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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Chief Financial Officer Resignation

On February 27, 2012, Google Inc. has announced that its Chief Financial officer (CFO), James Brown, has resigned effective immediately for reasons unknown to the company. Jane Reed will act as the interim CFO until Google fills the position. Reed is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who has worked for Google as the Controller for the past 10 years. Although the sudden departure of the company's CFO comes as a surprise to many here at the company, we are confident that Google has not engaged in any inappropriate behavior that caused the CFO to resign.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened a formal investigation of the company's accounting practices. Some have speculated that the investigation involves revenue recognition and financial statement reporting practices. The SEC has already notified us of this matter, and plans to conduct an internal investigation, focusing on an audit of our internal accounting practices. Google is fully cooperating with the SEC on these matters and hopes to resolve them as smoothly and quickly as possible. Once the SEC has finished the investigation, the SEC will notify Google of any findings in an official notice. This notice will be accessible to the public.

We at Google want to ensure our employees, stockholders, and vendors that the situation is in the hands of the SEC, and the investigation will be handled professionally, ethically, and expediently, and during this investigation, business operations will continue to operate as normal.

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