thank you. >> thank you, ms. toth. now the chair recognizes ms. long. ms. long, you have five minutes or thereabouts. ed. >> thank you. chairman rush and boucher, ranking members rodanovich and stearns and members of the committee, i'm pleased to appear before you this evening to discuss online advertising and the ways that google protects our use ers' privacy. online advertising is critically important to our economy. it promotes freer, more robust and more diverse speech, it enables many thousands of small businesses to connect with consumers across the nation and around the world. it helps support the hundreds of thousands of blogs, online newspapers and other web publications that we read every day. over the last decade the industry has struggled with the challenges of providing behavioral advertising. on the one hand well-tail order ad benefit consumers and advertisers alike. on the other hand we recognize the need to develop relevant ads by respecting use ers privacy. in march google entered the space and announced our release of interspace advertisin