December 6th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University RelationsWe’ve just finished the review process for the latest round of the Google Research Awards, which provide funding to full-time faculty working on research in areas of mutual int…
December 6th, 2011 | by Vanessa Schneider | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
As the holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, being a well-informed and efficient shopper is more important than ever. That’s why we’re excited to introduce a new feature in Google Maps that can help you find places that are located within o…
December 6th, 2011 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
For the first time in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in the middle of New Cairo’s desert and summer heat, over 20 Googlers have come together from all around the world to meet, greet and train a select group of young people from the region….
December 5th, 2011 | by Aaron Lichtig | published in Google CPG, Uncategorized
Pre-roll video ads are playing an increasingly important role in online media plans, and many advertisers wonder how these newer formats compare with traditional TV ads. YouTube partnered with Ipsos on a study across 2,400 people split into groups expo…
December 5th, 2011 | by echa | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Posted by Mark Gillingham, The Great Books Foundation(Cross-posted on the Google Nonprofits Blog.) Editors note: Today’s guest blogger is Mark Gillingham, Vice President of The Great Books Foundation, a nonprofit educational organization whose missio…
Showing some love to math lovers
December 5th, 2011 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog, Uncategorized
Cross-posted from the official Google Search blogI still recall the day when my friend Yossi came to school and showed off his brand new graphing calculator. I was stunned by how easy it was to plot complicated functions — meanwhile, the rest of us we…
Students write code and save lives with OpenMRS
December 5th, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
Earlier this year OpenMRS participated in Google Summer of Code, a worldwide program organized by Google’s Open Source Programs Office to expose university students to the world of free and open source software, and encourage those students to become…
December 5th, 2011 | by Stephen Kliff | published in Google DoubleClick, Uncategorized
(Originally posted on 11/29/11, updated 12/5/11)It’s no secret that the mobile web is exploding. According to IDC, more people in the US are projected to access the web via a mobile device than on a computer by 2015. This makes mobile a very attracti…
Around the world with Google Developer Day 2011
December 5th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code, Uncategorized
By Monica Tran, Google Developer Day TeamThis year’s Google Developer Day events just finished after a worldwide tour across nine cities and four continents. We’d like to thank the thousands of developers who contributed to making Google Developer Day …
December 5th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords, Youtube
Each day, people watch more than 3 billion videos on YouTube – the equivalent of every American watching about 9 videos a day. U.S. online consumers now spend as much time online as they spend watching TV. With the consumer shift to online media consum…
+1 button in DFP for direct sold ads
December 5th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
In March, we introduced the +1 button on search results to make it easier for people to get recommendations from the people they trust right when they’re searching. Then in early October we expanded that to include Google Display Network ads across …
December 5th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog, Uncategorized
The Google data center in Caldwell County, NC lies close to the birthplace of NASCAR and any visitor can tell—even our data center is decked out in NASCAR paraphernalia and pretty much everyone is a NASCAR fan. When we learned that many competit…
Whentotweet.com – Twitter analytics for the masses
December 5th, 2011 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Our post today comes from Stefan and Niklas of Whentotweet.com, a nifty site that recommends the best time of day to tweet based on your followers’ habits.
Twitter handles an amazing number of Tweets – over 200 million tweets are sent per day. We s…
Announcing the 2012 Google Anita Borg Scholarships in US and Canada
December 5th, 2011 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog, Uncategorized
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 Anita’s vision, we established the Anita Bor…
Designing Gmail’s new left navigation
December 5th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail), Uncategorized
Posted by Jason Cornwell, User Experience DesignerOne of our goals for Gmail’s new look was to make Gmail feel more like a native application with independently scrolling panels rather than a website that scrolls as a single page. This design approach…