Plant a Seed, Watch It Grow: Improvements to GeoServer
August 16th, 2007 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Code
By Chris Holmes, The Open Planning ProjectLast year, Google’s Open Source Programs Office funded the GeoServer Project to add support to output data to Google Earth. In the venture capital world, there is a notion of ‘seed funding’: putting capital int…
How to YouTube
August 16th, 2007 | by Ramin Oskoui | published in Google CPG
By: Rich Godwin, CPG Team LeadYouTube continues to evolve and expand in all sorts of interesting ways.We’ve been talking for a while about how do it yourself and “how to” videos are taking off, allowing individuals to share their expertise in various s…
August 16th, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselI’ve written a lot lately about the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction, but there’s another spectrum-related proceeding at the FCC that also holds promise for expanding Internet access to more…
Google Notebook can help with your research
August 16th, 2007 | by Design Ninja | published in Google Finance
Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance designerWhen we study how people make and gather notes when researching companies online, almost everyone tends to use a word processor, a spreadsheet, or (sadly) scraps of paper. Whatever they use, there seems to…
Abdul’s Summer Intern Testimonial
August 15th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Patrick Copeland, Test Engineering DirectorWith intern season coming to a close, we wanted to share a testimonial from one of the 90 interns who joined us in Test Engineering this summer. This one is from a Software Engineer in Test who worke…
It’s that time – SES San Jose
August 15th, 2007 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
We love the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, which happens next week from August 20th to 23rd. It’s a cutting edge conference about all things online and it’s right in our backyard. Lots of Googlers will be in attendance, from engineers…
Happy blogday to us
August 15th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Today, we celebrate the second birthday of Inside AdSense. Surprised it’s been two years already? So are we -– but not as surprised as we were last year, when we got so busy with Optimization Month that we neglected to commemorate it at all. (But can…
New robots.txt feature and REP Meta Tags
August 15th, 2007 | by John Blackburn | published in Google Webmaster Central
Posted by John Blackburn, Webmaster Tools and Matt Dougherty, Search Quality We’ve improved Webmaster Central’s robots.txt analysis tool to recognize Sitemap declarations and relative URLs. Earlier versions weren’t aware of Sitemaps at all, and unders…
Animation in desktop gadgets
August 15th, 2007 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Bijoy Thangaraj R, Gadget DeveloperIt has been more than a year since I started developing Google Desktop gadgets, and I still have the same enthusiasm I did then, mainly because of the endless capabilities offered by the continuously improvi…
August 15th, 2007 | by Scott | published in Google Mac Blog
by Greg Robbins, Mac Software EngineerThe collection of Google Data APIs continue to grow, and the Google Data APIs Objective-C Client Library is growing too. If you’re a Mac software developer, you’ll find that today’s release of version 1.2 of the li…
Happy Independence Day, India!
August 14th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by the orkut TeamAs India completes 60 glorious years of Independence, the orkut team would like to congratulate and thank you for participating in the orkut Independence Day polls.It certainly has been interesting to hear all your viewpoints, a…
August 14th, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Rishi Jaitly, Policy Analyst – Google IndiaTwo days ago, India’s Ministry of Tourism commemorated Independence Day by announcing the creation of a brand channel on YouTube. The channel, which promotes its “Incredible India” campaign, feature…
Google AJAX API loader
August 14th, 2007 | by Ali Pasha, Product Manager | published in Google Ajax API
Post by Ali Pasha, Product ManagerOver the last few months, many of you provided input requesting that we take an active role in addressing namespace clutter in our JavaScript based APIs. Based on your feedback, this morning we updated the documentatio…
Your success stories wanted
August 14th, 2007 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
We have several case studies on the Google Analytics website that show varied real world examples of Google Analytics use. And recently, the AdWords team put together a great new case study video (below) with furniture and accessories company Carolina …
August 14th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Bill Kee, Gmail TeamJust a quick update to let you know we’ve extended the deadline for entries to our Gmail collaborative video to this Friday, August 17th. We’ve received a bunch of requests to extend the deadline, so we wanted to give pe…