just the first step in our plan to bring users worldwide a comprehensive video search and content platform. We’ll provide ongoing updates as they unfold.

For Google inquiries, please contact:

Gabriel Stricker
Tel: +1.650.253.0139
gstricker@google.com

For YouTube inquiries, please contact:
press@youtube.com
Tel: +1.310.496.4441

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New Version of Google Groups Gives Groups Their Own Home on the Web

Announcement
January 23, 2007

New Options for Custom, Private Web Pages Take Groups Beyond Message Boards

Starting today, the latest version of Google Groups can give your group its own easy-to-build home on the web for sharing and maintaining information, including tools for creating customized web pages that help you give your group its own special look and feel. Whether you’re running a forum for technology lovers, sharing the latest reviews from your book or wine club, posting practice schedules and team information for your soccer league, or planning a neighborhood barbecue, Google Groups gives you a colorful, central place to collect photos, documents, links, messages, and more over time.

Web products for groups have traditionally focused on an email thread or message board format; they’ve been largely text based. Google Groups, however, now provides a richer forum for group collaboration with the following new features:

• Pages. Create and contribute to shared web pages with simple drag, drops, cuts, pastes, and clicks (i.e., no coding).
• Customized look and feel. Select pictures, colors, and styles to express your group’s style.
• Member profiles. See who else is in the group and read their profiles. Personalize your own profile with a photo and other details.
• File sharing. Post documents that anyone in the group can access.
• Easy reading of group discussions. Read easily in a Gmail-style interface.

Group owners have a variety of options for managing access to the group. They can choose to make all content completely private and visible only to group members, or they can offer their pages and resources up to the world. There are also options for controlling viewing and editing capabilities for individual group members.

For those groups who value active discussions, Google Groups continues to offer a variety of options for keeping up with the conversation. From the group’s space on the web, you can reply to another member’s posted message, or post a message or questions of your own. You can also choose whether you want to read and post messages through the group space, or just use your current email account to read and respond.

All you need is an e-mail address to join a Google Group, though a Google Account will enable you to fully take advantage of all the new features of the latest version of Google Groups. All users – including those with existing Groups – will see the new version of Groups when they log in. This is available today at groups.google.com in English (US), English (UK), French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.

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Google to Digitize More than a Million Books from the University of Texas at Austin, Including World Renowned Latin American Collection

Announcement
January 19, 2007

Today, Google welcomes its latest library partner – the University of Texas at Austin – to the Google Books Library Project. Known as the fifth largest academic library in the United States, the University of Texas Libraries house some of the nation’s leading collections, including the world-renowned Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection. Soon, researchers and history lovers all over the world will be able to search more than one million books and materials from the University of Texas, including selections from these unique works from early Latin American history.

Initially endowed with a unique set of rare books and manuscripts relating to Mexico, the Benson Collection now maintains a wealth of information from Latin America, with special concentrations on Brazil, Chile, Peru, and the countries of the Rio de la Plata and Central America. The Benson Collection chronicles the rich history, politics and society of the region and includes the works of notable Latin American authors.

"Intellectual discovery is at the heart of the scholarly research process," said Fred Heath, vice provost and director of libraries at the University of Texas. "The best collections of information are only as useful as the quality of the tools available for discovering and accessing that information. Joining with Google’s Book Search program will mean that the intellectual content of our collections are discoverable by a much wider range of scholars and students."

Working together, Google and the University of Texas will digitize over a million books from the university’s collection. Anyone will be able to freely view, browse, and read the university’s public domain documents. For books protected by copyright, users will be able to see basic background (such as the book’s title and the author’s name), at most a few lines of text related to their search, and information about where they can buy or borrow a book.

The Google Books Library Project digitizes books from major libraries around the world and makes their collections searchable on Google Book Search. More information can be found at: books.google.com.

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Google to Announce Fourth Quarter 2006 Financial Results

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 17, 2007 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced that it will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss fourth quarter 2006 financial results on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time).

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 following the conference call.

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.

Contacts:

Maria Shim
Investor Relations
650.253.7663
marias@google.com

Jon Murchinson
Corporate Communications
650.253.4437
jonm@google.com

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New Innovations, Features for Google SketchUp and Google Earth

Announcement
January 9th, 2007

Today Google released Google SketchUp 6 at the 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, CA. Google SketchUp is a powerful, easy-to-use 3D software modeling tool that enables design professionals and armchair enthusiasts alike to model the world for professional use and sharing in Google Earth. Google SketchUp 6 enables simpler, more realistic modeling with the addition of new features and innovations. These include:

• Photo Match – Users can now quickly and easily trace a photo to create a 3D model of the photographed object or match an existing model with a background photo for near-instant modeling.
• Styles – New collections of display settings including Watermarks (2D images behind or in front of models) and Sketchy Effects (rendered as though drawn by hand) enable users to create 3D models to fit their professional or personal needs.
• 3D Text – Users can now convert text to 2D outlines, filled surfaces, or extruded 3D objects.
• LayOut Beta (Pro version only) – An innovative presentation/publishing application enables users to create professional design presentations and high-resolution documents with little additional work. By embedding SketchUp models in a LayOut document, professionals can create compelling presentations that enable models to remain interactive and modifiable.

Additional product improvements include an enhanced API which enables third parties to create custom applications to supplement the functionality of Google SketchUp, two-point perspective viewing, and improved screen and print quality.

Google SketchUp 6 is available at sketchup.google.com for both the Mac and PC. This release further integrates Google SketchUp with Google Earth and the 3D Warehouse, streamlining the sharing of 3D models with users around the globe. Google Earth now features a default "Best of 3D Warehouse" layer that showcases the most realistic, detailed models from Google SketchUp users. Additionally users can now create and contribute to user-designed 3D Collections in the 3D Warehouse such as "Stadiums of the World."

These developments further Google’s efforts to create a fully-detailed 3D Google Earth with user-generated modeling. Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to make the world’s geographic information easily accessible and useful. There have been over 200 million unique downloads of Google Earth since the product’s launch in June, 2005.

For more information please see today’s Google Blog post at: googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/super-models-wanted.html.

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Samsung and Google Align to Create Rich Experience for Mobile Phone Users Worldwide

Cooperation ensures quick and easy access to Google™ search, Google Maps™for mobile, and a fast, new Gmail™application for Samsung enthusiasts worldwide

Seoul, Korea and Las Vegas (Consumer Electronics Show) – January 8, 2007 – Samsung, a leading provider and innovator of mobile phones, and Google Inc. today announced a global cooperation to enable mobile phone users worldwide with quick and easy access to Google™ products and services – directly from their Samsung mobile phones.

Samsung mobile phones equipped with Google™ applications will enable consumers to search information, find locations, and manage their email on the move. Samsung’s mobile phones offer today’s latest technologies with unique applications and mobile designs. Now, the combination of Google™ applications and Samsung’s advanced mobile devices represents two companies’ dedication to offering a hassle-free mobile Internet experience for consumers world-wide.

Beginning in early 2007, selected Samsung phones will be provided with a range of Google™ products and services aimed to create a more dynamic user experience, including:

• Google™ search: Samsung handsets will include a Google™ icon in the application menu, providing users with one-click access to Google™ search
• Google Maps™ for mobile: Also featured on Samsung handsets will be Google Maps™ for mobile, an application that enables users to view maps and satellite imagery, find local businesses, and get driving directions when they’re on the go
• Gmail™: Gmail™ for mobile devices, a new application that brings more speed, convenience, and functionality to the mobile Gmail™ experience, will also be available on Samsung handsets

Samsung has already launched, the Ultra Edition 13.8 (SGH-Z720), its first mobile handset installed with Google™ mobile search and Gmail™ services. The slim 3G Z720 is only 13.8mm in thinness, is HSDPA ready, and comes with a 3-megapixel camera, MP3 Player, and Bluetooth connectivity. The HSDPA connectivity combined with embedded an Internet browser and Google™ mobile services will provide users with a rich mobile Internet experience. Future models will also be Google-ready as consumers continue to demand trouble-free mobile Internet access. Consumers will enjoy and appreciate Samsung’s simple-to-use user interface and Google’s familiarity for an effortless mobile Internet experience

"We are very thrilled to introduce Samsung mobiles with one-click access to Google services. Our cooperation with Google exemplifies our commitment to leading the evolution from the fixed-Internet era to a mobile Internet era and ushering in a ubiquitous world where mobile enables our consumers to access information about anything, anywhere, anytime," said Kitae Lee, President of Samsung’s Telecommunication Network Business. "Samsung and Google will enhance users’ mobile experience with a powerful, yet easy-to-use handset with simple access to information and personal management."

"Google is dedicated to providing users around the world with easier access information and services when they are mobile. Working with an industry leader like Samsung is a great way to accomplish that," said Deep Nishar, director of wireless products and strategy for Google Inc. "Improving the mobile user experience is of paramount importance to both Samsung and Google, and by working together we’ll be able to bring the power, functionality, and convenience of Google™ search, Google Maps™ for mobile, and Gmail™ for mobile devices to millions of Samsung users across the globe."

About Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2005 parent company sales of US$56.7 billion and net income of US$7.5 billion. Employing approximately 128,000 people in over 120 offices in 57 countries, the company consists of five main business units: Digital Appliance Business, Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business and Telecommunication Network Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones, and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.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 Contacts:

Samsung Electronics
Christine Jung
+82-2-751-2663
s.jung@samsung.com

Google
Megan Lamb
650-253-3627
mlamb@google.com

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Google Search Appliance Adds New Features to Customize Enterprise Search

Announcement
January 4, 2007

Google today announced new features for the Google Search Appliance that give enterprise customers the ability to customize search results for their individual corporate environments. The Google Search Appliance now also offers improved integration with Google services as well as additional content sources.

New features include:

• Results Hit Clustering are groups of dynamically formed sub-categories based on the results of each search query. These clusters appear at the top of search results and help searchers refine their queries from possible ambiguous terms. For example, if an employee searches for "customer" on the company network, a set of categories could appear at the top of the results with groups of topics such as "customer support" or "customer contacts" to help guide the search. Administrators can customize the location and appearance of Results Hit Clustering within search results.
• Source Biasing enables administrators to assign various weights to search results on their corporate network, based on source or type of content. For instance, if a company has multiple Documentum servers, the site administrator can strengthen the content from the one primary Documentum server. The same is true for types of content. If a financial services corporation values content in .pdf form more than content in a word processing document, administrators can use Source Biasing to increase the weight of .pdfs in the search results. A menu-driven interface allows weak or strong increases or decreases, and requires no complex coding or scripting.

The new version of the Google Search Appliance also adds improved integration with Google Sitemaps export (for simpler export of information about web pages available for crawling), as well as open source connectors for indexing content in SharePoint 2003 and SharePoint 2007.

For more information, see www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/.

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China Mobile, Google Launch Cooperation: Creating Leading Mobile Search Service in China

BEIJING, January 4, 2007 – China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile telecommunications carrier, and Google, the world’s largest search engine, announced today a cooperation to provide mobile and Internet search services in China. Together, they will provide Chinese Mobile users with world-class, high-quality mobile search products and services that will make it easier than ever before to find relevant content on the cellular phone.

Google will provide its world class search engine technology to China Mobile to enable "mobile search" on China Mobile’s Monternet WAP portal, and China Mobile users will be able to easily search Monternet and its vast content, including sports and entertainment news, ringtones, games, images, videos and novels. Users will be able to access the service via a search box or search link on Monternet’s homepage, or through a dedicated mobile search homepage on Monternet. The first-phase service has been partially put into trial operation in December, 2006 and will be launched broadly in the early part of 2007.

Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, said: "We are delighted to be providing China Mobile users with mobile and internet search services via our cooperation with Google. Mobile search will help users access the information they need more easily and quickly. This is an important move for China Mobile’s transformation into a mobile information expert. China Mobile will unite the industry chain, rapidly enhancing the whole industry’s value. Our cooperation will not only satisfy our users’ diverse communication needs but also build a new mobile world for Chinese users to communicate freely and live comfortably. As the leader of global internet search services, Google has a strong innovative capability. China Mobile and Google are working hand-in-hand and combining our strengths to improve the development of wireless, value-added services in China."

Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer of Google, said: "Creating an enhanced mobile experience is a very important focus for Google. Our goal, when working with key industry leaders like China Mobile, is to continue to develop compelling services that provide users worldwide with access to information directly from their mobile device. The cooperation between China Mobile and Google further enhances the strong innovative attributes of both companies, creating a richer mobile user experience."

About Google

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.

About China Mobile

Established on April 20th, 2000, China Mobile is one of the largest Chinese companies listed in overseas markets. It has the largest market capitalization among all global telecommunications operators. China Mobile’s network coverage and subscriber volume rank number one in the world, has been in the rank of Fortune 500 for six continuous years, the latest rank at number 202. China Mobile is not only a profitable company, financially sound and able to generate stable cash flow, but it is also a continuously growing company with high development potential and a strong vision. Facing the future, China Mobile will adhere to its core value of "Responsibility Makes Perfection", improve its competitiveness by implementing the concept of scientific development, and strive to become the mobile information expert and a creator of word class quality.

Media Contact:

Jin Cui (China)
Google Inc.
cjin@google.com

Megan Lamb (U.S.)
Google Inc.
mlamb@google.com

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