November 20th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Cross posted from the Official Google BlogEvery time you send a text, check a webpage or post a status update, you’re using open source software. The Internet is made of open source. But have you ever created any yourself? With the Google Code-in con…
November 20th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Every time you send a text, check a webpage or post a status update, you’re using open source software. The Internet is made of open source. But have you ever created any yourself? With the Google Code-in contest, pre-university students (13-17 years…
November 20th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
Cross posted from the Official Google BlogEvery time you send a text, check a webpage or post a status update, you’re using open source software. The Internet is made of open source. But have you ever created any yourself? With the Google Code-in con…
November 20th, 2012 | by Unknown | published in Google OpenSocial
We are excited to announce we will be in Paris from November 27-29, 2012 to be a part of OW2Con. OW2Con is the annual conference for the OW2 consortium, which is an open source foundation focusing on open source middleware components. OpenSocial aligns…
November 19th, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
(Cross posted on the Official Google Blog) Inspiration comes in many shapes and forms. For U.S. Marine Sgt. Winston Fiore, it was a news article about the International Children’s Surgical Foundation (ICSF) and Dr. Geoff Williams, who provides free f…
November 19th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Inspiration comes in many shapes and forms. For U.S. Marine Sgt. Winston Fiore, it was a news article about the International Children’s Surgical Foundation (ICSF) and Dr. Geoff Williams, who provides free facial-reconstructive surgeries for children…
November 19th, 2012 | by Katie Miller | published in Google Adwords
We know for many of you, the holiday season is the busiest and most important time of the year. So, there’s no better time to bring you some improvements in the AdWords interface that save you time and help you manage your campaigns more effectively.&n…
Supporting people with disabilities through outreach and accessibility tools
November 19th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Globally, there are approximately 285 million visually impaired people in the world—and each one of those people has networks of family and friends. Increasing the accessibility of products impacts not only the millions of people with disabilities, b…
November 19th, 2012 | by Ashley Chandler | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Posted by Reginaldo Barbosa, Manager of Acquisitions, Telecom and Technology, Leroy Merlin Brazil Editors note: Today we welcome guest blogger Reginaldo Barbosa, Manager of Acquisitions, Telecom and Technology for Leroy Merlin in Brazil. You may rememb…
ᎭᎴᎾ ᏗᏓᏴᎳᏛᏍᎩ ᎬᏗ Gmail ᏣᎳᎩ (Get started with Gmail in Cherokee)
November 19th, 2012 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Craig Cornelius (ᏇᎩ), Software Engineer
What happens when you put a Google engineer in a car with a member of the Cherokee Nation? Well, something we think is pretty amazing: Gmail in Cherokee, or ᏣᎳᎩ (pronounced “jaw la gee”), Gmail’s 57th language.
It was just coincidence that I, a Google engineer working on the internationalization of Google products, ended up carpooling back to San Francisco with Vance Blackfox, member of the Cherokee Nation (CN) from an event we’d both attended. But that coincidence kick-started a collaboration that would result in Google Web Search in Cherokee and, starting today, Gmail in Cherokee.
After a 2002 survey of the Oklahoma Cherokee population found that no one under 40 spoke conversational Cherokee, the Cherokee Nation saw an opportunity to use technology to encourage everyday use of the language among the younger generation. Vance connected me with the language technology department at the Cherokee Nation, and the Gmail team worked closely with their highly organized team of volunteers, which ranged from university students to Durbin Feeling–Cherokee living treasure and author of the Cherokee-English Dictionary. Together, we were able to find and implement the right words for hundreds of Gmail terms, from “inbox” (ᎧᏁᏌᎢᏱ) and “sign in” (ᏕᏣᏙᎥ ᎰᏪᎸᎦ) to “spam” (ᎤᏲᎢ).
Gmail in Cherokee and the Cherokee version of Google Web Search both include a virtual keyboard for typing the syllabary writing system invented by Sequoyah in the early 1800s. Now Cherokee students can easily contact their tribal elders, e.g., “Joseph wants to chat” (“ᏦᏏᏫ ᎤᏚᎵ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ”) and connect instantly. As Joseph Erb, Language Technologist at the Cherokee Nation put it, “Projects like these give more life to our language in our communities. It is not just about preserving our language and culture. It is about using our language each day and every day and continuing who we are as a people. And this give us that chance each time we check our email.”
So if you speak Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ) or know someone who does – or if you are just interested in learning more, you can switch to Cherokee in Settings.
November 19th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Thanksgiving is about sharing, giving thanks and connecting with family and friends. Yet, all too often we get caught up in the holiday rat race—the mad dash to the airport, the supermarket, the mall—and forget to take time out to enjoy the holiday…
November 19th, 2012 | by Google Affiliate Network | published in Google Affiliate Network
With the holiday season quickly approaching, the next few weeks are pivotal for driving sales through affiliate marketing. We’re excited to announce that we’ve made it even easier for publishers to quickly find and advertisers to easily share seasonal links through the Google Affiliate Network interface.
Finding seasonal links
If you’re a publisher, you can now easily find seasonal links to promote — just in time for the holiday rush. For example, click the link below to find available Black Friday links:
https://www.google.com/affiliatenetwork/viewlinks?atags=black_friday
This link will take you to the Links tab in your publisher account and automatically filter the results for links tagged for Black Friday. Advertisers are tagging additional links this week, so keep checking back to find the most updated list of Black Friday promotional links.
Advertisers have the capability of sharing these seasonal links with you directly via email. We hope this new feature, along with the structured promotions features launched earlier this month, helps you more quickly and easily find great advertiser offers.
Tagging and sharing seasonal links
If you’re an advertiser, you’ll find that it’s now really easy to tag links and share them with publishers.
To add seasonal tags to your links, Click the ‘Links’ tab, then ‘Browse all links’. Find the links you want to tag and check the box to the left of each link. Next, select the ‘Tag’ button at the top of the page, choose any appropriate seasonal tags, and click ‘Apply’.
It’s easy to share your newly-tagged links with publishers. Click ‘Share’ at the top of the page to get a link you can share with your joined publishers. Then, share the link via email with any publishers in your program so that they can easily view the seasonal links you just tagged.
On behalf of the engineering team, we want to wish you a happy holiday season. If there’s anything more we can do to help, please let us know in our Product forum.
Posted by:
Ali Pasha, Product Manager
November 16th, 2012 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
I’m back from Sydney and excited about the upcoming US Thanksgiving Holiday. Of course I’ll probably spend some of the weekend coding and making maps. If you’re like me, I think you’ll enjoy the video I have to share with you as inspiration fo…
November 16th, 2012 | by Kim | published in Google DoubleClick
In September we launched Multi-Channel Funnels with Attribution modeling for DFA, a powerful tool built into DFA which allows you to create and apply custom attribution models within the UI and in real-time. Since then, we’ve received feedback from a…
November 16th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
This year the Wikimedia Foundation selected nine students to work on new features and specific improvements to the software for Google Summer of Code. The students were mentored by experienced developers who helped them become part of the development c…