Google 2013 Annual Report Download - page 13

7GOOGLE INC.
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ITEM1.Business
AtDecember31,2013,wehad47,756full-timeemployees,consistingof18,593inresearchanddevelopment,15,348insales
andmarketing,6,563ingeneralandadministrative,and7,252inoperations.AllofGoogle’sfull-timeemployeesarealsoequity
holders,withsignicantcollectiveemployeeownership.Althoughwehaveworkscouncilsandstatutoryemployeerepresentation
obligations in certain countries, our U.S. employees are not represented by a labor union and we consider our employee relations
tobegood.Competitionforqualiedpersonnelinourindustryisintense,particularlyforsoftwareengineers,computerscientists,
andothertechnicalsta.
Global Operations and Geographic Data
We provide our products and services in more than 100 languages and in more than 50 countries, regions, and territories. On
www.google.comoroneofourotherGoogledomains,userscanndinformationinmanydierentlanguagesandinmanydierent
formats.TheUnitedStatesaccountedforapproximately45%ofourrevenuesin2013.Informationregardingnancialdataby
geographicareasissetforthinItem7andNote15ofNotestoConsolidatedFinancialStatementsunderItem8ofthisAnnual
Report on Form 10-K.
Seasonality
Ourbusinessisaectedbybothseasonaluctuationsininternetusageandtraditionalretailseasonality.Internetusagegenerally
slowsduringthesummermonths,andcommercialqueriestypicallyincreasesignicantlyinthefourthquarterofeachyear.
Theseseasonaltrendshavecausedandwilllikelycontinuetocause,uctuationsinourquarterlyresults,includinguctuations
in sequential revenue growth rates.
Available Information
Our website is located at www.google.com, and our investor relations website is located at http://investor.google.com. The following
lingsareavailablethroughourinvestorrelationswebsiteafterwelethemwiththeSEC:AnnualReportsonForm10-K,Quarterly
ReportsonForm10-Q,andourProxyStatementsforourannualmeetingsofstockholders,forthelastthreeyears.Theselings
are also available for download free of charge on our investor relations website. We also provide a link to the section of the SEC’s
websiteatwww.sec.govthathasallofourpubliclings,includingAnnualReportsonForm10-K,QuarterlyReportsonForm10-Q,
CurrentReportsonForm8-K,allamendmentstothosereports,ourProxyStatements,andotherownershiprelatedlings.
Further, a copy of this Annual Report on Form 10-K is located at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington,
D.C.20549.InformationontheoperationofthePublicReferenceRoomcanbeobtainedbycallingtheSECat1-800-SEC-0330.
We webcast our earnings calls and certain events we participate in or host with members of the investment community on our
investorrelationswebsite.Additionally,weprovidenoticationsofnewsorannouncementsregardingournancialperformance,
includingSEClings,investorevents,pressandearningsreleases,andblogsaspartofourinvestorrelationswebsiteaswellason
our investor relations Google+ page (https://plus.google.com/+GoogleInvestorRelations/posts). Investors and others can receive
noticationsofnewinformationpostedonourinvestorrelationswebsiteinrealtimebysigningupforemailalertsandRSSfeeds.
Furthercorporategovernanceinformation,includingourcerticateofincorporation,bylaws,governanceguidelines,boardcommittee
charters,andcodeofconduct,isalsoavailableonourinvestorrelationswebsiteundertheheading“CorporateGovernance.”
The content of our websites are not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K or in any other report or
documentwelewiththeSEC,andanyreferencestoourwebsitesareintendedtobeinactivetextualreferencesonly.
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