July 19th, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by John Burchett, State Policy CounselI’m excited about a new partnership that Google announced yesterday with the State of Michigan — for two reasons. Not only will this partnership help make the online information and services provided by th…
Tip: Use the gadget debug console
July 18th, 2007 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Omar Khan, Software Engineer (Google Desktop Team)You can find gadget debug consoles in two places: inside the Gadget Designer (sdk\api\tools\designer_en.exe) and as a standalone application (sdk\api\tools\gdpconsole.exe). Using a debug conso…
Message Center: Let us communicate with you about your site
July 18th, 2007 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Maile OhyeToday we’re launching our Message Center, a new way for webmasters to receive personalized information from Google in our webmaster console. Should we need to contact you, you’ll see a notification in your Webmaster Tools dashboard…
Google Print Ads now available to AdWords advertisers
July 18th, 2007 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
We’re very excited to announce the availability of Google Print Ads™ in U.S. AdWords accounts. To introduce you to Google Print Ads, here’s Andrew Chang from the Print Ads team:Google Print Ads enables advertisers and agencies of all sizes to easily …
July 18th, 2007 | by Googler | published in Google News
Posted by Tanya Keen, News Support TeamHow do you keep thousands of Google News publishers informed about getting their content included in Google News? In September 2006 we launched our first version of a Help Center for Publishers. Since then, Google…
What’s new in the world of invalid clicks
July 18th, 2007 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
AdWords is a product that’s constantly evolving. To help keep you up-to-date, we like to check-in with individual product teams to see what they’re up to. This time around, I got an update from the Click Quality team, a group of folks dedicated to …
Google SketchUp For Dummies is out
July 18th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Shameless AuthorIf you’ve ever written a book, you know what it feels like to see it sitting on a bookstore shelf for the first time. A few days ago, I got to feel that way, too — I almost started dancing right in the middle of…
Build Your Campus in 3D winners announced
July 18th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Allyson McDuffie, SketchUp for EducationThe results are in for the winners of the Build Your Campus in 3D Competition. The judges chose 7 teams from among the dozens who submitted more than 4000 buildings from higher education institutions al…
July 17th, 2007 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
With AdWords, you can target your campaigns to show only to potential customers in specific countries, regions, or cities. And since we show ads based on a user’s internet protocol (IP) address, you may not see your ad if you don’t target your own geog…
We’re back … again.
July 17th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamThings should be functioning normally now. Let us know if you are having any issues. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks for Making Us #1!
July 17th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Manu Rekhi, orkut India Product ManagerWe Googlers tend to take a lot of pride in our cubes, decorating them with photos, souvenirs from trips, stuffed animals, and other fun stuff. Recently the orkut India team received a very exciting deliv…
July 17th, 2007 | by Katie Jacobs Stanton | published in Google Finance
Posted by Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group Product Manager, Google FinanceA core tenet of Google is to “focus on the user and all else will follow.” The Google Finance team shares this view and as such, we spend a lot of time conducting user research, meeti…
July 17th, 2007 | by Google Base Blog | published in Google Merchant
By: Jessica Behling, Google Base SupportWe’re currently conducting scheduled maintenance on the Google Base site and expect maintenance to continue through Wednesday, July 18th. During this time, you’ll be unable to register a new bulk upload file or u…
July 17th, 2007 | by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
The AJAX Feed API makes it easy to display RSS and Atom feeds on any web page. Unfortunately, its not always quite as easy to find the feed URL of the feed that you wanted. To help with discovering and finding feeds, today we launched two additional me…
Artist uses Checkout for international sales
July 17th, 2007 | by Alyssa | published in Google Checkout
Posted by Alyssa England, Associate Product Marketing ManagerWhile most people know that Checkout helps retailers sell more, it can help artists too. For instance, a well-known spray can artist called Vulcan sells his art using Google Checkout. He told…