Can we talk? Better speech technology with Phonetic Arts
December 3rd, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
In Star Trek, they don’t spend a lot of time typing things on keyboards—they just speak to their computers, and the computers speak back. It’s a more natural way to communicate, but getting there requires chipping away at a range of hard researc…
How Local Search Ranking Works
December 3rd, 2010 | by Deanna | published in Google Earth
We’ve been quite busy this year working on Google Places, Tags, Boost, and our shiny new addition: Hotpot. With so many different products and features now available for local businesses, we wanted to take a step back and explain how the ranking of l…
Tracking Links Available: Affiliate Exclusive Holiday Offers
December 3rd, 2010 | by Mari C. | published in Google Affiliate Network, Uncategorized
Last week we announced a roster of affiliate exclusive holiday offers from over 20 Google Affiliate Network advertisers. These affiliate exclusive offers will be live and valid only on December 13th and available to any publisher who has a relationship…
Tracking Links Available: Affiliate Exclusive Holiday Offers
December 3rd, 2010 | by Mari C. | published in Google Affiliate Network
Last week we announced a roster of affiliate exclusive holiday offers from over 20 Google Affiliate Network advertisers. These affiliate exclusive offers will be live and valid only on December 13th and available to any publisher who has a relationship…
December 3rd, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
A common request we’ve received from publishers using AdSense for domains is to make it easier to park your currently unused/undeveloped domains with Google. We’ve listened to your feedback, and are now pleased to announce that we’ve simplified th…
December 3rd, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Talk
(Cross-posted from the Google Voice blog)
Keeping in touch with family during the holiday season can be challenging for anyone, but it’s especially difficult for military families with loved ones serving around the country or overseas.
Gmail’s built in video chat and free calls to the U.S. and Canada can help keep friends and family in contact regardless of how far apart they may be. To make staying in touch this holiday season even easier for military families, we’re offering a $10 calling credit to help them reach their loved ones serving abroad.
These international call credits can be used to make calls with Google Voice or from right inside Gmail, and will provide families with roughly 30 minutes of call time to Afghanistan, 60 minutes to Iraq, or hundreds of minutes to many countries in Europe and around the world.
To make this possible, we’ve partnered with Blue Star Families and Sesame Street, two organizations dedicated to supporting service members and their families.
Photo by Sesame Workshop, 2010
To be eligible for $10 calling credits, military family members must:
- Be a member of either Blue Star Families or Sesame Street Family Connections — registration is free for all military families
- Provide their Gmail address
- Enable calling in Gmail and accept the terms of service OR have an existing Google Voice account
- Complete this registration form by December 22, 2010
We recognize the sacrifices military family members make when loved ones serve abroad, and we’re proud to help make it a little bit easier for families to stay connected over the holidays.
At this time, Google Voice and calling in Gmail are available in the U.S. only.
Posted by Michael Bolognino, Product Marketing Manager
December 3rd, 2010 | by Michael Bolognino | published in Google Voice
Keeping in touch with family during the holiday season can be challenging for anyone, but it’s especially difficult for military families with loved ones serving around the country or overseas.Gmail’s built in video chat and free calls to the U.S. …
New ways to see your data
December 3rd, 2010 | by Stephen Kliff | published in Google DoubleClick
DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) provides several ways for you to understand where your revenue is coming from with comprehensive reporting on your ad inventory and delivery. Customizable reporting options enable you to easily segment your data across …
New ways to see your data
December 3rd, 2010 | by Stephen Kliff | published in Google DoubleClick
DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) provides several ways for you to understand where your revenue is coming from with comprehensive reporting on your ad inventory and delivery. Customizable reporting options enable you to easily segment your data across …
Successful Collaboration: Thomas Cook and TravelTainment increase conversion rate by 33% using A/B testing
December 3rd, 2010 | by Sara | published in Google Analytics, Google Conversions
Thomas Cook AG offers everything from holiday packages, last minute holidays and city trips to car rental and cruises via their website thomascook.de. The last minute and holiday package parts of the site are powered by the Internet Booking Engine of T…
Mapping Korogocho
December 2nd, 2010 | by Deanna | published in Google Earth
[Cross-posted from the Google Africa Blog]At Google we want to make the world’s information more accessible and useful to people all over the globe. This includes providing rich local geographic data because a high percentage of search queries have a g…
2011 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
December 2nd, 2010 | by Jessica Lulovics | published in Google Student Blog
Cross-posted on the Official Google BlogDr. Anita Borg devoted her life to revolutionizing the way we think about technology and dismantling the barriers that keep women and minorities from entering the computing and technology fields. In honor of Anit…
Supermodeler Story: Zeljko Zdravkovic
December 2nd, 2010 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
Here’s a testimonial from Zeljko Zdravkovic (a.k.a Zex), who told us about his experience geo-modeling his hometown of Belgrade, Serbia.I started modeling Belgrade because I wanted to create a 3D identity for my city. I first learned that it was poss…
2011 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
December 2nd, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted on the Google Students Blog)Dr. Anita Borg devoted her life to revolutionizing the way we think about technology and dismantling the barriers that keep women and minorities from entering the computing and technology fields. In honor of An…
‘Tis the season for Product Ads
December 2nd, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Earlier this month we announced the U.S. launch of Product Listing Ads, which lets you easily promote products from your Merchant Center account on Google.com. In the past few weeks we’ve seen advertisers promote over 150 million unique products usin…