Catching Up With Our Former Colleagues
August 5th, 2008 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
A new book from Brian Clifton launched (and sold out!) a few months ago at Search Engine Strategies in New York. The book, Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, is a clear and comprehensive how-to manual and best-practice user guide with vivid sc…
Free Online Seminar on Google Grants, 8/14
August 5th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Want to learn more about how to maximize your Google Grants account? Want to get tips directly from our team? Then join us for a TechSoup webinar (online seminar) on Thursday, August 14, at 11 a.m. PDT.Our free, one-hour session will feature two member…
August 5th, 2008 | by Kate Pacher | published in Google TV Ads Blog
Last year, Google commissioned a research study to measure how newspaper readers respond to print ads by going online. The fact that newspaper readers respond via the web is well known to advertisers who advertise in print, and this study aimed to quan…
Picasa Web Albums prints now available at Walgreens
August 5th, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Mark Geller, Product ManagerHere’s some good news for impulse shoppers out there: we’ve just added Walgreens as a print provider in Picasa Web Albums, which means you can order prints from your favorite online photo albums and pick them up in…
To infinity and beyond? No!
August 5th, 2008 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
When Googlebot crawls the web, it often finds what we call an “infinite space”. These are very large numbers of links that usually provide little or no new content for Googlebot to index. If this happens on your site, crawling those URLs may use unne…
SSL enforcement available as an administrative setting
August 5th, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
Premier Edition administrators can now ensure that users access Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites with HTTPS, so data is encrypted as it travels between user web browser and our servers.Editions impacted:Premier EditionL…
AdWords Downtime: August 9, 10am-2pm PDT
August 5th, 2008 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We’ll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday, August 9 from approximately 10:00am to 2:00pm PDT. You won’t be able to access AdWords or the API during this time frame, but your ads will continue to run as normal.Cheers,-Jeffrey Posnick, A…
Quick refresher on developer guidelines
August 5th, 2008 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, orkut teamIn order to deliver great apps to orkut users, the orkut team has put together some developer guidelines for you to follow. Being familiar with these guidelines will not only help your app get approved faster, but …
Congratulations to De-L-Orient!
August 5th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
A new gadget by De-L-Orient is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: Call Via Skype v.0.2.1.Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)
Now playing on YouTube: online family safety
August 5th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Pablo Chavez, Senior Policy CouncilAs a member and supporter of the Family Online Safety Institute, we are proud to let you know that FOSI recently launched its own branded YouTube channel. This YouTube channel represents one more example of…
Blogger Babies
August 4th, 2008 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Babies are all the buzz at Blogger. Within the last few months we’ve had three new additions to the Blogger Team: Ryan, Aditya, and Haley. Although it’ll probably be a few years before they start sounding off themselves, we get to post some cute pics o…
August 4th, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerGmail web clips display feeds (news headlines, blog posts, or pretty much anything in RSS/Atom format), ads and other information at the top of your inbox. They look like this:There are some feeds i…
August 4th, 2008 | by Roman Nurik, Android Developer Relations | published in Google Maps
Posted by Roman Nurik, Earth API Team
Howdy, y’all. My name is Roman Nurik and I’m a newly minted member of the Google Geo APIs team. Some of you may already know me from the Earth Browser Plug-in Google Group. I recently started at Google’s headquart…
Get Your Free Free Landing Page Check Up
August 4th, 2008 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Website Optimizer
Back-to-school season is coming up, and you know what that means: school supplies and doctor check-ups. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be giving free check-ups to a few landing pages. Just e-mail us the URL of your top landing page before August …
August 4th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Richard Doble, an artist with the concept art studio Massive Black in San Francisco, uses SketchUp to do some pretty amazing things. Check out his personal blog to see some of them.Kemp Remillard works at Massive Black, too. His website contains some e…