February 20th, 2009 | by Eric Chu, Android Mobile Platform | published in Google Android
Last Friday, we enabled developers to upload priced apps and saw a flurry of activity in the days that followed. Today, it is my pleasure to let you know that we have begun the phased rollout of priced applications to T-Mobile G1 users in the US. Onc…
February 20th, 2009 | by dastels | published in Google Testing
by Håvard Rast BlokWhile working with a search quality development team, I was asked to collect information from their result pages across all the supported languages. The aim was to quickly get an overview, and then manually look through them for irr…
February 20th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
When we launched annotations last June, we had a hunch you’d find creative ways to use them and, sure enough, you put them vigorously to work, pushing the limits of information sharing, interactive games and storytelling.Today, we are excited to bring …
Tip: Manage several email accounts with Multiple Inboxes
February 20th, 2009 | by Zach Yeskel | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Zach Geller, University Programs SpecialistA couple weeks back we launched Multiple Inboxes, an experimental feature in Gmail Labs that you can use to customize the different “inboxes” you see in one view when you log into Gmail. If you forwa…
Best practices against hacking
February 20th, 2009 | by Paolo Petrolini and Iris Mariano, Search Quality Team | published in Google Webmaster Central
These days, the majority of websites are built around applications to provide good services to their users. In particular, are widely used to create, edit and administrate content. Due to the interactive nature of these systems, where the input of user…
Website Optimiser – Test and enhance your website
February 20th, 2009 | by Eddy | published in Google Conversions
Over the last few weeks, we have discussed techniques for monitoring your website’s performance using Google Analytics. With the reporting Analytics provides, you may havenoticed areas you’d like to work on. For example, if your homepage has a very h…
Today in History: Kurt Cobain Is Born, John Glenn Orbits the Earth
February 20th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Kurt Cobain, front man for Nirvana, is born in 1967. Fast Focus TV posted this live performance of Nirvana’s “Lithium,” filmed at the Reading Festival in England just two years before Cobain’s untimely death at the age of 27:The Metropolitan Museum of …
February 20th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Over the last 7 months, map makers around the world have been busy mapping their locales using Google Map Maker. From Chile to Vietnam Google Map Makers added cities, villages, lakes, roads and businesses to the map. The resulting maps in 164 countries…
February 19th, 2009 | by Jeff Bailey | published in Google Open Source
By Ellen Ko, Open Source TeamA few weeks ago Mano Marks, a Geo Developer Advocate here at Google, informed the Open Source Programs Office of OpenStreetMap’s server upgrade fundraiser. Recognizing the good work that OpenStreetMap does by providing fre…
February 19th, 2009 | by Mickey Kataria, Google Sydney | published in Google Maps
Posted by Lalitesh Katragadda and Lior Ron, Map Maker Team
Since June 2008, thousands of passionate users have been mapping their heart out in mapmaker.google.com. The maps made are some of the finest ever seen in these 160+ countries. In a developer …
February 19th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
You’ve been asking for more control over the appearance of the ads on your sites, so we’re happy to let you know that you can now change the font face of the text in ad units on pages in Latin-character languages. You can choose between Arial, Times, a…
Greetings from the Great Lakes State
February 19th, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
When I joined the Google Ann Arbor office more than a year and a half ago, our office’s opening was viewed by many as a ray of light during a bleak time for the state of Michigan. While this seems a familiar story now, at the time Michigan’s unemploy…
Choose your own theme colors
February 19th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Manu Cornet, Software EngineerSince we launched themes for Gmail, many people have asked, not surprisingly, whether they can customize the look of their inboxes without having to use some advanced scripting magic. And while you can’t make cus…
Back to the Future for Data Storage
February 19th, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Building a massive, distributed datastore which can service requests at an extremely high throughput is something that we’ve focused on at Google. We created something called Bigtable that underlies the datastore in App Engine. The design for Bigtable …
February 19th, 2009 | by dastels | published in Google Testing
A Partial Mock is a mock that uses some behavior from a real object and some from a mock object. It is useful when you need bits of both. One way to implement this is often a Forwarding Object (or wrapper) which forwards calls to a delegate.For example…