July 7th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsOne of the core pieces of infrastructure at Google is something called Protocol Buffers. We are really pleased to be open sourcing the system, but what are these buffers?Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficien…
July 7th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Erwin D’Souza, Gmail Engineer Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters. Email that, I’m sure, you don’t always want other people to see. We understand how important your Gmail accounts are…
July 7th, 2008 | by mrw | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Meredith Whittaker, Program ManagerReviewing and revisingMy colleague, and one of Docs’ marketing managers, Andrew Chang, emailed me the other day, thrilled to have discovered an incredibly incisive post covering a number of ways to leave fe…
July 7th, 2008 | by Kate Pacher | published in Google TV Ads Blog
The back-to-school season is just around the corner. To help you prepare, we’re hosting two free webinars specifically for retailers looking to take advantage of the back-to-school rush.These sessions will provide industry information and insights abou…
Global Voices speak to the opportunities and risks of online speech
July 7th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Silvia Fukuoka, European Policy Analyst – LondonWe are passionate about protecting the Internet as a platform for free expression, and recently we helped send thirteen bloggers and activists from around the world to a forum where they discuss…
Google Test: Come Try Our Google C++ Testing Framework
July 4th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Zhanyong Wan, Software Engineer – Testing Technology TeamWe Googlers are quite excited about testing, but we’re even more excited to share the tools we’ve created with the community. We’ve Open Sourced our Google C++ Testing Framework, Google Test,…
A privacy link on Google.com
July 3rd, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Pablo Chavez, Senior Policy CounselGoogle values our users’ privacy first and foremost. Trust is the basis of everything we do, so we want users to be familiar and comfortable with the integrity and care we give their personal data. So, …
Earning revenue from YouTube videos just got easier
July 3rd, 2008 | 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.We’d like to let you know about two recent improvements to video units that make them more easy and a…
Announcing: New Google C++ Testing Framework
July 3rd, 2008 | by niceredfrog | published in Google Testing
Posted by Zhanyong Wan, Software EngineerWe all know the importance of writing automated tests to cover our code. To make it easier for everyone to write good C++ tests, today we have open-sourced Google C++ Testing Framework (Google Test for short), a…
Precipitate: search your local and online docs
July 3rd, 2008 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By Stuart Morgan, Google Mac TeamIf you’re like me, some of your information is in the cloud and some is on your machine, and you don’t always remember what is where. That can make it frustrating when you try to use your favorite local search tool to f…
July 3rd, 2008 | by Michael Weiss-Malik | published in Google Maps
Hi. This is Craig Johnston and Brian Hull of Sudjam, LLC, the company hosting and developing the new online presence for the band Nine Inch Nails. This guest blog entry will cover how we went about creating a Google Earth representation of downloads fo…
July 3rd, 2008 | by Stephanie Liu | published in Youtube API
Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs & Tools TeamIf you’ve been following the progress of the Google Data APIs .NET client library, you may already know that we have just released version 1.2.1.0. This is good news for YouTube developers, as it fini…
July 3rd, 2008 | by LM | published in Google Analytics
Since the announcements of Google Trends for Websites and Google Ad Planner last week, we’ve gotten lots of interest from agencies and advertisers excited about the opportunity to expand their media plans to sites that they might have overlooked before…
July 3rd, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Posted by Kristie, The Google Grants TeamIn reading through The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently, I came across an interesting article that I thought I would share. This article, by Elizabeth Schwinn, discussed results from a survey on direct mail, c…
July 3rd, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, SketchUp EvangelistGoogle SketchUp 3D Basecamp 2008 was a blast, but only a little over 300 people were able to attend in person. Luckily, we recorded almost all of the sessions, so now anyone with a computer and an internet con…