October 9th, 2007 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Important Update: The Saturday, October 13th AdWords maintenance has been canceled. We’ll let you know when it has been rescheduled.On Saturday, October 13th, the AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT due to our re…
October 9th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamBrian Dunnington has taken some of the work done in the Dojo Offline Toolkit, and has created a new toolkit that has a lot of the same functionality, but it exists as one self-contained JavaScript file.This new Vortex l…
October 9th, 2007 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Congratulations to Frank Warren, whose 4th PostSecret book, A Lifetime of Secrets, comes out today and is climbing up the Amazon bestseller charts (it’s #50 as of this writing)!Take a look at its trailer:PostSecret is by far one of the most interesti…
October 9th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
UPDATE: The video units feature has been retired — however, you may wish to review the other revenue opportunities available for video content owners.AdSense isn’t just for ads anymore; it’s also a place to get video content for your site — and earn …
October 8th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Goranka Bjedov, Senior Test EngineerThis post is my best shot at explaining what I do, why I do it, and why I think it is the right thing to do. Performance testing is a category of testing that seems to evoke strong feelings in people: feeli…
October 8th, 2007 | by Panayiotis Mavrommatis | published in Google Online Security
Written by Chris Evans, Security TeamGoogle encourages its employees to contribute back to the open source community, and there is no exception in Google’s Security Team. Let’s look at some interesting open source vulnerabilities that were located and …
October 8th, 2007 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Each Premier Edition user account now includes 25 GB of mail storage in Gmail.Editions impacted:Premier EditionLanguages impacted:US EnglishHow to access what’s new:Sign up for or upgrade to Premier Edition, and sign in to Gmail. The email storage quo…
October 8th, 2007 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Teodor Filimon, Gadget DeveloperHow can a program help its users? Through the interface and the features it offers. And how can a program help its programmers? Many techniques are out there, but one stands out: object-oriented programming (OO…
October 8th, 2007 | by Derek Collison, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
The Google AJAX Feed API’s got a small addition today in the form of the Dynamic Feed Control.It is a control that expands on the base FeedControl and allows user’s to embed multiple feeds for convenient display on their webpage. It offers several layo…
October 8th, 2007 | by Graham | published in Google Blogger Buzz
October 15, a week from today, is Blog Action Day, and the theme this year is the environment. If you have a blog and want to join in, all you have to do is use that day to post something related to the environment, in whatever way, shape, or form yo…
October 8th, 2007 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Katharine Lu, Book Search Support TeamBack when I was in college, I decided to learn how to play the guitar. At the time, it seemed like the perfect hobby to take up – I was an English major taking poetry workshops and other classes related…
October 8th, 2007 | by Ríona MacNamara | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools Team Common feedback we hear from webmasters is that you want us to improve the freshness of the data in Webmaster Tools. Understood. 
We’ve increased the update frequency for your verified sites’ data, su…
October 8th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Ritika Sanghi, Software Engineer When was the last time you invited a non-orkutter to join your network? Can’t seem to remember? Well, for those of you whose friends are not all on orkut right now, we’ve stepped up ou…
October 8th, 2007 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Mike Herf, Picasa Engineering ManagerEvery piece of software has a couple of features that its designers think are pretty important. You can usually guess what those are simply by examining the user interface — the biggest, shiniest, and mos…
October 6th, 2007 | by Mendel | published in Google Desktop
Posted by Ryan Tabone, Product ManagerWe’ve often asked ourselves why Google Desktop Gadgets are confined to just the desktop and sidebar. With Google Desktop 5.5 Beta, we’ve decided to change that. In addition to improved Outlook search functionality,…