August 26th, 2008 | by Rich | published in Google CPG
We are often asked and have long wondered “What impact does a search result have on branding for cpg?” Our answer has often been….vague. To uncover the answer we recently commissioned a study with Media Screen. Search is a known winner for direct res…
August 26th, 2008 | by Arne Roomann-Kurrik | published in Google OpenSocial
To anyone browsing the list of launched partners, it’s clear that OpenSocial is a truly global initiative. In Europe, there’s a lot of activity in the OpenSocial developer community. Take for example the Netherlands. A few weeks ago, Hyves and Google j…
August 26th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
We’re very excited to announce that Google SketchUp users now have greater access to free building performance simulation tools. IES (Integrated Environmental Solutions) has just released a free plugin, the IES VE SketchUp plugin (available for Windows…
August 26th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)How many engineers does it take to write a development article? Apparently three.Vishwajith Krishnamurthy, Paneendra Ba, and I joined forces to program a client-server application u…
August 26th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
If you regularly read our blog, we hope you’re building a solid understanding of the Grants program. One great way to further develop your expertise and share your knowledge is to use the Grants Help Group, where non-profits post questions and share in…
August 26th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
We’d like to give you a heads-up that on September 2nd, all reports in your AdWords Report Center created over six months ago (before March 2nd, 2008) will be deleted. We’re clearing out old reports to make room for new ones. But, don’t worry! All of y…
August 26th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
My reconnaissance of the Beijing Olympic Time Trial all started in December 2007. My coach Jim Miller and I traveled to Beijing, China to not only check out and ride the Time Trial course, and to experience the heavily publicized pollution problem firs…
August 26th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
As many of you know, the 2008 U.S. political conventions–two weeks of party business that begins for the Democrats in Denver today, and for the Republicans in Minneapolis next week–marks the beginning of the general election season. To help you stay …
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August 26th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)Desktop gadget development articles have moved to their rightful place on code.google.com:http://code.google.com/apis/desktop/articles/If you’ve written an article, please check to s…
August 26th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Back in March, we announced the beta release of Google Ad Manager, our hosted ad serving and management solution for publishers with smaller direct sales teams. Today, we are pleased to announce general availability of the product — no invitation req…
August 26th, 2008 | by Ali Pasha | published in Google Code
By Hillel Maoz, Google Visualization TeamWe often forget, but the simple table is a visualization too. In fact, all of our visualizations are based on the DataTable structure – a table itself.In order to make this most basic visualization more appeali…
August 25th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
A lot of map mashups out there have country-wide or world-wide content. That’s awesome because it means there’s something for everyone. What’s not so awesome is that it means that when I get to the map, I often hav…
August 25th, 2008 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
Earlier this week, we released a beta of the Android SDK. In the accompanying post, I mentioned that we had to remove some APIs from the platform for Android 1.0, and as a result they don’t appear in the 0.9 beta SDK, and won’t appear in 1.0-compatibl…
August 25th, 2008 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Website Optimizer
Last week at SES San Jose, Bryan Eisenberg of FutureNow (one of our Authorized Consultants) released Always Be Testing, his book about website optimization. This Wednesday you can hear Bryan speak in a free, one-hour webinar. And our product manager fo…
August 25th, 2008 | by Stephanie Liu | published in Youtube API
Posted by Jeff Fisher & Stephanie Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools Team We meet people at conferences and events all the time (just recently, at the Google Dance) who are just looking for a quick YouTube fix — something easy to drop into their websit…