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Date: Aug 14, 2006 6:06 AM
Subject: Google Code Jam 2006: Programmers Worldwide Invited to
Participate in Google's Fourth Annual Global Coding Competition;
Registration opens August 14th; Finals to Be Held in Google's New
York City Engineering Office on October 27th, 2006

Google Inc., (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that registration is now
open for Google Code Jam 2006. Google's annual online coding
competition presents participants with a series of challenges that
they must use their programming skills and creativity to solve.
Programmers ready to match their skills against the world's best can
register at http://www.google.com/codejam2006. The top 100
contestants win an all expenses paid trip to New York City to
compete in the finals at Google's New York Engineering Office.

"The Google Code Jam is an incredible opportunity for the most
talented and fastest computer scientists in the world to come
together and compete on an international stage," said Alan Eustace,
senior vice president, Engineering, Google Inc. "Google is proud to
support these amazing coders as they take on some of the world's
most challenging programming problems, and we're pleased to have the
chance to introduce them to our research and development offices
around the world."

This year marks the first year the finals will be held in New York
City. "Google New York is very excited to be hosting Google Code Jam
2006," said Craig Nevill-Manning, director, Engineering New York,
Google Inc. "It's an incredible opportunity to introduce the best of
the programming world to our New York Engineering office in downtown
Manhattan and demonstrate the incredible diversity of experiences
that Google offers engineers all over the world. If you can make it
in Code Jam here, you can make it anywhere!"

In addition to the trip to Google's New York Engineering Office,
finalists will also divide $155,000 in prize money:



Grand Prize: $10,000
2nd - 10th place: $5,000 each
11th - 25th place: $2,500 each
26th - 50th place: $1,000 each
51st - 100th place: $750 each



Registration for Google Code Jam closes September 5, and the
qualifying round begins on the same day.

Last year, more than 14,500 competitors from 32 countries took part
in the Google Code Jam, and Marek Cygan of Poland took home the
grand prize. The Google Code Jam is powered by TopCoder(R), the
leader in online programming competition, skills assessment, and
competitive software development. More information about Google Code
Jam 2006 can be found at http://www.google.com/codejam2006.

About Google Inc.

Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people
around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by
Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is
a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted
advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable
results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users.
Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout
the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit
www.google.com.

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which they are associated.

SOURCE: Google Inc.

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