November 4th, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Shawn Pearce, Google Open Source Programs Office and Git contributorLast week Google played host to the first Git developer conference at its Mountain View headquarters. The 3-day conference was well attended, with almost 25 major contributors and …
November 4th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
The 51.com platform team announced that the 51.com Developer Platform launched OpenSocial support on Oct. 18, and successfully ran a live OpenSocial app called Emote developed by RockYou, becoming the first large-scale social networking site in China t…
November 4th, 2008 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
By Vivek Haldar, Enterprise Search TeamEver wanted to write code against Google search technology, test your apps, and see how it all integrates into your development environment without having to pay a thing? If you’re an IT administrator, you’ll have…
November 4th, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
On September 12 2008, Cecilia van Deventer, a safari booking agent living in Zambia, was flown to South Africa in critical condition. She died just two days later. By October 6 2008, three more people had died: the paramedic who accompanied Cecilia to…
November 4th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Whew! It’s been a busy last couple weeks for the Street view team. After our recent launches in France, Spain and Italy, Street view is now available in 6 countries. But to help celebrate Election Day, we thought we’d head back to the US and la…
November 4th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Today, citizens across the country will vote — and be antsy to find out how everyone else voted. Today you’ll be able to access voting results as they occur with our 2008 Election Results Map. You can follow along in our Google Maps Elections Gallery…
November 4th, 2008 | by Sapna | published in Google Video
Posted by Sapna Mehta, Online Operations AssociateHave you ever wondered if anyone watches the videos you’ve uploaded? Or perhaps you’ve uploaded a video presentation and want to be able to illustrate its success with some numbers? We’ve added Insight …
November 4th, 2008 | by Sapna | published in Google Video
Posted by Sapna Mehta, Online Operations AssociateHave you ever wondered if anyone watches the videos you’ve uploaded? Or perhaps you’ve uploaded a video presentation and want to be able to illustrate its success with some numbers? We’ve added Insight …
November 4th, 2008 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
Today, American students across the country will vote (or finish voting), and we want to make it easy for you to find as much information as you’d like concerning this historic 2008 election. Here are three steps for getting the full scoop:1) Get infor…
November 4th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Robert Leland, Software EngineerToday, Americans all across the country are voting, and the results will soon be tallied. We’ll make sure you can stay abreast of the election returns on the same Google News pages that already bring you curren…
November 4th, 2008 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
Posted by Mano Marks, Geo APIs team
OK, it’s not exactly a manual, actually a handbook, The KML Handbook by Josie Wernecke. Josie is the Google tech writer who wrote the KML 2.1 and 2.2 documentation, and also helped write the KML 2.2 OGC Specificatio…
November 4th, 2008 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We’ll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday, November 8 from approximately 10:00am to 2:00pm PST. You won’t be able to access AdWords or the API during this time frame, but your ads will continue to run as normal.Cheers,-Jeffrey Posnick,…
November 4th, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
After thousands of campaign stops, tens of thousands of speeches, and billions of videos viewed on YouTube, the 2008 Election is finally here. What began almost two years ago — when seven of the 16 primary presidential candidates announced their campa…
November 3rd, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Brittany Bohnet, Google Elections Team(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)On Tuesday, Americans across the country will vote (or finish voting), and we want you to find as much information as you’d like concerning this historic 2008 e…
November 3rd, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
When we notice a spike in readers who are interested in a specific topic, we like to address it as soon as we can. There’s been some interest in filtering ads from publisher pages, so here’s a quick refresher on the filtering tools we offer:Competitive…