An Exoplanet Web Site, Powered by Google Earth’s New API
January 22nd, 2009 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
[From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest, and are very pleased to have Stephen Savage join us here.]Have you ever wondered about planets orbiting stars that are outside our solar system? They are called “exoplanets
Test drive the new Transit site
January 22nd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Our team has been on a roll adding more and more transit agencies to Google Maps, so we thought it was about time we update our landing page too. Now when you visit maps.google.com/transit, you’ll find a heatmap representation with pins that indicate…
Google Analytics and AdWords: Better Together
January 22nd, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Regardless of the year or economic climate, it’s always been important to optimize the return on your advertising investment–but now it’s more important than ever. Google Analytics specializes in providing you with the metrics you need to make informe…
EarthSurfer code available
January 22nd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
We recently previewed EarthSurfer, an application written by engineer David Oster that allows you to “surf” any region on the Earth’s surface using a Nintendo Wii Balance Board and the Google Earth API. As promised, I wanted to let you know that…
Year in Review
January 22nd, 2009 | by Sagar Kamdar | published in Google Webmaster Central
2008 was another great year for the Webmaster Central team. We experienced tremendous user growth with our blogs (97% increase in monthly pageviews), Help Center (25%), Help Forums (225%), and Webmaster Tools (35%). We would like to welcome our new use…
January 22nd, 2009 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
I recently launched a new product to help developers learn our APIs. It’s an open source framework for showing Javascript code samples. The tool allows users to click through samples so that they can edit code and see their changes live. In order to…
January 22nd, 2009 | by dastels | published in Google Testing
When scientists in California tried to raise condors in captivity, they ran into a problem. The chicks wouldn’t eat from the researchers’ hands; they wanted a mother condor to feed them. So the scientists got a puppet. To the chicks, it looked like t…
January 22nd, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
Google.org extends its heartfelt congratulations to Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant on their first Oscar nomination in the category of Best Documentary (Short Film) for The Final Inch, a film produced with support from and in collaboration with Goog…
Israeli Citizens Ask Questions of Prime Minister Candidates
January 22nd, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
YouTube’s influence in politics hasn’t been just an American phenomenon. Around the world, voters have been using YouTube to speak up on political issues. We’ve done televised election programming in Spain (youtube.com/elecciones08), the UK (youtube.co…
Surf the Earth
January 22nd, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By David Oster, Mac Engineering TeamFor those of you not following the Google Mac Blog, you may be interested to check out one of our newest releases, Earth Surfer. The code for Earth Surfer, an application that allows you to use a Nintendo Wii Balance…
Tips for improving CTR in a Google Grants campaign
January 22nd, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
As a Google Grants volunteer, I recently participated in a project to improve the usability of AdWords by building and managing an AdWords account from a grantee’s perspective. I volunteered to take one Google Grants advertiser, Prospect 1. New Orleans…
January 22nd, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Alice Ryan, Green Energy Project Manager(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)In 1979 President Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar hot water panels on the roof of the White House. Recently a Googler from our Washington D.C. office asked th…
Watch videos right in Gmail chat
January 22nd, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Jessan Hutchison-Quillian, Software EngineerMy friends always hate it when I multi-task in other tabs while chatting with them (they can tell because of my obviously delayed reactions…). But sometimes it’s not my fault: if they send me a li…
January 21st, 2009 | by Ali Pasha | published in Google Code
By Ben Lisbakken, Developer Programs EngineerFor me, documentation isn’t always enough to learn about APIs; I need examples that I can play with. That’s why I started a fun project recently–a tool for teaching developers how to use Google’s JavaScript…
Tracking Google Sites with Analytics
January 21st, 2009 | by Sebastian Tonkin | published in Google Analytics
It only makes sense that Analytics should be able to track sites created by another Google product, Google Sites. Google Sites is an easy-to-use online application to make team websites. Multiple users can collaborate on editing the site at once online…