Update on United Airlines story
September 8th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product ManagerAggregators like Google News were today the subject of news – this time pertaining to a 2002 story regarding United Airlines. For those of you who are interested in the nuts and bolts of why this was ind…
OpenSocial – now with more Google data!
September 8th, 2008 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
Want to include Google Calendar events in your app? How about letting users interact with Blogger, Picasa, or YouTube? You can do all this and more by integrating with the Google data (GData) APIs. There is even a JavaScript client library so you ca…
Photo Collages!
September 8th, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Mike Clement, Software EngineerPicasa 3 (beta) features an entirely new and expanded collage maker that you can use to create pixel-perfect masterpieces suitable for printing or just sharing online. There are six different collage “themes” t…
Appy Trails
September 8th, 2008 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
If you’re reading this you probably go to college, can’t wait to get to college, or desperately wish you were still in college. You’re in the right place. Some of us on the Apps for Education team are in the “still wish we were in college” camp and hav…
Congratulations to Paul Unger!
September 8th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
A new gadget by Paul Unger is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: Pipes.Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)
September 8th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Name: PipesAuthor: Paul UngerDescription: A join-the-pipes time wasterMore information | Download gadgetEach week this blog features a recently added Google Desktop gadget that looks promising. If you’d like to see all new Desktop gadgets as they’re pu…
Test first is fun!
September 8th, 2008 | by niceredfrog | published in Google Testing
Posted by Philip ZembrodSo the Test-Driven-Development and Extreme-Programming people tell you you should write your tests even before you write the actual code. “Now this is taking things a bit too far,” you might think. “To the extreme, even. Why wou…
Chasing the perfect layout with AdSense for search
September 8th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
AdSense publisher Next Small Things has long understood that search is the entry point for users to find what they’re looking for on the web. In fact, the idea for CoolChaser.com, a MySpace layout creation and customization site (and Next Small Things’…
September 8th, 2008 | by Misko | published in Google Testing
By Miško HeveryPeople are good at turning concrete examples into generalization. The other way around, it does not work so well. So when I write about general concepts it is hard for people to know how to translate the general concept into concrete co…
Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time
September 8th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Punit Soni, Product ManagerToday, we announced that we’re launching an effort to give Internet users everywhere more tools to discover, explore, and celebrate much more of our journalistic heritage by digitizing archival newspapers and making…
Google Releases More Patches for MySQL
September 8th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Mark Callaghan, Software Engineering TeamDid you know that Google uses MySQL as part of its Ads system? As you can imagine, we demand a lot from this Open Source code base and so we have spent a fair amount of time enhancing it to work better in our…
September 8th, 2008 | by Roman Nurik, Android Developer Relations | published in Google Maps
Posted by Roman Nurik, Google Geo APIs Team
Hi all, your friendly neighborhood Geo blogger here with some exciting news! We’ve just launched a new Earth API Demo Gallery, based on the Maps API Demo Gallery, that provides a new way of browsing Earth AP…
September 6th, 2008 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
According to Google lore, our company founders didn’t really get along when they first met as Stanford graduate students in 1995. Larry was a 24-year-old University of Michigan alumnus on a weekend visit; Sergey, 23, was assigned to show him around cam…
New Gmail code base available to IE6 users
September 5th, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Users of Internet Explorer 6 can now access significant Gmail performance improvements as well as new features like colored labels, group chat, an updated contact manager, remote sign out and more.Editions impacted:Standard, Premier, Education, Team an…
Grant recipients helping victims of India floods
September 5th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Many of the non-profits our program are taking part in the relief efforts for the floods in northern India.We’d like to call attention to some of them so that you can get involved, offer support or learn more about the effects of the floods.Project Con…