July 26th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
A number of us from the Boulder and Kirkland Google offices recently attended the Autism Society of America’s 2008 National Conference in Orlando, Florida. What a great experience!On the first day of the conference, we gave a presentation about Project…
July 26th, 2008 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Kevin McCurley, Research TeamIt is with great sadness that we note the passing of Randy Pausch, who taught computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. Randy was well-known by many within the research community, including quite a number of…
July 25th, 2008 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
SocialMedia.com is hosting a new event for application developers called “OpenThread” on August 15th. OpenThread is about stimulating community and conversation amongst developers around OpenSocial and its partner sites. The event is intended for curre…
July 25th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)We’re looking for gadget developers to join us in an ultra swank, state-of-the-art rooftop lounge in the heart of downtown. Rent is free as long as you are an interested or experienc…
July 25th, 2008 | by Kate Pacher | published in Google TV Ads Blog
This is the first post in a series we’ll share throughout the year featuring insights we’ve derived from data on television audience tuning behavior.Each week, Google processes data from millions of anonymized set-top boxes (STBs), including which chan…
July 25th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Many of you may have noticed or heard from friends that orkut experienced some downtime. On Monday July 21st we discovered a bug that affected the profiles of a small set of orkut users. Starting at 14:30 PST, our engineering team disabled access to or…
July 25th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
With all of the different AdSense products we now offer, it can be tough to keep track of the maximum number of each type of unit that our program policies allow. To help you remember these important numbers, here’s a list.On any policy-compliant page,…
July 25th, 2008 | by dastels | published in Google Testing
To quell a lingering feeling of inadequacy, you took the time to build your own planetary death ray, a veritable rite of passage in the engineering profession. Congratulations. And you were feeling pretty proud until the following weekend, when you pur…
July 25th, 2008 | by Google Data | published in Google Apps
We know our users like to be able to customize their websites and wikis to their own style, and with our recent release we have added more flexibility and control over the layout of Google Sites. Now you can change the width of your sidebar and heade…
July 25th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
You may have noticed that lately it’s been easier to find what you’re looking for when searching on orkut. For example, when you search for a person, we now show people in your network or country at the top of the results list , and we also suggest oth…
July 24th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
If you use Gmail in Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), Danish, Dutch, UK English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil or Portugal), Russian, Spanish, or Swedish you can now access a richer Gmail experience f…
July 24th, 2008 | by Misko | published in Google Testing
by Miško Hevery, Jonathan Wolter, Russ Ruffer, Brad Cross, and lots of other test infected GooglersThis guide lists principles that will help you write impossible to tests code. Or, avoiding these techniques will help you write code that can be tested…
July 24th, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Ariel Rideout, Gmail engineerFrom the day we launched, Gmail has supported something called https. Https keeps your mail encrypted as it travels between your web browser and our servers, so someone sharing your favorite coffee shop’s public w…
July 24th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
We all know the importance of measuring the impact of your ad campaigns. That’s why, today, we’re discussing the term conversion from the AdWords Glossary, which is defined as follows:When a user completes an action on your site, such as buying som…
July 24th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
I wanted to share with you what I do for Google Grants behind the scenes, so welcome to my life as a Google Grants optimization volunteer. When I’m not helping advertisers build and refine their accounts, traveling to visit clients or doing other work-…