October 1st, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
Back in May, we released a feature in Google Maps that let users toggle on additional “layers” of information on top of the map, starting with Panoramio and Wikipedia options. Both of these layers display thousands …
October 1st, 2008 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
Interest in the upcoming U.S. elections is at an all-time high, so it’s important for people to know how to register to vote. We’ve updated m.google.com/elections with information for each state about voter registration, early voting, and state voter h…
October 1st, 2008 | by Kate Pacher | published in Google TV Ads Blog
Print campaigns. Website visits. Audio Ads. Incoming phone calls. TV campaigns. It’s enough to make any marketer’s head spin. We don’t have to remind anyone of the importance of measuring each medium, but keeping track of them is so difficult that many…
October 1st, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Today on (Ad)Word of the Day, we’ll be covering landing page from the AdWords Glossary:An active webpage where customers will ‘land’ when they click your ad. The web address for this page is often called a ‘destination URL’ or ‘clickthrough URL.’Your l…
October 1st, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)Right now the U.S. has a very real opportunity to transform our economy from one running on fossil fuels to one largely based on clean energy. We are developing the technologies and know-how to accomplish thi…
October 1st, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Michael Shields, Network Tools Team Here at Google, we use Python a great deal. The socket module from Python’s standard library makes it possible to work with IPv4 addresses stored as integers or strings, but it doesn’t allow you to easily work wit…
October 1st, 2008 | by John | published in Google Student Blog
Frontend web design and backend server programming are enough to make many people’s heads spin. However, for Matt Pokrzywa, it was the essence of his highly technical work during his summer internship with Google and the Checkout team. Here is his st…
October 1st, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Steve Lamm, Member of Technical StaffLet’s say you figured out a wicked-cool way to speed up how quickly your website loads. You know with great certainty that the most popular web page will load much, much faster. Then, you remember that the page a…
October 1st, 2008 | by niceredfrog | published in Google Testing
Posted by Jessica Tomechak, Test Engineering TeamJulian Harty, one of our senior test engineers, is presenting a keynote at the STARWEST conference today (Wednesday, October 1) on Six Thinking Hats for Software Testers. Expanding on the Thinking Hats c…
October 1st, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Get a better handle on your finances with a collection of smart, sound videos on the Your Money channel, which launches today.With the markets in the headlines every day, people are seeking out more information on every subject from financial markets t…
October 1st, 2008 | by Stephanie Liu | published in Youtube API
Posted by Stephanie Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamA common way to use the YouTube API is to make a niche site — YouTube isn’t necessarily built to be a destination site for iguana lovers, or antique car racers, or people looking to learn Mandarin. D…
October 1st, 2008 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Over the next few days, we’re attending three conferences, Online Market World and Startonomics, both this week in San Francisco, and SMX East, next week in New York City.We would highly recommend all three – more details about the shows are below and …