July 26th, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Alan Davidson, Senior Policy CounselYou (or at least the engineers among you) may have heard about Google’s Summer of Code. Based on our CEO’s recent schedule, this is looking more and more like Eric Schmidt’s Summer of Public Policy.As more…
July 26th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Shauna O’Brien, orkut Operations TeamThere are certain things that we all do every day to protect our privacy: lock our homes and cars when we exit, keep our bank codes secret, avoid offers of rides from strangers. These habits have become se…
July 26th, 2007 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
On Tuesday, July 24, we released some bug fixes that unfortunately prevented some advertisers from modifying campaigns that leverage the ‘position preference’ and ‘preferred cost bidding’ features. Our engineers diagnosed the issue yesterday a…
July 26th, 2007 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Michael Lancaster and Josh Estelle, Software EngineersWhenever we talk to university researchers, we hear a consistent message: they wish they had Google infrastructure. In pursuit of our company mission, we have built an elaborate set of sys…
July 26th, 2007 | by Alyssa | published in Google Checkout
Posted by Alyssa England, Associate Product Marketing Manager, Google CheckoutYou might remember the post we did a while ago about Google Product Search. One of our merchants, Golfballs.com, has started to use Google Product Search in addition to Googl…
July 26th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
When Amit Kumar co-founded MegaGames Forum in 1998, Google Inc. was being run from a Menlo Park garage and AdSense didn’t even exist yet. Fast-forward 9 years to 2007: Amit still runs MegaGames Forum just as a hobby, but he earns enough revenue throu…
July 26th, 2007 | by Alyssa | published in Google Checkout
Posted by Stephanie Bilodeau for the Google Checkout teamThousands of stores across the web already accept Google Checkout, and our Checkout family continues to grow. Starting this week, you can shop at drugstore.com (and Beauty.com) with Checkout too….
July 26th, 2007 | by KVOX | published in Google Testing
Posted by Harry Robinson, Software Engineer in TestLydia Ash and I, both Seattle Googlers, recently gave presentations at the second annual Conference of the Association for Software Testing (CAST) held in Bellevue, Washington, on July 9-11.CAST is an …
July 26th, 2007 | by Ramin Oskoui | published in Google CPG
Posted By: Emma McKeithen, Account ManagerThere’s some interesting new research from aQuantive’s Atlas Institute. A study conducted by Atlas in Q1 this year concluded that there’s huge value in advertising overlap — that is, running ads across multipl…
July 26th, 2007 | by David Bercovich | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by David Bercovich, Product Marketing ManagerWe launched the latest version of Google Earth Enterprise today, with a number of new features, including the ability to display enterprise search results (from say, the Google Search Appliance) on th…
July 26th, 2007 | by Googler | published in Google News
Posted by Frances Lewis, News Support TeamGot a question about Google News, or are you curious about how to start personalizing your News page to get the stories you care most about? It doesn’t matter if you’re an avid user or a life-long publisher…
July 26th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Nicole Lundblad, User Experience ResearcherKnowing how folks use our software is a big part of how we make decisions about what’s working, and what isn’t. If you’d like to weigh in, we invite you to participate in a user experience research s…
July 25th, 2007 | by Emma McKeithen | published in Google CPG
Posted By: Amy Chauvin, Account PlannerMany marketers are looking for alternatives to traditional marketing to create buzz around their brands. We’re not suggesting that CPG brands totally eliminate traditional marketing; using word-of-mouth tactics al…
July 25th, 2007 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Support Engineer (Google Desktop Team) For a resizable gadget, it’s often easiest to set the width or height of inner elements to 100%. That way when the view or outer element is resized, the inner elements adjust size accordingly….
July 25th, 2007 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Today there will be a brief processing delay. It is expected to last a few hours. You can still login and view your reports. Please be assured that your data continues to be collected and that no data will be lost. We expect everything to be update…