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Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG)
2007 Q4 Earnings Conference Call
Thursday, January 31, 2008, 4:30 PM ET

Corporate Participants

Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
George Reyes, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Larry Page, Co-Founder & President, Products
Sergey Brin, Co-Founder & President, Technology
Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management
Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Business Development

Management Summary

Operator

Good day and welcome everyone to the Google Inc. Conference Call. Today’s call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Krista Bessinger. Please go ahead, ma’am.

Company Representative

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to today’s fourth quarter 2007 earnings conference call. With us are Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer; George Reyes, Chief Financial Officer; Larry Page, Founder and President of Products; Sergey Brin, Founder and President of Technology; Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President of Product Management, and Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Operations. Eric, George, Larry and Sergey will provide their thoughts on the quarter and then Jonathan and Omid will join us for Q&A.

Please note that this call is being webcast on our Investor Relations website. Our press release issued a few minutes few ago was also posted on the website along with the slides that accompanies today’s prepared remarks. A replay of this call will also be available on our Investor Relations website in a few hours.

Now let me quickly cover the Safe Harbor statement. Some of the statements we make today may be considered forward-looking, including statements regarding our investments, seasonality, traffic acquisition cost, increase in the cost of sales, international growth, operating margins, growth in headcount and our expected level of capital expenditures. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could actual results to differ materially. Please note that these forward-looking statements reflect our opinions only as of the date of this presentation and we undertake no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events. Please refer to our SEC filings including our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30th, 2007 as well as our earnings press release posted a few minutes ago for a more detailed description of the risk factors that may affect our results. Copies can be obtained from the SEC or by visiting the Investor Relations section of our website.

Also please note that certain financial measures we use on this call such as EPS, net income, operating margin and operating income are expressed on a non-GAAP basis and have been adjusted to exclude charges relating to stock-based compensation. We’ve also adjusted our net cash provided by operating activities to remove capital expenditures, which we refer to as free cash flow. Our GAAP results and GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation can be found in our earnings press release on our website.

With that, it’s my pleasure to turn the call over to Eric

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