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  Google Discovery

• Doodles: Vila Sésamo

  Renê Fraga

  6 Nov 2009 | 2:56 am

  << Vila Sésamo é um programa de televisão educacional para crianças, produzido nos EUA. Sua estréia deu-se em 1969, pela rede pública NET (atual Public Broadcasting Service – PBS). Os principais protagonistas eram bonecos animados, criados por Jim Henson, que acabaram por ter uma projeção além do programa, conhecidos por Os Muppets, pertencentes atualmente à The Walt Disney Company. Fonte >> Para tornar a celebração ainda mais animada, o Google escolheu por espalhar doodles com os personagens nas páginas iniciais de diversos países. Abaixo, uma compilação com…

• Unboxing do HTC Magic lançado pela TIM no Brasil

  Renê Fraga

  3 Nov 2009 | 9:42 pm

  Depois de fazer muito suspense no Twitter, estamos finalmente revelando o conteúdo da caixa misteriosa que chegou hoje no Google Discovery. Para a surpresa de muitos, recebemos o aguardado HTC Magic, um dos primeiros celulares equipados com Android que a TIM está colocando à venda no país, juntamente com o modelo da Samsung, o Galaxy. Em nosso primeiro vídeo, com toda a inexperiência do mundo e ajuda de um cameraman profissional (meu irmão), tentamos fazer uma amostra do conteúdo que é disponibilizado juntamente o aparelho da HTC. Caso você tenha dificuldades para compreender,…

• Doce ou travessura? Veja os especiais criados para este Halloween

  Willian Max

  31 Oct 2009 | 7:39 am

  Google Como de costume, o Google está exibindo em sua página inicial (não visível para IPs brasileiros) uma sequência de doodles especiais para comemorar o Halloween. O Google também adicionou um easter egg ao final de seu arquivo robots.txt. User-agent: Kids Disallow: /tricks Allow: /treats YouTube Assim como o Google, o YouTube está exibindo um doodle especial, também não visível para IPs brasileiros. Yahoo! Já o Yahoo! está exibindo um doodle animado (em Flash) em seu portal americano, com direito a personagens dançando a famosa música de Michael Jackson, Thriller. Twitter…

• Google finalmente apresenta o novo orkut; conheça algumas novidades

  Willian Max

  29 Oct 2009 | 11:07 am

  Conforme divulgado pelo Google Brasil na última terça-feira, a empresa finalmente apresentou hoje ao público o novo orkut, que teve seu código e interface totalmente refeitos para aprimorar a experiência do usuário na maior rede de relacionamentos do país. O projeto durou cerca de nove meses até a conclusão e está mais integrado aos outros serviços do Google e também mais personalizável. Com o novo orkut será mais fácil compartilhar fotos, graças aos recursos de upload de imagens simultâneas, edição e compartilhamento – que estão agora 3 vezes mais rápidos. Uma…

• Google Doodle: Asterix

  Renê Fraga

  28 Oct 2009 | 1:21 pm

  << Asterix é uma série de histórias em quadrinhos criada na França por Albert Uderzo e René Goscinny no ano de 1959. Após o falecimento de Goscinny, Uderzo prosseguiu o trabalho – apesar de ter afirmado que não quer que ninguém continue a série após a sua morte. As primeiras publicações surgiram na revista Pilote, logo no primeiro número a 29 de Outubro de 1959. O primeiro álbum Asterix o Gaulês, foi editado em 1961. A partir do qual, começaram a ser lançados anualmente. Fonte >> Bônus Dia Nacional da Áustria – Exibido dia 26 de outubro Mei Lanfang…

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  The Official Google Blog

• Google Apps highlights 11/6/2009

  A Googler

  6 Nov 2009 | 7:06 pm

  This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label "Google Apps highlights" and subscribe to the series. - Ed. Individuals, businesses and schools are switching to Google Apps to communicate more efficiently from anywhere, collaborate without the hassle of attachments, save money, and get continuous innovation. Because you use Google Apps in your browser, improvements like new features in Google forms show up automatically. Starting today, we'll post a recap every couple of weeks highlighting significant improvements we've made in…

• This week in search 11/6/09

  A Googler

  6 Nov 2009 | 1:35 pm

  This week we brought out some new search tools for the phone and for the web. We also enhanced our universal search with a better interface for product results. Multiple pictures of products in Universal Search We've added multiple images to product results in Universal Search. On broader queries, this helps you get a sense of the range of products available to you for the query. Here's what it looks like: Example searches: digital cameras, pin nailer, glider, bouncy house, outdoor dining set Search Options panel now has page previews and is live in more languages We have added a new tool to…

• Even more music for you to find with Google search

  A Googler

  6 Nov 2009 | 10:06 am

  Last week, we launched a new music search feature, which helps you search and discover millions of songs with a simple Google search. When you search for an artist, song, album or even a few lyrics, you'll find links to our partner sites — putting you just one click away from listening to and purchasing the music you're looking for. To celebrate our launch, MySpace and Lala are hosting exclusive, never-before-heard tracks from a variety of artists — and we're helping people to find those tracks through a simple Google search. So if you're a Lady Gaga fan looking for a new remix, in love…

• Transparency, choice and control — now complete with a Dashboard!

  A Googler

  5 Nov 2009 | 2:15 am

  Today, we are excited to announce the launch of Google Dashboard. Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? The Google Dashboard offers a simple view into the data associated with your account — easily and concisely in one location.Over the past 11 years, Google has focused on building innovative products for our users. Today, with hundreds of millions of people using those products around the world, we are very aware of the trust that you have placed in us, and our responsibility to protect your privacy and data. In the past, we've taken numerous steps in this…

• Introducing Google Commerce Search: Finding holiday gifts faster

  A Googler

  4 Nov 2009 | 9:35 pm

  The holiday season is right around the corner, so online retailers are gearing up for spikes in traffic. When people go to shop online, search is big part of finding the right product, whether they're looking for a gift or just something for themselves. Today we're aiming to make e-commerce searching as easy as using Google.com with a new enterprise product, Google Commerce Search.Search quality is a big factor in changing visitors to buyers online, and in making customers happy too. Visitors spend an average of just eight seconds before deciding whether or not to remain on a website, so…

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  Google Webmaster Central Blog

• New personalization features in Google Friend Connect

  Maile Ohye

  4 Nov 2009 | 7:40 am

  Webmaster Level: AllJust a few weeks ago, we made Google Friend Connect a lot easier to use by dramatically simplifying the setup process. Today, we're excited to announce several new features that make it possible for website owners to get to know their users, encourage users to get to know each other, and match their site content (including Google ads) to visitors' interests.To learn more about these new features, check out the Google Social Web Blog.Posted by Mussie Shore, Product Manager, Google Friend Connect

• Get your site ready for the holidays: Webmasters - make your list and check it twice!

  Maile Ohye

  3 Nov 2009 | 2:25 pm

  Webmaster Level: AllAre the holidays an important season for your website or online business? We think so! And to help make sure you're in good shape, we wanted to invite you to our Holiday Webmaster Webinar.This Webex will be hosted by Senior Search Quality Engineer Greg Grothaus, and AdWords Evangelist Fred Vallaeys. They'll be discussing a range of webmaster best practices and useful Google tools followed by a Q&A session to make sure you and your site are well primed for the holiday rush!Topic: Holiday Webmaster WebinarDate: Friday, November 13, 2009Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Standard…

• Using RSS/Atom feeds to discover new URLs

  Maile Ohye

  29 Oct 2009 | 5:50 pm

  Webmaster Level: IntermediateGoogle uses numerous sources to find new webpages, from links we find on the web to submitted URLs. We aim to discover new pages quickly so that users can find new content in Google search results soon after they go live. We recently launched a feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds for the discovery of new webpages.RSS/Atom feeds have been very popular in recent years as a mechanism for content publication. They allow readers to check for new content from publishers. Using feeds for discovery allows us to get these new pages into our index more quickly than…

• Help us make the web better: An update on Rich Snippets

  Maile Ohye

  26 Oct 2009 | 2:00 pm

  Webmaster Level: AllIn May this year we announced Rich Snippets which makes it possible to show structured data from your pages on Google's search results.We're convinced that structured data makes the web better, and we've worked hard to expand Rich Snippets to more search results and collect your feedback along the way. If you have review or people/social networking content on your site, it's easier than ever to mark up your content using microformats or RDFa so that Google can better understand it to generate useful Rich Snippets. Here are a few helpful improvements on our end to enable…

• Verifying a Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools

  Jonathan Simon

  22 Oct 2009 | 2:48 pm

  Webmaster Level: AllYou may have seen our recent announcement of changes to the verification system in Webmaster Tools. One side effect of this change is that blogs hosted on Blogger (that haven't yet been verified) will have to use the meta tag verification method rather than the "one-click" integration from the Blogger dashboard. The "Webmaster Tools" auto-verification link from the Blogger dashboard is no longer working and will soon be removed. We're working to reinstate an automated verification approach for Blogger hosted blogs in the future, but for the time being we wanted you to be…

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  Base: Google Base Blog

• Google Commerce Search: Google-Quality Search and Speed for Your Online Store

  vivek

  5 Nov 2009 | 11:19 am

  Ever wanted to have Google quality search and ultra fast speed for your online store? Now you can. Today we are launching Google Commerce Search to provide the search on your retail website. Google Commerce Search also leverages the data feed that you submit through Google Merchant Center so you don't need to submit your data again to use Google Commerce Search for your online store.Google Commerce Search (GCS) is a hosted, cloud-based offering that brings the relevancy, speed, and Google ease-of-use to e-commerce sites.GCS also has a bunch of user-friendly features that make shopping on…

• Preparing for the Holidays with Google Product Search

  vivek

  14 Oct 2009 | 11:21 am

  Over the past few months, Google Product Search released some great new features for shoppers and merchants. Heading into the holiday season, we want to make sure you have all the information you need to maximize the impact of your data feeds. Here's a checklist to make sure you're all set: Submit all recommended and optional attributes, wherever they're relevant: the more information shoppers have, the more they know about the products you offer. For example, make sure you're submitting the UPC, Brand, and Product Type attributes. Use the Google Local Business Center to send us your local…

• Retiring Google Base's Separate Search Page

  vivek

  8 Oct 2009 | 12:27 pm

  Google Base has its own search page for users to search across everything that's been uploaded, but it isn't widely used. Instead, people search on Google Product Search for products, or on Google Maps to find houses for rent or sale. Therefore, we're planning to retire Google Base's separate search page in a few weeks.Since not many people use the page, this change should not have a big impact your traffic. All data remains available through the Google Base API and through any applications that make use of it. As before, you can search for your own product listings in Google Product…

• Introducing the Google Merchant Center

  vivek

  28 Sep 2009 | 9:36 am

  Today, we're excited to announce that we're launching the Google Merchant Center, which will replace Google Base for those of you submitting Product-type items to Google. If you submit products to Google, Google Merchant Center is now the place to upload your feeds, check on the status of your items, and get information on the performance of your listings.Google Base is still available for other types of structured content, but the Merchant Center provides a better, optimized experience specifically for product listings. The Merchant Center is where we'll continue adding features and…

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  Google Press Releases

• Searching the e-store: Google Commerce Search now available to power retail websites*

  GooglePR

  5 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am

• Google to Present at the Fifth Annual Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit*

  GooglePR

  3 Nov 2009 | 10:30 am

• Grover Visits Google: Breakthrough Learning Forum Begins Today

  GooglePR

  27 Oct 2009 | 6:00 am

• New ways to explore with the Street View trike*

  GooglePR

  16 Oct 2009 | 5:30 am

• Google Announces Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results*

  GooglePR

  15 Oct 2009 | 11:52 am

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  Google Code Blog

• Introducing Closure Tools

  Mike Marchak

  5 Nov 2009 | 10:30 am

  Millions of Google users worldwide use JavaScript-intensive applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. Like developers everywhere, Googlers want great web apps to be easier to create, so we've built many tools to help us develop these (and many other) apps. We're happy to announce the open sourcing of these tools, and proud to make them available to the web development community.Closure CompilerClosure Compiler is a JavaScript optimizer that compiles web apps down into compact, high-performance JavaScript code. The compiler removes dead code, then rewrites and minimizes what's…

• New personalization features in Google Friend Connect

  Mike Marchak

  4 Nov 2009 | 8:50 am

  Today, we're excited to announce several new features for Google Friend Connect that make it possible for website owners to get to know their users, encourage users to get to know each other, and match their site content (including Google ads) to visitors' interests. Check out the Google Social Web Blog for an overview of these new features.We also want to point out that there are APIs for developers who want to play with the interests data programmatically. With the new interest data described on the Social Web Blog, developers can write custom polls and access the interests data…

• OAuth Enhancements

  Mike Marchak

  3 Nov 2009 | 9:05 am

  Google has recently added three important enhancements to our OAuth support:The ability to use OAuth without registrationSupport for software apps installed on a computer or mobile phoneAdditional controls for our Google Apps Premier and Education customers which allows administrators to give another web application access to a subset of the data Google stores for that organizationBelow is an overview of each enhancement, or you can refer to our updated OAuth documentation.1. The ability to use OAuth without registrationBased on consistent feedback from our developers, we added the…

• Hybrid Onboarding

  Mike Marchak

  3 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am

  Do you operate a website and wish you could increase the percentage of users who finish the registration process? As discussed on Google's main blog, Google has been working with Plaxo and Facebook to improve the registration success rate for Gmail users. We now see success rates as high as 90%, compared to the 50-60% rate that most websites see with traditional registration mechanisms. This result was achieved using a combination of our OpenID, OAuth and Portable Contacts APIs. While those APIs have been available for over a year, we have added a number of refinements based on our experience…

• Google Analytics API on App Engine Treemap Visualization

  Neel Kshetramade

  30 Oct 2009 | 11:30 am

  It's Friday, time for some fun!Here is a captivating way to visualize your Google Analytics data in a Treemap visualization and you can visualize your own data with our live demo.(note: IE currently not supported for visualization part)The goal of this example was to teach people how to use the Google Analytics API on App Engine in Java. As well as demonstrating how to use both OAuth and AuthSub along with the App Engine's various services. The code looked great, but the output was a boring HTML table. So I used some open source tools to transform the table into a pretty tree map…

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  Official Google Australia Blog

• Googlers pose for Street View camera

  Deborah

  5 Nov 2009 | 7:28 pm

  We recently announced that our Street View fleet would be back on public roads across Australia this month to capture new and better imagery of our country's beautiful cities, beaches, and dusty roads.What better way to kick this off than to start with a little fun at our Google Australia headquarters in Sydney? This morning, about 300 Googlers in our Pyrmont office lined the park next to our office to welcome the Street View camera (and get our 15 minutes of fame). When the imagery goes up sometime next year, you'll be able to spot all kinds of props - blow-up toys, signs, exercise balls -…

• Transparency, choice and control — now complete with a Dashboard!

  Lucinda Barlow

  5 Nov 2009 | 2:17 am

  This is partially cross posted from the Official Google BlogToday, we are excited to announce the launch of Google Dashboard. Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? The Google Dashboard offers a simple view into the data associated with your account — easily and concisely in one location.Over the past 11 years, Google has focused on building innovative products for our users. Today, with hundreds of millions of people using those products around the world, we are very aware of the trust that you have placed in us, and our responsibility to protect your privacy…

• Supporting SOSO campaign to combat cyber bullying

  Lucinda Barlow

  2 Nov 2009 | 7:12 pm

  Today we hosted the launch of a new campaign to help teens combat cyber bullying. The campaign, called Cyber Bullying Affects Real Lives, is part of the Smart Online, Safe Offline (SOSO) social initiative from the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN).At Google, we believe that education is vital for combating cyber bullying and we're proud to support the SOSO campaign through YouTube. YouTube is a great platform for reaching teens and speaking to them in a medium they understand.It was very impressed to see NAPCAN involve young people in all aspects of…

• AAPT’s journey to going Google

  A Googler

  2 Nov 2009 | 2:25 pm

  (Editor's note: This is a guest post by AAPT COO David Yuile)As a challenger telco in the competitive Australian market, AAPT has worked closely with Google in the past couple of years to get the most out of the technology opportunities available to us - using search in smarter ways, and using Google Maps and Google Earth when it has made sense as a way to better visualise and plan our operations and communications with customers. These decisions were easy – Google’s technology was leading the way, and we were committed to being at the cutting edge. The decision to ‘go Google’ for our…

• And they're racing now ...

  A Googler

  2 Nov 2009 | 12:11 pm

  All eyes will be on Flemington racecourse this afternoon, for the 2009 running of Australia's most famous horse race - the Melbourne Cup. It's all about the thrills, the wagers ... and of course, the fashion, which we're celebrating in our special Melbourne Cup 2009 Google Doodle. If Google search trends are anything to go by, fashion generally noses out horses as a hot search topic ... but today wouldn't be complete without them both. Enjoy the day! Posted by Katharina Friedrich, product marketing manager

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  Google Investor Relations

• Google to Present at the Fifth Annual Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit

  GooglePR

  3 Nov 2009 | 10:30 am

• Google Announces Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results

  GooglePR

  15 Oct 2009 | 11:52 am

  Today we announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. Please read our press release for a summary of the quarter.

• Arthur Levinson Resigns from Google’s Board of Directors

  GooglePR

  12 Oct 2009 | 5:14 am

  Today we announced that Dr. Arthur Levinson has resigned as a member of the company's Board of Directors, effective immediately. Levinson has been on the Google Board since April 2004. For more information, please read our press release.

• Google to Announce Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results

  GooglePR

  5 Oct 2009 | 9:03 am

  We will hold our quarterly conference call to discuss first quarter 2009 financial results on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time). You can listen to this webcast on our webcast and events page. For more information, please read our press release.

• Google to Host Investor Webcast

  GooglePR

  26 Aug 2009 | 11:35 am

  Today we announced that Google will host a series of educational webcasts for investors and financial analysts through the fall and winter of 2009 and 2010. The webcasts are intended to provide investors greater insight and information on selected areas of Google's business and operations. For more information, please read our press release.

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  Google News Blog

• A new face to Google News Sitemaps

  Google News Blog

  5 Nov 2009 | 2:13 pm

  Posted by Andy Golding, Google News Software EngineerGiven the feedback we get from publishers, we've redesigned our interface to make Google News Sitemaps more flexible and easier to submit. [As a reminder, a Google News Sitemap is a file created by publishers which gives you even more control over the content you submit to Google News]. We're currently in the midst of an exciting transition period and need your help to avoid interruption in crawling your content.To facilitate this transition, we'll have a six-month grandfather period during which you can continue to use the old format for…

• Create and Share custom News sections

  Google News Blog

  4 Nov 2009 | 1:03 pm

  Posted by Sharad Jain and Nilesh Agrawal, Google News Software EngineersToday, Google News is making it even easier to follow the latest stories on whatever subjects interest you. We are happy to announce our Custom sections directory, which gives users of some of our English-language editions the expanded ability to create comprehensive sections to put on their Google News home page or share with other users. One of the great things about online news is the ability to filter by topics. Google News has long recognized this so we've allowed users to track articles based on keywords of their…

• Local news now available in France

  Google News Blog

  2 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am

  Posted by Mikey Levine, Software engineerLast year we announced the launch of local news in the U.S., and later in the UK, India, Canada and Germany. Today we're delighted to let you know that we're making this feature available for France.The Local news section lets you keep track of current events in your area. Once implemented, the top stories for a given area will be at the top of your results, and our rankings also take into account a publication's location to promote local sources for each story.We work hard to improve our algorithm, including its ability to understand the relevant…

• Highlighting the diversity of content in Google News

  Google News Blog

  17 Sep 2009 | 3:07 pm

  Posted by Rawan Hakeem, Google News Online TeamAs you may know, we've always included some blogs from news organizations in Google News. However, we've heard from some of our users that the way we displayed these blogs in Google News was not very clear. To address this, we're now visibly marking articles published on a news blog with a "(blog)" label attached to the publication's name. The same sources that were there before will still be available, and nothing will change in our rankings to impact where or how often they appear in Google News. We're making this change to ensure a high…

• Read news fast with Google Fast Flip

  Google News Blog

  14 Sep 2009 | 4:00 pm

  Posted by Krishna Bharat, Distinguished Engineer, Google News[cross-posted from the Official Google Blog]One problem with reading news online today is that browsing can be really slow. A media-rich page loads dozens of files and can take as much as 10 seconds to load over broadband, which can be frustrating. What we need instead is a way to flip through articles really fast without unnatural delays, just as we can in print. The flow should feel seamless and let you rapidly flip forward to the content you like, without the constant wait for things to load. Imagine taking 10 seconds to turn the…

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  Blogger Status

• 4 Nov 2009 | 8:03 pm

  4 Nov 2009 | 8:03 pm

  Postmortem on recent issues affecting users in EuropeWhat happened Beginning at approximately 2:30am (PDT) Saturday, October 31, a DNS configuration issue in a new datacenter in Europe caused requests to blogger.com and *.blogspot.com to be sent to an invalid IP address. Affected users throughout Europe were unable to connect to either Blogger or to blogs hosted by Blogger at blogspot.com for approximately 10 hours. What we're doing about it1. Blogger's systems engineers will proactively monitor and verify DNS settings during major system changes.2. We have improved our automated monitoring…

• 31 Oct 2009 | 12:42 pm

  31 Oct 2009 | 12:42 pm

  RESOLVED: The issue affecting Blogger users in Europe has been resolved. There was a configuration problem in a new datacenter. We will provide a postmortem on Monday. Thanks to all who assisted us analyzing the problem.

• 31 Oct 2009 | 10:50 am

  31 Oct 2009 | 10:50 am

  We are receiving reports that some users cannot access Blogger in Europe. We are investigating.

• 23 Oct 2009 | 1:07 am

  23 Oct 2009 | 1:07 am

  Blogger was unavailable for most users for over an hour. Service has now been restored.

• 12 Jun 2009 | 1:21 pm

  12 Jun 2009 | 1:21 pm

  Blogger will be unavailable Monday (6/15) at 12:00AM PDT for about 10 minutes for maintenance.Update: The maintenance is now complete. Thanks for your patience.

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  Docs Blog

• Building your business around Google Docs

  Google Docs

  3 Nov 2009 | 2:02 pm

  How do you turn Google Docs and a passion for music into a business? Ask Taylor McKnight, co-founder of SCHED*, who used Google Docs spreadsheets to help attendees of more than 80 conferences and festivals more easily organize their event schedules and not miss a thing. It all started at SXSW when Taylor wanted an easy way to share his band recommendations to friends. His solution - an easy to update and customize scheduling application built on Google Docs spreadsheets that spread like wildfire. It helped him organize information on the 4,000 panels, films, and parties happening at SXSW 2008…

• With Google Sites and Docs planning Thanksgiving is easy

  Google Docs

  3 Nov 2009 | 11:43 am

  Every year families come together from all over to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. To some people, Thanksgiving brings to mind images of family gathering around a turkey dinner and catching up over heaping servings of pumpkin pie. Others, especially the hosts and hostesses out there, worry about the stress of cooking for 20 people, getting stuck in traffic, picking up relatives from the airport and figuring out where everyone will sleep. If you fall into the second group, why not use Google Docs and Sites to help organize your Thanksgiving chaos this year?A Google Site is a great way to…

• Taking charge of your document sharing

  Google Docs

  28 Oct 2009 | 2:47 pm

  We designed Google Docs to make it easier for users to collaborate with one another — students working on assignments, colleagues designing projects and presentations, and friends and families sharing ideas and planning events together. We think collaboration inspires innovation and learning. That being said, we also recognize that sometimes you may want to share your documents and collaborate with a more limited group. In the spirit of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, we recommend you keep the following document sharing tips in mind.Share your documents wiselyYou can share your…

• Google Docs now more consistent

  Google Docs

  27 Oct 2009 | 9:30 am

  You have given us clear (and sometimes colorful!) feedback that we should improve consistency across our products. In fact, the highest-ranked idea on the recently launched Google Docs product ideas page today asks us for a "uniform interface."Today, we're happy to let you know we've standardized the look and feel of the Google Docs editors. Check this out:The links, title area, menus, menu terminology, and toolbar are now nearly uniform across documents, spreadsheets and presentations.We're going to continue to converge on smooth, consistent appearance and behavior across all aspects of…

• Data Liberation, "Mark as viewed", and New!

  Google Docs

  26 Oct 2009 | 1:30 pm

  A couple weeks ago, we launched a multi-file uploader to make it much easier for you to put files into the cloud. Today we're launching a new feature to make it much easier to get your content out.That's right, it's our first major offensive on the Data Liberation Front: "Convert, Zip and Download."Select one or more files and then click on "Export" from the "More Actions" menu. Next, pick the format (e.g. PDF, Microsoft Word, etc) you want for your exported files. Finally, click "Continue" and we'll give you a nice zip file to download that has all your content.For now, you can "export" up…

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  Google Mobile Blog

• NYC subway maps in your pocket with Google Maps for mobile

  Ryan Pollock

  6 Nov 2009 | 12:10 pm

  Hey New Yorkers looking for somewhere to celebrate the Yankees' 27th World Series title? It's now easier than ever to carry a NYC subway map in your pocket.A few weeks ago we announced the Layers feature on Google Maps for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Symbian S60. Today we added a layer that overlays NYC subway routes on a map. We hope this will help you quickly navigate the New York City subway system. To see this new layer while viewing a map of New York City, just click the Layers menu and then turn on the Transit Lines layer.Of course, you can also get step-by-step public transit…

• Get Google Mobile App at Best Buy stores

  Lawrence Chang

  5 Nov 2009 | 2:33 pm

  If you're a regular reader of the Google Mobile Blog, then you've probably installed or accessed our mobile applications on your phone at one point or another. You may have even shown our applications to your friends and explained how to get them. Or perhaps you've been the recipient of some helpful mobile tips from a friend of yours. In any case, you may have noticed that one of the best ways to discover and get new applications for your phone is through a face-to-face dialog with another person.We're happy to announce today that we've partnered with Best Buy Mobile to make Google Mobile App…

• Introducing Google Analytics for Mobile Apps

  Lawrence Chang

  3 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am

  Last week, we introduced expanded mobile reporting features in Google Analytics. To help developers, this launch includes features that make it easy to see how people are using specific parts of their iPhone and Android applications. The same Google Analytics reports that provide insights into website traffic and engagement are now available for mobile apps.As with websites, there are two basic categories of user interaction you can track: pageviews and events. Since mobile apps don't contain HTML pages, developers simply determine when their apps should trigger pageview requests. Google…

• Google Search by voice travels the world, finds Nokia, learns Chinese

  Ryan Pollock

  2 Nov 2009 | 7:55 am

  (cross-posted with Official Google Blog)Google Search by voice has grown up quickly. Some might say that search by voice has matured from a toddler to a tween. It's certainly been traveling across the English-speaking world and getting better at understanding a range of accents, from the US, UK, India, and Australia. Today it's taking another big step — we're happy to announce that Google search by voice is available for Nokia S60 phones, and now understands Mandarin Chinese.Nokia S60 phones are popular around the world. If you have an Nseries or Eseries phone such as the N95 or E71, you're…

• Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0

  Ryan Pollock

  28 Oct 2009 | 7:00 am

  (cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)Since 2005, millions of people have relied on Google Maps for mobile to get directions on the go. However, there's always been one problem: Once you're behind the wheel, a list of driving directions just isn't that easy to use. It doesn't tell you when your turn is coming up. And if you miss a turn? Forget it, you're on your own.Today we're excited to announce the next step for Google Maps for mobile: Google Maps Navigation (Beta) for Android 2.0 devices.This new feature comes with everything you'd expect to find in a GPS navigation system, like 3D…

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  Custom Search Engine

• Three birthday candles for Custom Search

  Custom Search Team

  26 Oct 2009 | 2:33 pm

  Last Friday was the third anniversary of Custom Search! Here's a photo of our celebratory cake, baked by John Skidgel, our multitalented Senior Interaction Designer. Our cake was baked in between code reviews for our brand new Look and Feel tab. The magnifying glass was a chocolate cake and the handle and cubes are made from marshmallow and rice cereal squares. Luckily, the local cooking store had ready-made fondant in Google colors. :-)Thanks to you, our users, the Custom Search platform has grown over the last three years: We now have millions of registered Custom Search engines globally,…

• Plug-n-play with Custom Search Themes

  Custom Search Team

  26 Oct 2009 | 12:07 am

  Besides great results relevance, one of the most popular features of Custom Search is the ability for you to customize the look and feel of the results to match your website. Our users have always requested more control over results presentation. What's Custom Search without customization?Today, we're launching Custom Search Themes, which make customized presentation a blast!You can now select from among a set of slick styles that make the search results look awesome. If you love a style, but need to tweak it, you can customize it further by changing fonts, colors, backgrounds, promotion…

• Structured Custom Search

  Custom Search Team

  25 Oct 2009 | 11:28 pm

  Earlier this year, we announced support for Rich Snippets in Custom Search results. If you provide in-page metadata markup, via RDFa, Microformats, or PageMaps, the Custom Search platform extracts the metadata attributes and returns these as PageMaps in your XML results, so you can render these structured attributes in your search results.Now, our metadata support just got a whole lot better!Thumbnails and ActionsIf you use the Custom Search Element, you can now add publisher-provided links to your search results based on specific metadata markup in your web pages. These special structured…

• A contextual search experience for Wikipedia

  Custom Search Team

  25 Oct 2009 | 10:28 pm

  Wikipedia users can now configure a Custom Search skin to customize their Wikipedia search experience. Once configured, the skin helps you to search Wikipedia, and for contextually relevant articles, from any Wikipedia page. This can make it easier to find relevant information, especially on Wikipedia pages with many links, and where the topics you are researching are ambiguous. You can find instructions to configure the Custom Search skin at Wikipedia. It works with Wikipedia's Monobook and the Beta Vector skins, and should work on Wikipedia domains globally. Remember that you need a user…

• Google Custom Search for your smartphone

  Custom Search Team

  22 Oct 2009 | 3:24 pm

  In our recent Product Ideas survey, one of the most-requested features was about enabling a mobile version of Custom Search. Guess what: It's here! As announced on the Google Mobile blog, Custom Search now enables a rich interactive mobile experience on high-end devices such as Android-powered phones, iPhone, iPod touch, and Palm Pre.Try it out on your phone right now: search for user-generated content (e.g., search for [maradona]) from sites like Wikipedia, Knol, etc., or learn all about the latest and greatest Custom Search features on our product's mobile search engine (e.g., search for…

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  Inside AdSense

• A new AdSense interface: now in beta

  Inside AdSense Team

  5 Nov 2009 | 9:41 am

  Today, at the Content Revenue Strategies conference in New York City, we announced that a small group of publishers will begin testing a new AdSense interface in limited beta.  Inspired by the feedback we've heard directly from you, the new interface includes features designed around your top three requests:  Provide insights to help you make more informed decisions about your sites.The new AdSense interface includes more detailed performance reports and enables you to view daily stats in graphical formats. It also will provide you with additional metrics such as the amount you've earned…

• Show enhanced ads with Google Friend Connect

  Inside AdSense Team

  4 Nov 2009 | 10:54 am

  Today, we're excited to announce a set of new features in Google Friend Connect that let website owners get to know their users, encourage users to get to know each other and personalize their site content, including Google ads. We've just integrated AdSense with Google Friend Connect, giving publishers the option to show ads that match visitors' interests. When you log in to your Google Friend Connect account, you'll notice a new "Interests" section where you can create a list of questions for users to answer, either as part of your website's registration process or via a poll gadget on the…

• Ghoulish greetings

  Inside AdSense Team

  30 Oct 2009 | 5:46 pm

  Happy Halloween from the AdSense, DoubleClick, and Ad Manager teams!Posted by Arlene Lee - Inside AdSense Team

• A more customized search experience for your website

  Inside AdSense Team

  29 Oct 2009 | 1:32 pm

  We've posted a couple times about how the Custom Search Element can help provide a more customized search experience for your users while enabling you to earn money. Today we're excited to announce two new features for the Custom Search Element that will enable you to further customize your website search to the look and feel of your site: themes and rich snippets. ThemesYou can now customize the layout and styles of your Custom Search Element. To select a theme for your Custom Search Element, just go to your Custom Search Engine account at http://www.google.com/cse/manage/all and click…

• Coming soon: Filter more categories

  Inside AdSense Team

  28 Oct 2009 | 12:39 pm

  A few months ago, we launched category filtering in a number of English-speaking countries to help you control the ads that appear on your pages. To provide you with more ad filtering options, you'll soon be able to filter 3 more categories from your pages, for a total of up to 8 categories. You should notice this change within the next few weeks.To get started with category filtering, sign in to AdSense and visit the Ad Review Center, located under the AdSense Setup tab. You can choose from the listed categories, which include religion, politics, and dating, and your selections will be…

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• Google Dashboard Provides Too Much Info And Yet Not Enough - eWeek

  7 Nov 2009 | 4:36 am

  PC WorldGoogle Dashboard Provides Too Much Info And Yet Not EnougheWeekNews Analysis: Google again finds itself in a no-win situation, this time with Google Dashboard. Some claim Google collects too much data in Dashboard and Google Dashboard Enhances Privacy ControlInformationWeekGoogle Dashboard Misses Transparency MarkChannelWebGoogle Dashboard displays your Google addictionDVICEComputerworld -the iPhone Blog (blog) -Daily Contributorall 529 news articles »

• Google home page commemorates 40th anniversary of Sesame Street; features ... - TopNews United States

  7 Nov 2009 | 1:55 am

  New Zealand HeraldGoogle home page commemorates 40th anniversary of Sesame Street; features TopNews United StatesIn what can be termed as Google's latest promotional pitch on Friday, November 6, the Internet search giant's home page featured a link to push the new Sesame Street, Droid get Google's loveCNET NewsGoogle Pushes Droid With Rare Ad On HomepageWashington PostReview: Google's Droid could be iPhone killerNewsdayPC World -eWeek -Product Reviews (blog)all 1,377 news articles »

• Microsoft tops Google, Yahoo, Facebook in worldwide Web use - Seattle Post Intelligencer

  7 Nov 2009 | 12:16 am

  MSN Philippines NewsMicrosoft tops Google, Yahoo, Facebook in worldwide Web useSeattle Post IntelligencerWindows Live Messenger led Microsoft's Web properties in capturing 14.5 percent of total time spent online in September worldwide, handily beating Google, Google Chrome 4: Yes, it's fast, but is it usable?BetaNewsMicrosoft Sites Captures Largest Share of Time Spent Online WorldwideCNNMoney.com (press release)Microsoft Sites Up Big in ...InternetNews.comDownloadsquad (blog) -Wall Street Journal -AFPall 96 news articles »

• Google unveils commercial site search - V3.co.uk

  6 Nov 2009 | 6:29 pm

  TopNews United StatesGoogle unveils commercial site searchV3.co.ukThe new tool allows vendors to offer a search service based on the Google search engine within their sites, providing users with more accurate results when Google unveils hosted search for online retailInternetRetailing.netGoogle Commerce Search introduced for avid shoppersTechShout! (blog)Google Rolls Out Commerce SearchPC MagazineCNET News -TopNews United States -ZDNet UKall 142 news articles »

• Google's Obsession With Microsoft Burns Hotter - ChannelWeb

  6 Nov 2009 | 4:16 pm

  Web TrendsGoogle's Obsession With Microsoft Burns HotterChannelWebGoogle CEO Eric Schmidt claims that Microsoft has provided his company with a sort of 'reverse roadmap' of what not to do to Google CEO: Hopefully we won't repeat Microsoft's mistakesSeattle Post IntelligencerA Berkeley Alum at MIT: Google CEO Eric Schmidt Stops ByBoston GlobeGoogle trying not to cross 'the creepy line'CNET NewsWeb Trends -BNET -GigaOm (blog)all 47 news articles »

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  Google News

• Droid Has Landed All Right-Right on Google's Homepage [Digital Daily]

  7 Nov 2009 | 3:58 am

  "There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages.

• Will Google Books Settlement 2.0 quell concerns?

  6 Nov 2009 | 9:18 pm

  Monday is the deadline for Google Inc. and other parties in the landmark books lawsuit to submit a revised settlement proposal, but some already say it won't be enough to satisfy critics.

• Google Already Making Microsoft Mistakes It Wants To Avoid

  6 Nov 2009 | 5:02 pm

  Last night in a television interview, Google CEO Eric Schmidt , being questioned on avoiding antitrust challenges , said, "Hopefully we won't repeat the mistakes that Microsoft made, you know, 10 years ago that ultimately led to all these things that happened with them." Got news for you, Eric: You've already made them and continue to.

• Google, Ad Networks Tighten Privacy Controls

  6 Nov 2009 | 12:36 pm

  New offerings provide more detailed access and control over online data collection.

• Apple's Jobs the 'CEO of the Decade'

  6 Nov 2009 | 8:09 am

  FORTUNE magazine has crowned Apple top dog Steve Jobs "CEO of the Decade" in its newest edition.

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  GOOGLE NEWS - Google Blog Search

• Personalize Your News With Custom Sections In Google News

  Saikat Basu

  7 Nov 2009 | 4:01 am

  The men in white coats (or white T-Shirts) at Google are at it again. They just gave us another way to overload ourselves with information culled from the web.

• 5 Google Updates for 11/6/09: News, Maps, Books, Music and Mobile ...

  Nathania Johnson

  6 Nov 2009 | 12:38 pm

  Check them out: Google News has a new sitemaps interface. You have six months to adopt the new sitemap. Google Books now has a magazine search page. Via Google Search's new music search, you can now access exclusive songs hosted by ...

• Google News embraces self-identification of content » Nieman ...

  Zachary M. Seward

  5 Nov 2009 | 4:18 pm

  Some online-only news organizations were upset when Google News began attaching a (blog) label to their content two months ago. Others, like me, complained.

• Google News Blog: A new face to Google News Sitemaps

  Google News Blog

  5 Nov 2009 | 2:13 pm

  Given the feedback we get from publishers, we've redesigned our interface to make Google News Sitemaps more flexible and easier to submit. [As a reminder, a Google News Sitemap is a file created by publishers which gives you even more ...

• Add Your Own News Topics to Google News

  Andy Beal

  4 Nov 2009 | 10:09 pm

  Google News just added a neat new feature that can help you keep track of news that's of interest to ...

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  Google News, Inside.

• Using Trends to Predict the Economy

  Jonathan Dingman

  4 Nov 2009 | 8:12 am

  Google is a powerful company, there’s no doubt about that. Google has access to some of the most valuable data in the world because of search tracking. It’s able to use search data to show trending of what’s being searched and therefore, can predict events like Black Friday.It’s truly incredible to see what [...]Blogged on Google News by Jonathan Dingman © Fireside MediaUsing Trends to Predict the EconomyRelated posts:SES San Jose Was a Great Show!Life at Google Friday: Bryan About the BGNGoogle Squared: New UI. New Success?

• Happy Halloween 2009

  Jonathan Dingman

  31 Oct 2009 | 1:28 pm

  Google wishes everyone a happy Halloween with a special Google logo today.The Adsense team sends their greetings. Blogged on Google News by Jonathan Dingman © Fireside MediaHappy Halloween 2009Related posts:Happy Halloween 2008!AdSense Officially Changes ‘Ads by Google’Google Analytics & AdSense IntegrationBlogged on Google News by Jonathan Dingman © Fireside MediaHappy Halloween 2009Related posts:Happy Halloween 2008!AdSense Officially Changes ‘Ads by Google’Google Analytics & AdSense Integration

• Google Music Search

  Jonathan Dingman

  29 Oct 2009 | 9:25 am

  Google is announcing Google Music Search, what has long been rumored and what most everyone can see as a straight forward move into the music biz. Without a doubt, lyrics is by far one of the most searched terms on the web. Google is partnering with companies like MySpace, Rhapsody, iMeem, and LaLa, to provide [...]Blogged on Google News by Jonathan Dingman © Fireside MediaGoogle Music SearchRelated posts:Google Music AdsYouTube Tracks with GoogleFree Music Videos

• Android 2.0 Support in the SDK

  Jonathan Dingman

  27 Oct 2009 | 9:49 am

  I’ve been using the Android SDK for the past few months, so this is some exciting news for me. Android 2.0 is now being supported in the SDK. There are a large number of things to highlight about this change, but I’ll just point out a few of them.Multiple accounts can be added to a [...]Blogged on Google News by Jonathan Dingman © Fireside MediaAndroid 2.0 Support in the SDKRelated posts:Better Gmail and Calendar for the iPhoneGmail Mobile Java ClientSogou Not so Pleased with Google

• Sergey Brin Shares His Story of Life

  Jonathan Dingman

  26 Oct 2009 | 9:43 am

  Sergey Brin runs his own blog, but rarely does he ever update it. His latest blog post, however, is a great post about the story of his life and moving over to the United States of America. It’s truly incredible to see how far Brin has come from when he first arrived in the USA. Here’s [...]Blogged on Google News by Jonathan Dingman © Fireside MediaSergey Brin Shares His Story of LifeRelated posts:Hello Worl..errr IRS.Google to Integrate cPanel?Life at Google Friday: Bryan About the BGN

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  Google Press Releases

• Searching the e-store: Google Commerce Search now available to power retail websites*

  GooglePR

  5 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am

• Google to Present at the Fifth Annual Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit*

  GooglePR

  3 Nov 2009 | 10:30 am

• Grover Visits Google: Breakthrough Learning Forum Begins Today

  GooglePR

  27 Oct 2009 | 6:00 am

• New ways to explore with the Street View trike*

  GooglePR

  16 Oct 2009 | 5:30 am

• Google Announces Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results*

  GooglePR

  15 Oct 2009 | 11:52 am

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  Google Public Policy Blog

• Transparency, choice and control - now complete with a Dashboard!

  Google Public Policy Blog

  5 Nov 2009 | 6:50 am

  Posted by Alma Whitten, Software Engineer, Yariv Adan, Product Manager, and Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience(Cross-posted from the Official Google BlogToday, we are excited to announce the launch of Google Dashboard. Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? The Google Dashboard offers a simple view into the data associated with your account — easily and concisely in one location.Over the past 11 years, Google has focused on building innovative products for our users. Today, with hundreds of millions of people using those products around…

• Next steps in cyber security awareness

  Google Public Policy Blog

  2 Nov 2009 | 12:39 pm

  Posted by Eric Davis, Head of Anti-MalvertisingLast week I joined several industry experts to speak at a cyber security panel on Capitol Hill organized by Congresswoman Yvette Clarke and sponsored by the Committee on Homeland Security. The conversation focused on things everyday Internet users can do to help protect their computers and stay safe online. Given that we just wrapped up our observation of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, I thought I'd share some of the key recommendations from the panel:What are the most important things we all need to do to protect our computers and…

• Bridging the digital literacy gap

  Google Public Policy Blog

  2 Nov 2009 | 8:03 am

  Posted by Dorothy Chou, Policy AnalystIt's important that parents and educators help kids to develop healthy, safe, and responsible online habits. But this can be a challenge, even for the tech-savviest families.That's why we're launching a tour with iKeepSafe to help parents and educators across the country become more involved in kids' online activities. To kick-off the tour, we're sponsoring a panel discussion on Capitol Hill to address some of the key issues around digital media literacy, including how to talk to kids about maintaining their online reputations.Over the past year, we've…

• A price on carbon -- necessary but not sufficient

  Google Public Policy Blog

  29 Oct 2009 | 3:05 pm

  Posted by Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change & Energy InitiativesThe need to address the climate crisis provides us with an unprecedented opportunity to rebuild our energy system with vast economic, security, and environmental benefits. By putting significant limits on carbon emissions –- and adopting strong complementary energy policies -- we can create millions of new U.S. jobs, reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign energy, and protect ourselves from a global climate crisis. Yesterday I testified on just this subject before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public…

• Our response to the FCC on Google Voice

  Google Public Policy Blog

  28 Oct 2009 | 2:43 pm

  Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselIn our response today to the FCC's inquiry about Google Voice, we announced that our engineers have developed a tailored solution for restricting calls to specific numbers engaged in what some have called high-cost "traffic pumping" schemes, like adult chat and "free" conference call lines.We went to work on this fix because earlier this year, we noticed an extremely high number of calls were being made to an extremely small number of destinations. In fact, the top 10 telephone prefixes -- the area code plus the first three digits…

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  larry page - Google News

• Eric Schmidt's Burning Question - The Big Money

  6 Nov 2009 | 1:17 pm

  Eric Schmidt's Burning QuestionThe Big MoneyWhen Eric Schmidt applied for the CEO gig, Larry Page and Sergey Brin weren't exactly thrilled to see him. In fact, they didn't really want a CEO at all,

• Google Not Interested in Content - Web Trends

  6 Nov 2009 | 12:10 pm

  Web TrendsGoogle Not Interested in ContentWeb TrendsThe rumor heated up earlier this year when Scott Galloway, a Harbinger appointee on the New York Times board, put out a feeler to Larry Page, co-founder of and more »

• Another Google Heir Is Born: Larry Page's Son - Gawker

  6 Nov 2009 | 8:53 am

  Another Google Heir Is Born: Larry Page's SonGawkerLarry Page is now the co-creator of something other than the most important internet site in the world: A tipster whispers the Google co-founder is the and more »

• Skype's founders prove reputation as the internet's deadliest operators - guardian.co.uk

  6 Nov 2009 | 8:46 am

  Skype's founders prove reputation as the internet's deadliest operatorsguardian.co.ukLarry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, web creator Tim Berners-Lee and even Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, for example, can all claim some sort of influence on and more »

• Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin - CNNMoney.com

  6 Nov 2009 | 8:11 am

  Google's Larry Page and Sergey BrinCNNMoney.comNEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Treasury prices were higher Friday after the government reported that unemployment spiked to 10.2% -- its highest level since and more »

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  Google Blogoscoped

• Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal, now at Google) Talks About Programming

  Philipp Lenssen

  6 Nov 2009 | 4:57 pm

  Brad Fitzpatrick, born in 1980, started to learn programming at the age of 5. In high school he went on to create a voting booth script called FreeVote, which he says earned him as much as 27 cent per click on banner ads back then (making for 25, 27 grand per month). He went on to create blogging platform LiveJournal, thinking and implementing a lot to scale this to the traffic needs, and is currently working at Google. The following excerpt is from the book Coders at Work, in which Peter Seibel – himself a programmer – interviews many interesting programmers (some of them working…

• Dan Siroker: CarrotSticks, Google Chrome, and Obama

  Philipp Lenssen

  5 Nov 2009 | 6:44 pm

  Dan Siroker is the founder of kid’s learning games site CarrotSticks.com. Before that, he was involved with the Obama campaign transition as deputy new media director; prior to that, Dan was a product manager for Google Chrome. This email interview was made possible with the friendly help of the Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference (December 7-11 this year), where Dan Siroker – as well as Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do – are keynote speakers. [Thanks Byron!]   Can you explain your role at CarrotSticks.com? CarrotSticks is an online multiplayer game…

• Google Closure, JavaScript Tools & Library

  Philipp Lenssen

  5 Nov 2009 | 6:34 pm

  Google released a couple of internal tools of theirs into the open source world (must be make-people-happy week in Mountain View). One of them is the Closure Library for JavaScript; check the API reference for more. Another is called Closure Compiler, aiming to shrink and performance-optimize your JS and alert you to problems with it... there’s even an online app where you can paste your code into. The third in the bunch is called Closure Templates, and as Google explains in a overview blog post of theirs, you can think of it “as small components that you compose to form your user…

• Check What Google Knows About You With Google Dashboard

  Philipp Lenssen

  5 Nov 2009 | 3:44 am

  When you’re at Google and switch to Settings → Google account settings you may now (if it’s already rolled out for you, that is) see a link to Google Dashboard reading “View data stored with this account”. After logging in with your credentials, Dashboard presents you with a detailed list of Google services and the associated data you’re storing with it. Each item, like Blogger, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Health and so on contains a couple of lines of sample data, as well as links to edit your profile for that service, view the service’s privacy…

• Google Commerce Search

  Philipp Lenssen

  4 Nov 2009 | 10:22 pm

  If you’re running an online shop, Google’s new Commerce Search may be worth having a look at. Google describes it as a “search solution designed specifically with online retail enterprises in mind.” Instead of a usual sign up button, you’re asked to contact Google’s sales team (though the button points to a verbose, general ways-to-find-support page). Later on, you can then upload your product data at the Google Merchant Center, and go on to customize your site’s search engine. Google’s admin console lets you “manage product promotions,…

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  Google Earth Blog

• Links: Milwaukee and Indianpolis 3D buildings, Fraps 3.0 released

  6 Nov 2009 | 10:13 am

  New 3D Buildings in Milwaukee and Indianapolis: Google continues to add more 3D buildings to Google, having just released Milwaukee, WI and Indianapolis, IN, along with thousands of user-generated buildings. As with past releases, I would expect that most of the user-generated buildings were from people using the Building Maker tool. (via @3DWH) Fraps Version 3.0 Released: Fraps is a Windows-only program that allows you to easily grab video from almost any program that uses DirectX or OpenGL, including Google Earth. We've used it before to show off things like Disney in 3D and it does a great…

• New Historical Imagery Added

  6 Nov 2009 | 6:54 am

  One of the really neat features introduced in Google Earth 5 is the historical imagery slider. Using this tool, you can view old imagery and compare it to more recent imagery for a particular location. Over the past year, we've seen some neat examples of that. Below is a video that Frank made back in February that shows how the feature works and gives a quick tour of the "Bird's Nest" stadium from the 2008 Olympics. In March, Google added a lot more imagery to this section, which offered some neat perspective on things like Amazon deforestation. It's also allowed us to revisit neat old…

• New community for Builder Makers

  5 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am

  In an effort to help Builder Maker users connect with each other, Google has just unveiled their new Building Maker community. This community is aimed at users who model 3D buildings, whether they use SketchUp or they simply use the Building Maker tool. Their goal is to have a place for people to share tips, tricks and other support for these tools. If you have questions about Building Maker, or need help solving a problem with it, this new community would be a good place to start. In addition, they're hoping that people will communicate with each other so they don't duplicate the same…

• The best finds in the new imagery

  4 Nov 2009 | 5:48 am

  As part of Google's imagery release yesterday, they encouraged users to Tweet about neat locations that they found in the new imagery by using the #GEarthIMG hash tag. Here are some of the best that we've seen come through so far: Historic planes in Sacramento (from Spathiinc) Sunken ship and pier (from @Mpegg) Turkmenistan's "Door to Hell" (more info | from @gsightseeing) A person feeding Sea Lions in Santa Cruz (from Spathiinc) If you find any other cool stuff in the new imagery, Tweet it out using the #GEarthIMG hash tag or simply leave a comment below and tell us about it.

• New Google Earth Imagery - November 3

  3 Nov 2009 | 10:05 am

  Sharp-eyed reader 'RiderLT' has discovered some fresh imagery in Google Earth, which we've been able to confirm. If you look in central Kazakhstan (earth - maps) you'll see that there is clearly new imagery in the area. Remember, you can compare the imagery in Google Earth to the imagery in Google Maps to determine if an area has been updated. As with previous updates, the new imagery is visible in Google Earth but is not yet visible in Google Maps. What else can you find that's been updated? [UPDATE -- 03-Nov, 6:01pm EST] Google has released the official list of updates. You can view it…

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  Google Watch

• Google Advertises Motorola Droid on its Home Page

  6 Nov 2009 | 9:01 pm

  In addition to celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street by placing Burt and Ernie where its Doodles would be, Google started promoting the new Motorola Droid, which launched today from Verizon Wireless (also available for purchase at Best Buy). Click on the Learn more link and you'll be whisked to this Google Mobile partners page: Note the blue button in the upper right-hand corner. What does that look like to you? That's right. It looks like a software download button, similar to the ones we've seen for Google Chrome or Google Sidewiki. It actually takes you to the Verizon Wireless…

• Google Sidewiki Under Fire from Reframe It

  6 Nov 2009 | 5:07 am

  Today I posted this piece about Web annotation startup Reframe It, which believes Google's Sidewiki looks and feels a little too much like its own Web annotation service. Reframe It's leadership knows seeing is the key to believing, so they cobbled together these side-by-side screenshots comparing their Reframe It technology with Sidewiki. I encourage you to read the story on eWEEK, and then check out these pictures to judge for yourself whether the startup has a legitimate gripe. One IP lawyer seemed to think so. Reframe It added captions to each screenshot to underscore the similarities…

• Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy Critics

  4 Nov 2009 | 11:00 pm

  Google made another move to assuage the concerns of privacy critics Nov. 5, with the Google Dashboard, which provides a summary of the application data associated with Google accounts. Account summaries appear on the left, with links to manage those accounts (and delete data) listed cleanly on the right. The Dashboard is organized into different sections according to which Google products and services users access when they are signed into their account: Google Dashboard lets users see an up-to-date total of how many Gmail conversations they have engaged in, e-mails they have sent and…

• Would Google Be Evil for Buying The New York Times?

  3 Nov 2009 | 1:38 pm

  Bloggers and reporters are reviewing Ken Auletta's new book, "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," in which the New Yorker writer notes that Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google co-founder Larry Page considered buying The New York Times. Evil alert! I haven't read the book from Penguin Press yet, though I requested a copy today. The title alone sets us up for a treatment of an industry-changing company. It looks from this interview on I Want Media that Auletta is painting Google as a company that is altering the course of media: Google co-founder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt told me…

• Weather.com Plays Weatherman on Bing Maps Using Flash

  2 Nov 2009 | 1:39 pm

  I've written extensively about how Google is improving Google Maps, adding new layers on a weekly basis. Microsoft is getting help from its partners to boost the value proposition of Bing Maps. Specifically, Weather.com, which uses Bing Maps over Google Maps, has created an interesting feature to deliver its weather-oriented maps to users. The Futures feature, based on a technology called TruPoint, aims to play digital weatherman by overlaying a forecast prediction on a Bing Map embedded in the Website. You can check it out here. TruPoint provides localized weather forecasts down to a…

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  Googling Google

• See what Google knows about you, kind of

  Garett Rogers

  5 Nov 2009 | 9:47 pm

  Google has launched an all-in-one dashboard that attempts to show you what they know about you. It’s basically an updated “Google Accounts” page that gives you more information than was available previously. The complete list of Google services that are participating in “Google Dashboard” include: Google Account Alerts Blogger Calendar Contacts Docs Finance Gmail Health iGoogle Latitude Orkut Picasa Web Albums Product Search Profile Reader Talk Tasks Voice Web History YouTube Not every Google service is represented [...]

• Microsoft doesn't believe Google Apps numbers

  Garett Rogers

  2 Nov 2009 | 8:36 pm

  Google Apps has been picking up some steam recently — announcing a huge deal with the city of Los Angeles, and revealing numbers that suggest over 20 million users and over 2 million companies using the service. Microsoft, on the other hand, doesn’t believe the numbers Google is touting — saying that millions of [...]

• Google "attacking" developer community?

  Garett Rogers

  1 Nov 2009 | 9:42 am

  So, as most people are happy that Google continues to build new features into their applications — like Google Maps Navigation and Google Latitude — there are others who aren’t so impressed. Some people are upset that Google is building features that have already been developed by Android developers, and in doing so, hurting [...]

• Google Maps Navigation: The newest feature on Android

  Garett Rogers

  29 Oct 2009 | 9:54 pm

  Google Maps Navigator is a feature on the newest Android 2.0 devices like Motorola’s new Droid. The application basically makes the GPS device you currently use in your car useless. The features Google has packed into this application are better than most anything you would find on a typical Garmin or TomTom — it’s hooked [...]

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• Zorgloob » Google Dashboard : qu'est-ce que Google sait de vous ?

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  Google sait beaucoup de choses sur vous... Et c'est de votre faute. Vous avez un compte Google et êtes inscrits à quelques-uns des services proposées par le moteur de recherches ? Le géant californien connait donc probablement votre nom, votre prénom, vos différentes adresses e-mails ainsi vos contacts Gmail, ... La suite de cet article sur Zorgloob.com. Cet article a été publié sur Zorgloob.com. | Postez un commentaire | Retrouvez l'actualité de Google en temps réel sur Twitter avec @Zorgloob : \u2026 et que ce téléphone est lancé aujourd'hui ! Pourquoi tant…

• Zorgloob » Logos Google : 40ème anniversaire de Rue Sésame

  Kendos

  Google rend hommage à la série "1 Rue Sésame" en nous offrant plusieurs Doodle... Ce ne sont pas moins de 6 logos différents que vous pouvez retrouver sur bon nombre d'interfaces Google et représentant quelques personnages plus ou moins connus de la série (Big Bird, Abelardo Montoya, Ieniemienie, Boombah, Chamki, Abigail et ... La suite de cet article sur Zorgloob.com. Cet article a été publié sur Zorgloob.com. | Postez un commentaire | Retrouvez l'actualité de Google en temps réel sur Twitter avec @Zorgloob : \u2026 et que ce téléphone est lancé aujourd'hui !

• Zorgloob » Google Actualités pour les infos locales

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  La PQR a encore de beaux jours devant elle... Un nouveau filtre de recherche a été ajouté à Google Actualité hier. Il s'agît de la recherche locale. En clair, il vous suffit d'entrer le nom de votre ville et les articles en ligne concernant cette localité et sa région sont affichés, ... La suite de cet article sur Zorgloob.com. Cet article a été publié sur Zorgloob.com. | Postez un commentaire | Retrouvez l'actualité de Google en temps réel sur Twitter avec @Zorgloob : \u2026 et que ce téléphone est lancé aujourd'hui ! Pourquoi tant de tweets sur "Droid"…

• Zorgloob » Logos Google : Fête des Morts au Mexique et Loy Kratong en Thaïlande

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  On commence la semaine sur les chapeaux de roues chez Google avec 2 célébrations, au Mexique et en Thaïlande... Tout d'abord, la Fête des Morts (El Día de Muertos) sur l'interface mexicaine, fête qui a lieu le 2 novembre dans de nombreux pays à tradition chrétienne. Google avait déjà célébré cet événement en 2008.Ensuite, Loy Kratong sur ... La suite de cet article sur Zorgloob.com. Cet article a été publié sur Zorgloob.com. | Postez un commentaire | Retrouvez l'actualité de Google en temps réel sur Twitter avec @Zorgloob : \u2026 et que ce téléphone est…

• Zorgloob » Google fête Halloween

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  Comme chaque année, Google fête les morts dans le plus grand respect de la tradition américaine. Tandis qu'en France certains débattent de l'intérêt de fêter Halloween, à Google on ne se pose pas la question. La fête des morts est fortement ancrée dans la culture américaine, par conséquent les employés de Google (en Californie, ... La suite de cet article sur Zorgloob.com. Cet article a été publié sur Zorgloob.com. | Postez un commentaire | Retrouvez l'actualité de Google en temps réel sur Twitter avec @Zorgloob : \u2026 et que ce téléphone est lancé…

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• Journey of a lifetime

  25 Oct 2009 | 6:14 pm

  In everyone's life, there are moments that they know will change their future forever. I had such a moment thirty years ago today but at the time I could never have imagined the magnitude of the impact. That was the day my family first arrived in the United States.The journey to get here was challenging. Just applying to leave the Soviet Union branded us with a scarlet letter -- my father lost his job and we received visits from the police. However, after nine months in this status we were able to make our way to Austria and then France where we stayed for four months waiting for our American…

• Remembering Rajeev

  5 Jun 2009 | 10:56 pm

  It has been a long time since I have updated this blog. In fact, I have been doing some research for what I thought would be my next post.Unfortunately, life does not always give you the luxury to plan what may be close to your heart next. It is with great sadness that I write about the passing of my teacher and good friend Professor Rajeev Motwani. But I would rather not dwell on the sorrow of his death and instead celebrate his life.Officially, Rajeev was not my advisor, and yet he played just as big a role in my research, education, and professional development. In addition to being a…

• LRRK2

  18 Sep 2008 | 12:01 pm

  For more than 20 years, my mother has worked with computers at NASA. So, when she developed a pain in her hands the diagnosis seemed easy -- Repetitive Stress Injury. Except that it wasn't so easy. As her mysterious symptoms progressed it varied -- RSI, fibromyalgia (unexplained pain), Lyme Disease, and so forth. It was only after visits to many specialists over a number of years that the diagnosis settled -- Parkinson's Disease. Since there is no clear test for Parkinson's -- it is defined by its symptoms -- we only grew certain as those symptoms developed and as her medications began to…

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  18 Sep 2008 | 12:00 pm

  Welcome to my personal blog. While Google is a play on googol, too is a play on the much smaller number - two. It also means "in addition", as this blog reflects my life outside of work.

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• NYC subway system on Google Maps

  elaine

  6 Nov 2009 | 11:50 am

  My wife and I moved out to New York last week, and we sure put Google Maps to use in our housing hunt. With Real Estate listings to help find a place, Street View to scope out the neighborhood, directions to help us find our broker, and local search to find nearby amenities, just about the only thing that we needed another source for was to see where the extensive subway lines ran. Until now! We're happy to announce that you can now see New York's subway lines drawn out directly on Google Maps as part of the transit layer. To turn it on, just point Google Maps to somewhere in New York, click…

• Historical Imagery Updates for Berlin

  Aaron Stein

  5 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm

  With Historical Imagery in Google Earth, we've made it possible to use Google Earth imagery to see how the world has changed over time. We've been adding imagery since the feature launched in February, and today we announced on our Google Germany Blog that we've added historical images of Berlin from 1945 and 1953. To view these new images, you'll need Google Earth 5.0. Historical imagery can be accessed by clicking on the clock icon in the top menu bar. Here's a sample of what you'll find as you explore the imagery:Berlin 1945Berlin 1953Berlin 2009Posted by Stefanie Schneider, Google Germany

• Featured Map Maker: Mihai

  elaine

  4 Nov 2009 | 10:10 am

  Name: Mihai Voiculescu (Cartograful)Day job: Web programmer at itbox.roRegion mapped: RomaniaUntil last month, Romania wasn't on Google Maps. Users started a Facebook Cause and a Twitter Petition to get Google's attention on adding Romania to the map. "I found out about Map Maker opening in Romania over Twitter -- I follow Google Maps on Twitter," says Mihai Voiculescu. Mihai is now the #1 mapper in Romania with more than 5,000 map edits made since Google Map Maker opened in Romania in August, and as of last month many of those edits are now live in Google Maps for the world to see.Like many…

• November Imagery Update

  Aaron Stein

  3 Nov 2009 | 1:40 pm

  Having worked on updates to Google Earth/Maps imagery for some time, I've always enjoyed seeing how the world changes through our regular updates. But, I've wanted to see them more often. Today, I'm happy to announce that we're increasing the frequency of our updates to bring you the world's freshest and most complete imagery. As a part of this announcement, we're also making some changes to the way that we tell you about new imagery. We'll continue to publish a blog post for our updates but instead of our regular 'Where in the World' quizzes, we're going to start to embed a web-based Google…

• Autumn updates for Google Transit

  elaine

  2 Nov 2009 | 5:12 pm

  The days may have just gotten a little bit shorter, but that's not going to stop the Google Transit team from working hard to add new agencies. Over the past few months, we've launched with several partners in many places all around the world.If you're traveling to Europe, you may be particularly pleased with some of our newest additions in popular tourist regions. In France, we have completed the coverage of Bordeaux, a famous red wine hub, and an UNESCO World Heritage site. In Italy, we launched coverage for the entire regions of TuscanyReggio Emilia, and BresciaIfyou are in need of some…

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• NEWS: Vodafone Pocket-lint Gadget Awards 2009 - software, services, apps

  Dan Sung

  5 Nov 2009 | 10:23 am

  What gets your vote? It's been a bumper year in 2009 for software, services and apps as the overarching trend of tech creeps glacially away from its hardware focus and more towards what the Internet and its friends can do for us. So, before you shout out in the comments who you think should be nominated for the Vodafone Pocket-lint Gadget Awards 2009 Best Software/Service/App - and we hope you do - here's a little reminder of how the year panned out. The Big Players It was something of a solar eclipse moment in 2009 with both Apple and Microsoft releasing completely new versions of their…

• NEWS: Google launches data Dashboard

  Duncan Geere

  5 Nov 2009 | 2:17 am

  Manage all your Google info in one place Google, perhaps reacting to criticism that it's keeping a whole load of your data in disparate places, has launched a "dashboard" that displays all the info that the search giant is keeping on you, and allowing you to modify that data. The service, which can be found at google.com/dashboard, covers your account, alerts, Blogger, calendar, contacts, custom search engines, docs, finance, friend connect, Gmail, iGoogle, health, Latitude, mobile sync, Orkut, Picasa, your public profile, reader, shopping list, talk, tasks, voice, web history, and YouTube.

• NEWS: Google honours Sesame Street with doodle

  Duncan Geere

  5 Nov 2009 | 1:41 am

  Cookie monster and Big Bird appear above search box Google has put up another "Doodle" on its homepage above the iconic search box, depicting both Cookie Monster and Big Bird - depending on where in the world you're located. Clicking the image links through to a search for Sesame Street, marking the 40th anniversary of the popular kids TV show. It follows another doodle recently celebrating Wallace and Gromit's 20th birthday. Sesame Street debuted in November 1969 and still continues to this day, now in its 41st season. Celebrities regularly appear on the show, and Michelle Obama, the first…

• NEWS: Google doodle celebrates Wallace & Gromit's birthday

  Amy-Mae Elliott

  4 Nov 2009 | 6:01 am

  Plasticine pair are 20-years-old Google has posted another of its infamous homepage "doodles" today celebrating the birthday of Wallace and Gromit. Created by Nick Park, it seems the plasticine pair debuted on this day back in 1989 at an animation festival in Bristol. 20 years on and the pair are as popular as ever - and clearly popular in the Google offices too. Read Tags: Software Websites Online Search engines Google Wallace and Gromit   Google doodle celebrates Wallace & Gromit's birthday originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:01:17 +0000

• NEWS: VIDEO: Google search by voice launches for Nokia S60 phones

  Amy-Mae Elliott

  3 Nov 2009 | 2:36 am

  Location-aware app available for free Google has announced its search by voice service is available as a free download for Nokia S60 phones such as Nseries or Eseries handsets. Google explains: "The new version of Google Mobile App places a shortcut to Google search on your Nokia phone's home screen, allowing you to search using your voice or by typing. You can search for anything - from "movie times", to "fish 'n chips", to "masala dosa." It doesn't matter if you're in London or Bangalore: we'll use your location to give you nearby results. And Google Mobile App shows search results in the…

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• Google Wishes Sesame Street a Happy Birthday

  Christine Buske

  4 Nov 2009 | 1:25 pm

  Have you Googled anything today? If you have, and you used the regular Google homepage, you might have noticed some familiar looking big feet. Google is celebrating with Sesame Street, which turned 40 today. The first Sesame Street episode was on November 10th, 1969, and it is the longest running kids program on national television. Google, being a company that would not exist without the Internet, has a more direct connection than Sesame Street than you might suspect: the Internet is roughly as old as Sesame Street, and the two ‘matured’ together over the years. Today’s…

• How to Create a Gmail Shortcut for iPhone Home Screen

  Christine Buske

  3 Nov 2009 | 4:37 pm

  Although I love the idea of an iPhone, I am not a regular iPhone user unless I can get my hands on one of my friend’s phones. Although I can easily access my Gmail from my own phone, it seems to be much easier to access your account directly on the iPhone. With accessing Gmail directly I mean that essentially it is the same as accessing it on your computer, and any changes you make to your inbox from your iPhone are actually permanent. Much unlike this, deleting a Gmail message from my phone’s inbox does not always (but only sometimes… very annoying) translate in a synced up…

• Data Liberation Front Helps You Learn How To Backup Your Google Data

  Abhijeet Mukherjee

  31 Oct 2009 | 12:34 pm

  One of the areas where Google is often criticized is the ability to quickly transfer data from its services to the user’s computer. While Google has maintained that it doesn’t intend to control user data, the fact that it isn’t always a cakewalk to move data out of some of the Google products gives people a chance to target Google on this issue. The Data Liberation Front is a new project by Google to further strengthen its commitment to let users easily export their data from Google products. The site has been developed by Google engineers from its Chicago office with a…

• 4 New Google Docs Features Rock Document Management!

  Christine Buske

  29 Oct 2009 | 6:00 am

  Using Google Docs is getting easier and easier as more features are added. At this point, I could completely imagine using Google Docs pretty much exclusively, and having it replace my regular word processing software. The benefits are simple: Google docs lives online, so  hard drive space is saved, features are constantly added, it is more than adequate for standard document creating and editing, you can translate documents into other languages, and documents can be shared very easily with anyone who has an email address. The one thing that used to keep me from using Google Docs for all my…

• The Coolest New Picasa’s Photo Importing Feature

  Christine Buske

  28 Oct 2009 | 6:00 am

  Picasa 3.5 comes with a few cool new features. One of them is face tagging, where Picasa scans all your pictures and recognizes the same faces once you have identified them. Looking for a picture of yourself and your Aunt Gertrude, whom you’ve only seen a few times? It’s easy, all you would need to do is select the “People album” Picasa created for your aunt. It doesn’t end there, and face tagging isn’t the focus on this article. There is another feature that is the photo importing tool. Previous versions of Picasa, and any other photo management tools I…

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• AdWords Conversion Tracking is now even easier

  Inside AdWords crew

  5 Nov 2009 | 2:52 pm

  If you use AdWords Conversion Tracking, you may have noticed that the interface for this tool has been redesigned so that it's easier to implement, monitor, and troubleshoot.(Click to see full size image)There are now 3 easy-to-use tabs - Conversions, Webpages, and Code - that help you manage your conversion data. Let's take a closer look at each of them:Conversions This is where you see information about the conversion actions you're tracking.The "Tracking Status" column lets you know whether a conversion action is tracking properly. It shows you if a conversion has ever been recorded, if it…

• Think2010: Four Winning Moves webinar

  Inside AdWords crew

  4 Nov 2009 | 10:46 am

  In last week's Think2010 post, we highlighted the value of search marketing to prompt direct conversions and advance branding goals. In this post, US Managing Director Bonita Stewart briefly discussed the role search played during the economic downturn.On Tuesday, November 10th, Bonita Stewart will be hosting our second Think2010 webinar titled "Think2010: Four Winning Moves for 2010." Bonita will elaborate on fundamental search advertising strategies that marketers should employ to get ahead of the recovery moving into 2010. She'll also dive deeper into the relevance and importance of search…

• Increasing choice and relevancy in search ads

  Inside AdWords crew

  3 Nov 2009 | 10:08 am

  As part of our ongoing commitment to helping users find the information they're seeking online, we’re happy to announce the launch of Ad Sitelinks.Ad Sitelinks is a new AdWords feature that allows you to extend the value of your existing AdWords ads by providing additional links to content deep within your sites. Rather than sending all users to the same landing page, Ad Sitelinks will display up to 4 additional Destination URLs on your search-based text ad for users to choose from. By providing users with more options, you can create richer, more relevant ads that improve the value of your…

• New holiday ad templates available in Display Ad Builder

  Inside AdWords Group

  2 Nov 2009 | 1:57 pm

  This winter season take advantage of holiday-themed Display Ad Builder templates to advertise your products and services.You can find these new templates in the "Seasonal" category of the Display Ad Builder gallery. Here are some examples of the templates:(click here to view larger image)These templates use new high quality buttons and backgrounds to provide you with just the right holiday feel for your upcoming advertising campaigns. By changing the text and adding your own images, you can build customized ads in minutes.We also recently launched 20 high quality templates in the "General"…

• Reminder: Google sessions @ ad:tech NY next week

  Inside AdWords Group

  30 Oct 2009 | 11:37 am

  If you're planning on attending ad:tech or Content Revenue Strategies (CRS) at the Javits Center in New York City next week, we hope you'll come and meet the Google ads team while you're there. Over November 4 and 5, we'll offer a series of sessions designed to give you practical tips for improving your search and display campaigns.The Google Ads Factory Tour, 11/4-11/5/09The Factory Tour will span 10 hours of live workshops designed to give you an overview of Google's latest measurement and optimization tools. Here's the full two-day agenda:Wednesday, November 4 - Optimizing Search &…

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• Google Talk to Add Video Conferencing

  Alex Chitu

  7 Nov 2009 | 1:41 am

  Gmail Chat, the web-based version of Google Talk, added last year voice and video chat. The feature is now available in iGoogle and orkut, but it will probably be added to other Google services, as well.SFGate reports that Google will improve the service significantly in the coming months.Gmail's voice and video chats are now limited to one-to-one communications, but Google wants to broaden that capability to more than two participants and make it more robust all around for Apps."This [current Gmail capability] is the first step in a much broader set of features we hope to roll out over the…

• Google Toolbar's Features in Google Chrome?

  Alex Chitu

  6 Nov 2009 | 12:39 pm

  Google received many complaints that Google Toolbar is not available for Chrome, so it created a page meant to convince users that "many Toolbar features are already built right into Google Chrome".The page explains that Google Chrome already includes a search box, a pop-up blocker, a new tab page, a spell checker and it offers a list of bookmarklets that let you create bookmarks, translate web pages or view Sidewiki annotations. Some of the explanations are plain wrong:"Like Toolbar's 'AutoFill' button, Google Chrome shows you text you've previously entered on websites, to save you time and…

• Google Dashboard

  Alex Chitu

  4 Nov 2009 | 11:37 am

  Google Dashboard is a new service that shows a summary of the data stored with a Google account. You'll soon find a link to Google Dashboard in the "personal settings" of the "my account" page.The dashboard lists some of the information associated with the Google services you use: your name, your email address, the number of contacts, the number of conversations in your Gmail inbox, your Google profile, the most recent entries from the web history etc. It's a long answer to the question: "What does Google know about me?".More information about the new service in a YouTube video that was…

• Custom Sections Directory for Google News

  Alex Chitu

  4 Nov 2009 | 5:03 am

  Google News added a directory for custom sections and an easy way to create your own custom sections. Until now, the only way to add a section to Google News was to perform a search and click on "create custom section" at the bottom of the search results page.Now you can click on "Add a section", find your favorite sections or create new ones.Google doesn't offer too many options when you create a section: type a list of keywords, restrict the results to a national edition or to the sources from a certain location.For example, you can create a section for Google-related news by entering…

• Google Chrome Converts User Scripts into Extensions

  Alex Chitu

  4 Nov 2009 | 3:40 am

  A recent Chromium build added a feature that converts user scripts into extensions. Until now, Google's browser didn't provide an interface for adding and managing user scripts, so you had to manually copy the scripts to a folder."Lots of users still complain that Chrome does not support Greasemonkey user scripts. Even though we have had the infrastructure in place to handle user scripts for some time now, it has never been clear how the feature would relate to full extensions, and so it has remained incomplete," explains Aaron Boodman, a Google Chrome developer who created the Greasemonkey…

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• Google Wave + Skype: Demo

  Google Wave Blogger

  5 Nov 2009 | 1:46 pm

  I monitored the  Europe eComm 2009 Wave which I encourage you read if you have a Wave account, and I assume if you are here then you do. If you are not familiar with eComm you should click on Europe eComm to find out more about them.It is described on the eComm website as: The worlds’ leading-edge communications event. It’s designed to showcase and accelerate both technology and business model innovation; and to explore the latest opportunities. At eComm one of the more interesting demos was one called: Google Wave + Skype + Asterisk + Ibook. Watch this very intriguing video of…

• Google Server Opening for Federation

  Google Wave Blogger

  1 Nov 2009 | 1:15 pm

  Last week I monitored the  Europe eComm 2009 Wave which I encourage you read if you have a Wave account, and I assume if you are here then you do. If you are not familiar with eComm you should click on Europe eComm to find out more about them. They describe eComm as: The worlds’ leading-edge communications event. It’s designed to showcase and accelerate both technology and business model innovation; and to explore the latest opportunities. The reason I mention this conference is because both Stephanie Hannon and Lars Rasmussen both spoke at the event. Their respective topics of…

• Post ideas on how to improve Google Wave

  Google Wave Blogger

  28 Oct 2009 | 6:57 pm

  Everyone you talk too (or at least everyone I talk too) has an opinion on what Google needs to do to improve the extremely popular and…dare I say…overhyped Google Wave. [Side Note Here: I say overhyped because all these predictions about Google Wave being an email, Facebook, Twitter, Sharepoint, on and on Killer is completely over the top. Thus...overhyped. Relax folks, it is what it is -  A really good collaboration tool with a big upside!] But, all that aside. Google really does want to hear your feedback. In fact they have set up a special page to solicit that feedback called…

• Complete List of Google Wave Gadgets, Robots & Extensions plus The Cheat Sheets

  Google Wave Blogger

  25 Oct 2009 | 12:16 pm

  I have received a number of e-mails about where do you find the robots, gadgets and extensions for Google Wave. So, this post is an attempt answer a lot of those e-mails ahead of time: The first is the Googleave Extensions List Page This list has all the gadgets, robots and extensions currently available to be used with Google Wave. Getting your way through this list will certainly keep you occupied for the next little while and will be a whole lot of fun also. It is important to give these a try. Just using Google Wave as a messenger is only scratching the surface, it’s not until you…

• Developer Spotlight: withWAVES

  Google Wave Blogger

  18 Oct 2009 | 8:26 pm

  The second installment of our Developer Spotlight belongs to withWAVES. This is a developer site we highlight in an earlier blog post about AmazonBot. Well the four guys that work at withWAVES have been hard at work and have developed a few more robots that I think you will agree are excellent. First up is the eBayBot, it is described as: A Robot and gadget – which enables social product research, auctions and shopping on ebay.com. Wave participants can share auctions & information with contacts in real-time thanks to automatic queries by the eBayBot against conversation keywords.