November 9th, 2006 | by A Googler | published in Google Talk
Look who’s talking now!A few of us from the Google Talk and the orkut teams got together a while back and started teaching orkut how to talk. After all, orkut users are already a very social bunch — so we thought they might enjoy talking to each other…
For friendlier bulk uploading
November 8th, 2006 | by Google Base Blog | published in Google Merchant
By David Turco, Software EngineerWe’ve heard your feedback about bulk uploads and Google Base. Following both Ellen’s post on the homepage redesign and Naureen’s post about more frequent file uploads, we’ve released a redesigned bulk upload dashboard t…
A writer discovers Google Book Search
November 8th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Bethany Poole, Product Marketing ManagerRiffing off of Dan’s post last week about how Google Book Search is great for doing research, I wanted to pass along a story from an author who’s using Google Book Search to help write his next book.I w…
Switch your FTP blog to the new Blogger
November 8th, 2006 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Last week we added FTP publishing to the new Blogger in beta. Today we’re letting you switch your FTP-publishing blog from the current Blogger to the new Blogger in beta. If you’re eligible to switch your account (see restrictions), you’ll see a …
November 8th, 2006 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: Nick Weininger, Co-op EngineerMany of you have told us that it would be useful to be able to add Subscribed Links to your Custom Search Engines (CSEs). That way, you could include all sorts of real-time status data and helpful answers in you…
November 8th, 2006 | by Gavin | published in Google Checkout
Posted by Gavin Chan, Product Marketing ManagerWith the holiday season quickly approaching, we wanted to do something to say “thank you” to our merchants. To help out during this very busy shopping season, we are processing all of our merchants’ Google…
November 7th, 2006 | by Emma McKeithen | published in Google CPG
Posted by Rich Godwin, Senior Account ExecutiveWarning: If you keep reading, you’re going to enter a “time-suck” (and I mean that in the nicest way possible, in case any of the engineers who built it are reading this): Google Trends. The upside is that…
November 7th, 2006 | by Google Video team | published in Google Video
We’ve just rolled out several search improvements to help you find the videos you want to see quickly and easily. Let’s say you’re searching for mentos and diet coke videos and you want to see those with the highest ratings. Just select “sort by ratin…
A word on ad quality
November 7th, 2006 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We know that you’ve worked hard to create quality content for your sites, and that you look for the same quality in the ads you’re displaying. That’s why we’re happy to let you know about a change in AdWords that will improve the quality of ads…
System Maintenance – November 11
November 7th, 2006 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT on Saturday, November 11, 2006. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you may not be able to perform API operations during this maintenance p…
November 7th, 2006 | by Scott | published in Google Mac Blog
Posted by: Dave MacLachlan, Member of Technical Staff, Mac TeamPreviously we addressed the problem of optimizing around a shared resource. We came up with one solution, but it was kind of messy, and we wondered if there might be a better way. And now: …
November 6th, 2006 | by Kevin Smith | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by Kevin Smith, Partner Program ManagerNeed to extend the reach of your Google Search Appliance to even more systems? Want professional services for your Google enterprise products? Just curious about what our Google Enterprise Professional pa…
Looking ahead to 2007
November 6th, 2006 | by A Googler | published in Google CPG
Posted by Grace Ting, Account StrategistAbout 10 days ago, the three Google CPG teams in New York, Mountain View, and Chicago met in Chi-Town to plan for the upcoming year and discuss how we can best support CPG marketing. The big hitter for us in 2007…
November 6th, 2006 | by A Googler | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: Vrishali Wagle, Software EngineerLast week, Ethan Zuckerman wrote a great article explaining why Custom Search Engines would be so useful for communities such as the Global Voices network. He built a CSE to search over 3000 blogs from across…
November 6th, 2006 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
There are some pretty fantastic resources on the web for people who use Google Analytics, and those interested in learning more. We want to mention a few blogs on web analytics generally and on Google Analytics that we’ve been reading. We highly recomm…