April 30th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
As a city-dweller who loves getting around on on two feet, I was really excited when walking directions became available on Google Maps. In the year since then, having pounded the pavement in six different cities, I’ve used walking directions to map e…
April 30th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Alfred Spector, Vice President of Engineering, and Missy Krasner, Product Marketing ManagerAfter weeks of collaboration with a diverse group of organizations, today Google endorsed the Markle Foundation’s framework on Meaningful Use and Certi…
April 30th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Time was, Congress wrote legislation inside the bubble of Washington, DC, and tried their best to get back to their home states and districts to get citizen feedback. Now, your Senators and Congressmen can solicit your feedback instantly online — whic…
April 30th, 2009 | by Reid Yokoyama | published in Google Webmaster Central
Traditionally when we launch a new communication channel, we also give the shareholders a chance to introduce themselves. We did so when we opened webmaster help communities for European webmasters almost two years ago, and also more than a year ago, w…
April 30th, 2009 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
Over the last several months, we’ve been working hard to develop a new tool for creative teams who build rich media ads and the media agencies and publishers they work with. The result of our efforts is DoubleClick Studio, a free rich media production …
April 30th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
As part of the team that joined Google when it acquired Postini in 2007, one of my responsibilities has been finding ways to weave Postini’s enterprise experience into Google’s business offerings. Today, I’m excited to tell you about Google Apps Direct…
April 30th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
With recent launches like Google Latitude and Google Toolbar with My Location, it’s clear we think location-based services are useful and fun! We also want developers everywhere to be able to use location to build cool new features and applications.I’…
April 30th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
Like many of you, a number of us on the orkut team are proud owners of active communities on orkut. While we love to see the discussions and divergent opinions that often come up, there are definitely times when the passion of our community members bec…
April 30th, 2009 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
Over the last several months, we’ve been working hard to develop a new tool for creative teams who build rich media ads and the media agencies and publishers they work with. The result of our efforts is DoubleClick Studio, a free rich media production …
April 30th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
In these early days of the swine flu outbreak, governments and global leaders are responding to the pandemic on YouTube – using video to reach citizens with information and instruction about the spreading virus. On our homepage today we’re featuring so…
April 30th, 2009 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
It’s conference season, and the geo team is coming out in full force. Here are some of the upcoming conferences that we’ll be speaking at – if you attend any of these, be sure to say hi and let us know how you’re u…
April 29th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Darren Lewis, Software EngineerFor a short period of time after launching emoticons for mail, we believed we had successfully captured the entirety of human expression in 19 faces (we’re still debating whether the robot face counts), importa…
April 29th, 2009 | by Neel Kshetramade | published in Google Code
As a developer, one of the coolest things about working on the Google Chrome web browser is that there’s very little difference between being a Googler working on it and being an external contributor. Most development happens via public wikis, mailing…
April 29th, 2009 | by Ethan Ambabo | published in Google Product Ideas
Product Ideas for Google Mobile has shown us that users like you have great feedback and enjoy sharing it with the world. As you have seen from previous blog posts, you’ve shown us that you care about location sharing through Google, access to document…
April 29th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Last week we looked at finding your ROI for AdWords and also identifying keywords that aren’t performing well. This week, in the last part of our series, the Google Analytics team will take a look at keywords that bring in revenue and also how to use A…