December 9th, 2011 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Uncategorized
If Google+ is enabled on your domain and you activated your profile, the following features will now be available in your Gmail account:- Circles and Google+ posts in the People Widget: If you open an email from someone that has a Google+ account, you …
December 9th, 2011 | by Unknown | published in Google Mobile
Celebrate the most wonderful time of the year and Androidify yourself with a bunch of new winter gear. Dress up your Android with candy canes, mittens, skis, antlers, sweaters and more! (Did someone say 2012 party glasses?) Head over to Android Market …
December 9th, 2011 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Suzanne Michel, Senior Patent Counsel In passing and signing the America Invents Act, Congress and President Obama recognized the high costs and harms to innovation posed by invalid patents. To help combat the problem, the law creates three …
December 9th, 2011 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search
Custom Search Autocompletions allow you to add to the list of useful queries users see as they type in the search box. Today we are announcing two major improvements.
Promotions in Autocomplete:
Promotions are a great way to call special attention to a result by putting it at the top of search results and making it visually distinct. Now you can choose to display them in autocomplete too. To enable this feature, simply click Show promotions in autocomplete in the Promotions section of your CSE’s Control Panel. Note that promotions based on regular expressions or the $q variable will not appear in autocomplete.
If you’d like to have promotions that appear in autocomplete but not in search results, you can add them via the new Autocomplete Promotion tab of the Custom Autocompletions in the Autocompletion section of your CSE’s Control Panel.
Match mode:
Match mode give you options for how Google displays autocompletions. The following are now available in the Promotions section of your CSE’s Control Panel. Changes to match mode will require you to update the CSE code snippet on your site.
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Prefix (default) mode matches the opening words of the user’s query: “how to bake” will trigger “how to bake a pie”.
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Ordered mode doesn’t require the words to be in the opening, but their order must match the user’s query: “bake a pie” will trigger “how to bake a pie”.
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Any mode matches regardless of the order of the words in the user’s query. “pie bake” will trigger “how to bake a pie”.
We hope these new options make autocompletions even more useful for your site. Read more about Promotions in Autocomplete and Match mode. Let us know what you think in our discussion forum.
Posted by: Min Zeng, Software Engineer
December 9th, 2011 | by Blog | published in Google Orkut
You can be happy because we have two new themes to your profile become even more joyful. We created a theme for those who love, like us, his animal friends and for those who love rock’n roll.Your Orkut, your self expression.Posted by Koji Pereira, Go…
December 9th, 2011 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
We recently launched a new version of Google presentations with many new features to help you create beautiful presentations together. We’ve added the new editor to our Docs demos to make it easier to test drive your presentation building skills.Che…
Games, apps and runtimes come to Native Client
December 9th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code
By Christian Stefansen, Product ManagerCross-posted from the Chromium BlogUpdated on December 14th with the video of the event.Since we launched Native Client late last summer, our team has been working hard to make the technology more useful to develo…
December 9th, 2011 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
Google Maps continuously works to bring you real-life 3D representations of your favorite cities from around the world. Google Maps in 3D combines a functional map with stunning visuals. You can tour an increasing number of cities in 3D and experienc…
December 9th, 2011 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research
Posted by Lizzy Van Alstine and Jon Vaver, Quantitative Analysis TeamAdvertisers want to be able to measure the effectiveness of their advertising. Many methods have been used to address this need, but the most rigorous and trusted of these are randomi…
December 9th, 2011 | by dly | published in Google Mobile, Uncategorized
(Cross-posted on the Inside Search blog)With the December movie season in full swing, we’ve just made it even faster and easier to discover movies, showtimes and theaters, all from your smartphone. Now when you search for [movies] or your favorite th…
December 9th, 2011 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Uncategorized
- We recently made some changes to how the sharing settings in the administrator control panel affect calendars. Previously, these settings only affected primary calendars but now they affect secondary and resource calendars as well.If you have a secon…
December 8th, 2011 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Uncategorized
Google Apps Mobile Management is a set of device management controls integrated into the Google Apps control panel. It covers Android and Google Sync devices, which include iOS, Windows Phone, and other smartphones and tablets using Microsoft® Exchang…
December 8th, 2011 | by Thor Mitchell | published in Google Maps
One of the biggest challenges of mapping the world is that the world is continually changing. At Google we aim to provide fresh, detailed, and accurate maps that evolve at the same pace as the world around us. As a consequence we’re happy to roll out…
December 8th, 2011 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Rogier Klimbie, Policy Manager, AmsterdamEditor’s note: In parallel with the Big Tent event in the Hague, earlier today we partnered with the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, DC to hold a seminar on internet freedom at the Newseum. …
December 8th, 2011 | by Natasha | published in Google Enterprise, Uncategorized
Posted by Natasha Wyatt, Google Earth and Maps for Business TeamToday we announced changes to the data that powers Google Maps API Premier, Google Earth Builder and Google Earth Pro in the UK, Germany, Sweden and Finland.Among other improvements, the u…