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Posted by Ellen Spertus, Research Scientist and Torsten Nelson, Software Engineer When orkut launched, we had no idea that scrapbooks would be the primary way members would interact. Billions of scraps later, we’ve learned that scraps are a huge hit, …

Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistWhen it comes to rendering their models for presentation, a lot of designers make a beeline for photorealism. That’s all fine and well, but there are definitely times (and clients) which call for decidedly soft…

Posted by Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy CounselPrivacy is a global issue which knows no borders. And as policymakers around the world grapple with how best to protect consumers’ privacy online, I’m joining other privacy stakeholders at a European Par…

Posted by Emma McKeithen, Account ManagerIt’s a holiday weekend for some of us and thus a good time to catch up on laundry, errands, and the Whopper Freakout. You’ve probably seen the commercial – on track to become one of the best-recalled ads of the…

You may have seen our recent post about the upcoming changes to referrals promoting AdSense. Since we made this announcement, we’ve received a number of responses about the program being dependent on the location of the referring publisher. We’ve caref…

We expected a lot of attention when we launched the early look of the Android SDK, and that’s certainly what we got! Developers haven’t been shy in speaking their minds on our Discussion Groups, and we’ve been listening. We’ve also been hard at work …

Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Global Communications and Public AffairsLast night we welcomed a veritable who’s who of Washington — including Members of Congress, think tankers, tech policy geeks, and journalists — to take the wraps off G…

Posted by Yannick Stucki, Gadget DeveloperToo many gadgets look bad for a few seconds after they start. This problem is especially noticeable when the sidebar (and the gadgets within it) first loads. An all-too-common example: the label that initially …

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamToday we released a minor update to the Google Mashup Editor.More fixes paging so that 250 items can be displayed per pageFixes to the compiler so that it no longer optimizes tags. This fixes many bugs …

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamToday we released a minor update to the Google Mashup Editor.More fixes paging so that 250 items can be displayed per pageFixes to the compiler so that it no longer optimizes tags. This fixes many bugs …

By Scott Knaster, Google Mac TeamIt’s the last day — the crowds are finally starting to thin, booths are being packed up, and we give away a Vespa (at 3:30, in the Google booth) — and then everybody heads home to sleep for a long, long time. Macworld…

Posted by Lawrence Chang, Product Marketing Manager, Google mobile teamAt the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco this week, the Google mobile team joined other Googlers from the Geo, YouTube, and Mac teams at the Google booth, space #1268, i…

Posted by Michał Cierniak, Software Engineer, Search Quality

Have you ever clipped text from a site and later found that the link Google Notebook associated with it takes you back to a page that doesn’t have your clipped content anymore? I know I have. Luckily, there’s a new feature in Notebook to help you see your note in its original context. In the newly released version of the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, if you clip part of a page that supports the hAtom standard, we will save the correct permalink and title for the text you clipped.

Say you’re reading the Bird Lovers Only Rescue blog and notice the post from 5 January 2008 announcing a PBS Nature Series called Parrots in The Land Of Oz. You keep a notebook on TV shows about birds, so you select the text describing the show and clip it into Google Notebook. If you did this with an older version of Notebook, you would see the clipped text with the title “Bird Lovers Only Rescue” and http://birdloversonly.blogspot.com as the URL. But when you navigated back to this page later, you would only see the most recent posts, not the one you were trying to save. The post you wanted would be hiding somewhere in the site. But the new Toolbar with Notebook helps make sure your notes take you back to the right place.

Please note this feature only works on web pages that support hAtom and the number of sites that use this standard is limited. Here’s a a list of sites that support hAtom, including popular news sources like People Magazine and numerous blogs. The Blogger platform supports hAtom for all blogs that use the new templating system.

We hope that more and more sites will support hAtom and other microformats in the future. If you want to modify your blog’s template just enough to make Google Notebook find the permalink info, you can follow my instructions, which are intended for Blogger. If you know enough about HTML to customize your blog’s template, you should be able to figure out how to apply them to other blogging software.

Posted by Michał Cierniak, Software Engineer, Search QualityHave you ever clipped text from a site and later found that the link Google Notebook associated with it takes you back to a page that doesn’t have your clipped content anymore? I know I have….

I’m excited to announce that we’ve just launched an updated version of ConversionUniversity.com, now available in all 25 Google Analytics supported languages. From help on optimizing your AdWords ROI to Google Website Optimizer testing strategies, Conv…