April 23rd, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Marc Miller, Software EngineerA few months ago, we added fast online viewing of PDFs in your browser. As of today, that same viewer now supports TIFF and Microsoft PowerPoint document formats too: you can now view TIFF and PPT files online, d…
My Location now in Google Toolbar
April 23rd, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
Since its launch in Nov 2007, My Location has helped millions of people know where they are and get better local results on their mobile devices. We thought, wouldn’t it be great if laptop and desktop users could also take advantage of My Location? …
April 23rd, 2009 | by Inside AdWords Group | published in Google Adwords
Have you used filters in the new AdWords interface yet? Filters allow you to look at just the data you want within your account. You can use filters throughout your account and save them for later use.Let’s take a look at some of the cool things you ca…
Paid Search Builds Brands: Unilever Success Story
April 23rd, 2009 | by Jenny Liu, Industry Marketing Manager, CPG | published in Google CPG
Posted by Jenny Liu, Industry Marketing Manager, CPGIn 2008, Google’s U.S. Consumer Packaged Goods Team released a series of Brand Value of Search (BVOS) Studies that communicated how paid search was able to raise brand metrics such as aided awareness,…
April 23rd, 2009 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Xiaoxi Wu, Community Developer
Hi, I’m Xiaoxi (Frank) Wu. I’m a software engineer working for Beyondsoft in Beijing China, where I’m currently working on Maps API applications. While I was learning the Google Maps API, I got a lot of help f…
Advanced Segments Swissotel Style
April 23rd, 2009 | by Sebastian Tonkin | published in Google Analytics
Are you segmenting your data or just looking at aggregated numbers (like total visits)? If you’re not segmenting, you’re barely scratching the surface of what you can do with Analytics data. This is a favorite topic of Avinash Kaushik, Google’s Analy…
Congratulations to NSF CLuE Grant awardees
April 23rd, 2009 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Jeff Walz and Andrea HeldThe first goal of the Academic Cluster Computing Initiative was to familiarize the academic community with the methods necessary to run very large datasets on massive distributed computer networks. By expanding that …
April 23rd, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
We launched Chrome Experiments last month to feature some of the crazy things that are now possible with JavaScript. Since then, a number of developers have submitted additional experiments, many of which have made us smile — take a look at a few of …
April 23rd, 2009 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
You can now view .ppt and .tiff files online, directly in your browser. A Flash plugin is no longer required. The viewer can also zoom in and out, select text to copy and paste, and ‘print’ the presentation to a PDF document.Editions included:Standar…
April 23rd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
You’ve probably been there: a friend asks you for directions to your house for a party, or to that nice picnic spot you recommended, so you try to scribble some lines on the back of a napkin or you try to explain out loud that they should take the seco…
April 23rd, 2009 | by Google Base Blog | published in Google Merchant
Today, we launched Google Product Search for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. When mobile users search for products on the go they can get quick access to product information — like online product ratings, reviews, prices, and more — f…
April 23rd, 2009 | by Google Base Blog | published in Google Merchant
Today, we launched Google Product Search for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. When mobile users search for products on the go they can get quick access to product information — like online product ratings, reviews, prices, and more — f…
April 23rd, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Last year’s elections represented a big moment in American history, and for one of our grantees, Rock the Vote, it also represented an opportunity to reach a new segment of young tech-savvy voters. By making the most of seasonality, educating themselv…
April 23rd, 2009 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
Hi, developers! I hope you’ve heard about the early-look version of the Android 1.5 SDK that we recently released. There are some great new features in there, but don’t get too excited yet — some of you will need to fix some problems in your apps be…
April 23rd, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
In my spare time, I like to build computer systems at home. So I often use Google Product Search on a desktop computer to look for video cards, memory, and peripherals. Google Product Search gives me information like prices, ratings, reviews, and pro…