A look ahead at measurement in 2012
January 12th, 2012 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics, Uncategorized
In 2011, we saw marketing follow the consumer to more screens and more platforms – from apps to mobile sites to social networks to tablets. And in response the analytics industry made strides to unify this complex picture for marketers through device a…
Explore your world, start here.
January 12th, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps, Uncategorized
Google has always been on a mission to help organize the world’s information, and our Google Maps and Google Earth teams constantly work to apply this to place and space. A quick retrospective look at 2011 shows a number of improvements to help our u…
Ask your question in the 2012 Google Science Fair
January 12th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Cross-posted from the Official Google BlogAre human beings born curious, or can curiosity be nurtured through environment, competition or a good teacher? Everyone’s got a question—that’s ours. But we’re sure you’ve got tons of questions, too….
Ask your question in the 2012 Google Science Fair
January 12th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog, Uncategorized
Are human beings born curious, or can curiosity be nurtured through environment, competition or a good teacher? Everyone’s got a question—that’s ours. But we’re sure you’ve got tons of questions, too. Today, we’re inviting students around t…
January 11th, 2012 | by Emily Wood | published in Google Blogger Buzz
You may have noticed that we’ve rolled out a number of improvements to Blogger recently. The folks over at Technorati referred to it as a “rampage”. Call it what you like, we’re definitely having fun giving Blogger the makeover it’s long deserved, and we appreciate all the positive feedback we received at the recent BlogWorld expo.
If you follow us on our Buzz blog, you’re aware that we publish surveys from time to time. They are one of several methods that we use to collect your feedback about what we can do to make your blogging experience better. A top request on the wishlist is improving Blogger’s commenting system, so we’re happy to announce that we’ve done just that.
Blogger now supports threaded commenting, which means that it is now much easier to differentiate between whether someone is making a general comment on the thread, or responding to another comment on the thread.
What do you have to do to enable this on your blog? Nothing! If you have Blogger’s commenting feature enabled, “Blog Feed” set to “Full”, and are using “Embedded” comments, then you’re ready to start a discussion with your readers. To check, or change your feed settings, select: “Settings > Other >, and then “Full” from the “Allow Blog Feed” dropdown:
To check your current form setting, select: “Settings > Posts and Comments, and select “Embedded” from the “Comment Location” dropdown:
Visit the Blogger Help Center for additional information.
Happy blogging!
Posted by Pat Coleman, Software Engineer
January 11th, 2012 | by Jessica Tsai | published in Google Mobile
Hot on the heels of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, we’ve updated Google Search for previous versions of Android: it’s all around faster, to get what you need quickly. In this version, you’ll notice:
- Faster, smoother performance, with an updated and simplified user interface.
- Suggestions for your search grouped by type, with web suggestions at the top.
- Country-specific suggestions and search results for all countries with Google domains.
- Long press to remove history items.
Search history, search suggestions and on-device results
Here are some additional tips we’d like to share:
- Tap the arrow to the right of a search suggestion or history item to add it to your search term before searching.
- Get suggestions from other apps on your phone – check out searchable items in Search settings.
- Long press on home screen to add the Google Search widget, if you don’t have it already, to access search faster.
If you have Android 2.2, 2.3 or 3.x, you can download the app from Android Market or scan the QR code below.
Posted by Mathew Inwood, Software Engineer
January 11th, 2012 | by Gopal Shah | published in Google SketchUp, Uncategorized
It’s easy to see why 3D printing has captured the imaginations of modelers around the globe — it’s captured ours as well! Being able to hold what you’ve modeled in your hand brings a new dimension (no pun intended) of understanding and usefulnes…
January 11th, 2012 | by Aaron Lichtig | published in Google CPG
[Cross-posted with the official Google blog]In the amount of time it takes you to read this blog post, roughly 382 Android phones will be activated, 250,000+ words will be written on Blogger and 48 hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube. The world …
January 11th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog, Uncategorized
Cross-posted from the Official Google BlogFor many, the start of a new year is also the start of a new semester. Whether you’re a current student trying to familiarize yourself with campus, an applicant assessing your options or an alumnus feeling no…
Announcing DartBox2D
January 11th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
Today, we’d like to announce the release of DartBox2D, a port of the wildly successful Box2D physics engine to Dart, Google’s new language for the web.Box2D has been ported to other languages, including JavaScript, but this release opens the door t…
January 11th, 2012 | by Laura Clowes | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise, Uncategorized
Posted by José Olalla, CIO at BBVA Editors note: Today, our guest blogger is José Olalla (@PepeOlalla), CIO at BBVA. BBVA is one of the largest financial institutions in the world who today have announced they are adopting Google Apps for Business to…
Street View: your friendly campus tour guide
January 11th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
For many, the start of a new year is also the start of a new semester. Whether you’re a current student trying to familiarize yourself with campus, an applicant assessing your options or an alumnus feeling nostalgic, the Street View feature in Google…
January 11th, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth
(Cross posted to Official Google Blog) For many, the start of a new year is also the start of a new semester. Whether you’re a current student trying to familiarize yourself with campus, an applicant assessing your options or an alumnus feeling nosta…
January 11th, 2012 | by Blog | published in Google Orkut
Many people ask us where to find the information that used to be available in the previous Orkut home page such as testimonials, friends requests and birthdays. To address this, we have created a new home page similar to the one in the previous version…
January 10th, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Uncategorized
The following features are now available to domains following the Scheduled Release track:Gmail: – The new look for Gmail has started to roll out as the default interface and continues to the end of the week. After that, the new look will become perman…