Google primarily provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of tools and platforms including its more popular products: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free because Google makes its money from highly integrated online advertising through its AdWords and AdSense platforms. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information.
Google has also made strong moves into the web-based apps space with acquisitions including Jotspot (documents), 2Web Technologies (spreadsheets) and Zenter (presentations). They have also made huge splashes with recent acquisitions of YouTube, DoubleClick and Feedburner.
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Google —
iLike and LaLa music services to be integrated into Google to stream song directly from search. iLike was acquired by MySpace in August 2009
(10/21/09)
Posted 10/21/09 at 9:16am
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Acquired reCAPTCHA.
(9/16/09)
Posted 9/21/09 at 4:09am
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Acquired On2 Flix Cloud for $107M.
(8/5/09)
Posted 8/5/09 at 10:02am
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Google —
Google sells its stake in AOL back to Time Warner for about 1/4 of what it paid for it in 2006.
(7/27/09)
Posted 7/27/09 at 3:19pm
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Invested in 23andMe.
(6/18/09)
Posted 6/18/09 at 3:45pm
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Invested in Life360.
(9/19/08)
Posted 6/22/09 at 9:37am
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Acquired TNC.
(9/12/08)
Posted 9/12/08 at 3:10pm
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Acquired Tatter & Co.
(9/12/08)
Posted 10/13/09 at 1:11am
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Google —
Google Sinks $10 Million Into New Geothermal Technologies
(8/19/08)
Posted 8/19/08 at 11:53am
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Acquired Omnisio for $15M.
(7/30/08)
Posted 7/30/08 at 12:48pm
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Acquired ZAO Begun for $140M.
(7/18/08)
Posted 7/18/08 at 1:54am
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Google —
More than 4 Billion videos viewed at Google Sites, 37.9% according to comScore
(6/18/08)
Posted 6/18/08 at 12:50am
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Invested in Fon.
(4/10/08)
Posted 4/10/08 at 9:49am
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Acquired DoubleClick for $3.1B.
(3/11/08)
Posted 3/11/08 at 3:04pm
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Invested in Navigenics.
(11/7/07)
Posted 6/18/09 at 4:12pm
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Acquired Jaiku for $12M.
(10/9/07)
Posted 10/9/07 at 11:20am
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Acquired Zingku.
(9/27/07)
Posted 6/30/08 at 2:04pm
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Acquired Image America.
(7/20/07)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:52pm
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Invested in Ubiquisys.
(7/20/07)
Posted 8/11/09 at 12:29pm
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Acquired Postini for $625M.
(7/9/07)
Posted 6/30/08 at 2:02pm
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Acquired GrandCentral for $45M.
(7/1/07)
Posted 7/3/07 at 12:14am
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Acquired PeakStream for $20.3M.
(6/5/07)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:49pm
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Acquired Zenter.
(6/07)
Posted 5/27/08 at 7:01pm
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Acquired FeedBurner for $100M.
(6/1/07)
Posted 7/13/07 at 1:52am
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Acquired GreenBorder.
(5/29/07)
Posted 8/28/07 at 9:22am
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Acquired Panoramio.
(5/07)
Posted 5/8/08 at 10:02am
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Invested in 23andMe.
(5/1/07)
Posted 10/15/07 at 9:17am
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Acquired Marratech.
(4/20/07)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:47pm
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Acquired Tonic Systems.
(4/17/07)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:45pm
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Acquired Trendalyzer.
(3/16/07)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:43pm
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Invested in Fon.
(3/7/07)
Posted 3/11/08 at 11:33am
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Acquired Adscape for $23M.
(2/07)
Posted 5/22/08 at 2:34pm
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Invested in Xunlei Networking Technology.
(1/5/07)
Posted 9/30/08 at 12:12pm
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Acquired Endoxon for $28M.
(12/16/06)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:39pm
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Invested in Meraki.
(12/1/06)
Posted 10/13/08 at 10:02pm
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Acquired JotSpot.
(10/31/06)
Posted 2/8/08 at 5:47pm
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Acquired YouTube for $1.65B.
(10/9/06)
Posted 12/2/08 at 1:17pm
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Acquired Neven Vision.
(8/15/06)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:37pm
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Acquired 2Web Technologies.
(6/1/06)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:36pm
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Invested in Tesla Motors.
(5/1/06)
Posted 12/23/07 at 9:57pm
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Acquired Orion.
(4/9/06)
Posted 2/12/08 at 4:33pm
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Acquired @Last Software.
(3/14/06)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:30pm
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Acquired Upstartle.
(3/9/06)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:28pm
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Acquired Measure Map.
(2/14/06)
Posted 4/29/08 at 5:10pm
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Invested in Fon.
(2/6/06)
Posted 3/11/08 at 11:33am
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Acquired dMarc Broadcasting for $102M.
(1/1/06)
Posted 8/27/07 at 6:30am
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Acquired bruNET.
(12/31/05)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:26pm
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Acquired allPAY.
(12/31/05)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:24pm
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Acquired Phatbits.
(12/27/05)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:17pm
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Invested in AOL.
(12/05)
Posted 9/30/08 at 10:19am
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Acquired Akwan Information Technologies.
(11/17/05)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:12pm
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Acquired Skia.
(11/9/05)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:10pm
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David Fleck, Product Marketing Manager added.
(8/1/05)
Posted 11/4/09 at 12:05pm
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Acquired Android.
(8/05)
Posted 4/25/08 at 12:53pm
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Acquired Reqwireless.
(7/9/05)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:04pm
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Invested in Current Communications Group.
(7/6/05)
Posted 9/30/08 at 11:08am
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Acquired Dodgeball.
(5/11/05)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:01pm
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Acquired Urchin Software.
(3/29/05)
Posted 6/30/08 at 12:58pm
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Acquired Keyhole.
(10/27/04)
Posted 5/8/08 at 12:27pm
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Acquired Where2.
(10/9/04)
Posted 6/30/08 at 12:55pm
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Acquired ZipDash.
(9/10/04)
Posted 6/30/08 at 12:52pm
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Went public with stock symbol GOOG.
(8/19/04)
Posted 2/10/08 at 2:51pm
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Acquired Picasa.
(7/13/04)
Posted 6/30/08 at 12:49pm
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Invested in Baidu.
(6/18/04)
Posted 4/7/08 at 3:33pm
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Acquired Baidu for $5M.
(6/16/04)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:21pm
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Acquired Ignite Logic.
(5/10/04)
Posted 6/30/08 at 12:45pm
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Acquired Sprinks.
(11/5/03)
Posted 6/30/08 at 12:40pm
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Acquired Genius Labs.
(10/10/03)
Posted 6/30/08 at 12:44pm
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Acquired Kaltix.
(9/30/03)
Posted 6/30/08 at 12:38pm
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Acquired Applied Semantics for $102M.
(4/23/03)
Posted 6/30/08 at 12:35pm
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Acquired Neotonic Software.
(4/1/03)
Posted 2/12/08 at 4:33pm
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Acquired Pyra Labs.
(2/03)
Posted 6/30/08 at 1:36pm
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Acquired Outride.
(9/20/01)
Posted 6/30/08 at 12:32pm
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Acquired Deja.
(2/12/01)
Posted 6/30/08 at 12:28pm
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Received $25M in Series A funding.
(6/1/99)
Posted 8/18/07 at 1:04am
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Received $100k in Angel funding.
(8/98)
Posted 8/18/07 at 1:03am
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Patrick Chanezon, Developer Advocate added.
Posted 5/21/08 at 9:48am
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Richard Kimber, Managing Director for South East Asia added.
Posted 8/4/08 at 10:54pm
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Otilia Otlacan, Online Operations Associate added.
Posted 8/4/08 at 9:20am
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Patrick Li, Senior Software Engineer added.
Posted 7/27/08 at 10:48pm
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Michael Adair, Head of Sales Finance, North America added.
Posted 7/22/08 at 10:07pm
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Dan Daugherty, Sales and Operations Manager added.
Posted 7/19/08 at 6:44am
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Tim Moynihan, Regional Manager added.
Posted 7/19/08 at 6:43am
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Ted Dziuba, Intranet Web Developer added.
Posted 7/18/08 at 4:06pm
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Patrick Pichette, CFO added.
Posted 6/26/08 at 5:30pm
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Krishna Bharat, Principal Research Scientist added.
Posted 6/23/08 at 8:22pm
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Rudy Winnacker, Systems Engineer added.
Posted 6/23/08 at 7:41pm
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Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate added.
Posted 6/17/08 at 4:11pm
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David Eun, VP Content Partnerships added.
Posted 6/16/08 at 6:27pm
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Joe Kraus, Director of Product Management added.
Posted 6/16/08 at 2:47pm
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Tony Pribyl, Regional Sales Manager added.
Posted 6/16/08 at 11:34am
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Richard Whitt, Senior Policy Director added.
Posted 6/14/08 at 8:49pm
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Mark Lucovsky, Google API Lead added.
Posted 6/7/08 at 2:05pm
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Brad Taylor, Gmail Anti-Spam Team Lead added.
Posted 6/5/08 at 4:31pm
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Keith Coleman, Gmail Project Manager added.
Posted 6/5/08 at 1:01pm
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Todd Jackson, Gmail Product Manager added.
Posted 6/5/08 at 12:59pm
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Shashi Seth, Product Lead for Web Search added.
Posted 6/3/08 at 1:06pm
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Patrick Chanezon, API evangelist added.
Posted 5/21/08 at 9:48am
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Marc Duijndam, Country Director, Netherlands added.
Posted 8/21/08 at 12:40pm
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Jack Levin, Network Engineer/Manager added.
Posted 5/20/08 at 2:33pm
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Michael Moritz, Board Member added.
Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
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David Glazer, Director of Engineering, Friend Connect added.
Posted 5/15/08 at 2:57pm
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Salman Ullah, Vice President of Corporate Development at Google added.
Posted 5/15/08 at 2:14pm
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Norm Page, Senior Account Executive added.
Posted 5/14/08 at 8:29am
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Hal Varian, Chief Economist added.
Posted 5/7/08 at 9:07pm
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Aaron Dunn, Gmail added.
Posted 5/7/08 at 5:59pm
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Elliot Schrage, Vice President, Global Communications & Public Affairs added.
Posted 5/5/08 at 8:21pm
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Gabe Smedresman, Software Engineer added.
Posted 5/4/08 at 9:36pm
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Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering added.
Posted 5/1/08 at 1:48pm
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Jeffrey Veen, User Experience Manager added.
Posted 4/29/08 at 5:13pm
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Benjamin Fried, CIO added.
Posted 4/24/08 at 7:34pm
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Nathan Naze, Software Engineer added.
Posted 4/8/08 at 6:30pm
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Tom Stocky, Director, Product Management added.
Posted 4/7/08 at 11:13pm
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Bob Lee, Software Engineer added.
Posted 4/7/08 at 10:11pm
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Brett Slatkin, Software Engineer added.
Posted 4/7/08 at 9:56pm
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David Hirsch, Sales added.
Posted 4/7/08 at 2:03pm
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Clint Guerrero, Online Operations Coordinator, Google Base added.
Posted 4/7/08 at 1:57pm
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Jason Goldman, Blogger added.
Posted 4/7/08 at 1:20pm
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Evan Williams, Senior Specialist, Blogger added.
Posted 4/6/08 at 8:09am
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Biz Stone, Senior Specialist, Blogger added.
Posted 4/6/08 at 8:03am
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Jason Shellen, Product Manager / New Business Development Manager added.
Posted 4/6/08 at 7:46am
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Belsasar Lepe, Systems Engineer added.
Posted 4/6/08 at 7:38am
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Sean Knapp, iGoogle added.
Posted 4/6/08 at 7:36am
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Bismarck Lepe, Senior Product Manager, AdSense added.
Posted 4/6/08 at 7:34am
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Jess Lee, Product Manager, Google Maps added.
Posted 4/6/08 at 7:21am
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Brian Dick, Strategic Partner Development added.
Posted 4/6/08 at 7:04am
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Vanessa Fox, Founder, Webmaster Central added.
Posted 4/6/08 at 6:22am
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Salar Kamangar, Vice President, Product Management added.
Posted 4/1/08 at 4:58pm
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Sanjay Raman, Product Manager, Google Apps added.
Posted 4/1/08 at 2:31pm
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Douglas Merrill, CIO and Vice President Engineering added.
Posted 4/1/08 at 1:50pm
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Gokul Rajaram, Product Management Director, Adsense added.
Posted 3/31/08 at 9:48pm
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Justin Rosenstein, Product Manager added.
Posted 3/31/08 at 9:24pm
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Ash ElDifrawi, Director, Brand Advertising added.
Posted 3/27/08 at 10:30am
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Ethan Beard, Director of Social Media added.
Posted 3/26/08 at 11:22am
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Gabor Cselle, Software Engineer added.
Posted 3/21/08 at 9:16am
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Sheryl Sandberg, VP Online Operations and Sales added.
Posted 3/4/08 at 4:11pm
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Avichal Garg, Product Manager added.
Posted 2/28/08 at 3:17pm
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Neil Kandalgaonkar, Software Engineer added.
Posted 2/25/08 at 4:44pm
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Shirley M. Tilghman, Board added.
Posted 2/22/08 at 1:50am
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Paul S. Otellini, Board added.
Posted 2/22/08 at 1:50am
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Ann Mather, Board added.
Posted 2/22/08 at 1:50am
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Arthur D. Levinson, Board added.
Posted 2/22/08 at 1:50am
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John L. Hennessy, Board added.
Posted 2/22/08 at 1:50am
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John Doerr, Board added.
Posted 2/22/08 at 1:50am
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Ram Shriram, Board added.
Posted 2/22/08 at 1:47am
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Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience added.
Posted 2/21/08 at 3:51pm
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Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google.org added.
Posted 2/16/08 at 2:05pm
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David Lawee, Vice President Corporate Development added.
Posted 2/16/08 at 12:52pm
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Mohsin Imam, Technical Sales added.
Posted 2/15/08 at 7:47pm
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Johnathan Rosenberg, Senior VP - Product Management added.
Posted 8/17/07 at 11:42pm
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Alan Eustace, Senior VP - Engineering and Research added.
Posted 8/17/07 at 11:42pm
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Shona Brown, Senior VP - Business Operations added.
Posted 8/17/07 at 11:41pm
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Omid Kordestani, Senior VP - Global Sales & Business Dev added.
Posted 8/17/07 at 11:41pm
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David Drummond, Senior Vice President - Corp Development, Chief Legal Off added.
Posted 8/17/07 at 11:39pm
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Larry Page, Director of Products added.
Posted 8/17/07 at 11:37pm
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Sergey Brin, Director of Technology added.
Posted 8/17/07 at 11:36pm
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Eric Schmidt, CEO, Chairman of the Board added.
Posted 8/17/07 at 11:35pm
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Hanson Toh, Google Country Consultant (Malaysia) added.
Posted 3/22/09 at 7:02pm
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Gonzalo Alonso, Latin America Director added.
Posted 4/6/09 at 1:59pm
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Craig Walker, Group PM, Real Time Communications added.
Posted 4/18/09 at 10:23pm
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Jen Grant, Head of Marketing added.
Posted 4/20/09 at 8:22am
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Andy Hertzfeld, Software Engineer added.
Posted 4/20/09 at 11:39am
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R.J. Pittman, Director Product Management, Google Labs added.
Posted 4/20/09 at 11:46am
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Matthew Glotzbach, Director Product Management Enterprise added.
Posted 9/1/08 at 7:40pm
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Radhika Malpani, Director Engineering, Google Labs added.
Posted 4/20/09 at 11:53am
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Jeff Levick, Marketing and Sales, Americas added.
Posted 4/30/09 at 12:20pm
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Dennis Miloseski, User Experience Manager added.
Posted 9/3/08 at 7:00pm
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Susan Wojcicki, Vice President, Product Management added.
Posted 5/7/09 at 11:46am
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Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Core Search added.
Posted 5/12/09 at 9:18am
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Alex Komoroske, Associate Product Manager added.
Posted 5/12/09 at 12:37pm
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Matthew Papakipos, Director of Engineering added.
Posted 5/27/09 at 8:41am
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Ulf Waschbusch, Mobile Marketing Product Manager added.
Posted 9/24/08 at 2:21am
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Mel Guymon, PM, Lively added.
Posted 10/3/08 at 7:05pm
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Heni Hazbay, Strategist added.
Posted 10/23/08 at 4:55am
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Lars Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer added.
Posted 5/27/09 at 10:41pm
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Jens Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer added.
Posted 5/27/09 at 10:44pm
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Stephanie Hannon, Group Product Manager added.
Posted 5/27/09 at 10:46pm
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Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, President, Asian-Pacific and Latin American Markets added.
Posted 6/5/09 at 12:11pm
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Sam Schillace, Engineering Director Gmail added.
Posted 6/9/09 at 12:25am
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Greg Badros, Sr. Director of Engineering added.
Posted 6/12/09 at 6:41pm
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Brian Fitzpatrick, Head Engineer added.
Posted 6/22/09 at 3:33pm
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Anil Hansjee, Head of Corporate Development EMEA added.
Posted 6/29/09 at 6:25am
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Rob Kniaz, Product Manager added.
Posted 7/2/09 at 5:55am
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Max Ventilla, Senior Associate added.
Posted 7/6/09 at 2:30pm
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John Shapiro, Software Engineering Intern added.
Posted 7/8/09 at 11:11pm
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Dennis Woodside, President, The Ameicas Operation and Senior Vice President, Advertising Sales and Operations added.
Posted 3/18/09 at 1:54pm
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Tim Armstrong, President, The Americas Operation and Senior Vice President, Advertising Sales and Operations added.
Posted 7/19/09 at 5:35pm
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Eric Olson, Partner Development added.
Posted 7/20/09 at 12:56pm
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Ronny Conway, New Business Development added.
Posted 7/23/09 at 11:11am
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Justin McCarthy, Biz Dev added.
Posted 7/25/09 at 11:43am
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Patrick Keane, Director/Head of Sales Strategy added.
Posted 7/29/09 at 8:37am
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Aditya Palande, Director Of Engineering added.
Posted 11/7/08 at 12:52pm
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Derek Collison, Technical Director added.
Posted 8/3/09 at 6:35pm
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Nate Johnson, Product Marketing Manager added.
Posted 8/10/09 at 1:04pm
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Nate Johnson, Product Marketing Manager added.
Posted 8/10/09 at 1:05pm
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Rose Yao, Product Manager, iGoogle added.
Posted 8/11/09 at 2:37pm
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David Rosenblatt, Director, Display Advertising added.
Posted 12/8/08 at 4:42pm
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Sami Shalabi, Member of Technical Staff added.
Posted 8/23/09 at 7:38am
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Rich Miner, Group Manager, Mobile Platforms added.
Posted 8/25/09 at 8:43am
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Alex Kinnier, Group Product Manager added.
Posted 8/25/09 at 9:57am
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Jyri Engestrom, Product Manager, Social & Mobile added.
Posted 12/12/08 at 1:05am
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Deep Nishar, Director of Wireless Products added.
Posted 12/17/08 at 2:15pm
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Brian O'Shaughnessy, Director Global Communications added.
Posted 12/18/08 at 11:08am
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W. M. Coughran, SVP Engineering added.
Posted 12/18/08 at 12:02pm
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Urs Holzl, SVP Operations, Google Fellow added.
Posted 12/18/08 at 12:18pm
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Jeff Huberq, SVP Engineering added.
Posted 12/18/08 at 12:18pm
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Rachel Whetstone, Vice President, Global Communications & Public Affairs added.
Posted 12/18/08 at 12:18pm
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Rishi Chandra, Senior Product Manager, Google Apps added.
Posted 1/13/09 at 12:58pm
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Stephen Cho, Director, Google Apps Channels added.
Posted 1/13/09 at 12:58pm
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Sundar Pichal, VP Product Management added.
Posted 1/15/09 at 10:08pm
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Dave Girouard, President, Enterprise added.
Posted 1/23/09 at 5:14pm
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Joaquín Cuenca Abela, Technology Leader of Panoramio added.
Posted 1/28/09 at 1:12pm
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Katie Jacobs Stanton, Product Manager, Google Finance added.
Posted 1/30/09 at 7:25pm
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Tom Phillips, Director of Print Advertising added.
Posted 8/27/09 at 9:13am
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Santosh Jayaram, Manager - OSO added.
Posted 9/2/09 at 10:05am
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Don Loeb, Business Product Manager added.
Posted 2/13/09 at 1:05pm
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Ethan Anderson, Business Product Manager added.
Posted 9/2/09 at 7:41pm
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Joseph Primiani, Interaction Design Intern added.
Posted 9/4/09 at 10:57am
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Bradley Horowitz, VP Product, Google Apps added.
Posted 2/20/09 at 10:31am
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Wally Hix, Contractor added.
Posted 9/4/09 at 3:36pm
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Christopher Nguyen, Eng Director added.
Posted 2/27/09 at 2:08am
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Yaron Binur, Product Manager added.
Posted 9/9/09 at 8:39pm
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Oscar Karlsten, Product Specialist added.
Posted 9/16/09 at 2:54pm
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Mike Knapp, Software Engineer added.
Posted 9/19/09 at 10:49pm
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Aaron Lee, Tech Lead added.
Posted 9/22/09 at 9:28am
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Andy Rubin, VP, Mobile Platforms added.
Posted 10/11/09 at 2:07am
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Amit Jain, Product Management added.
Posted 10/20/09 at 5:37am
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Patrick Leung, Engineering Manager added.
Posted 10/26/09 at 2:06pm
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Jon Steinberg, Strategic Partner Development Manager added.
Posted 10/27/09 at 8:57am
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Mat Balez, Product Manager added.
Posted 10/27/09 at 2:57pm
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R.J. Pittman, Director Product Management Search added.
Posted 10/28/09 at 9:27pm
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Alexander Macgillivray, Associate General Counsel added.
Posted 7/12/09 at 1:53am