AdWords system maintenance on October 20th
October 17th, 2007 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
The routine AdWords system maintenance originally scheduled for October 13th, has been rescheduled to occur this coming Saturday, October 20th. The AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT on that day. While you won’t…
October 17th, 2007 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Cătălin Avram, Intern (Google Desktop Team)As a Hall of Famer turned Google Desktop intern, I want to introduce the just-released Time Around the World gadget. This was one of the awesome projects I got to work on during a great summer inte…
October 17th, 2007 | by Katie Jacobs Stanton | published in Google Finance
Posted Matthew Simmons, Market Data GnomeWe’re pleased to announce the availability of pricing data for Australian (ASX) and New Zealand (NZX) listings on Google Finance. We’ve always had descriptive data and news for these listings — now we have all …
October 17th, 2007 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Esther Onega, On-Site Google Book Project (GBP) Manager, University of VirginiaSince the University of Virginia Library became a partner in Google Book Search, we’ve gotten lots of questions from staff and community members about the project….
October 17th, 2007 | by JR | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Zach Lloyd, Software Engineer – Google spreadsheetsI track a lot of work related tasks on spreadsheets that are shared with other engineers, and I often like to know if anyone has updated them while I’m away from my computer. Until now, th…
100 Photos in your orkut album!
October 17th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Natalie Schwartz, Associate Product Marketing ManagerSeveral weeks ago, we announced that we’d expanded the orkut album size to 25 pictures. And last week, we quietly launched double the space, and now you can have up to 100 photos in your or…
Can science, technology and innovation help restore harmony with nature?
October 16th, 2007 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Frank Rijsberman, Director of Water and Climate Adaptation Initiatives, Google.org I write from Kyoto, shrine to Japanese history and culture with eight world heritage sites, shrine to science and technology with 37 universities and colleges,…
Deadline for Acumen Fund Fellowship
October 16th, 2007 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Chris Walker, Acumen Fund FellowInterested in joining a diverse group of young leaders from around the world who are dedicated to reducing poverty? Want to learn about the role the private sector can play in international development? Curio…
Meet the AdWords Tech B2B team in NYC
October 16th, 2007 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
If you’re a Business to Business (B2B) advertiser, one of your biggest marketing challenges may be finding the right leads and filtering out consumer traffic. The AdWords Tech B2B team knows this isn’t always easy, and they’re happy to help. The team w…
AdSense Publisher Stories: Askthebuilder.com
October 16th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Askthebuilder.com’s Tim Carter is one publisher who’s been able to do great things with AdSense. Here’s his story on moving from building houses to building websites and how AdSense has helped him along the way.The AdSense Story ContestNow that you’ve …
Exciting Announcements at eMetrics Today
October 16th, 2007 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Analytics
Today at the eMetrics Summit in Washington, D.C. Brett Crosby announced several Google Analytics features that will be rolled out over the coming weeks. Here’s a rundown.First, you’ll be able to use Google Analytics to track site search activity. Simpl…
Overview of Infrastructure Testing
October 16th, 2007 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Marc Kaplan, Test Engineering LeadAt Google, we have infrastructure that is shared between many projects. This infrastructure creates a situation where we have a many dependencies in terms of build requirements, but also in terms of test requ…
October 15th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Joanne McKinley, Gmail mobile teamAccessing Gmail on my phone has become indispensable to me. So often, I need to do things like search through my archive to find the name of that coffee shop where I’m going to meet a friend, or to send a qui…
New Mac Uploaders released
October 15th, 2007 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Jason Cook, Product Marketing ManagerEarlier today, our Mac team released version 1.1 of the Picasa Web Albums Uploaders. For Mac users, these tools provide the fastest, easiest way to share photos on Picasa Web Albums. Both an iPhoto plugin …
Sigurd Magnusson of SilverStripe on open source and the Summer of Code
October 15th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsSigurd Magnusson, co-founder of the SilverStripe open source CMS platform, was in town for the mentor summit that wrapped up the Summer of Code.We used that opportunity to grab him, put him in a Tiki hut, and ch…