Google Appoints Ann Mather to its Board of Directors

Mather to Chair Google’s Audit CommitteeMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – November 29, 2005 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced it has appointed Ann Mather to its Board of Directors. As a corporate finance executive who has driven accounting and strategic business initiatives for some of the world’s most recognized brand names for nearly 25 years, Mather will also serve as Chairperson for Google’s Audit Committee. Mather’s appointment...

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AdSense Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up

AnnouncementNovember 22, 2005Today, Google announced Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up, a new feature that enables AdSense publishers to sign up advertisers directly from their pages. With this feature, a publisher’s Google ad units will display an ‘Advertise on this site’ link that takes interested advertisers to a landing page where they can quickly create an AdWords ad exclusively targeting that publisher’s site. Onsite Advertiser...

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AdWords Separate Content Bidding

AnnouncementNovember 22, 2005Today, Google launched separate content bidding for Google AdWords. This enhancement to Google AdWords enables advertisers to place one bid for ads that run on content sites and a separate bid for ads that run on search sites within the Google Network. Previously, the single keyword bid placed by advertisers was applied to their ads on both search and content pages. In addition, the minimum bid for...

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Froogle Local

AnnouncementNovember 22, 2005Let’s face it. There’s bravery, and then there’s brave enough to hit the mall the day after Thanksgiving. Thanks to a new feature in Froogle, Google’s shopping search engine, shoppers can now find that must-have gift at a store in their neighborhood without running all over town.Today Google announced the addition...

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Google Continues International Expansion, Opens Offices in Latin America

Company Launches Operations in So Paulo, Mexico CityMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – November 17, 2005 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced its continuing international expansion with the launch of two Latin American operations centres in So Paulo, Brazil and Mexico City, Mexico. These new offices will enable Google to provide the best advertising services and search experience to its users, advertisers and partners in Brazil,...

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Announcing Google Base

AnnouncementNovember 16, 2005Today, we launched Google Base, a free online service where users can submit all types of online and offline content that Google will host and make searchable online. Google Base is currently in beta and can be found on the web atbase.google.com.Google Base is an extension of Google’s existing content collection efforts such as our traditional web crawl system – as well as Google Sitemaps, Google Print...

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Web Analytics Free of Charge, Courtesy of Google

Powerful web analytics service now available to all businessesMountain View, Calif. Nov. 14, 2005 – Today, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that its hosted web analytics service, Google Analytics, is now free. Formerly known as Urchin from Google, Google Analytics helps businesses use performance data to improve their online marketing campaigns and websites. With Google Analytics, businesses can determine what keywords...

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Personalized Search Graduates from Google Labs

AnnouncementNovember 10, 2005We’re happy to announce that today Google Personalized Search graduated from Labs and is ready for prime time. As part of our continued efforts to improve the quality of search results, Personalized Search will now be offered to all users when they create a new Google Account.Personalized Search is an improvement to Google search that orders results based on previous queries. Learning from the history...

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Google Enterprise Announces Search Replacement Program

AnnouncementNovember 8, 2005Google today announced a search replacement program whereby any business that replaces its existing search solution with a Google Search Appliance by the end of the year will receive a free Google Mini. More than 2,000 businesses worldwide use Google’s search products to deliver Google-quality search results to customers, employees and partners."Given the recent turmoil with providers of legacy search...

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Google Desktop out of beta

AnnouncementNovember 3, 2005After extensive tire-kicking and test-driving, we’re happy to announce that Google Desktop 2 is coming out of beta with a number of enhancements, new third-party panels, and expanded plug-in development options. Google Desktop is a free downloadable application that combines desktop search with an intelligent sidebar...

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Google Makes Public Domain Books Accessible To The World

Google Print Unveils Collection of Public Domain Books from Libraries at University of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford, and the New York Public LibraryMountain View, Calif. Nov. 3, 2005 – Today, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced the availability of the first large collection of public domain books on Google Print. This collection, scanned as part of the company’s book digitization project with several of the world’s largest libraries,...

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