Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Grover Visits Google: Breakthrough Learning Forum Begins Today

Forum Convened by The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, Common Sense Media, MacArthur Foundation and Google to Explore the Future of Digital Technology in Education

National leaders in education, science, technology and philanthropy will assemble today for the Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age Forum to develop recommendations for using digital media for education reform. The forum will also feature an exhibition of some of the newest innovations in education technology presently available. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, Common Sense Media, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Google, have convened the meeting at the Google campus in Mountain View.

Building on the renewed federal investment in education, the participants will develop an action plan to use breakthrough technologies to help revitalize a school system that has fallen behind. Emphasis will be placed on key areas where technology can make a significant difference including addressing America’s early literacy crisis, preparing teachers to integrate technology into classrooms, and opening new learning opportunities for youth through mobile and games-based learning.

Presenters over the two day event represent a wide range of education and technology fields including: Martha J. Kanter, Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix, former Chairman of the California State School Board, Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, Geoff Canada, CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone, Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products and User Experience, Google Inc. and Jonathan Miller, Chief Digital Officer for News Corporation. Joan Ganz Cooney, Sesame Street co-founder, and Sesame Street Muppet Grover will also make special appearances.

The full agenda, speaker biographies, forum details and instructions on how to join in and watch the live webcast are available on the forum website at www.google.com/events/digitalage/index.html.

"We’re very excited to host this dynamic group of thinkers and innovators at Google. Breakthrough Learning can make a tangible difference in building a new future for our children, and will address some of the most critical issues facing our education system," said Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University Relations, Google Inc. "Solving the crisis in American education requires the sort of multi-sector thinking Breakthrough Learning entails, and the group assembling here truly has the leadership and wisdom to galvanize the creation of a new model for teaching and learning, leveraging the power of technology.”

In addition to the action plan which will be presented to the Obama administration and key leaders in business, education, and research in follow-up meetings beginning in late 2009, several strategic initiatives were announced:

  • The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop unveiled the Cooney Prizes for Innovation, a national competition intended to generate digital educational innovations for children. The program will annually award cash prizes and provide ongoing business planning support and mentorship to children’s media entrepreneurs and visionaries. The Center is challenging innovators in two categories: Breakthroughs in Mobile Learning and Breakthroughs in Literacy Learning. This year’s prizes include $50,000 towards prototype development in Mobile Learning category and a $10,000 prize and the opportunity to work with Sesame Workshop to turn a literacy idea into a real product for national dissemination via The Electric Company . Applications will be accepted starting in January 2010. Details are available at www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/initiatives/prizes-excellence-children-media.htm
  • Common Sense Media announced a new, three-part Digital Literacy and Citizenship initiative. Key elements include the creation of a K-12 digital citizenship curriculum aligned with national and state standards, the formation of a policy coalition with the goal of making every child in America digitally literate by the 8th grade, and the launch of a broad public awareness campaign in partnership with leading media and technology partners to educate parents, teachers, and young people about how to be responsible digital citizens. The digital citizenship curriculum is being developed with generous support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Sherwood Foundation.
  • The University of California, Irvine, today launched a new Digital Media and Learning Research Hub to nurture exploration of and build evidence around the impact of digital media on young people’s learning and implications for the future of education. Funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Center – which has physical space at the university campus and will be available virtually at www.dmlcentral.net – will support emerging research on digital media and learning by hosting international conferences, facilitating workshops and working groups, and bringing together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, industry leaders and others working on related projects. It will also house related research initiatives of the MacArthur Foundation, the first two of which will focus on 1) the transformation of learning and assessment in the 21st century and 2) examining the ways in which technology is enabling youth to participate in the political and public sphere.

The forum will also feature a technology playground showcasing cutting-edge digital innovations from academia and industry including: Siftables, cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication, SMALLab (Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Lab), a mixed-reality learning environment where students interact in real time with visual, robotic, and sonic media via 3D movements and gestures, LittleBigPlanet, a video game that allows players to create and modify their own games, and StoryKit for iPhone, an electronic storybook App where children can add their own text, drawings, photos, sounds, and creative layout to storybooks.

Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age was made possible by lead sponsor and co-convener Google along with event sponsors: the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Pearson Foundation, Apple Professional Development, Intel, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Comcast, Cisco and Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Learn more on the forum website at www.google.com/events/digitalage/index.html.

Contact

Aviva Gilbert
Google, Inc.
press@google.com

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Friday, October 16, 2009

New ways to explore with the Street View trike

Announcement
October 16, 2009

Users can nominate their favorite places to be photographed for Street View on Google Maps

With Street View in Google Maps, you can take a virtual drive over the Golden Gate Bridge or see the bustle of Times Square from the comfort of your own home, but some of the country’s most interesting and fun places aren’t accessible by car. What if you want to tour the campuses of prospective universities, find a scenic running trail, or pick the best theme park for a family trip? To gather imagery of locations like these, we have a unique new tool: the Street View trike. This mechanical masterpiece consists of 3 bicycle wheels, a mounted Street View camera, and a specially decorated unit with imaging & GPS technology. We have a team of very athletic cyclists who ride this 250-pound gadget around – and now we need the public’s help to tell us where to take the trike next.

Today we’re announcing the opportunity for users to directly give us their suggestions for the off-the-beaten-path & pedestrian-only locations they’d like to see featured in Street View on Google Maps. We often get requests from our users to photograph all sorts of new locations for Street View, and now we want to hear everyone’s best ideas of where to send the trike next. Locations can be nominated within six categories:

  • Parks & Trails
  • University Campuses
  • Theme Parks & Zoos
  • Pedestrian Malls (ie: outdoor shopping areas, boardwalks)
  • Landmarks
  • Sports Venues (ie: golf courses, racing tracks, stadium grounds)

Nominations will be open until October 28 and can be submitted at www.google.com/trike. We’ll then comb through all of the suggestions and allow the public to cast their final votes on a winner from each category for the Street View trike to visit. For any privately-owned or operated location, like a campus or theme park, we’ll work directly with the relevant organization prior to collecting the imagery.

The Street View trike began as a 20% project by Daniel Ratner, a Senior Mechanical Engineer on the Street View team. "I began thinking about building a bicycle-based Street View system after realizing how many interesting places around the world – ranging from historic landmarks to beautiful trails to shopping districts – aren’t accessible by car," says Dan. "When I’m riding the trike, so many people come up to me and ask where it’s off to next or how they can get imagery of their favorite spot, so I can’t wait to see what our users come up with."

Google Maps currently features Street View imagery taken from the trike in several locations in California, many gathered by Dan himself: LEGOLAND California, Arastradero Open Preserve, San Diego State University, Monterey coastal bike path, and Santa Monica Pier. We have let users nominate their favorite places for the Street View trike to visit in a handful of other countries; in the United Kingdom, we received around 10,000 submissions and more than 35,000 votes. We look forward to seeing what suggestions our users have for new locations all around the United States.

Note: Please contact press@google.com for photographs, b-roll video, partner quotes, and further materials.

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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Google Announces Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results

GOOGLE ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER 2009 RESULTS

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – October 15, 2009 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009.

"Google had a strong quarter—we saw 7% year-over-year revenue growth despite the tough economic conditions," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. "While there is a lot of uncertainty about the pace of economic recovery, we believe the worst of the recession is behind us and now feel confident about investing heavily in our future."

Q3 Financial Summary

Google reported revenues of $5.94 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2009, an increase of 7% compared to the third quarter of 2008. Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition costs (TAC). In the third quarter of 2009, TAC totaled $1.56 billion, or 27% of advertising revenues.

Google reports operating income, operating margin, net income, and earnings per share (EPS) on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis. The non-GAAP measures, as well as free cash flow, an alternative non-GAAP measure of liquidity, are described below and are reconciled to the corresponding GAAP measures in the accompanying financial tables.

  • GAAP operating income in the third quarter of 2009 was $2.07 billion, or 35% of revenues. This compares to GAAP operating income of $1.65 billion, or 30% of revenues, in the third quarter of 2008. Non-GAAP operating income in the third quarter of 2009 was $2.39 billion, or 40% of revenues. This compares to non-GAAP operating income of $2.02 billion, or 37% of revenues, in the third quarter of 2008.
  • GAAP net income in the third quarter of 2009 was $1.64 billion, compared to $1.29 billion in the third quarter of 2008. Non-GAAP net income in the third quarter of 2009 was $1.88 billion, compared to $1.56 billion in the third quarter of 2008.
  • GAAP EPS in the third quarter of 2009 was $5.13 on 320 million diluted shares outstanding, compared to $4.06 in the third quarter of 2008 on 318 million diluted shares outstanding. Non-GAAP EPS in the third quarter of 2009 was $5.89, compared to $4.92 in the third quarter of 2008.
  • Non-GAAP operating income and non-GAAP operating margin exclude the expenses related to stock-based compensation (SBC) and, in the third quarter of 2008, the settlement agreement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP EPS exclude the expenses related to SBC and, in the third quarter of 2008, the settlement agreement with the Authors Guild and the AAP, and the related tax benefits. In the third quarter of 2009, the charge related to SBC was $318 million, compared to $280 million in the third quarter of 2008. The tax benefit related to SBC was $73 million in the third quarter of 2009 and $63 million in the third quarter of 2008. In the third quarter of 2008, we recognized $95 million of expense related to the settlement agreement with the Authors Guild and the AAP. The tax benefit related to the settlement agreement was $39 million in the third quarter of 2008. Reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to GAAP operating income, operating margin, net income, and EPS are included at the end of this release.

Q3 Financial Highlights

Revenues – Google reported revenues of $5.94 billion in the third quarter of 2009, representing a 7% increase over third quarter 2008 revenues of $5.54 billion. Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting TAC.

Google Sites Revenues – Google-owned sites generated revenues of $3.96 billion, or 67% of total revenues, in the third quarter of 2009. This represents an 8% increase over third quarter 2008 revenues of $3.67 billion.

Google Network Revenues – Google’s partner sites generated revenues, through AdSense programs, of $1.80 billion, or 30% of total revenues, in the third quarter of 2009. This represents a 7% increase from third quarter 2008 network revenues of $1.68 billion.

International Revenues – Revenues from outside of the United States totaled $3.14 billion, representing 53% of total revenues in the third quarter of 2009, compared to 53% in the second quarter of 2009 and 51% in the third quarter of 2008. Excluding gains related to our foreign exchange risk management program, had foreign exchange rates remained constant from the second quarter of 2009 through the third quarter of 2009, our revenues in the third quarter of 2009 would have been $166 million lower. Excluding gains related to our foreign exchange risk management program, had foreign exchange rates remained constant from the third quarter of 2008 through the third quarter of 2009, our revenues in the third quarter of 2009 would have been $297 million higher.

Revenues from the United Kingdom totaled $765 million, representing 13% of revenues in the third quarter of 2009, compared to 14% in the third quarter of 2008.

In the third quarter of 2009, we recognized a benefit of $39 million to revenues through our foreign exchange risk management program.

Paid Clicks – Aggregate paid clicks, which include clicks related to ads served on Google sites and the sites of our AdSense partners, increased approximately 14% over the third quarter of 2008 and increased approximately 4% over the second quarter of 2009.

Cost-Per-Click – Average cost-per-click, which includes clicks related to ads served on Google sites and the sites of our AdSense partners, decreased approximately 6% over the third quarter of 2008 and increased approximately 5% over the second quarter of 2009.

TAC – Traffic Acquisition Costs, the portion of revenues shared with Google’s partners, increased to $1.56 billion in the third quarter of 2009, compared to TAC of $1.50 billion in the third quarter of 2008. TAC as a percentage of advertising revenues was 27% in the third quarter of 2009, compared to 28% in the third quarter of 2008.

The majority of TAC is related to amounts ultimately paid to our AdSense partners, which totaled $1.33 billion in the third quarter of 2009. TAC also includes amounts ultimately paid to certain distribution partners and others who direct traffic to our website, which totaled $229 million in the third quarter of 2009.

Other Cost of Revenues – Other cost of revenues, which is comprised primarily of data center operational expenses, amortization of intangible assets, content acquisition costs as well as credit card processing charges, decreased to $667 million, or 11% of revenues, in the third quarter of 2009, compared to $678 million, or 12% of revenues, in the third quarter of 2008.

Operating Expenses – Operating expenses, other than cost of revenues, were $1.64 billion in the third quarter of 2009, or 28% of revenues, compared to $1.72 billion in the third quarter of 2008, or 31% of revenues.

Stock-Based Compensation (SBC) – In the third quarter of 2009, the total charge related to SBC was $318 million, compared to $280 million in the third quarter of 2008.

We currently estimate SBC charges for grants to employees prior to October 1, 2009 to be approximately $1.2 billion for 2009. This estimate does not include expenses to be recognized related to employee stock awards that are granted after September 30, 2009 or non-employee stock awards that have been or may be granted.

Operating Income – GAAP operating income in the third quarter of 2009 was $2.07 billion, or 35% of revenues. This compares to GAAP operating income of $1.65 billion, or 30% of revenues, in the third quarter of 2008. Non-GAAP operating income in the third quarter of 2009 was $2.39 billion, or 40% of revenues. This compares to non-GAAP operating income of $2.02 billion, or 37% of revenues, in the third quarter of 2008.

Interest and Other Income (Expense), Net – Interest and other income (expense), net decreased to an expense of $7 million in the third quarter of 2009, compared to an income of $21 million in the third quarter of 2008.

Income Taxes – Our effective tax rate was 21% for the third quarter of 2009.

Net Income – GAAP net income in the third quarter of 2009 was $1.64 billion, compared to $1.29 billion in the third quarter of 2008. Non-GAAP net income was $1.88 billion in the third quarter of 2009, compared to $1.56 billion in the third quarter of 2008. GAAP EPS in the third quarter of 2009 was $5.13 on 320 million diluted shares outstanding, compared to $4.06 in the third quarter of 2008 on 318 million diluted shares outstanding. Non-GAAP EPS in the third quarter of 2009 was $5.89, compared to $4.92 in the third quarter of 2008.

Cash Flow and Capital Expenditures – Net cash provided by operating activities in the third quarter of 2009 totaled $2.73 billion, compared to $2.18 billion in the third quarter of 2008. In the third quarter of 2009, capital expenditures were $186 million, the majority of which was related to IT infrastructure investments, including data centers, servers, and networking equipment. Free cash flow, an alternative non-GAAP measure of liquidity, is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures. In the third quarter of 2009, free cash flow was $2.54 billion.

We expect to continue to make significant capital expenditures.

A reconciliation of free cash flow to net cash provided by operating activities, the GAAP measure of liquidity, is included at the end of this release.

Cash – As of September 30, 2009, cash, cash equivalents, and short-term marketable securities were $22.0 billion.

On a worldwide basis, Google employed 19,665 full-time employees as of September 30, 2009, down from 19,786 full-time employees as of June 30, 2009.

WEBCAST AND CONFERENCE CALL INFORMATION

A live audio webcast of Google’s third quarter 2009 earnings release call will be available at investor.google.com/webcast.html. The call begins today at 1:30 PM (PT) / 4:30 PM (ET). This press release, the financial tables, as well as other supplemental information including the reconciliations of certain non-GAAP measures to their nearest comparable GAAP measures, are also available on that site.

Following the earnings conference call, Google will host an additional question-and-answer session to provide an opportunity for financial analysts to ask more detailed product and financial questions. This follow-up call will begin today at 3:00 PM (PT) / 6:00 PM (ET) and will also be webcast and available at investor.google.com/webcast.html.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements include statements regarding our expected stock-based compensation charges and our plans to invest heavily in our business and make significant capital expenditures. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted, and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. The potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from the results predicted include, among others, unforeseen changes in our hiring patterns and our need to expend capital to accommodate the growth of the business, as well as those risks and uncertainties included under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, which is on file with the SEC and is available on our investor relations website at investor.google.comand on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Additional information will also be set forth in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2009, which we expect to file with the SEC in November 2009. All information provided in this release and in the attachments is as of October 15, 2009, and Google undertakes no duty to update this information.

ABOUT NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES

To supplement our consolidated financial statements, which statements are prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, we use the following non-GAAP financial measures: non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP EPS, and free cash flow. The presentation of this financial information is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. For more information on these non-GAAP financial measures, please see the tables captioned "Reconciliations of non-GAAP results of operations measures to the nearest comparable GAAP measures" and "Reconciliation from net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow" included at the end of this release.

We use these non-GAAP financial measures for financial and operational decision making and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons. Our management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance and liquidity by excluding certain expenses and expenditures that may not be indicative of our "recurring core business operating results," meaning our operating performance excluding not only non-cash charges, such as stock-based compensation, but also discrete cash charges that are infrequent in nature. We believe that both management and investors benefit from referring to these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing our performance and when planning, forecasting, and analyzing future periods. These non-GAAP financial measures also facilitate management’s internal comparisons to our historical performance and liquidity as well as comparisons to our competitors’ operating results. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors both because (1) they allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management in its financial and operational decision making and (2) they are used by our institutional investors and the analyst community to help them analyze the health of our business.

Non-GAAP operating income and operating margin. We define non-GAAP operating income as operating income plus stock-based compensation and, in the third quarter of 2008, a non-recurring cash charge. Non-GAAP operating margin is defined as non-GAAP operating income divided by revenues. Google considers these non-GAAP financial measures to be useful metrics for management and investors because they exclude the effect of stock-based compensation and one-time events so that Google’s management and investors can compare Google’s recurring core business operating results over multiple periods. Because of varying available valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions and the variety of award types that companies can use under FAS 123R, Google’s management believes that providing a non-GAAP financial measure that excludes stock-based compensation allows investors to make meaningful comparisons between Google’s recurring core business operating results and those of other companies, as well as providing Google’s management with an important tool for financial and operational decision making and for evaluating Google’s own recurring core business operating results over different periods of time. There are a number of limitations related to the use of non-GAAP operating income versus operating income calculated in accordance with GAAP. First, non-GAAP operating income excludes some costs, namely, stock-based compensation, that are recurring. Stock-based compensation has been and will continue to be for the foreseeable future a significant recurring expense in Google’s business. Second, stock-based compensation is an important part of our employees’ compensation and impacts their performance. Third, the components of the costs that we exclude in our calculation of non-GAAP operating income may differ from the components that our peer companies exclude when they report their results of operations. Management compensates for these limitations by providing specific information regarding the GAAP amounts excluded from non-GAAP operating income and evaluating non-GAAP operating income together with operating income calculated in accordance with GAAP.

Non-GAAP net income and EPS. We define non-GAAP net income as net income plus stock-based compensation and, in the third quarter of 2008, a non-recurring cash charge, less the related tax effect. We define non-GAAP EPS as non-GAAP net income divided by the weighted average outstanding shares, on a fully-diluted basis. We consider these non-GAAP financial measures to be a useful metric for management and investors for the same reasons that Google uses non-GAAP operating income and non-GAAP operating margin. However, in order to provide a complete picture of our recurring core business operating results, we exclude from non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP EPS the tax effects associated with stock-based compensation and the non-recurring cash charge in the third quarter of 2008. Without excluding these tax effects, investors would only see the gross effect that excluding these expenses had on our operating results. The same limitations described above regarding Google’s use of non-GAAP operating income and non-GAAP operating margin apply to our use of non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP EPS. Management compensates for these limitations by providing specific information regarding the GAAP amounts excluded from non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP EPS and evaluating non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP EPS together with net income and EPS calculated in accordance with GAAP.

Free cash flow. We define free cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities minus capital expenditures. We consider free cash flow to be a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business that, after the acquisition of property and equipment, including information technology infrastructure and land and buildings, can be used for strategic opportunities, including investing in our business, making strategic acquisitions, and strengthening the balance sheet. Analysis of free cash flow also facilitates management’s comparisons of our operating results to competitors’ operating results. A limitation of using free cash flow versus the GAAP measure of net cash provided by operating activities as a means for evaluating Google is that free cash flow does not represent the total increase or decrease in the cash balance from operations for the period because it excludes cash used for capital expenditures during the period. Our management compensates for this limitation by providing information about our capital expenditures on the face of the cash flow statement and under the caption "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and Annual Report on Form 10-K. Google has computed free cash flow using the same consistent method from quarter to quarter and year to year.

The accompanying tables have more details on the GAAP financial measures that are most directly comparable to non-GAAP financial measures and the related reconciliations between these financial measures.

Contacts:

Maria Shim Investor Relations +1-650-253-7663 marias@google.comJane Penner Corporate Communications +1-650-214-1624 jcpenner@google.com

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS


(In thousands)
December 31,September 30,
2008*2009
(unaudited)
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents$ 8,656,672$ 12,087,115
Marketable securities7,189,0999,907,276
Accounts receivable, net of allowance2,642,1922,807,341
Deferred income taxes, net286,105663,446
Income taxes receivable, net-72,263
Prepaid revenue share, expenses and other assets1,404,114816,103
Total current assets20,178,18226,353,544
Prepaid revenue share, expenses and other assets, non-current433,846415,137
Deferred income taxes, net, non-current-233,836
Non-marketable equity securities85,160110,372
Property and equipment, net5,233,8434,917,491
Intangible assets, net996,690823,248
Goodwill4,839,8544,849,217
Total assets$ 31,767,575$ 37,702,845
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable$ 178,004$ 192,743
Accrued compensation and benefits811,643831,205
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities480,263446,322
Accrued revenue share532,547599,283
Deferred revenue218,084252,221
Income taxes payable, net81,549-
Total current liabilities2,302,0902,321,774
Deferred revenue, non-current29,81835,846
Income taxes payable, net, non-current890,1151,318,315
Deferred income taxes, net, non-current12,515-
Other long-term liabilities294,175305,157
Stockholders’ equity:
Common stock315317
Additional paid-in capital14,450,33815,380,673
Accumulated other comprehensive income226,579232,785
Retained earnings13,561,63018,107,978
Total stockholders’ equity28,238,86233,721,753
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity$ 31,767,575$ 37,702,845

* Derived from audited financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME


(In thousands, except per share amounts)
Three Months EndedNine Months Ended
September 30,September 30,
2008200920082009
(unaudited)
Revenues$ 5,541,391$ 5,944,851$ 16,094,646$ 16,976,738
Costs and expenses:
Cost of revenues (including stock-based compensation
expense of $10,729, $14,871, $29,240, $41,000)
2,173,3902,226,2406,431,5016,435,715
Research and development (including stock-based compensation
expense of $169,263, $195,624, $550,343, $546,394)
704,571757,5242,059,8512,106,793
Sales and marketing (including stock-based compensation
expense of $64,497, $62,260, $149,666, $178,580)
508,801497,8121,440,2521,400,792
General and administrative (including stock-based compensation
expense of $35,550, $44,772, $104,345, $122,106)
507,064389,5571,391,2781,202,235
Total costs and expenses3,893,8263,871,13311,322,88211,145,535
Income from operations1,647,5652,073,7184,771,7645,831,203
Interest and other income (expense), net21,217(7,177)246,485(18,685)
Income before income taxes1,668,7822,066,5415,018,2495,812,518
Provision for income taxes378,844427,5661,173,8331,266,170
Net income$ 1,289,938$ 1,638,975$ 3,844,416$ 4,546,348
Net income per share – basic$ 4.10$ 5.18$ 12.25$ 14.39
Net income per share – diluted$ 4.06$ 5.13$ 12.10$ 14.27
Shares used in per share calculation – basic314,241316,497313,729315,883
Shares used in per share calculation – diluted317,776319,746317,730318,501

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS


(In thousands)
Three Months EndedNine Months Ended
September 30,September 30,
2008200920082009
(unaudited)
Operating activities
Net income$ 1,289,938$ 1,638,975$ 3,844,416$ 4,546,348
Adjustments:
Depreciation and amortization of property and equipment309,482311,102898,762943,213
Amortization of intangibles and other76,76467,521215,615215,589
Stock-based compensation expense280,039317,527833,594888,080
Excess tax benefits from stock-based award activities(19,791)(28,034)(114,770)(64,393)
Deferred income taxes(18,707)(173,907)(124,597)(288,338)
Other, net10,169(3,251)(14,488)(26,338)
Changes in assets and liabilities, net of effects of acquisitions:
Accounts receivable78,049(84,951)(218,326)(126,679)
Income taxes, net24,314160,621552,67397,103
Prepaid revenue share, expenses and other assets12,844225,663(169,959)313,458
Accounts payable(191,402)(32,500)(152,165)9,315
Accrued expenses and other liabilities310,133266,892162,882(14,275)
Accrued revenue share12,01737,884(4,433)57,007
Deferred revenue11,10622,44121,35434,577
Net cash provided by operating activities2,184,9552,725,9835,730,5586,584,667
Investing activities
Purchases of property and equipment(451,503)(186,339)(1,990,617)(588,531)
Purchases of marketable securities(2,892,983)(8,951,434)(7,814,293)(19,587,001)
Maturities and sales of marketable securities2,218,3446,580,2749,634,90317,015,583
Investments in non-marketable equity securities(35,377)(17,510)(44,869)(45,941)
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired and proceeds received
from divestiture, and purchases of intangible and other assets
24,562(34,980)(3,287,708)(40,073)
Net cash used in investing activities(1,136,957)(2,609,989)(3,502,584)(3,245,963)
Net (payments) proceeds related to stock-based award activities(15,506)463(38,252)10,458
Excess tax benefits from stock-based award activities19,79128,034114,77064,393
Net cash provided by financing activities4,28528,49776,51874,851
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents(45,350)31,273(15,616)16,888
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents1,006,933175,7642,288,8763,430,443
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period7,363,53611,911,3516,081,5938,656,672
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period$ 8,370,469$ 12,087,115$ 8,370,469$ 12,087,115

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Reconciliations of non-GAAP results of operations measures to the nearest comparable GAAP measures


The following table presents certain non-GAAP results before certain material items (in thousands, except per share amounts, unaudited):

Three Months Ended September 30, 2008Three Months Ended September 30, 2009
GAAP ActualOperating
Margin (a)
AdjustmentsNon-GAAP
Results
Non-GAAP
Operating
Margin (b)
GAAP ActualOperating
Margin (a)
AdjustmentsNon-GAAP
Results
Non-GAAP
Operating
Margin (b)
$ 280,039(c)$ 317,527(d)
95,100(e)
Income from operations$ 1,647,56529.7%$ 375,139$ 2,022,70436.5%$ 2,073,71834.9%$ 317,527$ 2,391,24540.2%
$ 280,039(c)$ 317,527(d)
(63,100)(f)(72,582)(f)
95,100(e)
(38,871)(g)
Net income$ 1,289,938$ 273,168$ 1,563,106$ 1,638,975$ 244,945$ 1,883,920
Net income per share – diluted$ 4.06$ 4.92$ 5.13$ 5.89
Shares used in per share calculation – diluted317,776317,776319,746319,746

(a) Operating margin is defined as income from operations divided by revenues.
(b) Non-GAAP operating margin is defined as non-GAAP income from operations divided by revenues.
(c) To eliminate $280.0 million of stock-based compensation expense recorded in the third quarter of 2008.
(d) To eliminate $317.5 million of stock-based compensation expense recorded in the third quarter of 2009.
(e) To eliminate $95.1 million of expense related to the settlement agreement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers.
(f) To eliminate income tax effects related to expenses noted in (c) and (d).
(g) To eliminate income tax effects related to the expense noted in (e).

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Reconciliation from net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow (in thousands, unaudited):


Three Months Ended
September 30, 2009
Net cash provided by operating activities$ 2,725,983
Less purchases of property and equipment(186,339)
Free cash flow$ 2,539,644
Net cash used in investing activities*$ (2,609,989)
Net cash provided by financing activities$ 28,497


*includes purchases of property and equipment

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The following table presents our revenues by revenue source (in thousands, unaudited):


Three Months EndedNine Months Ended
September 30,September 30,
2008200920082009
Advertising revenues:
Google web sites$ 3,672,111$ 3,955,731$ 10,602,660$ 11,301,182
Google Network web sites1,679,8611,800,8905,021,2835,122,432
Total advertising revenues5,351,9725,756,62115,623,94316,423,614
Licensing and other revenues189,419188,230470,703553,124
Revenues$ 5,541,391$ 5,944,851$ 16,094,646$ 16,976,738

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The following table presents our revenues by revenue source, as a percentage of total revenues (unaudited):


Three Months EndedNine Months Ended
September 30,September 30,
2008200920082009
Advertising revenues:
Google web sites67%67%66%67%
Google Network web sites30%30%31%30%
Total advertising revenues97%97%97%97%
Licensing and other revenues3%3%3%3%
Revenues100%100%100%100%

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Building Maker: A new way to create 3D models for Google Earth

Announcement
October 13, 2009

From large cities like New York and Tokyo, to small towns like Madison, NJ and Dursley, England, a growing number of places around the world have become explorable in 3D with Google Earth. We’re working towards an ambitious goal – to display 3D models of all the world’s buildings in Google Earth – and we know that in order to accomplish this, keep the buildings up to date, and make them relevant, we need to make the modeling process as open and inclusive as possible.

Today, we’re launching Google Building Maker, a new way to create geo-located 3D models of buildings for Google Earth. Building Maker is a tool designed to make it possible for anyone with a web-browser to make high quality, photo-textured 3D models. In many ways, Building Maker is like a very large, and very smart, collection of building blocks – if you can assemble the blocks to match the shape of your favorite building, you’ll be able to use the tool.

Here’s how it works. First, open your browser and go to Building Maker; make sure you’ve installed the latest version of Google Earth on your computer and that your browser supports the Google Earth plug-in. Next, choose a building from one of the fifty cities and towns where modeling is currently possible. Even if you choose a building that has already been modeled, you can use Building Maker to produce a higher quality model that could replace the current one in Google Earth. Building Maker provides you with images taken from a variety of different aerial angles; you just select the ‘smart blocks’ that are the best fit and match the blocks to the images. Once you’ve matched the blocks to the objects in the imagery, Building Maker will generate a photo-textured 3D model of your building for Google Earth. If you’re happy with your model, you can save your work online in the Google 3D Warehouse and have it reviewed for use in Google Earth, where, if approved, it would appear in the 3D Buildings layer with a credit given to you.

For a brief demo of Building Maker, have a look at this video:

Building Maker is the latest example of our efforts to provide users with the tools to contribute to the world’s most comprehensive 3D atlas. In addition to Building Maker, we’ve recently released Google SketchUp 7.1 with Street View photo textures and made some improvements to our 3D Warehouse pipeline. We’re excited to see that many of the 3D buildings in Google Earth have been modeled by enthusiastic users who have worked to put their favorite places on the map and we hope Building Maker will encourage even more people, especially novices, to help model the world in 3D.

To learn more about Building Maker, read our blog post on the Official Google Blog.

Give Building Maker a try at www.google.com/buildingmaker. To use Building Maker, you’ll need a browser that supports the Google Earth plug-in. Download the Google Earth plug-in.

Google Communications contact:

Aaron Stein
press@google.com

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Monday, October 12, 2009

Arthur Levinson Resigns from Google’s Board of Directors

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (October 12, 2009) – Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that Dr. Arthur Levinson has resigned as a member of the company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. Levinson has been on the Google Board since April 2004.

Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt described Levinson as a good friend and valued colleague. "Art has been a key part of Google’s success these past five years, offering unvarnished advice and vital counsel on every big issue and opportunity Google has faced," Schmidt said. "Though he leaves as a member of our Board, Art will always have a special place at Google."

"Working with Eric, Larry, Sergey and the whole Google team has been a remarkable experience for me. I greatly admire what they’ve built and have no doubt that Google has a terrific future," said Levinson.

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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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Street View on Google Maps comes to Canada

Announcement
October 7, 2009

English | French

In time for the 2010 Winter Games, street-level imagery helps Canadians and the world explore Canada

Vancouver, October 7, 2009—Today Google has expanded its popular Street View on Google Maps service to include imagery from eleven cities across Canada, including Vancouver and Whistler. With the 2010 Winter Games coming in February, Street View on Google Maps will enable people within Canada and worldwide to explore the host city and Olympic venues, from B.C. Place Stadium to Whistler Village, and other regions and landmarks across Canada.

Using Street View on Google Maps, a free feature, people can virtually explore and navigate neighbourhoods through panoramic street-level images. The tool first launched in May 2007 and is hugely popular worldwide; in 2009 alone, Canadians have viewed more than 150 million Street View images of other countries. Imagery is now available for 13 countries in addition to Canada: Australia, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK and the U.S. It is also available on Google Maps for Mobile.

The Canadian cities and regions currently explorable via Street View on Google Maps are: Vancouver, Whistler, Squamish, Banff, Calgary, Kitchener-Waterloo, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax. Additional cities and regions throughout the country will be added soon.

Jonathan Lister, Head of Google Canada, said, "We’re thrilled that Street View on Google Maps is now available for Canada in time for the 2010 Winter Games. Street View has been hugely popular with our users worldwide, and now Canadians and others can see the streets and landmarks of Vancouver, Whistler, and other cities, and innovate in exciting ways. Governments, businesses, and individuals across Canada use Google Maps and Google Earth every day as essential and informative tools: Street View now adds a new dimension."

Gregor Robertson, Mayor of Vancouver, added, "We’re very excited to be working together with Google to let people from around the world see first hand what an amazing city Vancouver is to visit, work and invest in. And like Google, we’re also committed to using open technology standards to increase knowledge, accessibility and innovation in Vancouver. We’re thrilled that the world can now look at our city online in Street View on Google Maps."

To view the Street View imagery, simply zoom into the lowest level on Google Maps (maps.google.ca) or drag the orange "Pegman" icon on the left-hand side of the map onto a blue-lined street. In addition to individuals, Canadian businesses can benefit from Street View by embedding Google Maps directly into their website for free, to help them promote their sites or raise awareness of a local landmark.

Google has gone to great lengths to ensure Canadians’ privacy while enabling them to benefit from Street View on Google Maps. The feature only contains imagery that is already visible from public roads and blurs identifiable faces and licence plates. In addition, users can easily flag for removal images that they consider sensitive or inappropriate by clicking on the "Report a problem" link at the bottom of any image. Google has consulted with Canada’s federal and provincial Privacy Commissioners in developing Street View and its privacy safeguards.

More details and resources, including an image gallery and videos, are available on our bilingual website (google.ca/streetview).

Launch partners:

Businesses and organizations in Canada have already identified opportunities for Street View on Google Maps to be used in real estate, tourism, travel, and heritage. Here’s what some of them are saying:

Gregor Robertson, Mayor of Vancouver, Host City for the 2010 Winter Games
"We’re very excited to be working together with Google to let people from around the world see first hand what an amazing city Vancouver is to visit, work and invest in. And like Google, we’re also committed to using open technology standards to increase knowledge, accessibility and innovation in Vancouver. We’re thrilled that the world can now look at our city online in Street View on Google Maps."

Rod Harris, President & CEO, Tourism British Columbia
"At Tourism British Columbia, we strongly believe that a travel experience begins at home – as people go through the process of fantasizing about where they want to go, and what they want to experience. Street View on Google Maps provides an incredibly authentic sampling of what visitors can see and do in a destination such as British Columbia. As travellers go through the decision-making cycle of starting with a curiosity about a new place or experience, to seeing it come to life through Street View, to ultimately deciding an activity is something they must do, Google has provided a potent new tool to stimulate imaginations and convert tourism dreamers into doers."

Charles Lapointe, CEO, Tourism Montréal
"Tourisme Montréal is very excited to be working with Google on the launch of Street View in Canada. Always on the forefront of technological innovation opportunities, Tourism Montréal adds this partnership to its Web strategy and will hopefully become one of the first destination management organizations in the world to incorporate Google’s Street View images directly into its Web site. We realize that the technology proposed by Google will help potential visitors to Montréal to get a better feel of the destination before visiting, to navigate easily during their stay and to share their experiences with friends and relatives after their vacation. All great news for the Montréal tourism industry!"

Peggy Mooney, Executive Director, Heritage Toronto
"Heritage Toronto is committed to new initiatives that promote our city’s history. Very few people are aware of the diversity of Toronto’s heritage, which is why Street View on Google Maps is a welcome addition to Canada. Through the click of a mouse, people can view their neighbourhoods in a new light – the buildings, sites and the stories on every street corner that have shaped our city. Street View on Google Maps makes Toronto’s history more accessible to everyone."

Karen Henrich, Founder/CEO, ChicWalks.com
"Street View on Google Maps provides a virtual street-level view of our step-by-step shopping walks, adding significant wow factor to our site. By incorporating this technology, shoppers can walk the route before they go, instantly transporting them onto the streets and providing a virtual window shopping look at the stores they plan to visit. This allows us to add a fun, engaging and interactive experience that keeps people coming back for more. We look forward to incorporating Street View on Google Maps as we document shopping walks in all of the fashion capitals of the world."

Facts & Figures:

  • Our drivers told us the biggest challenge to driving in Canada was the weather … it rains a lot in Vancouver!
  • Our drivers said the most fun part of mapping Canada was trying to guess how many Tim Horton’s a driver would pass each day.
  • The optimum weather conditions for capturing Street View imagery are dry and slightly overcast skies; rain, snow, fog and hail are the worst.
  • Street View on Google Maps uses state-of-the-art face detection technology to blur faces – technology which was added for new imagery in Manhattan in May 2008. This technology is new and sometimes we get some false positives: in some cases you can find we’ve blurred the face of a horse or even a statue!
  • Geography, population density, weather, and traffic are just some of the logistical issues that can affect the time it takes to cover a selected area, so it can take several months to cover an area.
  • The Street View mascot is called Pegman. He’s called Pegman because he looks like a clothes peg. He sometimes gets dressed up for holidays and other special occasions. In the past he’s been a snowman, a hippie, a witch, Uncle Sam, and riding a bike in the Tour de France.
  • Street View on Google Maps has been used for some imaginative purposes, including one Google employee who proposed to his girlfriend via Street View. Police in Massachusetts used Street View to find the location of a kidnapped child.

Street View in numbers:

  • 5 Number of U.S. cities available with the first ever launch of Street View on Google Maps (San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver).
  • 14 Number of countries where Street View is currently available (Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States).
  • 12 Average number of panoramas someone looks at each time they use Street View.
  • 15 Number of times a day that Street View drivers have to climb on top of the roof to clean lenses, cover up when raining, and check equipment – some use small step ladders to make it easier.
  • 11 – Number of Canadian cities and regions now explorable in Street View: Banff, Calgary, Halifax, Kitchener-Waterloo, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Squamish, Toronto, Vancouver and Whistler.
  • 49,400 Number of kilometres of road covered for the Street View launch in Canada.
  • 10,000 Number of corrections or additions our users make to Google Maps each hour.
  • One million Hours that Google Maps and Google Earth users spend browsing geographic content every day.
  • Tens of millions Number of images that have been captured for Street View on Google Maps so far.
  • More than 150 million Number of Street View images that Canadians have viewed of other countries in 2009 alone.

About our partners:

City of Vancouver

The world comes to Vancouver for entrepreneurial innovation, energetic diversity and the inspirations of our natural paradise. Vancouver invites you to experience it all during the excitement of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Explore the possibilities at vancouver.ca.

Contact for Mayor Robertson: Kevin Quinlan 778.995.2264 kevin.quinlan@vancouver.ca
Contact for City of Vancouver: Corporate Communications 604.871.6336

Tourism British Columbia

Visit HelloBC.com, the official travel planning site of Tourism British Columbia, and find information on Vancouver accommodations and attractions. Feel the excitement as British Columbia, home of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games prepares to welcome the world.

Contact: William Bakker 604.775.0116 william.bakker@tourismbc.com

Tourisme Montréal

Tourisme Montréal is responsible for providing leadership in the concerted efforts of hospitality and promotion in order to position the destination on leisure and business travel markets. It is also responsible for developing Montréal’s tourism product in accordance with the ever-changing conditions of the market.
Contact: Pierre Bellerose 514.844.2404 bellerose.pierre@tourisme-montreal.org

Heritage Toronto

Heritage Toronto is a charitable organization that works with the citizens of Toronto to advocate for, preserve, and promote a greater appreciation for our city’s rich heritage. Through partnerships with local community groups and volunteers, Heritage Toronto works to heighten awareness of our shared history by providing city-wide programs and services. Programs include free neighbourhood walking tours, the annual Heritage Toronto Awards and William Kilbourn Memorial Lecture, a heritage plaques and markers program and participation in Doors Open Toronto.

Contact: Rebecca Carson 416.338.1339 rcarson@toronto.ca

ChicWalks.com

ChicWalks.com is the answer for those wishing to hit the shopping ground running in a city, without having to piece together a strategic plan by spending hours searching a bunch of different sites or other resources that are frequently out-dated. Each ChicWalk also lists eating, sleeping and other notable attractions and diversions along the way. The walks are also great for locals wanting to check out what’s new or review different areas before heading out on shopping excursions. The copy is color-coded, engaging, cheeky and fun. The walks can be downloaded to a mobile, or printed out free of charge by users, in thanks to the businesses featured on the walks.

Contact: Karen Henrich 604.628.2311 karen@chicwalks.com

Google Communications contact:

Tamara Micner
press@google.com

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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Google and Verizon Wireless Android Partnership Announcement

Announcement
October 6, 2009

Listen to a replay of the webcast of the announcement with Eric Schmidt, chairman of the board and CEO of Google Inc., and Lowell McAdam, CEO of Verizon Wireless: www.thomson-webcast.net/us/dispatching/google-verizon-wireless_20091006.

To listen to a replay of the audio-only portion of the webcast, call:

866-495-6464 (toll free)
+1 203-369-1765 (international)
Passcode: 85643

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Monday, October 5, 2009

Google to Announce Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (October 5, 2009) – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that it will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss third quarter 2009 financial results on Thursday, October 15, 2009 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.html. The webcast version of the conference call will be available through the same link following the conference call.

Following the earnings conference call, Google will host an additional question-and-answer session at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time (6:00 p.m. Eastern Time) to provide an opportunity for financial analysts to ask more detailed product and financial questions. This follow-up call will also be webcast and available at investor.google.com/webcast.html.

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

Jane Penner
Corporate Communications
650.214.1624
jcpenner@google.com

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