Google to Present at the NASDAQ 18th Investor Program

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., November 28, 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that George Reyes, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development, will present at the NASDAQ 18th Investor Program in London. The session is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. London Local Time (7:30 a.m. Eastern Time / 4:30 a.m. Pacific Time) on Wednesday, December 6,...

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Holiday Food And Shopping, Celebrity Controversies Foremost In The Weekly Google Zeitgeist

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Google Checkout Adds New Merchants, Charity Donations and Promotions to New Holiday Site

AnnouncementNovember 27, 2006Looking for the perfect holiday gift this past weekend might have been enough to send most shoppers over the edge. That’s why Cyber Monday, November 27, is expected to attract a crowd of online shoppers for this year’s holiday season. And now, Google Checkout is working with even more merchants to help gift givers quickly and easily buy exactly what they want.Just in time for the holidays, Toys "R"...

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Students Speak Out with Google Technology to Address Climate Change

AnnouncementNovember 27, 2006When you were in school, you probably had limited interaction with students at other schools in your county, never mind students halfway around the world. You might have seen them on the soccer field a couple of times a year, met them at a regional math bee, or engaged in a pen pal program. Getting great young minds working together on one project all together, across geographies, used to be a rare...

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Google Checkout Makes Holiday Shopping Even Faster and Easier This Year

AnnouncementNovember 21, 2006New Survey Says Forty Percent of Americans Expected to Shop Online From Work This Holiday SeasonThe Monday after Thanksgiving – Cyber Monday – is expected to draw another record crowd of online shoppers this year, as people log on after spending the holiday weekend fighting the crowds and browsing through stores.According to a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive and commissioned by Google Checkout,...

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Sitemaps for Google News

AnnouncementNovember 21, 2006On the heels of Thursday’s Sitemaps.org announcement, Google has launched a new Sitemap protocol and additions to Google webmaster tools for Google News. This is only available to Google News publishers, so it does not pertain to any efforts around the new Sitemaps.org protocol.Sitemaps are an XML-based open source protocol that enable webmasters to inform search engines about their websites, enhance...

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Major Search Engines Unite to Support a Common Mechanism for Website Submission

Sitemaps protocol will enable Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft to provide more comprehensive and fresh search resultsLas Vegas, November 16, 2006 – In the first joint and open initiative to improve the Web crawl process for search engines, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft today announced support for Sitemaps 0.90 (www.sitemaps.org), a free and easy way for webmasters to notify search engines about their websites and be indexed more comprehensively...

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Google Enterprise Search Superstar Award Celebrates Excellence in Business Search

AnnouncementNovember 15, 2006The search is on. Google is looking for the best uses of Google search technology from our enterprise customers.The Google Enterprise Search Superstar award, launching today, celebrates the people and companies that help make searching inside of business as easy as searching on Google.com.Whether they are using the Google Search Appliance to share information in a global company, or the Google Mini...

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The University of Virginia Library Joins the Google Books Library Project

AnnouncementNovember 14, 2006Today, Google welcomes its newest partner – the University of Virginia Library – to the Google Books Library Project. Built by Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the United States, the U.Va. Library carries a wealth of early American historical material among its rich collections.Google will digitize hundreds of thousands of books from the Library, including selected portions of the Library’s...

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Civic Lessons & Celebrity Dramas Signify The Weekly Google Zeitgeist

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Google Apps for Your Domain Expands to Include the Start Page for Organizations

If we sprinkled pixie dust on the Google Personalized Homepage and onto Google Apps for Your Domain, and threw them together on a server, what would happen?We’d launch the Start Page for organizations, a new feature now part of Google Apps for Your Domain. Available today, the Start Page brings organizations of all sizes a customizable homepage, hosted by Google, that serves two main functions:It’s your users’ central access point...

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Google Celebrates Geography Awareness Week with New Innovations for Google Earth

New Featured Content Pays Tribute to Africa and Introduces Users to Historical Maps from the David Rumsey Map CollectionMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Nov. 13, 2006 – In celebration of Geography Awareness Week, Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) today released new Featured Content for Google Earth that connects users to information about the history of the...

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Google Closes Acquisition of YouTube

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., November 13, 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has closed its acquisition of YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos. In connection with the acquisition Google issued an aggregate of 3,217,560 shares, and restricted stock units, options and a warrant exercisable for or convertible into an aggregate of 442,210 shares, of Google’s Class A common...

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Google to Present at the ThinkEquity Media/Tech Convergence Summit

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., November 9, 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that John Hanke, Director of Product Management, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the ThinkEquity Media/Tech Convergence Summit in New York City. The session is scheduled for 9:55 a.m. Eastern Time (6:55 a.m. Pacific Time) on Wednesday, November 15, 2006.To access the audio webcast of the session, please visit investor.google.com/webcast.html.About...

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Politics, Holidays And Celebrity Dish Dominate The Weekly Google Zeitgeist

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Email On-the-Go Now Even Easier – Google Launches New Mobile Application for Speedier Access to Gmail

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., November 2, 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the release of an innovative new mobile client, Gmail for mobile devices. This freely downloadable Java application delivers Gmail users the look and feel of Gmail through a fast, feature-rich interface that’s optimized for handheld devices. With the release...

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