New Ads Quality videos
December 2nd, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Ads Quality is important for you, our advertisers, as it directly affects your ads’ position on the page and how much you pay for your ads.Over the past few months we’ve made some big changes to improve how we calculate Quality Score and how your Quali…
December 2nd, 2008 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
As I’m sure you all know by now, orkut is jam packed with fun and quirky OpenSocial apps that allow you to do just about anything you can imagine. From time to time, we stumble across an app that everybody in the office can’t seem to get enough of. Whe…
December 2nd, 2008 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By Eric Sachs and Ben Laurie, Google Security TeamOne of the major conferences on Internet identity standards is the Internet Identity Workshop(IIW), a semiannual ‘un-conference’ where the sessions are not determined ahead of time. It is attended by a …
December 2nd, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
As a community, we have come to count on each other to be entertained, challenged, and moved by what we watch and share on YouTube. We’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to make the collective YouTube experience even better, particularly on our mo…
December 1st, 2008 | by Stephanie Liu | published in Youtube API
Guest Post by Claus Höfele, Software Developer at Team BondiWe have a guest blog post today by Claus Höfele, an Engine Programmer at Team Bondi, an independent game developer based Down Under. He has a detailed article featured in Gamasutra.com about…
December 1st, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer, Google DesktopOn the Google Desktop gadgets team, we’ve seen countless requests for a Gmail gadget over the years. That gadget is finally here, so if you’ve got Google Desktop for Windows, give it a try…
Google Calendar now supports Apple iCal
December 1st, 2008 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By David Besbris, Engineering DirectorThe Google Calendar team is proud to announce the public release of our support for the CalDAV protocol. You can now use Apple iCal with your Google Calendar, so you can work even when you’re offline, sync almost i…
New Zealand, New Street View
December 1st, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
The Street View team has been keeping quite busy lately, between adding new cities, debuting in new countries, and re-designing the layout. And today, there’s yet another exciting launch: imagery of New Zealand. Whether you’ve been thinking of plann…
December 1st, 2008 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
Designing and developing user interfaces for Android is very different from doing so in a regular desktop environment. Because Android runs applications on mobile devices, application designers and developers must deal with numerous constraints that ar…
December 1st, 2008 | by Jason Chen | published in Google Android
This week’s developer video features Jason Tomlinson of Hands-On Mobile. He wrote Amazed, an application open sourced in the apps-for-android project. Things Jason mentions in the videos include:Amazed was built primarily to get familiar with the accel…
Some of the season’s top searches on Google Product Search
December 1st, 2008 | by Google Base Blog | published in Google Merchant
We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Now that it’s Cyber Monday and online shopping is in full swing, we’ve put together some of the top searches on Google Product Search to help shoppers find popular gifts for their family and fr…
December 1st, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Checkout
Looking for ways to save on your holiday shopping list? Not sure what to buy that special someone? Let Google Checkout and Google Product Search help.Google Checkout is offering savings of $5, $10, $20 or more on your holiday shopping at over 600 parti…
December 1st, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamAmit Singh, Engineering Manager – Mac Development team, will once again be joining us for an update on all things MacFUSE. MacFUSE, an Open Source mechanism that allows you to extend Mac OS X’s native file system cap…