Site Speed, now even easier to access
November 18th, 2011 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics, Uncategorized
Speed matters. Faster loading pages mean more visitors land on your site instead of waiting in frustration or leaving. The Google Analytics Site Speed report will help you learn which of your pages are underperforming, so you can address this potential…
November 18th, 2011 | by Aaron Lichtig | published in Google CPG, Uncategorized
In today’s episode of the CPG Thought Leader Video Series, Karen Sauder, Industry Director, Food, Beverage and Restaurants at Google, discusses the excitement of brand marketing today and the new brand storytelling opportunities that digital offers.
Build great font tools and services with sfntly
November 18th, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
Earlier this month we released the sfntly font programming library as open source. Created by the Google Internationalization Engineering team, the sfntly Java and C++ library makes it easy for programmers to build high performance font manipulation ap…
Custom domains simplified
November 18th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blogger Buzz
(Cross posted on the Blogger +page)Adding a custom domain to your blog is a great way to increase your brand identity. Setting one up, however, can sometimes be a frustrating experience, especially if you aren’t quite sure of the difference between a…
November 18th, 2011 | by miriam | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Posted by Obadiah Greenberg, Business Development Manager, Google Apps for EducationAs a creative writing student at UC Santa Cruz in the early 90s, when I needed to write a story I’d trek across campus over wooden bridges suspended among the age-old…
Lossless and transparency encoding in WebP
November 18th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code, Uncategorized
UrvangVikasJyrkiBy Jyrki Alakuijala, Vikas Arora, and Urvang Joshi, Software Engineers, WebP TeamCross-posted with the Chromium BlogIn September 2010 we announced the WebP image format with lossy compression. WebP was proposed as an alternative to JPEG…
New version of Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook® now available
November 17th, 2011 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Uncategorized
Version 2.5 of the Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook® plugin is now available with the following improvements:Synchronization Status dialog now includes Notes: The Synchronization Status dialog now includes status of Outlook Notes syncing with Go…
Why wait? Move your entire domain to Gmail’s new look today!
November 17th, 2011 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Uncategorized
We encourage Google Apps administrators to manage the rollout of Gmail’s new look to their users, so they’ll have a better experience when the new look becomes permanent.To assist with this, a new checkbox is now available in the administrator cont…
Gmail app for iOS 4+ now available
November 17th, 2011 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Uncategorized
The Gmail app is now available in the App Store for any iOS 4+ device. The app includes the following features:- Receive notification badges for new messages.- Read your mail with threaded conversations.- Organize your mail by archiving, labeling, sta…
Introducing Closure Stylesheets
November 17th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code, Uncategorized
By Michael Bolin, Open Source EngineerCross-posted from the Open Source at Google blog(CSS is for programming, not for pasting.)When the Closure Tools were first released a little over two years ago, they gave web developers the ability to organize and…
November 17th, 2011 | by Aaron Lichtig | published in Google CPG, Uncategorized
In episode 2 of the CPG Thought Leader Video Series, Karim Temsamani, VP of Global Mobile at Google, talks about the growth of the mobile industry overall and consumers’ pattern of shifting access from desktop to the cloud.
Follow robotic wave gliders on a record setting Pacific crossing in Google Earth
November 17th, 2011 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth
Join a journey of discovery virtually in Google Earth, as Liquid Robotics launches four wave-powered robotic gliders to cross the Pacific ocean in their Pacific Crossing (PacX) Challenge Expedition. The wave gliders are attempting to set a new world re…
Explore open source with the Google Code-in contest
November 17th, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
Correction: Students will not be able to start registering for accounts until the contest opens on November 21st at 12:00 am (midnight) PST. The blog below has been corrected. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.Every time you send a te…
AdSense crawler errors: Check your robots.txt file for improved ad targeting and relevancy
November 17th, 2011 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense, Uncategorized
This is the first post in our two-part AdSense Crawler Errors series.There are many ways that publishers can go about optimizing their site for AdSense; opting-in to text/image ads, upgrading to our preferred ad formats, and increasing ad coverage acro…
Recruiter Tips & Tricks: Understanding your benefits
November 17th, 2011 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Introduction: We’ve been featuring weekly Recruiter Tips & Tricks from Lead Engineering Recruiter Jeff Moore. We hope you’ve found his tips useful, whether you’re looking for an internship, full-time position, or just looking to impr…