October 3rd, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Watch Google’s Chairman and CEO discuss our recent proposal for reducing U.S. dependence on fossil fuels:You can read the full plan here.Posted by Katy Bacon, Google.org Team
October 3rd, 2008 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Team
Today is the release of the 1.1.5 SDK, which, as always, is available for download on our Google hosting project. The release notes contain all of the nitty gritty details. Here’s a summary:
For this release…
October 3rd, 2008 | by Google Data | published in Google Apps
Here are a few of the changes we made to Google Sites in September.Stemming and Synonyms in searchSearch is near and dear to our hearts (for obvious reasons), so we recently added stemming and synonym support to Google sites search. Stemming helps impr…
October 3rd, 2008 | by Kate Pacher | published in Google TV Ads Blog
Last week, Googlers headed out to Las Vegas to talk one thing…direct response (DR). Team members from Google TV, Print and Audio were on hand to speak to the thousands of attendees at the Electronic Retailing Association (ERA) convention. It was trul…
October 3rd, 2008 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
Posted by Mano Marks, Geo APIs team
Last Friday in the Madrid Google Office, a group of 22 outside developers, and 4 Googlers, met to discuss current projects, and to give feedback to Google about Google Geo APIs. There were too many presentations to …
October 3rd, 2008 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: Victor Wang and Bartlomiej Niechwiej, Software EngineersWith our launch of Google Site Search, we added a new feature to the Custom Search platform: custom synonyms. Here’s how this feature can be used to improve the quality of your Custom S…
October 3rd, 2008 | by John | published in Google Student Blog
The Google Earth Education team is excited to announce two new science outreach initiatives. Both are part of our effort to increase educational outreach and expand upon the successful workshop we held in Boulder at the University of Colorado in the sp…
October 3rd, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Looking over the broad OpenSocial community, September was a very active month. In particular, there have been numerous OpenSocial deployments:Netlog shipped OpenSocial apps to users throughout EuropeHyves, a social network popular in the Netherlands, …
October 3rd, 2008 | by Misko | published in Google Testing
by Miško Hevery Dependency injection asks us to separate the new operators from the application logic. This separation forces your code to have factories which are responsible for wiring your application together. However, better than writing factorie…
October 3rd, 2008 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of Research and Special InitiativesWe’ve just posted the first three videos in the Google Technology Roundtable Series. Each one is a discussion with senior Google researchers and technologists about one of our most sig…
October 3rd, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
The U.S. presidential election is just over a month away, but you won’t be able to exercise your right to vote on November 4 unless you’ve first registered to vote. And those deadlines are approaching fast – in many states, the deadline is next Monday,…
October 3rd, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Lei Zhang, Software EngineerWe’re proud to announce the public beta of Picasa 3.0 for Linux (just a few days past the end of summer 
With version 3, Picasa adds improved Linux desktop integration. For instance, it now uses your preferred fi…
October 2nd, 2008 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
Today, Tessa Wegert contributed an article to The ClickZ Network that perfectly sums up our new “Creative Insights on Rich Media” report. Check out her article here, then download the report.Among the report’s main takeaways:Consider using video within…
October 2nd, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Gmail Product Marketing ManagerFirst, if you don’t have Gmail keyboard shortcuts enabled, turn them on in Settings. You’ll be glad you did. If you spend a lot of time in Gmail, you’ll start shaving milliseconds of every act…
October 2nd, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
The most recent webinar in our 5-part series with NTEN focused on optimizing ad text and featured Beth, a Googler who volunteers her time with Grants recipients. Beth presented an overview of the components of and goals for your AdWords ads. We covered…