Meet Your Mentors: Announcing Accepted Project for Our Sixth Google Summer of Code
March 18th, 2010 | by lhawthorn | published in Google Open Source
We’ve just announced the list of accepted mentoring organizations for Google Summer of Code™ 2010. Congratulations to all of our future mentors!After reviewing just over 365 applications, we finally narrowed our selection to 150 Free and Open Source …
March 18th, 2010 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Analytics
As an enterprise-class web analytics solution, Google Analytics not only provides site owners with information on their website traffic and marketing effectiveness, it also does so with high regard for protecting user data privacy. Over the past year,…
March 18th, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
This Saturday, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. You’ll be unable to log in to your AdSense and Ad Manager accounts during this time, but we’ll continue serving ads to your pages and tracking your clicks, i…
Shooting for three: Keeping up with the Madness
March 18th, 2010 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
My favorite time of year – March Madness – is here again! And to keep up with the action this year, some of my fellow basketball fans here at Google and I have teamed up to create a page where you can use Google tools to help you track your favorit…
Template highlight: 2010 College Basketball Tournament Bracket
March 18th, 2010 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
The first round of the 2010 NCAA Division I men’s college basketball tournament is starting and in celebration, the Google Docs team has brought back the College Basketball Tournament bracket template for 2010. This template is powered by the GoogleTo…
March 18th, 2010 | by Aaron | published in Youtube
Around the globe, YouTube has become a metaphor for the democratizing power of the Internet and information. YouTube gives unknown performers, filmmakers, and artists new ways to promote their work to a global audience and rise to worldwide fame; makes…
Shooting for three: Keeping up with the Madness
March 18th, 2010 | by Tasha Danko | published in Google SketchUp
(Cross-posted from the Google Lat Long blog)Do you feel it, sports fans? Has the anticipation fully gripped your college basketball soul? It’s definitely got my attention. Therefore I’ve embarked on my third consecutive journey into mapping the NCAA Co…
Orkut for Android — live folders, photo upload and more!
March 18th, 2010 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
(Cross-posted on the orkut Blog)Orkut is now ready to roll on mobile phones with Android. Now you can stay connected to your orkut friends wherever you go — via scrap notifications, direct photo uploads to your orkut albums, and a phonebook synced to …
Zero-result queries: finding them, fixing them
March 18th, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
From building and improving search on Google.com, my fellow engineers and I have learned a lot about how people search and why factors such as stemming, spelling, and synonyms are so important, even in the context of our business tools.One of our first…
Migrating from Microsoft Exchange now even easier with new Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange tool
March 18th, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
The new Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange tool simplifies migration of email, calendar and contacts from both hosted and on-premise Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. With this tool, admins can:- Do multiple migrations in parallel.- Centrall…
March 18th, 2010 | by Nate Weinstein | published in Youtube
If you’ve got a question for the director of Avatar, now’s your chance to ask it. The famous director is opening himself up to the YouTube community, allowing our own DaveyBoyz to interview him based on the questions you submit via the Official Avatar …
March 17th, 2010 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search, Uncategorized
The Custom Search team is always working to provide more relevant results, and improving user queries is a big part of that goal. We’ve shown you how to create refinement labels for queries and create custom synonyms for your search engine. We have bee…
March 17th, 2010 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search
The Custom Search team is always working to provide more relevant results, and improving user queries is a big part of that goal. We’ve shown you how to create refinement labels for queries and create custom synonyms for your search engine. We have bee…
March 17th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
About one in three mobile search queries are made by people who are looking for something in their local area. This means that local businesses have the opportunity to reach mobile users when they’re nearby and looking to take immediate action. Here …
Google Maps for Android: Search ‘n Swipe, Latitude Widget, and More
March 17th, 2010 | by Chris Nguyen | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
Making sense of a fast paced and changing world is difficult under the best of circumstances, but when you’re on the go, it’s even harder. With the new Google Maps for mobile 4.1, we’re introducing a few features that make sorting through search …