New Google Apps for Your Domain Now Available in Seventeen Languages

London, 1 November 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today launched Google Apps for Your Domain (http://www.google.com/a) in sixteen additional languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Russian, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, and Turkish. Google Apps for Your Domain is a service hosted entirely by Google that enables organizations to deliver high quality email, calendar and chat to their users – all branded with their own logos or color schemes – without the cost and hassle of installing and maintaining hardware and software.

Over time, Google will offer new versions tailored to meet the needs of a variety of different kinds of organizations – from family websites and community groups to voluntary groups and small businesses, as well as universities, large enterprises, and ISPs. Google Apps for Your Domain currently includes Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and Google Page Creator.

Domain administrators use a web-based control panel to manage their user account list, set up aliases and distribution lists, and enable the services they want for their domain. End users with accounts that have been set up by their administrator simply browse to customized login pages on any web-connected computer. The services can accommodate growing user bases and storage needs while drastically reducing maintenance costs.

Organizations will have a choice of two services:

• A standard edition of Google Apps for Your Domain is available immediately as a beta product without cost to domain administrators or end users. Key features include 2 gigabytes of email storage for each user, easy to use customization tools, and help for administrators via email or an online help center. Organizations that sign up during the beta period will not ever have to pay for users accepted during that period (provided Google continues to offer the service);
• In the future, a premium version of the product will be available for organizations with more advanced needs. More information, including details on pricing, will be available soon.

“Organizations of all sizes face a common challenge – helping their users communicate and share information more effectively,” said Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager, enterprise, at Google. “A hosted service like Google Apps for Your Domain is great for small or medium sized companies – and all sorts of other organizations – because it makes it cheap and easy to maintain their communications infrastructure.”

Google Apps for Your Domain is a combination of any of the following services:

• Gmail – Offer email to group members with 2 gigabytes of storage per account, search tools to help them find information fast, and instant messaging built right into the browser.
• Google Talk – Members can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free – anytime, anywhere in the world.
• Google Calendar – Members can organize their schedules and share events, meetings and entire calendars with others.
• Google Page Creator – Create and publish web pages quickly and easily with this what-you-see-is-what-you-get website design tool.

About Google Inc.

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