Teaching a Computer to Understand Japanese
December 15th, 2009 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Mike Schuster, Google Research and Kaisuke Nakajima, Google JapanOn December 7th, we launched our new Japanese voice search system (音声検索), which has been available for various flavors of English since last year and for Mandarin Chines…
More Russian Gmail videos
December 15th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Maya Moufarek, Regional Marketing ManagerRecently, I reunited with some colleagues in our Moscow office (the same team that brought you this Gmail art video last year) on a set of animated videos showcasing some of Gmail’s features: messages …
New legal templates by RocketLawyer.com™
December 15th, 2009 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Guest post: Rob Elhardt is the Senior VP of Product Management at RocketLawyer.com. Bringing easy legal documents to more people is Rob’s passion, and here’s what he told us about the new RocketLawyer.com legal templates in Google Docs. RocketLawy…
December 15th, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
(Cross-posted from Google’s Public Policy Blog)People often get up in settings like the international climate change conference in Copenhagen and make complicated pronouncements that leave heads spinning. Today was different. Google, GE, the Climate Gr…
December 15th, 2009 | by Jessica | published in Google Checkout
Want to make the most out of your dollar? The new Google Checkout promotion notifier alerts you when sites you are browsing are offering discounts for purchases made through Google Checkout. With hundreds of stores offering savings of $5, $10, or $20 t…
Virtual Globes at AGU… webcast!
December 15th, 2009 | by Michael Weiss-Malik | published in Google Maps
The American Geophysical Union’s annual Fall 2009 Meeting is taking place all this week in San Francisco. If you’ve never been before, it’s quite a sight: 15,000 geoscience researchers, students, and educators!
If you’re attending, be sure to check o…
Live on YouTube: Leaders answer your questions in the CNN/YouTube Climate Debate
December 15th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)Today, at 8 a.m. ET, a panel of world climate leaders, among them former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and journalist Thomas Friedman, will gather in Copenhagen and answer the top questions that you submitted to …
App Engine SDK 1.3.0 Released Including Support for Larger User Uploads
December 14th, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Today, we’ve very excited to release version 1.3.0 of the App Engine SDK, now available to both Java and Python developers. The newest SDK includes a new experimental Blobstore API for storage of files up to 50MB.
Store and Serve – Files can be uploa…
Think2010: Personalization and accountability
December 14th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
As part of our Fast.Forward. program, we’ve asked numerous industry leaders – from Google and beyond – about the online marketing trends they think will be significant in the year ahead. This week we’ll talk about making your campaigns more personal by…
New in Labs: Mark unread from here
December 14th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Jenny Ross, Software EngineerI subscribe to a lot of really active mailing lists. Oftentimes, an email in my inbox will get dozens of replies before I get a chance to start reading it. If I only have a few moments to look at a particularly lo…
Google Fusion Tables API
December 14th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Today I’m excited to announce that Google Fusion Tables is releasing its own API. What is Fusion Tables? A product launched recently in Google Labs, Fusion Tables is a free service for sharing and visualizing data online. It allows you to upload data, …
Release Notes: Find Facebook Friends, Total Video Views & More
December 14th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Here are a couple of things we launched recently:Find your Facebook friends and Yahoo contacts on YouTube: In addition to finding your Gmail contacts on YouTube, now you can find and connect with the people you know on Facebook and Yahoo (that is, thos…
December 14th, 2009 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Google Testing Blog is now live on twitter. Follow us here: http://twitter.com/googletestingBy Patrick Copeland
The top ten ways to get your business ready for the holidays
December 14th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
A few weeks ago, we jump-started the holiday shopping season with Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Like us, you probably browsed the shops and sites for the coolest products and best shopping deals for your holiday purchases. But if you’re a business or …
New Google Analytics API Features
December 14th, 2009 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Over the past few months we’ve received a lot of great feedback from our developers about what they wanted to see in the Google Analytics API, and it included adding access to Google Analytics newest and most powerful features, such as advanced segment…