More streets in more places
August 4th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Earlier this summer we launched our first international Street View coverage with the Tour de France route. Today I’m excited to announce we’re bringing Street View to new corners of the globe as we launch imagery in Japan and Australia.Our Japan launc…
2008 Editors’ Best award
August 4th, 2008 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
A big “thank you” goes out to the editors of Windows IT Pro Magazine for naming Google Docs a winner in the “Breakthrough Product” category. We’re honored.Update: Corrected the name of the magazine.Posted by: Andrew Chang, Marketing Manager
Primp your avatar
August 4th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Reminder: Wednesday (August 6) at noon Pacific, we’re hosting an open house at the Google Desktop rooftop lounge. (Convert to your time zone.) If you plan to be there — and we hope you will — you might want to visit the lounge or another Li…
August 4th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Name: Call Via Skype v.0.2.1 Author: De-L-OrientDescription: Allows you to call via Skype to a Skype user or a phoneMore information | Download gadgetEach week this blog features a recently added Google Desktop gadget that looks promising. If you’d l…
What’s a reasonable approach for managing broadband networks?
August 4th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet EvangelistAs we said a few weeks ago, the Federal Communications Commission’s order last Friday in the Comcast-BitTorrent dispute should help ensure that today’s broadband networks remain open platforms to the Intern…
August 2nd, 2008 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
You knew that already, and now we do too. We have now restored all accounts that were mistakenly marked as spam yesterday. (See: Spam Fridays)We want to offer our sincerest apologies to affected bloggers and their readers. We’ve tracked down the prob…
August 2nd, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsHow do you like your Code Review? Choose from text to audio (iTunes) and video.We have had a varied couple of weeks, so I decided to turn on the camera, even though I am in Eldora, Colorado, up in the mountains….
August 1st, 2008 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
While we wish that every post on this blog could be about cool features or other Blogger news, sometimes we have to step in and admit a mistake.We’ve noticed that a number of users have had their blogs mistakenly marked as spam, and wanted to sound off…
August 1st, 2008 | by Rich | published in Google CPG
Rich Godwin CPG Team ManagerWe have quite a few former brand managers on the CPG team at Google. Kraft, Guinness, Unilever, Boston Beer, to name some of our former employees. It’s only natural that we discuss old campaigns, brand launches, big successe…
August 1st, 2008 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Lydia Ash, GTAC Conference Chair – 2008A brief reminder that there are only two weeks left to submit applications for this year’s Google Test Automation Conference. The application deadline is August 15th, after which the selection process wi…
August 1st, 2008 | by Niki Fenwick | published in Google.org
In the 1970s and 1980s, America’s push for energy conservation meant “doing less with less” – lowering the thermostat, turning off lights, donning a sweater, and leaving the car in the garage. Following up his testimony from earlier this month, Dan Re…
August 1st, 2008 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Developer ProgramsIn November, we announced the deprecation of inlined gadgets on iGoogle. Inlined gadgets filled a niche role in gadget development, a role that has become smaller as more features have been added to iGoogle and…
August 1st, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
The maxim about the Internet is that content is king. While this holds true for AdSense publishers, there’s one important caveat: if it’s not text-based content, our crawler might not notice.While we’re constantly working to improve our targeting…
August 1st, 2008 | by Kate Pacher | published in Google TV Ads Blog
You may already be familiar with how to target or block specific programs in your TV campaigns. Now, one of our newest features allows you to block certain airings of programs by choosing specific networks and dayparts during which you do not want your…