HTML 5 Ushers in New Era of Web App Development at Google I/O 2009

Google and Partners Welcome More than 3,000 Developers to Annual Developer
Conference; New Products and Initiatives Make it Easier to Build for a More
Powerful Web

SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--
Today Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) kicks off Google I/O 2009, its largest developer
conference of the year, with a series of sessions and product announcements
designed to make the web an even more powerful platform for application
development. I/O 2009 is being held May 27 and 28 at the Moscone Center in San
Francisco, and is expected to draw more than 3,000 developers from more than 45
countries. The conference opens at 9:15 am with a keynote from Google CEO Eric
Schmidt and Google Vice President of Developer Platforms Vic Gundotra, and over
the course of two full days will include more than 80 technical sessions,
breakouts, fireside chats, and other opportunities to exchange ideas with
subject-matter experts from Google and partner companies. More than 130 speakers
from more than 40 companies will be featured at the event.

One of the key themes of this year's event will be the unprecedented
acceleration of the open web platform: Nearly half a billion people now use
browsers that are rooted in open source technology, which have quintupled their
processing power in less than a year. Now, the new functionality in HTML 5 --
from graphics and location to local storage and background processing -- is
enabling developers to build uniquely powerful web applications.

Today Google is also announcing new products and initiatives designed to promote
application development on the web, including the following:

* Google Web Elements: A new product launching today, Google Web Elements is an
easy way to incorporate Google products onto a website or blog. This includes
content such as Maps, News and YouTube videos, as well as social comments
functionality by Google Friend Connect. Already, Google has 4 billion API calls
a day. Google Web Elements makes it even easier to add functionality to sites by
choosing optional customizations and copying and pasting a few lines of code.
More information is available at www.google.com/webelements.

* Java Language Support in App Engine: Today Google is launching general
availability of Java language support in Google App Engine, providing all
developers with an end-to-end Java language solution for building AJAX web
applications. An early look at Java language support in App Engine was released
to a limited number of developers at Google's April 7 Campfire One developer
event, and in the last two months more than 10,000 Java language applications
have been deployed on the platform. Over 80,000 applications have been built on
App Engine since it was launched in April 2008.

* Android Developer Challenge 2: Today Google is announcing the second phase of
the Android Developer Challenge, a Google-funded initiative to reward developers
for building innovative and useful applications for the Android mobile platform.
For Android Developer Challenge 2 (ADC 2), Google will let users of
Android-powered phones participate in the judging process through the use of an
on-phone judging application. Awards will be presented to the top applications,
up to a quarter of a million dollars for the overall winner, which will be
announced in November 2009. More information on ADC 2 can be found at
http://code.google.com/android/adc/.

"Bet on the web," said Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Developer Products at
Google. "Its rate of innovation has dramatically accelerated over the past 12
months, giving rise to an open web platform that's fundamentally more capable
and more sophisticated than even a year ago. The combination of HTML 5, a
vibrant developer community, and the pervasiveness of modern web browsers is
delivering a programming model and an end-user experience that will surprise and
delight people."

As always, Google I/O 2009 will include a mix of practical, hands-on advice for
building web apps, as well as opportunities to learn about and discuss emerging
trends. Sessions will cover tools developed both inside and outside of Google,
and topic areas will include Android and Mobile; Chrome, App Engine, Google Web
Toolkit, Maps and Geo, YouTube, OpenSocial, and AJAX.

New this year will be the "Developer Sandbox" sessions, in which more than 30
members of the developer community will showcase applications they've built and
share their experiences in working with the latest web and mobile technologies.

More information about Google I/O 2009 is available at
http://code.google.com/events/io/.

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, please visit www.google.com.

Google, Google I/O, Google Web Elements, Google App Engine and Android are
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