Now you see it, now you don’t
December 2nd, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
You may have noticed that our homepage is sporting a new look. Today we’re excited to be releasing a new version of our classic homepage. The main feature of the new homepage is that it “fades in” — when the page first loads, it shows only our logo, …
How fast is your site?
December 2nd, 2009 | by Susan Moskwa | published in Google Webmaster Central
We’ve just launched Site Performance, an experimental feature in Webmaster Tools that shows you information about the speed of your site and suggestions for making it faster.This is a small step in our larger effort to make the web faster. Studies have…
December 2nd, 2009 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
The Etherboot Project is very pleased to have participated in Google Summer of Code™ 2009. This summer marks our fourth consecutive annual participation in this excellent mentoring program.Google generously sponsored five students to work with us, a…
December 2nd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Today’s update to Street View is a whale of a launch — literally! We’ve added imagery gathered by our Trike for several special attractions we’ve partnered with in the United States, including the SeaWorld parks. Of course, that includes photos of Sea…
December 2nd, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google Earth
[Cross-posted from the Official Google.org Blog]Today Governor Schwarzenegger and the California Natural Resources Agency is announcing CalAdapt, a new Google Earth-based tool designed to help Californians learn more about climate impacts and adaptati…
December 2nd, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog)Every year around this time I start thinking about the annual holiday email I send to friends and family members. I usually email my mom, dad, sister, friends and co-workers. But the one person who appreciates my seas…
December 2nd, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We recently expanded category filtering to publishers in additional English-speaking countries, and we’re happy to announce that the feature is now available for ads in French, German, and Spanish. With category filtering, you can prevent ads from up t…
December 2nd, 2009 | by Google Product Ideas Page | published in Google Product Ideas
Are you an AdSense publisher? If so, we invite you to submit your ideas for new AdSense features on our Product Ideas for AdSense page.Whether it’s an idea for a brand new feature or just a small tweak that would simplify your work flow, we’d like to h…
December 2nd, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
With 40,000+ subscribers and a couple of hit videos, the folks behind the phonedog channel know a thing or two about making popular product-review videos (in their case, mobile phone reviews). In the spirit of the holidays, they’ve kindly agreed to sha…
December 2nd, 2009 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing
By James A. WhittakerI got this question in email this morning from a reader:”I am a test supervisor at — and was promoted to a QA management position yesterday. I’m excited and terrified, so I have been thinking about how to organize the thought in…
December 2nd, 2009 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product ManagerThere are more than 25,000 publishers from around the world in Google News today. That’s because Google News is a great source of readers, sending publishers about 1 billion clicks every month. Each …
New User Agent for News
December 2nd, 2009 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: IntermediateToday we are announcing a new user agent for robots.txt called Googlebot-News that gives publishers even more control over their content. In case you haven’t heard of robots.txt, it’s a web-wide standard that has been in us…
December 2nd, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
(cross-posted with Google LatLong Blog)Google Maps for mobile has long allowed you to add stars on a map to mark your favorite places. You may have noticed a few months ago that Google Maps for desktop browsers introduced the ability to star places as …
Discover v2009: New Ad Types
December 2nd, 2009 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
The release of the new v200909 included a number of improvements and new features. Among these additions are new ad types: DeprecatedAd, LocalBusinessAd, MobileImageAd, and TemplateAd, which are all part of the AdGroupAdService.DeprecatedAd:The idea be…
Compete & YouTube Present: Driving Brand Engagement among Social Media Users
December 2nd, 2009 | by Google CPG Marketing | published in Google CPG
Join Compete and YouTube for a webcast that will provide insights into how advertisers are using paid media on YouTube to drive engagement with their brand.For the first time, Compete and YouTube will share benchmark data from over 100 advertisers and …