August 25th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Just a reminder that the Design Your Dwelling competition is closing this Sunday, August 31st. If you haven’t submitted your model yet, start by visiting the site location in Google Earth. Each model must be uploaded to the Google 3D Warehouse and be …
Fall is webinar season
August 25th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
In the spirit of the back-to-school season, we have a very large curriculum of free upcoming advertising webinars to help you prepare, optimize, and expand your campaigns. Here’s a breakdown of the material:Subject: Website Optimizer – Test and enhance…
Uzaygezen: Multi-Dimensional Indexing with Hilbert Curves
August 25th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Daniel Aioanei, Dublin Engineering TeamI’m pleased to announce the initial release of the Open Source project Uzaygezen, a Java library specialised in multi-dimensional indexing based on Hilbert curves. For those who may be wondering about the orig…
August 25th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Name: U.S. Senator Search and ContactAuthor: Rosie OjoDescription: Search for U.S. senator informationMore information | Download gadgetEach week this blog features a recently added Google Desktop gadget that looks promising. If you’d like to see all n…
August 25th, 2008 | by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
Have you ever gone to a site, looked at the page and wondered, “how did they do that?” Since we launched our 2008 U.S. Election site I am getting lots of questions about that nifty little “page element” sitting in the center of the page. Everyone wants…
August 23rd, 2008 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
Elections in the US are coming, and the race is heating up. With Joe Biden just announced as the Democratic VP nominee, speculation is increasing about the Republican choice. To help you stay up to date on the latest election updates, we’ve set up a ne…
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August 22nd, 2008 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Since both tennis and table tennis are in the Olympics, perhaps you’re wondering: if there’s soccer, why not “table soccer?” Of course, we know table soccer by another name; and while foosball may not be an Olympic sport, we still cheered Nathan Johns…
A couple datastore updates
August 22nd, 2008 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
We’ve updated other parts of the system before, so it’s time for the datastore to ante up with its own improvements. There may not be any big surprises, but we still hope you’ll enjoy the new features we’ve included!
First up is batch writes. You can …
One account, multiple sites
August 22nd, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’d like to remind you that once you’ve been approved for AdSense, you can place the code from your account on any page that complies with our program policies. Simply generate new code and paste it onto your site — we don’t need to update your accou…
August 22nd, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Shawn Pearce, Open Source Team and Git DeveloperMany of you may remember our most recent episode of the Google Summer of Code™ podcast, Getting Giddy with Git. Now that we’re heading into the program home stretch, we’re back with an update on the …
August 22nd, 2008 | by Rich | published in Google CPG
People are watching hundreds of millions of videos a day on YouTube and uploading hundreds of thousands of videos daily. In fact, ten hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute. The distribution platform has democratized the ability of the aver…
August 22nd, 2008 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Dan Abbe, Book Search Support TeamHello again, and welcome to the Inside Google Book Search blog. We’ve been taking things slow lately, as summer slides by. But we’re not making excuses. Maybe while not blogging, we’ve been outside read…
Webinar wrap-up
August 22nd, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Last week we presented a TechSoup webinar (online seminar) that covered the basics of the Google Grants program, how to create effective Grants AdWords accounts and resources for managing your Grant.It was a fairly quick presentation (less than 1 hour)…
"The Promise of Municipal Broadband" & white spaces
August 22nd, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Derek Slater, Policy AnalystFree Press’ Craig Aaron has written an excellent article on the current state of municipal broadband in the United States. With the closing of Philadelphia’s city-wide Wi-Fi project and some similar networks start…
Plot Feeds is back
August 22nd, 2008 | by Google Finance Team | published in Google Finance
Posted by Ayan Mandal, Product ManagerAnd … we’re back. You can once again view blogs and plot feeds on Google Finance charts. Access to blogs provides a greater range of information than conventional news alone; plotting a particular feed lets you v…