Using Google Apps in the workplace
September 5th, 2008 | by Serena Satyasai, Google Apps Marketing | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Thanks to you, Google Apps has grown in numbers of users and diversity of products. We’re encouraged by the stories you’ve sent us on how you’re using Google Apps to change the way you do business, save money for your company and improve service to…
New Gmail code base now for IE6 too
September 5th, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Jon Perlow, Gmail engineerLast October, we launched a rewritten code base for the Gmail user interface to Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 users. Since then, we’ve added support for Safari 3 and Firefox 3 and improved performance in other br…
Workin’ it on all browsers
September 5th, 2008 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
To web surfers, Google Chrome is a quick, exciting new browser. As webmasters, it’s a good reminder that regardless of the browser your visitors use to access your site—Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, etc.—browser compatibility i…
Relating AdSense to AdWords
September 5th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We think it’s important for all publishers, both new and veteran, to understand the role they play in our ad network ecosystem. While AdSense is designed for publishers to monetize their websites with Google ads, it’s also designed to extend the reach …
Second Annual LLVM Developers’ Meeting
September 5th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Ted Kremenek, LLVM DeveloperAt the beginning of August 2008 we had the second annual Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) Developers’ Meeting at Apple’s main campus in Cupertino, California, USA. LLVM is a collection of libraries and tools that make it …
September 5th, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Ping Hsin Chen, Software EngineerHave you ever wondered what types of snapshots are being shared on Picasa Web Albums by other users? Or have you ever felt like taking a break to browse through fascinating and beautiful photos from far away?…
September 5th, 2008 | by Kate Pacher | published in Google TV Ads Blog
Newspaper readers actively respond to ads they see in their newspapers; this is no secret. But how can you make sure you have the best ad to catch a reader’s eye?At Google, we’ve developed a set of guidelines to help you create an effective print ad….
September 5th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs EngineerIf you have a listbox or combobox that displays text strings, consider using methods such as appendString() and removeString() instead of appending item elements. Read the 5.5 release notes to see the ava…
Tools for tracking hurricane season
September 5th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Hurricane Hanna is fast approaching the U.S. East Coast with another hurricane, Ike, hot on her heels. To be sure, the 2008 hurricane season, covering the Atlantic basin and the Eastern and mid-Pacific areas, is in full swing. To help keep track of the…
Tip of the week: Postcards from Google Earth
September 4th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Let’s say you are on vacation in Paris and you want your friends to be able to see and interact with all the beautiful sights of the City of Lights. A regular postcard is good, but you know you can do better. So open up Google Earth, search for ‘Eiffe…
September 4th, 2008 | by dastels | published in Google Testing
When writing a unit test, it is tempting to exercise many scenarios by writing a data-driven test. For example, to test the function IsWord, you could write (ARRAYSIZE is a macro that returns the number of elements in an array):const struct {const char…
"Chrome" now showing as browser type
September 4th, 2008 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Google Analytics is now showing “Chrome” as a browser type in your reports! All current and future visits will be labeled as such.Over the next few days, the visits from Google Chrome since its beta launch on Tuesday will be identified and updated to c…
September 4th, 2008 | by kushal | published in Google Notebook
Posted by Nick Santos, Software Engineer, Google NotebookThere’s been a lot of excitement about Google Chrome, Google’s fast and clean new web browser. But you may have noticed that it’s missing a way to clip to Google Notebook! Oh noes! Luckily, you c…
September 4th, 2008 | by kushal | published in Google Notebook
Posted by Nick Santos, Software Engineer, Google NotebookThere’s been a lot of excitement about Google Chrome, Google’s fast and clean new web browser. But you may have noticed that it’s missing a way to clip to Google Notebook! Oh noes! Luckily, you c…
September 4th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
In our past content network posts, we’ve discussed how search and content network performance can differ. In particular, clickthrough and conversion rates aren’t always comparable between the content network and the search network, since users browsing…