Google Developer Products Help WhiteHouse.gov Connect With America
April 3rd, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Last Thursday was a momentous day for citizen participation in government. As you may have heard, President Obama hosted the first online Town Hall meeting with questions submitted and voted on via the internet. The Developer team at Google is honored …
Signing changes in the iGoogle sandbox
April 3rd, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
In case you haven’t seen the announcement on the OpenSocial blog, some changes to the way iGoogle’s REST and RPC endpoints verify requests will be going live today, on the developer sandbox. If you’re using a client library (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby), t…
April 3rd, 2009 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
We started nextstop.com with the idea that we could make it significantly easier and more fun to discover new and interesting things to do anywhere in the world, based on recommendations from people who know a place well. Whether it was a neat museum,…
Your world in 3D
April 2nd, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Widely publicized local modeling efforts in Madison NJ and McMinnville TN have fueled interest in creating 3D models for Google Earth. We do our best to make this process as easy as possible, but we know that we can always do a better job of educating …
Gmail turns 5
April 2nd, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Todd Jackson, Gmail Product ManagerFive years ago yesterday, Gmail starting giving people a gig. What started as an internal tool for Google employees is now used by tens of millions of people around the world in 52 languages. In honor of the…
Tips & Tricks: Dude, where’s the store?
April 2nd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
If you’ve ever traveled to a new city, guidebook in hand, this experience may sound familiar: seeking out a restaurant or store that you’ve read about, you arrive at the correct address only to find that the place you’re looking for has closed down. Su…
April 2nd, 2009 | by Vincent Paquet | published in Google Voice
Since Google Voice is about letting you easily manage your communications, we wanted to give you various ways to organize your inbox. Besides the option to only display unread messages, you now have the ability to archive messages. Archiving , a famili…
More Summer Love at Cal State L.A.
April 2nd, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
In order to help spread the word about Google Summer of Code™, former students and mentors have been holding info sessions to promote the program across campuses around the world. Grady Laksmono from California State University, Los Angeles recentl…
Predicting the Present with Google Trends
April 2nd, 2009 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Hal Varian, Chief Economist and Hyunyoung Choi, Decision Support Engineering AnalystCan Google queries help predict economic activity?The answer depends on what you mean by “predict.” Google Trends and Google Insights for Search provide a re…
New Tracking Options with AdWords Rich Media and Video Templates
April 2nd, 2009 | by Sebastian Tonkin | published in Google Analytics
On the Analytics blog, we spend a lot of time talking about bounce rate. The bounce rate is defined as the percent of users who leave your website after viewing just one page (Single Page Access / Entries). There’s been a new development in AdWords t…
New Seminars for Success videos
April 2nd, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
To help you better maximize your AdWords investment this quarter, and to give you a preview of what you can learn at the Seminars for Success, we’ve just posted two videos by AdWords seminar leader Anastasia Holdren. The two videos are Explaining Qual…
Tracking federal spending on Google Maps
April 2nd, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Dan Martin, Global Communications and Public AffairsVisualizing where federal tax dollars are actually being spent can be a daunting task. Consider the TARP Capital Purchase Program, through which the government has already distributed hundre…
New in Labs: Gmail search made easier (and lazier)
April 2nd, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Ibrahim Bokharouss, Software EngineerOn the Gmail team, we believe finding the right email among thousands of messages can be as important as finding the right web page across the billions of web pages out there. So with the aim of making sea…
charity:water, a YouTube Nonprofit, Raises $10,000 for Clean Water Using Ad Overlay
April 2nd, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Since the launch of the YouTube Nonprofit Program in 2007, one of the primary things non-profit organizations have asked for is the ability to drive traffic off-site to pages where they can collect donations, signatures and email addresses.Last week, …
Google Code Search, with more freshness and features
April 2nd, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
From the day we launched, the most popular request we’ve gotten has been to crawl code more regularly and to update our our index more frequently. Today we’re happy to announce that Google Code search will automatically crawl and index version controll…