Foto: Gustavo Espósito Foto: Gustavo Espósito Foto Bônus: Foto: Márcio Sete ---Artigos relacionados no Google DiscoveryCarros do Google Street View ganham panorama internacionalCarros do Google Street View em Belo Horizonte?Carros do Google Street View são flagrados em Bruges, na BélgicaNovos detalhes sobre o Google Street View BrasilCarros do Google Street View na Suiça
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Google Discovery
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BH: Carros do Street View na Garagem do Google Brasil
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BH: Carros do Street View em frente ao Google Brasil
3 Jul 2009 | 12:54 pmFoto: Bruno Carvalho – Via: MacMagazine Foto: Marlos Carmo ---Artigos relacionados no Google DiscoveryCarros do Google Street View ganham panorama internacionalCarros do Google Street View em Belo Horizonte?Carros do Google Street View são flagrados em Bruges, na BélgicaNovos detalhes sobre o Google Street View BrasilCarros do Google Street View na Suiça -
Fotos do Fiat Stilo do Google Street View em BH
3 Jul 2009 | 11:18 am"O Google Street View iniciou a filmagem em BH na Av. Bias Fortes e em seguida filmou o Shopping Del Rey" diz o perfil @agencianitrato no Twitter. Dica do Fabio Ricotta | Fotos @agencianitrato Atualização: A Agência Nitrato também tentou ir atrás de um dos carros. Confira: ---Artigos relacionados no Google DiscoveryExclusivo: Descubra o Fiat Stilo do Google Street View BrasilFotografe um Stilo diferente [Street View Brasil]Google e Fiat trazem Street View para o Brasil [RJ, BH e SP]Novos detalhes sobre o Google Street View BrasilGoogle e Fiat anunciam coletiva para o… -
Google e Fiat trazem Street View para o Brasil [RJ, BH e SP]
2 Jul 2009 | 8:31 pmConforme reportei mais cedo no Twitter, o Google e a Fiat promoveram uma coletiva nesta quinta-feira (02) para anunciar oficialmente uma parceria inédita no lançamento do Google Street View no Brasil, uma funcionalidade do Google Maps que torna disponível na internet a imagem real das ruas em 360º das principais cidades. Em comparação com serviço em outros países, esta é a primeira vez que a empresa americana se associa a uma montadora. No Brasil, o trabalho de captação das imagens envolverá 30 veículos equipados com uma câmera fotográfica especial e começará pelas cidades… -
Especial Google Wave – O Funcionamento
2 Jul 2009 | 5:30 pmComo apresentado por seus criadores, o Google Wave apresenta grandes vantagens quando utilizado de forma colaborativa. Dependendo da atividade a ser realizada, pode até se tornar mais útil que o próprio Gmail e Docs. Sua facilidade em promover colaboração, gerar comunicação em tempo real e integração de diversos tipos de conteúdo, colocam o produto no topo da cadeia alimentar para as pessoas que necessitam de uma plataforma rápida, robusta e fácil. Com uma perfeita simetria entre compartilhamento e colaboração, o Google Wave foi desenhado como forma de aprimorar as ferramentas…
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The Official Google Blog
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New Blog Search tools: Feeds, Hot Queries and Latest Posts
2 Jul 2009 | 11:50 amEver since the new Google Blog Search homepage launched, we've been fielding requests for a myriad of different features. Today we're happy to announce the launch of our most requested feature: RSS and Atom feeds. Simply click on the links under "Subscribe" in the left-hand column of the Blog Search front page to subscribe to any topic or story in any feed reader, like Google Reader.If you don't use a feed reader, we're also offering an iGoogle gadget that lets you embed the Blog Search front page right inside of your iGoogle page or any other page where iGoogle gadgets are accepted. You can… -
The evolution of Gmail labels
1 Jul 2009 | 12:03 pmI love labels in Gmail. Most email programs use folders, which only let me put mail in one place at a time. With labels, I can organize mail in multiple ways. Combined with filters to automatically label incoming messages, Gmail offers powerful ways to organize email.When I joined the Gmail team, I was surprised to learn that only 29% of Gmail users had created any labels. At first, I thought perhaps conversation threading and search made the need to organize our mail less important. But when we talked to people who use Gmail, we got a different story. People often asked us to add folders to… -
What we've learned about spam
1 Jul 2009 | 9:15 amBlended threats. Payload viruses. Spam. If you're one of the more than 15 million people whose work email is protected by Postini's email security products, we hope you don't spend a lot of time thinking about these things. And if we're doing our job right, they certainly shouldn't be showing up in your inboxes. But we process more than 3 billion business emails per day for our customers, culling the spam, viruses, and other threats out, so we do think about this stuff. A lot.On occasion, we like to share some of what we've learned, so that those of you who are interested can see what… -
Toolbar, now with advanced translation
30 Jun 2009 | 6:06 pmIf you saw this text on a webpage, how would you figure out what it means?Если вы читаете этот текст, вы, вероятно, уже говорите по-русски. Однако миллионы людей не знают русского и не могут прочитать миллионы русскоязычных веб-страниц.*You would likely need to translate manually via our language tools or in Toolbar. Today we're excited to announce that translations will be even easier with the newest release of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. We have been… -
Celebrating Gay Pride 2009
30 Jun 2009 | 11:36 amAll around Google, we're proud of our work, our culture and, most importantly, our people. In the spirit of celebration, this spring and summer Googlers have participated in Pride celebrations in Tel Aviv, New York, Zürich, San Francisco and many other cities around the world. Pride is a time for the LGBT* community along with families, friends and supporters to stand up for equality, and to honor those who paved the way for us to express sexual orientation and gender identity openly.In the U.S., this year's celebration is historically important: it's the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall…
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Google Webmaster Central Blog
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Webmaster Central YouTube update for June 22nd - 26th
30 Jun 2009 | 10:22 amWant to know what's new on the Webmaster Central YouTube channel? Here's what we've uploaded in the past week:As part of Google's goal to make the web faster, we uploaded several video tips about optimizing the speed of your website. Check out the tutorials page to view the tutorials and associated videos.Matt Cutts answered a new question each day from the Grab Bag: What are some best practices for moving to a new CMS?Is over-optimization bad for a website?Will having my software listed in low-quality directories harm my website's ranking?Can the geographic location of a web server affect… -
Traffic drops and site architecture issues
28 Jun 2009 | 3:39 amWebmaster Level: Intermediate.We hear lots of questions about site architecture issues and traffic drops, so it was a pleasure to talk about it in greater detail at SMX London and I'd like to highlight some key concepts from my presentation here. First off, let's gain a better understanding of drops in traffic, and then we'll take a look at site design and architecture issues. Understanding drops in traffic As you know, fluctuations in search results happen all the time; the web is constantly evolving and so is our index. Improvements in our ability to understand our users' interests and… -
Spam2.0: Fake user accounts and spam profiles
26 Jun 2009 | 9:06 amYou're a good webmaster or web developer, and you've done everything you can to keep your site from being hacked and keep your forums and comment sections free of spam. You're now the proud owner of a buzzing web2.0 social community, filling the web with user-generated content, and probably getting lots of visitors from Google and other search engines.Many of your site's visitors will create user profiles, and some will spend hours posting in forums, joining groups, and getting the sparkles exactly right on the rainbow-and-unicorn image for their BFF's birthday. This is all great.Others,… -
Tell us what you think!
24 Jun 2009 | 2:17 pm(Cross-posted on the Google Product Ideas BlogThe Webmaster Central team does our best to support the webmaster community via Webmaster Tools, the Webmaster Central Blog, the Webmaster YouTube Channel, Help Center, our forum, and a fellow named Matt Cutts.If you've got ideas and suggestions for Webmaster Central - features you want, things we can do better - tell us. From now until Friday, July 24, 2009, Product Ideas for Webmaster Central will be open for feedback. Every suggestion you add will be seen not only by the Webmaster Central team, but by other users and webmasters. We'll review… -
Watch out for your .yu domain!
24 Jun 2009 | 1:47 amAre you the owner of a .yu domain? Then you might have heard the news: as of September 30, all .yu domains will stop working, regardless of their renewal date. This means that any content you're hosting on a .yu domain will no longer be online. For those of you who would still like to have your site online, we've prepared some recommendations to make sure that Google keeps crawling, indexing, and serving your content appropriately.Check your backlinks. Since it won't be possible to set up a redirection from the old .yu domain to your new one, all links pointing to .yu domains will lead to…
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Base: Google Base Blog
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Reminder: Submit Your Store Locations
1 Jul 2009 | 5:50 pmWe posted a few weeks ago about an experiment we're working on to display store locations to consumers on Google Product Search. If you have local stores and haven't already submitted your information to the Local Business Center, there's still time! As a reminder, here are the instructions: First, go to www.google.com/lbc. Then:If you're able to verify ownership of your store locations by receiving a phone call or a postcard at each location, please add and verify your stores individually by using the "Add new business" option.If you have 10 or more stores, or if you're unable to… -
New Data Feed Interface Improvements
24 Jun 2009 | 1:42 pmLast week, several members of the Google Product Search team went to the Internet Retailer Conference & Expo in Boston, where we had a chance to meet with some of our content providers. We got some great feedback about Product Search and Google Base at the conference, from success stories to feature requests. This sort of user feedback is a crucial part of the development process at Google - it directly impacts focus areas for our engineers and product teams. For example, a top request from our merchants has been for more information about their data feeds, and I'm happy to announce that… -
Local Business Information and Store Locations
10 Jun 2009 | 1:09 pmUsually, I do my shopping online - I can browse from the comfort of my home or office and compare across multiple stores before I purchase. Occasionally, however, when I'm heading out on a trip or I have to buy a last-minute birthday present, I don't have time to wait for a product to ship. To help users with this problem, we've begun experimenting with exposing store locations in Google Product Search, and we'd like to invite you to participate. We think this will help users find nearby store locations, and help merchants get foot traffic into their stores. To participate in this experiment,… -
Condition Attribute Becoming Required for Google Product Search
2 Jun 2009 | 10:30 amWe'd like to let you know about an important change we're making to the Product Search data feed requirements. As you know, you can help shoppers find your products by including high quality, frequently updated product information in the form of attributes. In order to provide shoppers with the most useful information, we'll be making the "condition" attribute required starting on June 30th, 2009, in all locations.In order to keep your feeds active past this date, please remember to include the "condition" attribute for all of your items if you're not already doing so. Please include one of… -
New Base Terms of Service
26 May 2009 | 1:21 pmToday, we're making some changes to the Google Base Terms of Service. We've also added a section to the Settings tab called "Business Information," which will enable you to associate more information about your business with your listings in Google Base. You will be prompted to accept the new Terms of Service and add your business information the next time you log in to Google Base.To ensure that we are able to continue processing your feeds and placing your listings on Google properties, please log in to your account and accept the new Terms of Service by June 26, 2009. If you use the API…
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Google Press Releases
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Google and Guggenheim Museum Launch Design It: Shelter Competition Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Google to Present at the Credit Suisse Global Media and Communications Convergence Conference*
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Six Degrees of Google Search Appliance: now searching billions of documents*
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Google Launches New, Data-Rich Dashboard in Local Business Center
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Google to Present at the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch Technology Conference*
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Google Code Blog
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Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series: Using Timers Effectively
2 Jul 2009 | 12:20 pmOn April 7th, Google launched a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. We shared the behind-the-scenes story through this blog and decided to share more of what we've learned in a brief series of follow-up blog posts. This week, I'll talk about two kinds of timers Javascript provides and how you can put them to good use in your own web applications. Javascript Timer API Timers provide a way to schedule a function to run at some later point in time. The two functions used to create timers are: var id = setTimeout(fn, delay) creates a timer which calls the… -
Enabling Public Service: All for Good and Google App Engine
1 Jul 2009 | 2:09 pmYou may have seen the post on the Google Blog about All for Good, the new site that makes it easy to find and share volunteer activities within the United States. The site was built collaboratively by Google and several partners. We're especially proud that it was built using 100% open source Python code. All for Good's first release includes both gadgets and a free API, making it even easier for casual developers to build applications and embed All for Good listings in their own apps and sites.If you're interested in seeing your software talents dedicated to community service, check out the… -
Follow us on @GoogleCode
1 Jul 2009 | 10:09 amGoogle Code now has a home on Twitter - introducing @GoogleCode! Expect our tweets to be a nice mix of developer product announcements, Code Blog coverage, coding tips and tricks, interesting tech news and commentary, developer events, and more.If you have any suggestions for what you want to see, feel free to send an @reply. We can't guarantee to respond to everyone, but we'd like to hear your feedback and suggestions for @GoogleCode or our developer products.By Christine Tsai, Google Developer Programs -
O3D update: New capabilities and expanded compatibility
29 Jun 2009 | 3:06 pmWe're happy to announce that today we shipped a substantial update to O3D, an API for creating rich 3D applications in a web browser. With today's release, we focused on addressing a theme we heard in the requests and feedback from the community: that O3D should run as well as possible on many different types of hardware. Toward that end, we're releasing two new additions: software rendering and feature requirements. If you've already installed the O3D plugin, you should receive these additions automatically. Software rendering allows O3D to use the main processor to render 3D images if the… -
Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series : Cache Pattern For Offline HTML5 Web Applications
25 Jun 2009 | 5:14 pmOn April 7th, Google launched a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. We shared the behind-the-scenes story through this blog and decided to share more of our learnings in a brief series of follow-up blog posts. This week, I'll talk about the cache pattern for building offline-capable web applications. I recently gave a talk (preserved YouTube here) about the cache pattern and the Web Storage Portability Layer (WSPL) at Google I/O. It was exciting getting to give a talk at the Moscone Center as previously I had only ever been one of the audience members. The…
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Official Google Australia Blog
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Toolbar, now with advanced translation
30 Jun 2009 | 11:25 pm(Editor's note: This is a cross-post from the Official Google Blog. We know Australians love to travel, so a great use of this new Toolbar feature might be to help plan your next trip. Booking hotels in Asia, flights in Europe and information on areas off the beaten track; all now easily translated with one click).If you saw this text on a webpage, how would you figure out what it means?Если вы читаете этот текст, вы, вероятно, уже говорите по-русски. Однако миллионы людей не знают русского и не могут… -
Free Google Message Security for primary and secondary schools with Google Apps Education Edition
30 Jun 2009 | 2:23 pmSince we launched Google Apps in 2006, thousands of schools, businesses and organisations globally have adopted Google's cloud-based communication and collaboration tools - helping them increase productivity and effectiveness, reduce cost, and increase security. In fact, we announced today that more than four million students worldwide are using Google Apps in their classrooms. Here in Australia and New Zealand, educators are embracing cloud computing, helping them achieve a wide range of learning outcomes and, most importantly, making learning fun. Earlier this year, the New South Wales… -
Aussie developers at Google Wave API Day
24 Jun 2009 | 5:54 pmThe Sydney-based Google team proudly previewed Google Wave to developers at Google I/O at the end of May. We wanted to celebrate this launch with Aussie developers and kickstart a thriving local Wave community, so we held an all day hackathon in the office last Friday. About 80 developers attended the event, representing media companies like Fairfax and Telstra, nearby universities like UNSW and UTS, open-source projects like Jetty, and everything in between. After a day of talks, brainstorming lunches and a good five hours of hacking, 25 developers (or teams, as many came with their… -
An Ode to Google
20 Jun 2009 | 9:29 pmWe know there are some happy Google users out there, but they're not always moved to poetry ... unlike Natalie (pictured below), whose spontaneous 'Ode to Google' we liked so much that we just had to share ...An Ode to GoogleBy NatalieThe only one I can turn to when times get tough;Or when I want to find out why that patch of skin on the back of my left thigh has become a little rough.Sometimes I just wanna find out the simple things, like how to mentally recover from kissing my colleague at work drinks last night;And other times I delve into the more complex, like how to change the bulb for… -
How to get ready for the new interface
11 Jun 2009 | 11:04 pmBy now you probably know that we've been working on a new interface for AdWords to help you save time managing your account and get even better results from your campaigns.We've built a number of new features that make managing your campaigns faster and easier: more graphs to track your performance over time, integrated reports that provide ready access to detailed search and content network data, and faster editing to help you make changes quickly.You've probably received an email from us letting you know that your account will be converted to the new interface in the coming weeks. Today we…
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Google News Blog
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Looking Backward: Happy anniversary, Walkman!
2 Jul 2009 | 9:57 amPosted by Ryan Sands, Google News Online TeamThirty years ago this week, Sony introduced the first Walkman to consumers in Japan. Released on July 1, 1979, the model TPS-L2 was the first in a long history of portable stereo devices. The shape, size, and data format of portable music players continues to evolve, but for many people my age the Sony Walkman was their first music device.As a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s, my Sony Walkman cassette player was my most prized possession, and an important part of my identity. My first tapes were Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream and MC Hammer's… -
A Call to News Publishers: How to Share Your Video
28 Jun 2009 | 9:00 pmPosted by Olivia Ma, YouTube News ManagerWe're always looking for ways to enhance the way people consume the news, and we have some improvements planned over the next few months. To get things started, Google News and YouTube are teaming up to help news publishers build a bigger audience for their video content.Today we are inviting any professional news outlet that is already included as one of the 25,000+ sources in Google News to become an official partner on YouTube and more easily share your news videos on both YouTube and Google News. Not already included in Google News? Just submit… -
Search by Author on Google News
21 Jun 2009 | 7:02 pmPosted by Nemanja Petrovic, Research EngineerThe Google News home page is a good place to go to find headlines from publications around the world. But what if you're interested in the work of a specific journalist in addition to perspectives from different publications? Last Thursday, we launched a feature that highlights the contributions of journalists everywhere by allowing you to find more articles by individual reporters. If you spot an article by a specific journalist, you can click their name to bring up other articles they've written:You can also search for articles by a specific… -
Google News gets a makeover
14 May 2009 | 3:43 pmPosted by Frank Harris and Jason Morrow, User Experience DesignersLast month marked the 7-year anniversary of Google News. We thought we'd celebrate this year by refreshing the look and feel of the site with a new design that we launched today.First of all, you'll probably notice that we've included new color frames around each section on the homepage. We've also added YouTube logos to our existing embedded news videos, helping you to identify and discover our partners' video content more easily:We also updated our section pages, categories like "Top Stories," "World," and "Business," to add… -
More ways to see the story
11 May 2009 | 12:26 pmPosted by David Ganzhorn and Corrie Scalisi, Software EngineersLast Thursday we launched a new format for story pages on Google News. These are the pages you see when you click the "all [#] news articles" link of each cluster of articles which cover the same news event--or "story," as we say on the Google News team.The story page includes timely and relevant information from different sources indexed in Google News. Depending on the most recent coverage and materials available for a given story, the page features top articles, quotes from the people in the story, and posts from news blogs.
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Blogger Status
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Docs Blog
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Solve feature lets you solve optimization problems
26 Jun 2009 | 3:02 pmToday we've added optimization capabilities to spreadsheets. Try out the Solve feature at Tools > Solve... It's useful for problems where you'd like to maximize (or minimize) a certain value.Let's say you want to buy a new house. You know that you can afford $2,000/month, and you want to determine how much house you can afford. Just create a spreadsheet with your formulas (in this case, using the equation =B1*SUM(B2:B3)/12 in Sheet1!B4).You'll quickly see that you can buy a house worth $320,000.Check out this more complex profit maximization example that's documented in this help center… -
Take Docs to Work
25 Jun 2009 | 9:08 amCollecting information from coworkers is something that many of us do every day. Whether you're chasing after sales figures, budget projections, product feedback or TPS reports, the basic business of requesting, collecting, and processing information is, well, a basic part of business.Here at Google, we use spreadsheet forms for employee surveys, volunteer lists, product feedback and managing events like team offsites. Forms chase information so that we don't have to. Send a form with simple, straightforward questions via email -- and behind the scenes, your form busily updates your online… -
Creating and giving presentations has gotten easier
20 Jun 2009 | 5:24 pmIf you haven't created a presentation in Google Docs in a while, you should consider trying out these recent enhancements:Multi-shape formatting allows you select multiple shapes and/or text boxes, and format them all at once. To select multiple objects, hold down the Shift key while you click each object, or drag over all of the objects that you'd like to select. You can then change the fill color, line color, border weight, font size, etc.Manipulation of text boxes got easier in some more ways, too. Text boxes now grow in size as you type and you can now vertically align the text within… -
New Google Web Elements for Spreadsheets and Presentations
8 Jun 2009 | 2:27 pmWe conclude our Spotlight on Developers series with a look at Google Web Elements for spreadsheets and presentations.At Google I/O, the concept of "copy/paste development" was introduced in the form of Google Web Elements. For Google spreadsheets and presentations, these web elements offer a quick way to get a snippet of code that allows you to embed your document anywhere on the web.First you'll need to publish your spreadsheet, then you can go to the Spreadsheets Elements page to enter in the published URL, the size of the element you'd like and the range of data you are interested in… -
For Developers: Two New Spreadsheet Data APIs
1 Jun 2009 | 5:32 pmWe continue our Spotlight on Developers series with this Data API announcement.At Google I/O last week, we unveiled two new Data APIs for spreadsheets to a very excited audience. The two new Data APIs, the Tables and Records feeds, provide a structured record-based table for storing and updating tabular data in a spreadsheet. Tables can be placed anywhere on the sheet, with multiple tables per sheet and column-based meta-data for each column in the table. The Records feed is a feed of rows within a table, which we are calling records, with stable IDs (moving the rows around will maintain the…
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Google Mobile Blog
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Google Search results optimized for feature phones in 38 languages
1 Jul 2009 | 11:26 amOne of our top goals on the mobile search team is to bring you the comprehensiveness of Google's web search while optimizing the search experience for your mobile device and in your language. Here is an update on our progress.After launching new optimized search results pages last December for iPhone and Android-powered devices in the US, our team has been working hard to bring universal search results to more devices in more countries. In March, we expanded the availability of the new iPhone and Android format to over 20 countries. Since then, we've also launched the new experience for… -
Designing SMS apps for mobile Africa
29 Jun 2009 | 10:45 amAs is well known, our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. We aim to do this through technology, and in Africa, that means developing tools for the mobile phone. Africa has the world’s highest mobile growth rate. Mobile phone penetration is six times Internet penetration -- one third of the population owns a mobile phone and many more have access to one. Most of these devices only have voice and SMS capabilities, which is why we have chosen to focus our initial mobile efforts on SMS.Today, we are releasing Google SMS in Uganda. Google… -
Google Voice rolling out new invites
25 Jun 2009 | 10:51 amIn March of this year we announced the launch of Google Voice for existing GrandCentral users. Google Voice helps you manage your phones and voicemail by unifying all your telephones - including mobile, home, and work phones - with a single phone number and letting you access voicemail via phone, email, or the Web. Today we're pleased to announce that invitations for Google Voice are starting to roll out to everyone who requested an invite. Check out more details on the Official Google Blog.Posted by Deng-Kai Chen, Associate Product Marketing Manager -
Announcing the AdSense for Mobile Applications beta
24 Jun 2009 | 10:44 am(cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)You don't have to be a mobile expert to see how smartphones are revolutionizing our daily lives. Lower prices, faster network speeds and unlimited data plans mean that people often reach for their cell phone rather than their computer when they are seeking information. As a result, mobile applications have become more and more popular, helping people find music, make restaurant reservations or check bank balances — all on their phone.We want to contribute to the growth of these mobile applications, which is why we're happy to announce our beta… -
The Iterative Web App: Swipe-to-Archive and Expanded English Language Support
23 Jun 2009 | 11:42 amOn April 7th, we announced a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. Among the improvements was a complete redesign of the web application's underlying code which allows us to more rapidly develop and release new features that users have been asking for, as explained in our first post. We'd like to introduce The Iterative Webapp, a series where we will continue to release features for Gmail for mobile. Today: Swipe-to-archive and expanded English language support. --Shyam Sheth, Product Manager, Google Mobile. When we first released the new Gmail for mobile web…
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Custom Search Engine
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Advanced Custom Search Configuration
29 Jun 2009 | 11:19 amPosted by: Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product ManagerHere's the presentation on Advanced Custom Search Configuration from Google I/O. You can navigate it with the help of a convenient timeline at YouTube, or download the presentation in PDF format. The talk features Nick Weininger from the Custom Search team on how to create a contextual search experience in minutes, along with details of the Custom Search APIs, including:Context and AnnotationsAdvanced features, e.g., Promotions, Synonyms and XML resultsRESTful URLs for managing Custom Search enginesProvisioning API for partnersLinked Custom… -
Automatic transliteration for Custom Search
16 Jun 2009 | 10:38 amPosted by: Mohamed Elfeky and Adel Youssef, Software EngineersTyping is harder in some languages than others! When you're searching for content in a specific language, it is often convenient to think in that language, but type in another, e.g., English.We've just made this easier to do in Custom Search. We've enabled transliteration in Custom Search for a set of languages, making it easier to find news in Arabic, Indian news in Hindi, your favorite Bollywood song lyrics, or local content in a bunch of other Indic languages - Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. Other languages will be… -
A search box for Blogger
29 May 2009 | 10:36 amPosted by: Nicholas Weininger, Software EngineerCustom Search enables anyone to create a tuned search experience that's contextually relevant. For example:Individuals can create a personalized search experience around their bookmarks, blogs, and public web sitesWeb site owners can provide Site SearchPublishers can provide search across multiple publicationsCommunities can collaborate to create topical search engines across thousands of web pages For bloggers, blogging platforms typically provide in-built search tools that allow searching across published blog posts, or across tags and… -
Introducing the Custom Search Web Element
26 May 2009 | 4:46 pmPosted by: Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager and Nicholas Weininger, Software EngineerGoogle Web Elements, unveiled today at Google I/O, build on your favorite Google products so you can easily add richness, interactivity and monetization to your website with the simplicity of copy and paste. We've packaged this simplicity into the new Custom Search element, making it even easier for you to add Google-quality search to your website. By helping your users find information faster, you can retain users on your website and monetize search with relevant Google ads. The element will allow you… -
Custom Search at Google I/O
22 May 2009 | 1:19 pmPosted by: Saksiri Tanphaichitr, Software EngineerIf you're attending the upcoming Google I/O Developer Conference (May 27th and 28th), make sure to attend the sessions where we plan to discuss the latest Custom Search developments.There are 2 sessions that will highlight Custom Search: Putting Custom Search on your website Advanced Custom Search Configuration These sessions, part of the AJAX + Data APIs track, will discuss ways in which you can easily build, embed, and customize a contextual search experience on your website. You will learn how to develop advanced applications using the AJAX…
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Inside AdSense
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Speeding up: Attracting more visitors with content and community
2 Jul 2009 | 10:10 amWe're well under way with our five-week educational series about speeding up your business in a slowdown, which we kicked off two weeks ago. This week, you'll hear tips from Jack Herrick, the founder of wikiHow.com, about attracting new visitors to your site. As we share more tips over the next two weeks about increasing your revenue potential and attracting more advertiser budget, we hope you'll leave comments with your own suggestions for growing your business. You can also follow the series at www.google.com/ads/speedingup.Jack Herrick is the founder of wikiHow, a collaborative writing… -
Generate revenue from mobile applications
29 Jun 2009 | 10:18 amIf you develop iPhone or Android applications, we're happy to let you know about the beta launch of AdSense for mobile applications. Participants in the beta will be able to display text and image ads in their mobile applications to earn revenue. We've seen positive results in our trials, and we're excited to roll this out to new developers to continue supporting the growth of mobile applications. You can visit our new microsite to learn more about AdSense for mobile applications, see our beta requirements, or sign up. If you're selected to participate in the beta, we'll be in touch with you… -
Speeding up: Retaining your visitors with great user experience
25 Jun 2009 | 10:05 amLast week, we kicked off a five-week educational series about speeding up your business in a slowdown. This week, you'll hear tips from Ricardo Prada, a user experience researcher at Google, about designing for the user. As we continue to share tips about attracting more visitors, increasing your revenue potential, and attracting more advertiser budget, we invite you to share your own suggestions for growing your business by leaving comments on each post. You can also follow the series at www.google.com/ads/speedingup.Hi, I'm Ricardo Prada. As a user experience researcher here at Google, one… -
Default font size increased
22 Jun 2009 | 5:54 pmAs a follow-up to last week's launch of font size controls, we'd like to let you know that we've just increased the default font size for AdSense ad units. This change will affect your ad units if you haven't yet customized your font sizes, or if your ad units are set to 'AdSense default font size' -- you'll notice that the text in your ad units is now the equivalent of 'medium' instead of 'small'. We decided to make this change based on publisher feedback and our testing, which showed that this increased font size improved performance.If you'd like to change the font size in your ad units,… -
Speeding up: the basics and Analytics
18 Jun 2009 | 12:06 pmToday, we're kicking off a five-week educational series about speeding up your business in a slowdown. We'll be revisiting the basics of online publishing to help you grow your business, and we'll share tips about using AdSense and other Google products that you can apply to your business now. In the coming Thursdays, you can look forward to tips for making your site more user-friendly, bringing in more visitors, increasing your revenue potential, and attracting more advertiser budget. Along the way, we invite you to share your own suggestions for growing your business by leaving comments at…
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GOOGLE NEWS - Google News
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Why I'm Dropping Bing For Google - InformationWeek
3 Jul 2009 | 7:26 pmStraits TimesWhy I'm Dropping Bing For GoogleInformationWeekSearch results are about as good as Google, sometimes better. After a month, though, I've decided to go back to Google. The problem isn't with the search Bing: Not Really Gaining on GoogleBusinessWeekMicrosoft's Bing Gains On Google, But MJ's Death Reveals Its AHNBing beats Google to the punch, launches Twitter searchComputerworldUSA Today -Search Engine Journal -Mashableall 455 news articles » -
In India, Google Searches For Users With Print Ads - Washington Post
3 Jul 2009 | 4:20 amIn India, Google Searches For Users With Print AdsWashington PostBut that doesn't take away the weirdness of a company like Google advertising its core product (online search) by using ink that was printed on paper. and more » -
Justice Looking Into Google E-Books Deal - Washington Post
2 Jul 2009 | 10:45 pmBBC NewsJustice Looking Into Google E-Books DealWashington PostThe Justice Department officially acknowledged yesterday that it is investigating Google and its $125 million settlement with authors and publishers that US launches formal investigation into Google's digital books Los Angeles TimesDOJ Officially Opens Investigation Into Google Book SearchPC WorldUS Inquiry Is Confirmed Into Google Books DealNew York TimeseWeek -Washington Post -Los Angeles Timesall 76 news articles » -
Google Updates Some Apps Functions - PC World
2 Jul 2009 | 5:23 pmGoogle Updates Some Apps FunctionsPC WorldGoogle made a few updates to various Apps services this week, including one that lets users within an organization share templates with each other. Google Apps Opens Up Contacts to Socialize the EnterpriseeWeekGoogle updates apps and blog searchV3.co.ukGoogle adds global address list to Apps suiteZDNet UKInformationWeek -Softpedia -eWeekall 24 news articles » -
Gmail Makes Labels Act More Like Folders - Washington Post
2 Jul 2009 | 4:53 pmTechtree.comGmail Makes Labels Act More Like FoldersWashington PostSince Google launched its free Web-mail service on April Fool's day of 2004, it has insisted that Gmail's labeling system--in which you can tag messages Google talks spam trends, spiffs up Gmail labelsBetaNewsGoogle updates Gmail labellingV3.co.ukGoogle revamps Gmail labels feature for organizing messagesComputerworldTechCrunch -Ecommerce Journal -Registerall 50 news articles »
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New Technology Portends 'Sentient Computers'
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Google's Book Deal Being Investigated by Justice Dept, Officially
3 Jul 2009 | 5:41 amAfter a few months of informal moves on it, the U.S. Justice Dept is now investigating an anti-trust inquiry into Google's book settlement with the authors and publishers over its online book scanning and repository project. -
Meet The Googler In Charge Of Saying Google Isn't So Great
3 Jul 2009 | 1:28 amJun. 29, 2009, 8:26 AM Microsoft lobbyists mopped the floor with Google last summer and fall, convincing anyone who mattered that Google's plan to sell ads against Yahoo search results was the plot of a dangerous monopolist. -
New Blog Search tools: Feeds, Hot Queries and Latest Posts
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Bing Keeps Its Foot on the Gas, Adds Tweets to Results
2 Jul 2009 | 9:42 amBing is something of a rarity for Microsoft these days: It's a product that actually has good natural buzz.
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GOOGLE NEWS - Google Blog Search
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p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Google eliminates 'experimental feature'
3 Jul 2009 | 9:22 amNow, “Google has eliminated an experimental feature that allowed people quoted in articles in Google News to post comments on those articles,” says the New York Times, going on »»». People in the news media were intrigued by the idea of ... -
News Frist: Back to Google News Britain facing swine flu upsurge ...
3 Jul 2009 | 6:39 amBack to Google News Britain facing swine flu upsurge, US calls crisis talks. Britain warned it could face more than 100000 daily cases of swine flu and the United States called a meeting of top officials as governments grappled on ... -
Very Cool Google News T-Shirt
2 Jul 2009 | 1:49 pmInbal from the Google News team sent me a cool new Google News t-shirt today. The Google News T-Shirt has a robot reading a newspaper and says, -
Google News Blog: Looking Backward: Happy anniversary, Walkman!
2 Jul 2009 | 9:57 amPosted by Ryan Sands, Google News Online Team Thirty years ago this week, Sony introduced the first Walkman to consumers in Japan. Released on July 1, 1979, the model TPS-L2 was the first in a long history of portable stereo devices. ... -
Quoted in Google News? No Comments - mediabistro.com: WebNewser
2 Jul 2009 | 8:46 amJobs and recruiting for media professionals in journalism, on-line content, book publishing, TV, radio, PR, graphic design, photography, and advertising.
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Google News, Inside.
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Google Changes Its Logo Size
1 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pmToday, right before my eyes, literally, the Google logo size changed and they added more space for search results on the sides. Phillip reported on this a day or two ago, but it seemed like the change was only for him. I tested in IE, logged in, logged out, Opera, Safari, any browser I could, but I was seeing the same thing, until today. Logged out, under Firefox, I saw the change happen. Let’s look at it below. First, the logo size change: Next, more padding was added to the sides of the search results. This is definitely a change I agree with, much more pleasing to the eye. A few… -
More Google Spam
24 Jun 2009 | 5:26 amSpam in the Google index is a constant battle that Google is fighting. It is such a huge problem, that they have an entire team dedicated to just dealing with spam. Google does a great job of fighting spam, but alas, they’re still not perfect — nor will they ever be, sadly. Here’s some of the latest spam. All the links above go to a single page to let you “download” the song after filling out a survey. Of course, the publisher intended for all these links to go to a single site, music 0n dot com. It’s all just a bunch of garbage and provides absolutely no… -
New Googly Patents
22 Jun 2009 | 11:52 pmGoogle was just granted a new patent that will give them rights to a navigation system that doesn’t require any pointing device. Here is what the patent actually says. A system and method for navigating within a graphical user interface without using a pointing device is described. A set of one or more keyboard shortcuts is defined, including at least one key. Each keyboard shortcut specifies an action effecting a graphical user interface, which is executed upon input of each key in the keyboard shortcut and at least one key corresponding to a semantically-meaningful hyperlink within… -
Google Chrome vs. Internet Explorer 8
22 Jun 2009 | 6:54 amSo I’ve been writing a lot about how Internet Explorer 8 is making Microsoft look worse and worse, saying that they need to spend more time on actually making a better product. Let’s go head to head and see how they line up. Right-click options? IE8 looks a lot like Chrome, with a few other options. Which came first? Chrome did. IE8 was released in mid-March 2009 while Google Chrome launched back in September 2008. Was Microsoft being intuitive and being the first to the game? No. Again, we see that Microsoft is still playing catch-up in hopes that their second-to-market product… -
Father’s Day 2009
21 Jun 2009 | 11:12 pmA huge happy Father’s Day to everyone! Here is what Google showed for the Google Doodle of the day. Blogged on Google News by Jonathan Dingman © Fireside Media Father’s Day 2009 © jonathandingman for Google News, Inside., 2009. | Permalink | 2 comments | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Holidays
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Google and Guggenheim Museum Launch Design It: Shelter Competition Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Six Degrees of Google Search Appliance: now searching billions of documents*
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Google to Present at the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch Technology Conference*
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Google Public Policy Blog
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Recapping last week's Google D.C. Talk on cybersecurity
2 Jul 2009 | 12:05 pmPosted by Harry Wingo, Policy CounselTo help spark ideas and stimulate discussion following the release of the President's cyberspace policy review, last Friday we teamed up with the Center for a New American Security to bring together a panel of experts representing government, military, and industry for a Google D.C. Talk, "Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy."Included in the President's action plan is the goal of developing a "strategy to expand and train the workforce, including attracting and retaining cybersecurity expertise in the Federal government" -- a key point we… -
Self-regulatory principles for behavioral advertising
2 Jul 2009 | 6:42 amPosted by Pablo Chavez, Managing Policy CounselAs our Deputy General Counsel Nicole Wong mentioned in her congressional testimony a few weeks ago, we've been a part of a broad effort over the past several months to develop a set of self-regulatory principles for online behavioral advertising. In fact, we were one of the first companies to be involved in this discussion.After a lot of discussion and hard work among a diverse group of companies and associations, those principles were released today, and I think the end result will be even more transparency and choice for Internet users about… -
British Columbia leading on open data and open government
29 Jun 2009 | 12:10 pmPosted by Jacob Glick, Canada Policy CounselMaybe it's the clean ocean air, maybe it's the vast mountains, but there's an open government revolution afoot in British Columbia.In May the City of Vancouver passed a motion to open its data to the public. Inspired by Washington D.C.'s open data project, the city hopes to promote civic engagement, improve decision-making, and deepen accountability.Social media expert David Eaves has been one of the key proponents and advisers behind Vancouver's open data initiative. I recently saw David speak about his theory of the "long tail of public policy."… -
Google D.C. Talk next week: Wired's Chris Anderson on the power of free
29 Jun 2009 | 7:16 amPosted by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Global Communications and Public AffairsAt our next Google D.C. Talk on Tuesday, July 7, Wired editor Chris Anderson will talk about the power of a price: $0.00.In his new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Anderson makes the provocative case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.But if the product is free, where's the revenue? And how do you compete when your competitors are giving away what you're trying to sell? We'll ask Chris those questions and more. Google D.C. -
Google endorses Declaration of Health Data Rights
22 Jun 2009 | 6:00 pmPosted by Roni Zeiger, M.D., Product Manager, Google Health and Missy Krasner, Product Marketing Manager, Google HealthFrom its inception Google Health has been about giving patients control over their medical data. For starters, that means we help people access their health information, give them a safe and secure place to store it, and let them share it with others if they wish. Over time our goal is to help consumers play a larger role in their own healthcare by empowering them with the information they need to make better healthcare decisions.As part of this effort, we're endorsing an…
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larry page - Google News
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Larry Meeks: Unsubstantiated charge sticks - San Bernardino Sun
3 Jul 2009 | 5:57 pmLarry Meeks: Unsubstantiated charge sticksSan Bernardino SunTo find out more about Larry G. Meeks and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at and more » -
Sarah Palin Stepping down - Examiner.com
3 Jul 2009 | 1:05 pmTimes OnlineSarah Palin Stepping downExaminer.com politics and in some way even more time on Alaskan politics. Larry Amon is an Examiner from Baltimore. You can see Larry's articles on Larry's Home Page.Sarah Palin: 'Getting out of the way' or running away?Examiner.comall 1,903 news articles » -
Woody Allen's "Whatever Works" occasionally works - Seattle Times
2 Jul 2009 | 2:16 pmPlay by PlayWoody Allen's "Whatever Works" occasionally worksSeattle TimesJESSICA MIGLIO / AP Larry David, left, and Evan Rachel Wood star in "Whatever Works," written and directed by Woody Allen. Film review: 'Whatever Works'Examiner.comWoody Allen describes comic Larry David as his 'kind of actor'Providence JournalWhatever Works: Doesn't QuiteExaminer.comall 124 news articles » -
CHART OF THE DAY: Search Ads Aren't As "Helpful" As Google Suggests - The Business Insider
2 Jul 2009 | 1:51 pmCHART OF THE DAY: Search Ads Aren't As "Helpful" As Google SuggestsThe Business InsiderIn his piece on the origins of Google advertising, Wired's Steven Levy writes that Larry Page and Sergey Brin's main requirement for all Google search ads and more » -
Bing indexes Twitter posts to make service 'real-time' - Telegraph.co.uk
2 Jul 2009 | 10:25 amStraits TimesBing indexes Twitter posts to make service 'real-time'Telegraph.co.ukLarry Page, Google's co-founder, separately admitted at the same event that Google needed to learn from Twitter and make its search engine operate at Google Has Plenty of CompetitionWebProNewsBing Dips Toe Into Real-Time Search With Twitter Tie-InTechNewsWorldGoogle Google or Ping Bing?Examiner.comTelegraph.co.ukall 455 news articles »
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Google Blogoscoped
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Friendfeed's Real-time Search
3 Jul 2009 | 2:19 amNow that ex-Google employees start-up Friendfeed has real-time search, you can feed their engine with a keyword like google and embed it elsewhere, like below (I could refine this search by restricting it to results which have X comments only, or have Likes, or which are only from my contacts at Friendfeed, and so on): PS: If you want to subscribe to my links at Friendfeed, it’s there. [Hat tip to Websonic!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Friendfeed's Real-time Search | Comments][Advertisement] Find the right keywords for your campaigns at KeywordDiscovery.com -
Gmail With Drag & Drop
2 Jul 2009 | 4:57 amDrag and drop has come to Gmail: you can now drag a message by its left-hand grid, and move it into a label/ folder to the left side. Also, you can now re-arrange labels via drag & drop. [Thanks Cookie Lee and Niranjan!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Gmail With Drag & Drop | Comments][Advertisement] Google books at eBay: background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more... -
A Changed Google Results Layout, Perhaps Experimental
29 Jun 2009 | 3:05 pmI’m currently seeing a slightly changed layout for Google results. The Google logo has gotten smaller, and there’s more padding to the left. In Firefox, the file holding the logo for the new layout is called nav_logo6.png (when I open the old layout in Chrome, it’s nav_logo4.png). This redesign could well be just an experimental prototype, and nothing that’s rolled out for everyone, I don’t know... who else is seeing the changed layout? (Recently, the Google homepage also presented itself with less padding below the search box, but that may have been a temporary… -
YouTube Changes Channel Layout, Gets 48,000+ Comments
26 Jun 2009 | 2:37 amA YouTube blog entry by a YouTube manager announcing the roll-out of a new channel design has so far received 48,668 comments, and growing. Looks like not everyone is happy (and it may or may not be that unhappy users are more vocal, too, right now). Included in the most recent comments right now are things like: “i think u should ask the viewers before u make your choice. please do that ... =]” “support this video against the mandatory changes - http://www.youtube.com/wat...” “Please allow the choice of both old and new channel designs.” ... as well as… -
HTC Hero, an Android-Based Phone (Video)
24 Jun 2009 | 2:14 pm[Via Reddit.] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: HTC Hero, an Android-Based Phone (Video) | Comments][Advertisement] Find the right keywords for your campaigns at KeywordDiscovery.com
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Google Earth Blog
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North Shore City, New Zealand in Google Earth
2 Jul 2009 | 7:01 amIn response to yesterday's post on 3D terrain a GEB reader in New Zealand, Paul van Dinther, forwarded me an article in a local paper which describes how North Shore City shared high resolution imagery and 3D terrain data with Google for Google Earth. The data was released back in April, and is quite impressive. I spent some time this morning flying around this nice looking suburb area north of Auckland. The aerial imagery is clear and sharp at about 6cm resolution, and the terrain is very well done. You can see shoreline cliffs, roads, and even footpaths in the sides of hills in the terrain. -
NASA/Japan Release Terrain Data - Google Earth's is Better
1 Jul 2009 | 5:55 amOne of the top stories yesterday was how NASA and Japan have released the data from their ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) satellite on the Internet - for free. What is significant about this is that the data covers 99% of the entire Earth's landmass terrain - verses 80% from the SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) - which was the best previously available free public terrain data. ASTER's data is also higher resolution than SRTM which had a base resolution of 90m and at best 30m. ASTER's resolution has a base resolution of 30m, and can be higher… -
NASA Doing Robotic Recon with Google Earth
30 Jun 2009 | 6:10 amNASA is conducting research from their Ames Research Center in California with a robot called "K10", located in northern Arizona, to simulate tele-operations for exploring the moon. They are using Google Earth extensively for both planning, visualization, and operations. In other words, Google Earth is a visualization tool for telepresence. NASA uses a black and white higher res image of their target area overlayed in GE (maybe the black and white makes it look more like the moon?). They look at the imagery to determine reconnaissance objectives and plan routes. They have developed a planning… -
Tour de France 2009 in Google Earth
29 Jun 2009 | 6:25 amOnce again, Thomas Vergouwen is the first to send GEB the complete tracks for the 2009 Tour de France for viewing in Google Earth. The organizers did not release the full details on the routes of the stages until recently, so it took longer then usual for maps to be created. The race begins this Saturday - July 4th. Thomas describes the situation and provides lots of details on each stage of the race at his web site, and he provides both Google Maps and the Google Earth file on the routes. Viewing the Tour de France routes in Google Earth is one of my favorite examples of the power of Google… -
Links: Michael Jackson Neverland, Amnesty International, New Placenames, GE Outreach
26 Jun 2009 | 5:00 amMichael Jackson Neverland - Yesterday the King of Pop passed away. People will remember him in many ways, but mostly for his amazing musical and performance talents. Google Sightseeing recalled their post about Michael's Neverland Ranch and updated it with new information. You can see the Neverland Ranch in Google Earth here . Amnesty International - Sri Lanka War - Thanks to some help from Stefan Geens of OgleEarth, Amnesty International has produced an excellent Google Earth file which highlights the aftermath of the Sri Lankan War. The file includes more updated aerial imagery, and many…
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Google Watch
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Change Your Google Voice Number For $10
3 Jul 2009 | 4:09 amGoogle Voice users know the drill from when they signed up for the GrandCentral. Users are assigned one number that will ring their home, work and cell phones, if you so choose. The number is tied to each user, a social security number for VOIP communications. But users who are moving to another town or state or who want new digits for whatever reason can now get a new number for a one-time $10 fee payable through Google Checkout, Google Voice Product Manager Vincent Paquet said in a blog post: Maybe you'd prefer to have a local number after moving to another area code. Or maybe you'd just… -
Google Apps Gets the Shaft but It's the Broader Cloud That Needs to Improve
2 Jul 2009 | 12:59 pmYou know what really grinds my gears? There's a popular argument circulating that Google Apps isn't good enough for enterprises, that the SAAS collaboration software suite isn't battle tested enough. One could certainly make that case against the standard Google Apps, with its easy-breezy, no-frills approach to computing. The Google Apps Premier Edition is much more hardy, with increased security and support. Even so, the lack of fully dedicated, 24/7 support and the frequent outages make Google an easy target for naysayers. Not long ago, Microsoft used this rhetoric to attack Google Apps. Of… -
Google Moves Gmail Labels Up, Jettisons Right-Side Labels
1 Jul 2009 | 2:39 pmGoogle's Gmail team has altered its labels feature in a major way, moving them to the left of the in-box, and adding drag and drop and other navigation capabilities. These changes are rolling out today, July 1. Gmail labels essentially do what folders do, but let users add more than one to a conversation. Once you create a label, you can view all the messages with that label by searching, or by clicking the label name along the left side of any Gmail page. Google has now moved labels above the chat list, grouped together with Inbox, Drafts, Chats and other labels. Previously, Google kept… -
ClackPoint Enables Chat via Google Friend Connect
1 Jul 2009 | 12:57 pmProgrammers continue to leverage Google's Friend Connect social application in new ways. Now, Websites that use Friend Connect can better communicate with their visitors using ClackPoint, a new gadget from startup Vipadia. The ClackPoint gadget enables Website owners to offer text chat, conference calling and document sharing through a gadget for Friend Connect. With the gadget, users can use text chat and dial in and converse either directly from their computers or by phone. The gadget uses status icons so users can see who is dialed in and who is talking. ClackPoint also offers a "shared… -
Dell Android Mobile Device Sounds Nice, but Curb Your Enthusiasm
30 Jun 2009 | 12:14 pmThe Wall Street Journal has generated the latest report (paywall) about Dell creating a mobile computing device. The news would seem to substantiate Michael Dell's allusion in March that Dell was "exploring" mobile Internet devices, or MIDs. The key action item in the latest report is that the device is rumored to run on the Google-created Android mobile operating system software. If this is true, it's a bigger piece of news for Google than the T-Mobile G1, the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, the HTC Hero or any Android smartphone announcements out there. Why? The latest adopter of Android is Dell, a…
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Googling Google
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Gmail adds drag and drop
1 Jul 2009 | 9:48 amOne of the things people who don’t use Gmail have complained about since the beginning of the service was the fact that you can’t drag and drop messages. Gmail just added a new feature that lets you do that! Now you can use your labels just like you would use folders — dragging messages onto [...] -
Google fixes Outlook plugin for Google Apps
30 Jun 2009 | 7:05 pmGoogle worked with Microsoft to patch up some serious issues with the first version of the Outlook plugin for Google Apps. Among other things, the first version of this plugin disabled windows desktop search, which probably made Microsoft as angry as most users. The new version finally plays nice with things like Windows Desktop Search, [...] -
HTC can't push out SenseUI to older Android handsets
27 Jun 2009 | 2:46 pmSenseUI is basically a skinned version of Android that looks pretty amazing. It’s too bad the HTC Hero, HTC’s third Android phone, is the only device it can be installed on (almost). HTC CEO Peter Chou said that Sense UI will be available even on older devices, but it turns out that exciting statement wasn’t [...] -
AdSense for Mobile Apps being tested
24 Jun 2009 | 8:17 pmGoogle just announced a new beta AdSense program that allows developers of mobile applications for iPhone and Android. Now, approved applications can make on-going revenue with advertisements through AdSense. Currently, it’s not open to just any developer — you have to have an application that gets over 100,000 page views per day. [...] -
Google Street View images can now be "deleted"
22 Jun 2009 | 9:21 pmPrivacy has been a hot topic regarding Google Street View these days — especially in places like Germany, and Canada. The Canadian government has been balking at the acceptance of Street View — making sure all the bases are covered before giving a nod of approval. On that front, Google has announced that in Germany [...]
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Zorgloob
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Zorgloob » Logo Google : Ramon Gomez de la Serna
Google célèbre aujourd'hui l'anniversaire de naissance de Ramon Gomez de la Serna sur son interface espagnole... Ramon Gomez de la Serna (souvent désigné simplement par son prénom "Ramon"), né à Madrid le 3 juillet 1888, et mort à Buenos Aires le 13 janvier 1963, était un écrivain d'avant-garde espagnol, généralement rattaché à la Generacion de ... 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 microZorgloob. -
Zorgloob » Google en Bref vidéo - Juin 2009
Avec un jour de retard ! Voici le résumé de l'actualité de Google pour le mois de Juin 2009 en vidéo. Merci à tous ceux qui ont commenté notre précédente édition, nous allons rendre nos prochaines vidéos plus "dynamiques" avec des captures vidéo d'écran, des ... 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 microZorgloob. -
Zorgloob » Logo Google : Fête Nationale du Canada
Google célèbre aujourd'hui la fête nationale au pays des caribous... La fête du Canada (en anglais : Canada Day) est la fête nationale du Canada qui intervient le 1er juillet.Elle correspond à la création de la confédération canadienne par l'Acte de l'Amérique du Nord britannique qui prit effet le 1er juillet ... 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 microZorgloob. -
Zorgloob » Google interroge les éditeurs Adsense
Google a envoyé un formulaire pour en savoir plus sur les utilisateurs de son service AdSense. Un fidèle lecteur de Zorgloob a eu la gentillesse de nous envoyer les questions d'une enquête actuellement menée par Google pour recueillir des infos sur les éditeurs Adsense... Ce questionnaire n'aurait été communiqué qu'à un groupe choisi ... 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 microZorgloob. -
Zorgloob » Michael Jackson : Google pensait subir une attaque
Les algorithmes de Google ont trouvé suspect le fait que des millions de personnes cherchent la même chose au même moment... La nuit dernière, le service de recherches d'actualités Google News a connu quelques défaillances. Une partie des internautes qui recherchaient des informations sur le décès de Michael Jackson ont été temporairement privées d'accès à cet ... 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 microZorgloob.
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Remembering Rajeev
5 Jun 2009 | 10:56 pmIt 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 pmFor 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… -
18 Sep 2008 | 12:00 pm
18 Sep 2008 | 12:00 pmWelcome 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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Google LatLong
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A festive Fourth with Google Maps
2 Jul 2009 | 12:30 pmI'll be heading to the nation's capital to celebrate Independence Day this weekend, so I've been browsing the many maps that the Washington Post has put together to help people take in the festivities. If you'll be in DC too, you can find a map of the various events going on throughout the holiday weekend and a map of fireworks shows throughout the entire region. My friends and I plan to take in the fireworks over the National Mall, so we're consulting this map to determine the very best viewing location. Of course, DC isn't the only place to celebrate the Fourth. Here's a list of maps of… -
Featured Modeler: John from Dursley, England
1 Jul 2009 | 3:05 pm[Cross-posted from the Official Google SketchUp Blog]John is a retired British architect whose passion for photography and knowledge of his town's architectural history helped shape his beautiful 3D models of Dursley, Gloucestershire in England."The alignment of the buildings on Castle Street is a bit on the skew," he said, "but that makes sense if you know there used to be an actual castle in that location. The castle had a moat that the streets were laid out around."John started using Google Earth and Google SketchUp around the same time. His brother was introduced to SketchUp at a lecture… -
More 3D Cities in Europe
26 Jun 2009 | 10:20 amWarsaw, Prague and Oslo have joined the growing list of phototextured cities in the 3D Buildings layer of Google Earth. Like other major cities these 3D models are predominantly autogenerated, yet they also contain a number of Google SketchUp models generated by the user community. While the autogenerated models are good quality, user-generated models are often better because ground-based photos can produce a higher quality model than ones generated using aerial imagery.OsloWarsawThese new cities join other major European cities viewable in 3D, including Munich, Hamburg, Berlin and Zurich to… -
Exploring Երևան and کراچی in Google Earth
25 Jun 2009 | 4:50 pmOver the past several months, the Google Earth Vector Team has been updating the 'Populated Places' and 'Alternative Place Names' layers in Google Earth. The alternative names show a place name in the local language and script. You can view Greek cities written in the Greek alphabet, Armenian in the Armenian alphabet, and Bulgarian in Cyrillic. Try flying to Japan, South Korea, China, Thailand, India or Pakistan. You'll see cities written as they are on local maps. This greatly enriches the browsing experience in Google Earth by showing part of the unique regional culture. This feature… -
Tips and Tricks: Set up shop in the Local Business Center
25 Jun 2009 | 3:20 pmWhen I'm hankering for a bite to eat in my neighborhood, business listings on Google Maps are one of the first places I look. Whether I'm checking the opening hours of my local coffee shop, or finding a phone number to make reservations at a new restaurant, I rely on Google Maps for accurate and up-to-date information about local businesses -- especially when it comes to picking a good place to grab dinner.When a business owner has added and verified with the Local Business Center (you can tell, because the phrase 'Provided by the business owner' appears in the listing), I can find find…
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Pocket-lint: Google
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NEWS: Gmail makes changes to labels
2 Jul 2009 | 1:41 amWhile "Right-side Labels" Labs feature first to be retired Google has announced changes to Gmail's labelling toolkit. The location of Gmail's labels has changed, now grouped together with Inbox, Drafts, Chats and other system labels, users now have control over which of their labels show. Google automatically displays the labels that are used most, and hides the rest, but users can over-ride Google's defaults by clicking the down-arrow to the left of that label to select show, hide or delete. Another improvement is the ability to drag messages into labels, or drag labels onto… -
NEWS: YouTube launches "Reporters' Center"
29 Jun 2009 | 9:52 amEncourages citizen journalism YouTube has launched a new channel called the "YouTube Reporters' Center" in an attempt to build up the citizen journalism aspect of the video sharing site. Included on the site are interviews with CBS News' Katie Couric on how to conduct a good interview, as well as tips from Facebook's marketing boss, Randi Zuckerberg on how to distribute content across the social network. Google says that you'll also be able to: "learn practical and ethical tips, like how to fact check your stories, avoid breaking the law while reporting, and adhere to journalistic… -
NEWS: Google Earth used to find and steal Koi
29 Jun 2009 | 3:07 amSatellite imagery used by thieves to locate fish ponds First it was pools to party in, now it's ponds with fish to steal, as another aquatically-themed nefarious use of Google Earth has been revealed. It appears that fish thieves are using Google Earth's satellite imagery to find fish ponds that look as if they will contain Koi carp, a particularly valuable kind of goldfish, to steal. The Telegraph reports that 12 thefts of the exotic fish and pond equipment, worth hundreds of pounds, have been reported over in Hull over a 3-week period. Humberside Police Community Support Officer Sam Gregory… -
NEWS: VIDEO: Google Voice
26 Jun 2009 | 2:14 amInvites going out to those that registered The hottest invite in town is set to be one to join up to Google's "Voice" service. The online giant has revealed it is now sending out invites to those that registered interest in the service, beyond the initial set of original GrandCentral users that were the beta testers for the service. Hit play now on the video above for an animated walkthrough of the VoIP service, or head straight over to www.google.com/voiceinvite to register. Read Related links: News - Google announces "Google Voice" Tags: Software Google VoIP Video Google Voice… -
NEWS: YouTube mobile uploads up 400% since iPhone 3GS
26 Jun 2009 | 1:45 amAnd up 1700% in last 6 months YouTube is reporting an astonishing fact - since the iPhone 3GS launched on Friday 19 June, uploads from mobile phones have increased by 400%. This statistic is likely a blip, as those with the new handset are keen try out its video capture and upload to web functionality, but it appears to show the impact such a launch can have. In fact, uploads from mobile phones to YouTube are growing steadily as manufacturers, such as Sony Ericsson, offer simplified uploading features. YouTube reveals that in the last 6 months, uploads from mobile phones to video sharing…
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Google Tutor
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How to View Images in Gmail
3 Jul 2009 | 4:37 pmWhen you sign up for a newsletter, or an RSS feed, using your email, you may not always be able to see the images in a post or message when receiving it in Gmail. Why Gmail ‘hides’ images To protect you from spam and other malicious emails. Apparently, spammers and scammers use images in emails to see whether your address is real or not. By not showing the images, Gmail is actually protecting you to some degree from these threats. However, when you know a message is from a reputable sending, like for example if you signed up to the Google Tutor RSS feed, you can set up your Gmail… -
Drag and Drop your emails to labels with Gmail
2 Jul 2009 | 7:35 amSo I logged on my Gmail account today, and I noticed something different. Aside from the loads of email I got, there was this huge reminder from the Gmail team showing me the new features they just rolled out. Interesting huh? I, for one, loved the fact that the Gmail team moved up the labels above the chat window. It makes more sense, really. And here is the rundown of the changes: 1) New location for labels You’ll notice your labels in a new location on the left of your inbox (or on the right, for those of you using the Arabic, Hebrew, or Urdu versions of Gmail). Instead of having… -
Neverland Ranch Photos
1 Jul 2009 | 7:33 amEver since Michael Jackson passed away, we’ve been getting a lot of visitors here looking for info on Michael. That’s probably a bit surprising since this is a tech blog, but most of this is from a really old post about his Neverland Ranch address on Google Maps. Today I noticed a LOT of those people are looking for MJ info are looking for photos of Neverland Ranch so I’ve put together a few of the best images in this post. Neverland Ranch Photos Neverland Ranch Gate Neverland Ranch House Neverland Ranch Ferris Wheel Neverland Ranch Back Yard Buy an ad right here. You are… -
Send forbidden files back home using Gmail
30 Jun 2009 | 9:56 amSo if you have some files you want to email home but they are .exe files, and as we all know, everybody’s favorite email client is in the habit of blocking any executable files to prevent people from sending malware to their friends, unintentionally or otherwise. Gmail’s Flash-based attachments grabs your files as you select them, including any .exe program files or other items that will eventually trip Gmail’s security filters. When sending fails, the draft, and the server-stored attachment, are still there. So you can just attach your files via gmail, save your files via… -
Use Gmail to consolidate your email addresses
25 Jun 2009 | 9:39 amIf you’re anything like me, you probably have around a dozen emails from different services. There’s Yahoo (I think I have five of them), there’s my work email (I have three!), there’s that service from my ISP which I barely use, the ones from the other blogs I run, and my Gmail. (okay, 3 Gmail accounts. What.) Maybe that email account I opened up way back in 1997 is still active, I don’t know. Honestly, I lost count. So if I, the ravishingly handsome internet-savvy Google savant that I am, can actually get overwhelmingly confused by the sheer number of email…
