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e Le er from the Founders contained in
this Annual Report contains forward-looking
statements within the meaning of the federal
securities laws.  ese forward-looking
statements include, but are not limited to,
statements related to our ability to improve our
search and advertising systems and grow our
local advertiser base, our ability to successfully
integrate businesses that we have acquired,
our ability to improve and integrate our
applications products, our ability to achieve
our renewable energy goals and our ability
to continue to make Google a more global
company.  ese forward-looking statements
are based on current expectations, forecasts
and assumptions and involve a number of risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to di er materially from those anticipated by
these forward-looking statements. Such risks
and uncertainties include a variety of factors,
some of which are beyond our control. In
particular, such risks and uncertainties include
the competition that we face from various
Internet companies, our ability to develop
and improve products that provide users with
the information they are searching for and
that provides relevant advertisements to users
and allows advertisers to target and tune their
advertising and accurately measure the results
of their advertising programs, di culties
inherent in integrating acquired businesses, the
many risks relating to successful development
and marketing of technology, the pressures
and challenges that the rapid growth places
on our ability to maintain our corporate
culture, the disruption caused by third party
applications that interfere with our products,
the e ect of U.S. and foreign laws and regulatory
processes, our ability to manage technology
advances or changing business requirements,
and technical and implementation challenges
related to obtaining our renewable energy goals.
Additional factors that could cause results to
di er materially from those described in these
forward-looking statements are contained in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the  scal year
ended December 31, 2007.  ese forward-
looking statements should not be relied upon
as representing our views as of any subsequent
date, and we undertake no obligation to update
any forward-looking statements to re ect events
or circumstances a er the date they were made.
DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
Directors
Eric Schmidt
Chairman of the Board & Chief
Executive O cer
Google Inc.
Larry Page
Co-Founder & President, Products
Google Inc.
Sergey Brin
Co-Founder & President, Technology
Google Inc.
L. John Doerr
General Partner
Kleiner Perkins Cau eld & Byers
John L. Hennessy
President, Stanford University
Arthur D. Levinson
Chairman & Chief Executive O cer
Genentech, Inc.
Ann Mather
Former Executive Vice President &
Chief Financial O cer
Pixar
Paul S. Otellini
President & Chief Executive O cer
Intel Corporation
K. Ram Shriram
Managing Partner, Sherpalo
Shirley M. Tilghman
President, Princeton University
Executive O cers
Eric Schmidt
Chairman of the Board & Chief
Executive O cer
Larry Page
Co-Founder & President, Products
Sergey Brin
Co-Founder & President, Technology
Shona L. Brown
Senior Vice President, Business Operations
David C. Drummond
Senior Vice President, Corporate
Development & Chief Legal O cer
Alan Eustace
Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research
Omid Kordestani
Senior Vice President, Global Sales &
Business Development
George Reyes
Senior Vice President & Chief
Financial O cer
Jonathan J. Rosenberg
Senior Vice President, Product Management
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