September 7th, 2007 | by Katie Jacobs Stanton | published in Google Finance
Posted by Marianne Berkovich, User Experience Researcher, Google FinanceI’ve recently joined the Google Finance team as a user experience researcher. My role is to observe, talk with, and otherwise hang out with people using Google Finance. Simply put,…
Allowed and clear
September 7th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’ve learned through your feedback that some AdSense publishers are concerned about potentially malicious behavior on the web, such as having their ad code stolen, to be placed on an inappropriate site. To give you more control and security concerning…
September 7th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Bill Kee, Associate Product Marketing ManagerHere are five more entries in my list of little-known features begun last week:5. Smart links on the rightWhen you get an email that references an address, look to the right and you’ll probably see…
Weekly Google Code Roundup: Learning to Remember The Milk offline, flying over Earth, and searching your feeds
September 7th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsOn the back of the stream of developer releases last week, we had some interesting activity in the community, and from our own product teams.Omar Kilani, of the Remember The Milk team, did a fantastic, thorough …
Giving buyers more insight into Checkout orders
September 7th, 2007 | by A Googler | published in Google Checkout
Posted by Kyle Harrison, Product Manager, Google Checkout TeamOne of the highest goals of our seller team is to offer store partners the flexibility and tools they need to serve their customers. Starting this week, merchants based in the U.S. will have…
RSS gadget and tutorial
September 7th, 2007 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Support Engineer (Google Desktop Team)We’ve released a new SDK that introduces the RSS template gadget. By modifying this sample gadget, you can create an RSS feed reader gadget within minutes. Being the programmers we are, we coul…
More feedback from Google Interns
September 6th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Patrick Copeland, Test Engineering Director Here’s some unsolicited feedback from Kurt Kluever who ended up on his school’s web page (Rochester Institute of Technology). While he was at Google this summer he tested JotSpot. Kurt’s project in…
Webmaster Central gets a new look
September 6th, 2007 | by David Sha, Webmaster Tools Team | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by David Sha, Webmaster Tools TeamWe launched Webmaster Central back in August 2006, with a goal of creating a place for you to learn more about Google’s crawling and indexing of websites, and to offer tools for submitting sitemaps and other co…
Mark Stahl on GData
September 6th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google Code
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Data APIs TeamOur fearless tech lead, Mark Stahl, sat down with Google Code’s Dion Almaer to talk about GData. Checkout the Podcast and voice your thoughts in our developer forum.
Using the Communication API
September 6th, 2007 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Jeremy Glassenberg, Gadget DeveloperI chose to create my first gadget specifically for Google Desktop when I learned of its Communication API. This easy-to-use system allowed me to turn one of my old programs into a multi-player game with lit…
September 6th, 2007 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Bethany Poole, Product Marketing ManagerMy apartment is kind of cluttered, and my book collection is no exception. Which means I sometimes have a hard time finding the book I’m looking for. Take last weekend, for example, when I found myself …
Dive into the meme pool with Google Book Search
September 6th, 2007 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Bill Schilit & Okan Kolak, Research ScientistsWe’ve been working on ways to help you dive in and explore interesting ideas and connections in books. Today we’re pleased to announce Popular Passages, a way to follow the literary memes* tha…
Share and enjoy
September 6th, 2007 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Manas Tungare, Intern”Share and Enjoy”: It’s not just the slogan of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation in my favorite 5-book trilogy by Douglas Adams; it’s also a good way to describe a new feature in Google Book Search.When Google began scan…
September 6th, 2007 | by Mihai Parparita | published in Google Reader
Here’s a search box:
Doesn’t seem all that special, does it? Most Google sites have it. But let’s look at where it is:
That’s right, search is finally in Google Reader. Now you can find that that apricot recipe you came across a few months ago an…
September 5th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Kevn Systrm, Gmail TeamRecently, the Internet has been abuzz over a new term: ‘bacn’ – with the requisite missing vowel – which is pronounced, you guessed it, “bacon.” Wikipedia defines it as: “electronic messages which have been subscribed…