Better Know an Office: Belo Horizonte
November 22nd, 2011 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Introduction: We continue with our Better Know an Office series, inspired by Stephen Colbert’s Better Know a District. This recurring series will take us to different Google offices around the globe. Today, we head to Brazil in South America where we…
Turkeys and taxes
November 22nd, 2011 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
The NBA season may be unusually absent at this time of year, but thankfully we can still count on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and oh yes… preparation for taxes. Before falling asleep next to a warm fireplace with a belly full of savory delicacies and…
November 22nd, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Ian Ni-Lewis, a Developer Advocate who devotes most of his time to making Android games more awesome. — Tim Bray]Making a game on Android is easy. Making a great game for a mobile, multitasking, often multi-core, …
November 22nd, 2011 | by Unknown | published in Google News
Posted by Erich Schmidt, Software Engineer Over the past few months, myriad sites across the web (including Google News) have adopted the +1 button to help start conversations. But there hasn’t been an easy way for signed-in users to see what news articles your friends are enjoying — until now. Starting today, the Spotlight section will sometimes include articles that your Gmail contacts and people in your Google+ circles have publicly +1’d. You can see their profile pictures and click through to their Google+ profiles, just like on Social Search. And of course you can +1 the stories too, expressing your opinion and optionally sharing with your circles. Here’s what Spotlight looks like with social annotations:
We hope this change helps you find more great articles to enjoy, and gives more power to your +1s.
Webinar: Reaching Your Goals with Analytics
November 22nd, 2011 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics, Uncategorized
Is your website performing as well as it could be? Do you want to get more out of your digital marketing campaigns, including AdWords and other digital media? Do you feel like you have gaps in your current Google Analytics setup?We’ve heard from many…
November 21st, 2011 | by Thor Mitchell | published in Google Maps
Several weeks ago we shared an update about the introduction of usage limits to the Google Maps API. Today I’d like to provide additional details about these limits, the types of sites that may be affected, and as promised, equip you with the means f…
November 21st, 2011 | by Aaron Lichtig | published in Google CPG
In today’s video, we hear from Ryan Charles, the founder and CEO of Consmr. Consmr is a ratings and reviews site for products in the food, home, and personal care spaces. The site’s mission is to ensure that consumers make informed decisions about ev…
November 21st, 2011 | by Eric Koleda | published in Google Adwords API
When we originally launched this blog in 2005, we sought to provide you with the most up-to-date information on the AdWords API, as well as useful resources to help with API development. Recently, we’ve realized that the content we produce can be shared between multiple Ads API developer communities and for this reason we have decided to create one central blog. With this in mind, we’ll now be posting on the new Google Ads Developer blog. There, you’ll also find information on our AdSense API, DoubleClick for Publishers API, DoubleClick for Advertisers API, and Google AdMob SDK products.
If you’re a subscriber of this blog, your feed will automatically be redirected, so you won’t have to do a thing to keep getting the latest news. If you decide you’d like to subscribe to a particular label on the new blog (for example, only receive those posts labeled as “adwords_api“), you can choose to do that as well. Also, the old content of this blog is not going anywhere and will continue to be available, even after we switch to the new blog.
The Ads Developer blog will continue to be run by the same team, bringing you all the information you need as an ads developer. We look forward to seeing you over at http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/.
Posted by the AdWords API Team
The new Google Search app for iPad
November 21st, 2011 | by Jessica Tsai | published in Google Mobile, Uncategorized
(Cross posted on the Inside Search Blog)Today, we’re very pleased to be launching a significant redesign for the Google Search app for iPad. As you can see in our video, whether you’re doing research and comparing results, or exploring beautiful im…
And we’re off! Google Code-in contest opens for students today
November 21st, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
And we’re off! Starting today, 13-17 year old students enrolled in a pre-university program (high school, etc.) as of November 21, 2011 can begin working on tasks for Google Code-in. The contest introduces students to the world of open source softwar…
Street View special collections: ski and snow edition
November 21st, 2011 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
(Cross posted on the Official Google Blog)From the streets to the slopes, Street View in Google Maps recently updated its special collections to include a number of new ski resorts, so you can tour some of the world’s most beautiful ski terrain right…
Finding the perfect home with Google Fusion Tables
November 21st, 2011 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
Editor’s Note: This is a true story, but some of the details have been changed for privacy purposes.My husband and I were recently in the market for a new home. We worked with a realtor for a few months, looking at several houses every weekend. As we…
‘Tis the season for Chromebooks
November 21st, 2011 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
The Chrome team elves have been busy packing a few goodies into Chromebooks in time for the upcoming holiday season. A simple, streamlined user interfaceFrom the moment you hit the power button and watch your Chromebook boot up in eight seconds flat, y…
Doc Summit Wrap up: 4 Books written in 3 days!
November 18th, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
In mid October a Document Summit was held at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California where documentation teams from 4 open source projects, KDE, OpenStreetMap, OpenMRS and Sahana Eden as well as a few documentation ‘free agents’ gathered t…
Fridaygram: scribbling on maps, lightweight material, canine antics
November 18th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code, Uncategorized
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorEarlier this week, our Google Maps API got a great new feature. When you build an application with the Maps API, you can now enable users to draw on the maps. There are tools for various shapes, so your users ca…