Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that it will host an Analyst Day meeting on Thursday, March 2, 2006 in Mountain View, California. Presentations by Google's management team are scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. PT and conclude by approximately 2:00 p.m. PT.

This event will be made available via Webcast at http://investor.google.com/webcast. The Webcast version of the presentation will be available through the same link for approximately two weeks following the presentation, after which time Google will include the Webcast in the "archive" section of the Google Investor Relations website.

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Google's chief financial officer, George Reyes, told a Merrill Lynch conference Tuesday that "clearly our growth rates are slowing."

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http://www.thestreet.com/tsc/StreetWatch/index.html?movieid=21540&channel=301

*cry* don't tell me

Was this announcement at 10:30 Eastern time today? (see stock chart)