August 19th, 2009 | by Steve Olechowski | published in Google Adsense Feeds
As a natural conclusion to the process of migrating feedburner.com accounts to Google Accounts as previously described here, we have decided to sunset the legacy Feedburner Terms of Service. The Google Terms of Service will be the terms that apply to …
August 18th, 2009 | by Nate Weinstein | published in Youtube
Is there anything better than kicking back to a great movie with a bucket of popcorn and a few of your closest friends? How about kicking back to a great movie with a bucket of popcorn and a few thousand of your YouTube buddies? This Wednesday night, A…
August 18th, 2009 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Voice
In addition to making free long distance calls within the continental US, you can now call Canada for free through Google Voice. We offered this feature in GrandCentral previously, and in an effort to provide as many useful features as we can for free,…
August 18th, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Philippe Colombet, Strategic Partnership Development Manager, EuropeWhen we launched Google Books, one of our goals was to bring the world’s lost literature back to life. Many older books which are out of copyright (so-called public domain wo…
August 18th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
As an AdSense Product Manager for ads quality, I’m part of a group that works to make the ads on your site relevant for users. One of the ways we do this is through contextual targeting, which matches ads to the content of your webpages. With contextua…
Everyone can chat now!
August 18th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
We almost can’t believe it ourselves, but we’ve finished enabling orkut chat for everyone! Those of you who have been patiently waiting will be pleased to know that we’ve made orkut chat even more dynamic by adding these new features: Chat pop out: al…
Stimulus spending at street level: the USDA and Google Maps API Premier
August 18th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: We’re pleased to welcome guest blogger Carole Jett, Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Department of Agriculture has taken the lead on making detailed state-by-state information about stimulus spending avai…
Conversion Rates Don’t Vary Much with Ad Position
August 18th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
For today’s Inside AdWords post we have a note from our Chief Economist at Google, Hal Varian. Hal and his team spend most of their time studying the AdWords auction and finding ways to make it more efficient. Today he’d like to share some research tha…
Resource round-up for August
August 18th, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
This month’s resource round-up for August includes an invitation to join Googlers in our nation’s capital for a live discussion of search, an opportunity to tell the stories of the homeless individuals in your community, and a helpful list of AdWords t…
YouTube Gear for Sale
August 18th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
We are pleased to announce that finally there is a way for you to get YouTube swag! Our new online store has just launched at http://www.googlestore.com/youtube, and it’s stocked with T-shirts, hats, hoodies, notepads, and more. Big favorites around th…
Bringing Street View to an attraction near you
August 18th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Along with the new countries added to Street View, I’m particularly excited to be launching some imagery from our Street View Partner Program. It’s been a blast to work with a wide range of exciting partners so it’s great to now showcase some of their…
The wait is over: new Street View imagery
August 18th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Since the first launch over 2 years ago, the feedback I hear most often from users – and, in fact, members of my own family – around the world is “When will Street View be available where I live?”. For those of you in Taiwan, Portugal, and Switzerland …
Blogger Joins the Hubbub
August 18th, 2009 | by John | published in Google Blogger Buzz
When you publish a public blog post, you want to share it with the world—immediately! Blogger helps by feeding your posts to subscribers all over the web. Unfortunately, while we really want things to be as speedy as possible, sometimes it can take a…
Recent Happenings: TickTock, parallel queries, DryDrop, and more
August 17th, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Every month or so, we compile a list of interesting things in the community related to App Engine. Here are some recent projects and resources that you might find interesting:Ubisoft’s TickTock on FacebookUbisoft has released a fun game for Facebook ca…
Monitoring California Wildfires with Google Maps
August 17th, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google Earth
Last week, several wildfires sprung up across California. These blazes are the latest in what is anticipated to be a very active fire season. California is tracking ahead of an average year, already reporting nearly 3,000 wildfires.Located between the …