May 19th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
Studies consistently show that good website search keeps people “on site” longer and improves conversion rates when it’s time for business. But even without the evidence, common sense suggests that people get more satisfaction out of their web experien…
May 19th, 2009 | by Sara | published in Google OpenSocial
Greetings Developers!The MySpace Open Platform would like to invite you to the MySpace San Francisco DevJam.This DevJam covers everything you’ll need to know about how to build great apps using MySpace Open Platform. It will begin with the State of …
May 19th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
For today’s Music Tuesday, we spotlight the debut recording of singer-songwriter Zee Avi, who, the day before her 22nd birthday, posted a melancholy holiday song on YouTube that she intended to be her last video posting in December 2007.By the time she…
May 18th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Google is making the web a more sociable place by contributing to new standards and releasing new products that make it easy to integrate your website with the social web. We’ve invited a few friends that are helping build the social web to Google I/O…
May 18th, 2009 | by Stephanie Liu | published in Youtube API
Google I/O, our largest developer conference in San Francisco, CA, is just around the corner, and we’d love to see more YouTube developers there. We’ll have two formal sessions, as well as office hours and lots of demos at the Developer Sandbox.Kuan, o…
May 18th, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
(The sequel to Report from Day 1)The first official discussion of the day was around optimizing Solid State Disk performance, led by Matthew “willy” Wilcox (Intel). SSD behaviors and “modeling” that behavior are still of interest. File systems develop…
May 18th, 2009 | by Parkie | published in Google Analytics
One way Google Analytics can help you quickly spot trends and anomalies is through the ‘Graph mode’ feature. This feature lets you compare multiple metrics on your graph to see if there are any obvious correlations. You can graph by one metric, compare…
May 18th, 2009 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: Bartlomiej Niechwiej and Nicholas Weininger, Software EngineersLast year, we made it easier to promote relevant information to the top of your search results for specific queries, but there were still a couple of steps you had to take to mak…
May 18th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the final quarter being dropped into the world’s first commercial video game, for it was in May of 1979 that Galaxy Game was removed from the Coffee House café at Stanford’s Tresidder student union. I spen…
May 18th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
As mentioned before, I will be hosting an Ignite at Google I/O on Wednesday, May 27 from 4:15-5:15pm at Moscone West in San Francisco. I’m happy to announce the following nine speakers who will be joining me onstage. In no particular order, here they a…
May 18th, 2009 | by Kai | published in Google Mobile
On April 7th, we announced a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. Among the improvements was a complete redesign of the web application’s underlying code which allows us to more rapidly develop and release new featu…
May 18th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Are you a developer, or are you interested in learning about developer tools and technologies like Android and OpenSocial? If so, we’d like to let you know about the Google I/O Developer Conference on May 27th and 28th in San Francisco. As an AdSense p…
May 18th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
We’ve seen both nonprofits and the YouTube community use the site to run powerful campaigns that raise awareness for important issues. But we want to do more than just be a platform for grassroots activism. That’s where Video for Change comes in: It’s …
May 18th, 2009 | by Aly Makishima | published in Google TV Ads Blog
Today’s installment of the TV Viewership Insights Series looks under the hood of the Google TV Ads’ measurement system. Every day, Google analyzes anonymized data from millions of set-top boxes tuned to several thousand different ad airings in order to…
May 15th, 2009 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: All We recently posted about some of the engaging gadgets you can add to your site with Google Friend Connect. Here’s one more that may be of interest if you’re looking for another way to get feedback from your site’s visitors:The new…