Count Down Memorable Videos of the Year
December 2nd, 2009 | by MarkDay | published in Youtube
We’d give you chocolates with it if we could: This week marks the launch of our advent-style calendar counting down some of the most memorable videos of the year on YouTube. This sponsored collection, presented by Samsung U10, will reveal one new popul…
New in Labs: Default text styling
December 1st, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Darren Lewis, Software Engineer and Jon Kotker, former Software Engineering InternIn the early days of email, messages were simple text meant to be read on a terminal. But with the growth of the web came the advent of HTML email, and overnigh…
Show Your Vote for COP15
December 1st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted from the Google Australia Blog) One of the benefits working at Google is the ability to spend 20% of your time on projects you are passionate about. Recently I was lucky enough to attend the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Clima…
Show me the pictures: better format for image results
December 1st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
I love when I get images back in my Google search results. There’s no better way to quickly understand the difference between an ocelot and a clouded leopard. But sometimes I want to see more images to really make sure I’ve identified the right jungle …
Region Tags in Google Search Results
December 1st, 2009 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllCountry-code top-level domains (or ccTLDs) can provide people with a quick and valuable clue about the location of a website—for example, “.fr” for France or “.co.jp” for Japan. However, for certain top level domains like .com, .i…
Now even easier: use Google Docs & Checkout to sell online
December 1st, 2009 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
As you may recall, the Google Checkout store gadget, available in Google Labs, allows you to create an online store with inventory managed from a Google spreadsheet and payments accepted through Google Checkout. Today, using Google Docs and Checkout to…
Think2010: Innovate to better connect
December 1st, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
As you plan your marketing approach for 2010, think of ‘innovation’ in a broad sense. You don’t need to be the first to venture into uncharted territory or the one to make the biggest splash. You just need to think openly and differently about your cus…
The AdSense Product Ideas page: Now accepting your submissions and votes
December 1st, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
This past year, we’ve been working on building features based on your feedback, and we’d like to offer you the opportunity to tell us what’s on your AdSense wishlist for 2010. What features or product updates would you like to see? Whether it’s an idea…
Introducing the Google Model Your Town Competition
December 1st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Have you ever noticed that a lot of the bigger cities in Google Earth have photo-realistic 3D buildings in them? (See Valencia, for example.) Have you ever wondered when someone’s going to get around to modeling the world’s smaller towns and villages? …
Put your town on the 3D map: Google Model Your Town Competition
December 1st, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
People use Google SketchUp for all sorts of things. One of them is geo-modeling – making photo-textured models of real-life buildings that appear in Google Earth. For some, geo-modeling is a hobby; they get a kick out of building something that provi…
Google Analytics launches asynchronous tracking
December 1st, 2009 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Analytics
Google Analytics now provides a new Asynchronous Tracking Code snippet as an alternate way to track your website!Think of the asynchronous tracking code snippet as a script that uses a “separate lane” to handle part of the processing of your webpage. A…
A Live Stream to Save Lives: Alicia Keys and YouTube Team Up to Fight AIDS
December 1st, 2009 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
It’s no secret that AIDS is one of the deadliest diseases facing our world today. Since the beginning of the epidemic, almost 60 million people have been infected with HIV and 25 million people have died of HIV-related causes. But did you know that som…
December 1st, 2009 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product ManagerAs newspapers consider charging for access to their online content, some publishers have asked: Should we put up pay walls or keep our articles in Google News and Google Search? In fact, they can do …
December 1st, 2009 | by John Mueller | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster level: intermediate We love helping publishers make their content available to large groups of readers, and working on ways to make the world’s information useful and accessible through our search results. At the same time, we’re also aware o…
Four Googlers elected ACM Fellows
December 1st, 2009 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of ResearchI’m excited to share that the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has just announced that four Googlers have been elected ACM Fellows in its class of 2009. Jeff Dean, Tom Dean, Urs Hoelzle and Yossi Matias …