October 18th, 2007 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Jeff Walz and Kevin McCurleyThe world’s research and educational infrastructures are tightly intertwined. Research universities enable students to participate in research activities, and research contributes to the vitality of the educationa…
Blast from the past
October 18th, 2007 | by Sahala Swenson | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Sahala Swenson, Webmaster Tools TeamAs you know, the queries used to find your website in search results can change over time. Your website content changes, as do the needs of all the busy searchers out there. Whether the queries associated …
October 18th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistWe just received a note from our friend Clark Bremer of Northern Lights Timber Framing. It seems that lots of timber frame builders are using SketchUp to help them figure things out and sell projects to clients…
Scheduled maintenance on October 22
October 18th, 2007 | by Alyssa | published in Google Checkout
Posted by Don Faul, Manager, Google Checkout OperationsOn Monday, October 22, at 9:00 pm PDT (Tuesday, October 23, at 5:00 am BST for merchants in the UK), Google Checkout will be unavailable for approximately 30-90 minutes as we conduct server mainten…
October 18th, 2007 | by Mickey Kataria, Google Sydney | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Mickey Kataria, Google ZürichThe Sitemaps team is continuing its trend of extending the Sitemap Protocol for specific products and content types. Our latest work with the Google Code Search team now enables you to create Sitemaps that cont…
October 18th, 2007 | by Tom Stocky | published in Google Code
By Bram Moolenaar, Software EngineerWe’ve heard from a number of site owners who want to make sure their public source code is searchable via Google Code Search. To help with that, we extended the Sitemap Protocol to support code files. This makes it p…
Webmasters can now provide feedback on Sitelinks
October 18th, 2007 | by Liza Ma | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Stacey Kuznetsov, Search QualitySitelinks are extra links that appear below some search results in Google. They serve as shortcuts to help users quickly navigate to the important pages on your site.Selecting pages to appear as sitelinks is a…
Your feedback at work
October 18th, 2007 | by Alyssa | published in Google Checkout
Posted by Prem Ramaswami, Product ManagerWe pay close attention to the feedback we get from merchants in discussion boards, blogs, and email, and we are always working to improve Checkout in response.The most recent example: today we launched a new rep…
Hit for Six
October 18th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamReto Meier, author of Earthquake and MyTravelMap, has outdone himself once again with his newest mashup Hit for Six: The Ultimate Cricket Mashup. This is a really impressive Cricket mashup that exemplif…
New Reports Functionality
October 18th, 2007 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
Aaron Karp, AdWords API TeamVersion 11 of the AdWords API includes a significant overhaul to the way you schedule reports and the data you are able to retrieve. In the reconfigured Report Service, you now have access to most of the report types and col…
October 17th, 2007 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Code
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLast weekend, Google hosted the first Joomla!Day to be held in New York City. We had around 80 users and developers join us to discuss everything from the GPL to cool new features added to the project’s latest relea…
October 17th, 2007 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
Google Spreadsheet users can now do conditional formatting, which automatically changes the format of a cell based on the cell’s contents. Google Spreadsheets also now lets users hide columns and rows.Editions impacted:Standard, Premier, Education and…
October 17th, 2007 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
Users can now sign in and view documents and spreadsheets from their mobile devices, including the iPhone.Editions impacted:Standard, Premier, Education and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted:US EnglishHow to access what’s new:From your mobile phone’s …
AdWords Downtime, October 20th
October 17th, 2007 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We’ve rescheduled this month’s system maintenance for Saturday from approximately 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT. You won’t be able to access AdWords or the API specifically during this period, but your ads will continue to run as normal.— Brian Kennish, …
Monster Mash
October 17th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Jason Cooper, Google Mashup Editor TeamThe leaves turn color and fall… spooky cackles pierce the cold, dark night as a faint howl echoes in the distance, carried on a biting wind. This can only mean one thing — Halloween is nearly upon us …