December 22nd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
At the UK’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, you’ll find more than 250 plant and fungi species discovered by their botanists, including: giant rainforest trees, gorgeous rare orchids, spectacular palms, minute fungi, wild coffee species, and even an…
December 22nd, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
The yearly MusicBrainz summit serves an important function in building our community: we talk about issues facing MusicBrainz and we plan the road map for MusicBrainz projects. The summits are usually scheduled to allow as many people to attend as poss…
Webinars – out with the old, in with the new
December 22nd, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
This year, the AdSense team has brought you a series of live webinars covering a range of topics, and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who attended. We hope that you’re already profiting from implementing the tips featured in our we…
December 22nd, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Whenever I go home to visit my parents, I always assume a handful of new roles — I become the after-dinner dishwasher, the family chauffeur, and appropriately, my parents’ personal tech support. As I go home for the holidays this week, I’ll likely be…
December 22nd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
A few weeks ago we released new 3D models with more detailed facades for 5 California cities. Even though we’re based in California, we know there are a lot of beautiful cities with amazing architecture elsewhere around the country, so we’re add…
December 22nd, 2009 | by Chris Schalk, Google Developer Advocate | published in Google OpenSocial
OpenSocial emerged from the demands of consumer-facing social networking sites, including MySpace, LinkedIn, and Ning. The rise of online social networking, and the changing nature of the consumer web, have both made OpenSocial increasingly relevant to…
December 21st, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google Earth
The 2010 Winter Games are just around the corner, and at Google, we’re getting pretty excited.Last week we shared some maps of local experts’ favorite locations in and around Vancouver with the help from our Google Canada team. Today we’ve introduced p…
December 21st, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
We’re excited to announce that the Google Checkout for Non-Profits program, which offered free transaction processing to Google Grantees in 2009, will continue to offer free processing until 2011! This means that current and new organizations in the Go…
December 21st, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
It’s all the rage: link shorteners to ensure that those useful URLs you’re sharing don’t take up too much precious character count while also giving you an inkling of what you’re about to click on. Well, we’ve just launched youtu.be as a shortener for …
December 21st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Last week I sent an email to Googlers about the meaning of “open” as it relates to the Internet, Google, and our users. In the spirit of openness, I thought it would be appropriate to share these thoughts with those outside of Google as well.At Google …
December 21st, 2009 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
You’re going to put surveys in holiday gifts this year, right? Well, if you’re as customer-centric as Avinash Kaushik, Analytics Evangelist for Google, you just might. And next year’s gifts will be even better.Avinash has just published Web Analytics 2…
December 21st, 2009 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search
The Custom Search team has had a busy 2009. This is the year we turned 3. And now Custom Search is powering many tens of millions of queries a day on millions of small and large websites. We believe that search should be easy to deploy on your website,…
December 21st, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Joe Sexton, Fellowship CoordinatorWe’ve got some good news for all you students who just finished battling final exams. Unlike those stickler professors of yours, we’re offering an extension. That’s right – we’re pushing the Google Policy Fel…
December 21st, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
2009 was a remarkable year for developers. Vic Gundotra, VP of our developer team declared at Google I/O, “The web has won!” and this year was full of launches and announcements that remind us how the web has become the platform of our day. We found lo…
December 21st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Over the past couple of years, Google Checkout for Non-Profits has helped thousands of organizations collect millions of dollars in donations to support various causes. Today we’re pleased to announce that we’ll be extending free donation processin…