December 31st, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
As 2008 winds down, we’d like to follow tradition and close out the year with a look back at a few of the biggest happenings in AdSense.In 2008, we introduced new features like AdSense for feeds and an improved version of AdSense for search to help you…
December 31st, 2008 | by Google Data | published in Google Adsense Feeds
First, Happy New Year to everyone from AdSense for feeds and FeedBurner teams here at Google.Second, this is a quick one – but we get asked this a lot, so we thought we’d cover it.If you currently use the Competitive Ad Filter with AdSense for content,…
December 31st, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Have you ever left a comment on the Google mobile blog about a new feature or platform that you really wanted supported? Have you ever wanted to cast a vote for another reader’s comment to make your opinion heard? Well now you can.While we do read yo…
December 31st, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
It has been a busy and exciting year here at YouTube. With 13 hours of video uploaded every minute, hundreds of millions of views a day and 23 country-specific versions of the site, apart from anything else we were faced by a mountain content to sift t…
December 31st, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
In 2007, we wrapped up the year with a bulleted list of our various accomplishments from this year. In 2008, a few LIs and a UL just won’t do. So we’re celebrating the year in typical New Years fashion: fireworks, …
December 30th, 2008 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Shankar Kumar and Wolfgang MachereyAt Google, we like search. So it’s no surprise that we treat language translation as a search problem. We build statistical models of how one language maps to another (the translation model) and models of…
December 30th, 2008 | by Aly Makishima | published in Google TV Ads Blog
While you are deciding on your New Year’s resolutions and preparing for an exciting 2009, the Google TV Ads team would like to thank you for tuning in and reading our posts. Here’s a look back at our favorite product enhancements of 2008. …
December 30th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
We don’t always say this, but thank you for reading the Google mobile blog.When we launched last year, we realized that we needed to better communicate what the Google mobile team was up to. Since then, we’ve been working hard to provide you with time…
December 30th, 2008 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
We here at Google.org are excited to announce a contest that we hope many of you orkuteers are able to get involved in: the Google.org Gram Panchayat Puraskar (GGPP). For those of you who don’t already know, Panchayats were Mahatma Gandhi’s original …
December 29th, 2008 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Mac Blog
By Jason Toff, Google Mac TeamWith one week until the start of Macworld, we wanted to give you a glimpse of what to expect at Google’s booth.At any given time, there will be plenty of Googlers at our booth available to answer questions about any Google…
December 29th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
For the second year in a row, Google partnered with NORAD to provide an online map-based interface for tracking Santa’s Dec. 24th sleigh ride across the world. Last year, the map was powered with the JavaScript Map…
December 29th, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
As 2008 comes to a close, we pause to pay our respects to those notables we lost this year. Today’s homepage salute honors a wide range of the dearly departed — amongst them, a 20th Century movie legend admired for his work in philanthropy, the Sout…
December 29th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Alan Davidson, Director, Public Policy and Government AffairsIt’s hard to believe that another spectacular year is already coming to a close. It seems like just yesterday I was waxing nostalgic about our achievements in 2007. Here are just a …
December 27th, 2008 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Konnichiwa! Hajimemashite! *Hello, Nice to meet you!We just launched a new Webmaster Central Blog in Japanese. For those of you who feel more comfortable reading Japanese, and are interested in webmaster-related information from Google, and even learni…
December 27th, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Drum roll please…the prestigious programming team at the Sundance Film Festival has reviewed the many outstanding films submitted to this year’s Project Direct short film competition and the results are in!We were thrilled to see so many of you who c…