November 30th, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
It took Peter Jackson 438 days to shoot The Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately, you only have another 14 days to create your own masterpiece.On Monday, December 14, submissions close for Project: Direct, YouTube’s annual short film competition. If you …
November 28th, 2008 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
It seems like pretty much everyone knows at least one person who loves photography. The orkut team is no different– Navneet, one of the orkut engineers, is absolutely obsessed with taking pictures. Whenever we leave the office, he immediately whips o…
November 28th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
This Thanksgiving weekend, we’d like to take a moment to ask our U.S.-based publishers to spend a little post-turkey time (when you’re not watching football or taking advantage of those Black Friday bargains) to review your AdSense tax information. Tax…
November 28th, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
We recently added two new football FANalysts to our roster off the waiver wire, and they’ve hit the ground running. Meet your new pigskin prognosticators:The Young Turks: Known more for their no-nonsense political analysis, TYT are also avid (rabid?) f…
November 27th, 2008 | by dastels | published in Google Testing
No TotT post today.Happy Thanksgiving to all our North American readers.
November 27th, 2008 | by Gerald Hibbert | published in Google Webmaster Central
Our date with Googlebot was so wonderful, but it’s hard to tell if we, the websites, said the right thing. We returned 301 permanent redirect, but should we have responded with 302 temporary redirect (so he knows we’re playing hard to get)? If we sent …
November 26th, 2008 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Website Optimizer
We wanted to let you know about a cool new integration of Website Optimizer with Magento. Magento is a feature-rich open source ecommerce platform. They just announced their 1.1.7 release, which includes integration of Website Optimizer, and it’s reall…
November 26th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
It’s Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. tomorrow, and so we’d like to give thanks to all of our publishers (especially our dedicated blog readers!) for your participation in the AdSense program. If you’re a U.S. publisher, we hope you have a happy and turkey…
November 26th, 2008 | by Jeff Bailey | published in Google Open Source
By Markus Scherer, Google Internationalization EngineeringEmoji (絵文字), or “picture characters”, the graphical versions of 
and its friends, are widely used and especially popular among Japanese cell phone users. Just last month, they became av…
November 26th, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Thanksgiving is about many things: expressing gratitude for the good things in life, being with family and – let’s be frank – eating. Turkey, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie: you know the drill. But, sadly, these things don’t cook themselves, which is …
November 26th, 2008 | by Mickey Kataria, Google Sydney | published in Google Maps
Posted by Mickey Kataria, Product Manager
From time to time we release updates to the terms of service governing our products. We recently released an updated version of the Google Maps API Terms of Service. Based on feedback from that update, we ar…
November 26th, 2008 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
When I get together with my buddies for a party, we often tend to get a little silly. Whether my friend Vidya starts lip-syncing Beyonce’s latest hit or one of the software engineers decides to challenge a product manager to a wrestling match, we alwa…
November 26th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Checkout
As the holiday shopping season draws near, we’d like to remind our merchants that FedEx is offering discounted shipping rates for Google Checkout stores. Through this program, Checkout stores can receive up to 21% off their FedEx® shipping. To lear…
November 26th, 2008 | by Misko | published in Google Testing
It is with great pleasure that I have been able to finally open-source the Guide to Writing Testable Code.I am including the first page here for you, but do come and check it out in detail.To keep our code at Google in the best possible shape we provid…
November 25th, 2008 | by Dai | published in Google Analytics
You may have heard of Seminars for Success. It’s a full day of hands-on training on Google products like AdWords and Google Analytics. We’ve heard requests for more in-depth training on Google Website Optimizer. If you don’t know about it, Website Opti…