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These excerpts taken from the GOOG 10-K filed Feb 13, 2009.

Our Mission

Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We believe that the most effective, and ultimately the most profitable, way to accomplish our mission is to put the needs of our users first. We have found that offering a high-quality user experience leads to increased traffic and strong word-of-mouth promotion. Our dedication to putting users first is reflected in three key commitments:

 

   

We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful search results possible, independent of financial incentives. Our search results will be objective and we do not accept payment for search result ranking or inclusion.

 

   

We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful advertising. Advertisements should not be an annoying interruption. If any element on a search result page is influenced by payment to us, we will make it clear to our users.

 

   

We will never stop working to improve our user experience, our search technology and other important areas of information organization.

We believe that our user focus is the foundation of our success to date. We also believe that this focus is critical for the creation of long-term value. We do not intend to compromise our user focus for short-term economic gain.

Our Mission

Our mission is to
organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We believe that the most effective, and ultimately the most profitable, way to accomplish our mission is to put the needs of our users first. We have found that
offering a high-quality user experience leads to increased traffic and strong word-of-mouth promotion. Our dedication to putting users first is reflected in three key commitments:

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We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful search results possible, independent of financial incentives. Our search results will be objective and
we do not accept payment for search result ranking or inclusion.

 







  

We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful advertising. Advertisements should not be an annoying interruption. If any element on a search result
page is influenced by payment to us, we will make it clear to our users.

 







  

We will never stop working to improve our user experience, our search technology and other important areas of information organization.

We believe that our user focus is the foundation of our success to date. We also believe that this focus is critical for
the creation of long-term value. We do not intend to compromise our user focus for short-term economic gain.

How We Provide Value to Our Users

We serve our users by developing products that quickly and easily find, create, organize and share information. We place a premium on
products that matter to many people and have the potential to improve their lives.

Some of the key benefits we offer include:


Comprehensiveness and Relevance. Our search technologies sort through a vast and growing amount of information to deliver relevant and useful
search results in response to user queries. This is an area of continual development for us. When we started the company in 1998, our web index contained approximately 30 million documents. We now index billions of web pages and strive to
provide the most comprehensive search experience possible. Our team continually improves our relevance algorithms to objectively determine the best answers to our users’ queries and to place these answers at the top of our search
results. We are also constantly developing new functionality and enhancing our offerings to allow our users to more quickly and easily find information.

 


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Objectivity. We believe it is very important that the results users get from Google are produced
with only their interests in mind. We do not accept payment for search result ranking or inclusion. We do accept fees for advertising, but the advertising is clearly marked and separated and does not influence how we generate our search results.
This is similar to a newspaper, where the articles are independent of the advertising. Inclusion and frequent updating in our index are open to all sites free of charge. We believe it is important for users to have access to the best available
information, not just the information that someone pays for them to see.

Global Access. We strive to provide our services to
everyone in the world and the Google interface is available in 120 languages. Through Google News, we offer an automated collection of frequently updated news stories in 24 languages in 61 editions. We also offer automatic translation of content
between various languages and provide localized versions of Google in many developing countries.

Ease of Use. We have always
believed that the most useful and powerful search technology hides its complexity from users and gives them a simple, intuitive way to get the information they want. We have devoted significant efforts to create a streamlined and easy-to-use
interface based on a clean search box set prominently on a page free of commercial clutter. We introduce new navigational or informational features when we believe they will be most useful to our users, and only after extensive usability testing and
experimentation.

Pertinent, Useful Commercial Information. The search for information often involves an interest in commercial
information—researching a purchase, comparing products and services or actively shopping. We help people find commercial information through our search services and advertising products. We also present advertisements that are relevant to the
information people seek. Our technology automatically rewards ads that users prefer and removes ads that they do not find helpful.

SIZE="2">Multiple Access Platforms. The mobile phone is the primary way that many people around the world access the internet. We have continued to invest in improving mobile search and have introduced applications that allow users to access
search, email, maps, directions and satellite imagery through their mobile devices.

Improving the Web. We want to make the web
experience as good as possible for users around the world. This includes providing platforms for developers to build, deploy and run increasingly rich applications. For users, we are investing in areas to improve their experience in using
web-based applications, including making browsers more stable and powerful.

These excerpts taken from the GOOG 10-K filed Feb 15, 2008.

Our Mission

Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We believe that the most effective, and ultimately the most profitable, way to accomplish our mission is to put the needs of our users first. We have found that offering a high-quality user experience leads to increased traffic and strong word-of-mouth promotion. Our dedication to putting users first is reflected in three key commitments:

 

   

We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful search results possible, independent of financial incentives. Our search results will be objective and we will not accept payment for inclusion or ranking in them.

 

   

We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful advertising. Advertisements should not be an annoying interruption. If any element on a search result page is influenced by payment to us, we will make it clear to our users.

 

   

We will never stop working to improve our user experience, our search technology and other important areas of information organization.

We believe that our user focus is the foundation of our success to date. We also believe that this focus is critical for the creation of long-term value. We do not intend to compromise our user focus for short-term economic gain.

Our Mission

SIZE="2">Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We believe that the most effective, and ultimately the most profitable, way to accomplish our mission is to put the needs of our users
first. We have found that offering a high-quality user experience leads to increased traffic and strong word-of-mouth promotion. Our dedication to putting users first is reflected in three key commitments:

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We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful search results possible, independent of financial incentives. Our search results will be objective and
we will not accept payment for inclusion or ranking in them.

 







  

We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful advertising. Advertisements should not be an annoying interruption. If any element on a search result
page is influenced by payment to us, we will make it clear to our users.

 







  

We will never stop working to improve our user experience, our search technology and other important areas of information organization.

We believe that our user focus is the foundation of our success to date. We also believe that this focus is critical for
the creation of long-term value. We do not intend to compromise our user focus for short-term economic gain.

How We Provide Value to Our Users

We serve our users by developing products that let them more quickly and easily find, create, organize and share information. We place a
premium on products that matter to many people and have the potential to improve their lives.

Some of the key benefits we offer include:

Comprehensiveness and Relevance. Our search technologies sort through a vast and growing amount of information to deliver relevant
and useful search results in response to user queries. This is an area of continual development for us. When we started the company in 1998, our web index contained approximately 30 million

 


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documents. We now index billions of web pages and strive to provide the most comprehensive search experience possible. Our team continually improves our
relevance algorithms to objectively determine the best answers to our users’ queries and to place these answers at the top of our search results. We are also constantly developing new functionality and enhancing our offerings to allow our
users to more easily and quickly find information.

Objectivity. We believe it is very important that the results users get from
Google are produced with only their interests in mind. We do not accept payment for search result ranking or inclusion. We do accept fees for advertising, but the advertising is clearly marked and separated and does not influence how we generate our
search results. This is similar to a newspaper, where the articles are independent of the advertising. Inclusion and frequent updating in our index are open to all sites free of charge. We believe it is important for users to have access to the best
available information, not just the information that someone pays for them to see.

Global Access. We strive to provide our services
to everyone in the world. Users from around the world visit our destination sites at Google.com and our international domains, such as Google.ba, Google.dm, Google.nr, Google.co.jp and Google.ca. The Google interface is available in 116 languages.
Through Google News, we offer an automated collection of frequently updated news stories in 18 languages tailored to 45 international audiences. We also offer automatic translation of content between various languages and provide localized
versions of Google in many developing countries.

Ease of Use. We have always believed that the most useful and powerful search
technology hides its complexity from users and gives them a simple, intuitive way to get the information they want. We have devoted significant efforts to create a streamlined and easy-to-use interface based on a clean search box set prominently on
a page free of commercial clutter. We introduce new navigational or informational features when we believe they will be most useful to our users, and only after extensive usability testing and experimentation.

STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%">Pertinent, Useful Commercial Information. The search for information often involves an interest in commercial information—researching a
purchase, comparing products and services or actively shopping. We help people find commercial information through our search services and advertising products. We also present advertisements that are relevant to the information people seek. Our
technology automatically rewards ads that users prefer and removes ads that they do not find helpful.

Multiple Access Platforms.
Mobile devices are a fundamental development platform for us. Many people around the world have their first experience of the internet—and Google—on their mobile phones or other mobile devices. We have continued to invest in improving
mobile search and have introduced applications that allow users to access search, email, maps, directions and satellite imagery through their mobile devices.

SIZE="2">Products and Services for our Users

Our product development philosophy involves rapid and continuous innovation, with
frequent releases of early-stage products that we seek to improve with every iteration. We often make products available early in their development stages by posting them on Google Labs, at test locations online or directly on Google.com. If our
users find a product useful, we promote it to “beta” status for additional testing. Once we are satisfied that a product is of high quality and utility, we remove the beta label and make it a core Google product. Our main products and
services are described below.

 


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