Tips & Tricks: Shedding Light on Layers
April 16th, 2009 | by Kate | published in Google Earth
As your friendly tips guru, I try to keep pretty well-acquainted with all things Earth. But I recently found myself thrown for a loop when the lights got turned off on my virtual world. Google Earth seemed to be in a permanent state of nighttime — and…
Reach TV viewers through more than one screen
April 16th, 2009 | by Aly Makishima | published in Google TV Ads Blog
Google TV Ads makes it easy for advertisers of all sizes to reach customers watching television. These days, many full-length television programs are also available for Internet users to watch online. These programs may appear in various places, includ…
Watch Shows and Movies on YouTube
April 16th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Today we’re excited to announce a new destination for television shows and an improved destination for movies on YouTube, where partners like Crackle, CBS, MGM, Lionsgate, Starz and many others have made thousands of television episodes and hundreds of…
Modifying the Chow-Down Application, part 1: Adding media from YouTube and Picasa
April 16th, 2009 | by Jochen Hartmann | published in Youtube API
Recently I was given the task of modifying the Chow Down sample application (originally written to demonstrate how to implement the Google FriendConnect API on Google AppEngine) to include videos, pictures and search results in the restaurant detail pa…
The Summit of the Americas: Ask Secretary Clinton a Question
April 16th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Starting this Friday, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be participating in the Summit of the Americas – a meeting of diplomats and world leaders from the Western Hemisphere. At the Summit, leaders address key topics at the to…
Google Calendar support for the Chinese calendar
April 16th, 2009 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
It is now possible to view your agenda against the Chinese calendar (either in Traditional or Simplified Chinese).Editions included:Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages included:All languages supported by Google CalendarHow …
April 16th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords Group | published in Google Adwords
One of the primary goals of the new interface is to help you manage your campaigns more efficiently. We also wanted to offer some of the conveniences you’ll find in other Google products, like keyboard shortcuts. Just like in Gmail, you can quickly nav…
One-line sitelinks
April 16th, 2009 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllYou may be familiar with sitelinks, the links that show up underneath the first search result and which lead to specific pages deeper within the site. Sitelinks enable users to jump directly to important parts of a site, which is of…
Socially Adjusted CAPTCHAs
April 16th, 2009 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Rich Gossweiler, Maryam Kamvar, Shumeet BalujaUnfortunately, there is a war going on between humans and ‘bots. Software’bots are attempting to generate massive numbers of computer accountswhich are then sold in bulk to spammers. Spammers use …
From the Mailbag: Illustrating your point with a book
April 16th, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Ryan Sands, Book Search Online TeamWelcome to the latest edition of “From the Mailbag,” where we respond to emails from Google Book Search users. This time our question comes from Dave:I want to make a website on the Underground Railroad. I k…
April 16th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds
As feed consumption continues to grow, many or our publishers are adding more and more feeds to their Google accounts, and wishing to analyze, publicize, and monetize those feeds through the combination of AdSense for feeds and FeedBurner. Because of …
Making Google Map Maker more accessible and useful
April 16th, 2009 | by Kate | published in Google Earth
Since launching Google Map Maker last June, we have heard a steady stream of users asking us to make the data created with it more available. We have recently pushed more Map Maker data on to Google Maps and Google Maps for mobile and now allow users t…
April 16th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds
As feed consumption continues to grow, many or our publishers are adding more and more feeds to their Google accounts, and wishing to analyze, publicize, and monetize those feeds through the combination of AdSense for feeds and FeedBurner. Because of …
Japan’s Mixi Announces Open Beta Launch of its OpenSocial Container
April 16th, 2009 | by Sara | published in Google OpenSocial
My name is Yoichiro Tanaka. I belong to the Platform Team of mixi, Inc. “mixi” is currently the most popular Japanese social networking service (SNS) and has more than 16.3 million registered users. I am happy to announce that we have released an o…
Who’s @ Google I/O
April 16th, 2009 | by Neel Kshetramade | published in Google Code
We frequently hear that developers want to hear from peers who’ve built interesting applications. That’s why we’re excited that this year’s Google I/O (May 27th – 28th in San Francisco) will involve more developers from the community at large. Today, w…