June 5th, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
As mobile technology geeks, we’re really excited to see a new smartphone launch from our friends at Palm. Palm Pre phone’s webOS works great with Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube, which are built into the device. You can also easily sync your …
June 5th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Today, we’re proud to celebrate the 37 annual World Environment Day with the world premiere of “Home,” a documentary about the survival of our planet, from award-winning filmmaker Luc Besson and photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand.Not only does this film…
June 5th, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
About a year ago, we introduced the orkut mobile site to help everyone on orkut stay in touch on the go with scraps, status updates, and photo viewing. Shortly after that, we optimized the orkut mobile experience for S60 phones, allowing photo uploads …
June 4th, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
I joined Google’s sales team close to three and half years ago, just as we were beginning our operations in Israel. Shortly after joining, I came to learn about the Google Grants program. With joint effort and support from the local and global teams, w…
June 4th, 2009 | by Zach Yeskel | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Zach Yeskel, Product Marketing ManagerMy friends email me all the time with ideas for improving Gmail. Just this weekend, my friend Dave said he wanted a way to select all of his messages with a certain label (like “urgent”). Two weeks ago, A…
June 4th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Today on New Interface Thursdays, we’ll take a quick look at the Ads tab in AdWords. The Ads tab lets you view and edit all of your ads, as well as check their status and performance. In the new AdWords interface, you have access to the Ads tab within …
June 4th, 2009 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
As you may have read on the Google Blog today, we just gave Picasa Web Albums a major tune-up — flipping through photos is now a whole lot faster.You can see for yourself by visiting any album and hitting the arrow keys as you flip through pictures. …
June 4th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
I use Picasa to manage the photos on my computer in part because it’s the fastest way to manage all of the pictures I take. When I started working on Picasa Web Albums, the speed and responsiveness of the desktop program were a tough act to follow. Typ…
June 4th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
At Google, we focus constantly on speed; we believe that making our websites load and display faster improves the user’s experience and helps them become more productive. Today, we want to share with the web community some of the best practices we’ve u…
June 4th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Newfangled is a 3D Building pioneer. From the earliest days of modeling with SketchUp for Google Earth, Christian (aka “Newfangled”) started creating the buildings in his home town of Edmonton, Alberta in the Great North of Canada. In fact, part of h…
June 4th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Many of you have asked about Blogger templates. You’ve posted in the help forums, you’ve tweeted, one of our engineers actually got stopped in a coffee shop to talk about Blogger’s classic templates. And by “classic” we mean “old”. We found that many o…
June 4th, 2009 | by Sebastian Tonkin | published in Google Analytics
Event Tracking is a feature of Google Analytics that allows you to track visitor actions that don’t correspond directly to pageviews. It’s a great fit for tracking things like:Downloads of a PDF or fileInteraction with dynamic, AJAX sitesInteraction…
June 4th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
We are aware of recent emails where users posing as Google or YouTube support have tried to obtain the log-in credentials of our users and partners. Security is a top concern at YouTube and we employ techniques that are both proactive and reactive to b…
June 4th, 2009 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By Avi Drissman, Google Chrome Team(Note: this is another of our occasional extra-geeky technical posts. If this isn’t your thing, don’t worry; our usual non-technical stuff will be back soon.)Welcome back. In our last post we went through a simple fun…
June 4th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
YouTube Politics might just have come full circle. It all started during the 2006 midterm elections, when Senator George Allen’s infamous “Macaca Moment” spread across YouTube and ultimately, many say, led to his narrow defeat in that election. Fast fo…