Behind the scenes of the Search Options panel
May 14th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
On Tuesday, we announced Search Options, which are a collection of tools that let you slice and dice your results and generate different views to find what you need faster and easier.We know that people search for a wide variety of things and we’re con…
May 14th, 2009 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Frank Harris and Jason Morrow, User Experience DesignersLast month marked the 7-year anniversary of Google News. We thought we’d celebrate this year by refreshing the look and feel of the site with a new design that we launched today.First o…
Update to U.S. ad text trademark policy
May 14th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Imagine opening your Sunday paper and seeing ads from a large supermarket chain that didn’t list actual products for sale; instead, they simply listed the categories of products available – offers like “Buy discount cola” and “Snacks on sale.” The ads …
Google Update Releases Update Controls
May 14th, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Whenever we build out new products and features at Google, we try to ensure that we provide users with two key components: transparency and control. About a month ago we released the Google Update source code to give users and developers transparency …
Bike to Work Day 2009
May 14th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Almost every Friday, I jump on my bike in San Francisco and ride roughly 45 miles to get to work at the Google campus in Mountain View — it takes about 3 hours. Most people think I’m crazy, but seeing the sun rise over the bay and feeling the rush of…
May 14th, 2009 | by Sebastian Tonkin | published in Google Analytics
For approximately one hour today starting at 7:48 am Pacific Time, Google had an error in routing traffic that prevented Google Analytics from collecting a small amount of data for some web properties.On average, this will appear as roughly a 1% decrea…
Yahoo! Pipes and the HTML5 canvas tag
May 14th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
This post is part of the Who’s @ Google I/O, a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who’ll be speaking or demoing at Google I/O. Today’s post is a guest post written by Paul Donnelly and Jonathan Trevor of the Yahoo! Pipes team.Ya…
New Interface Thursdays: Tailor your account with customizable columns
May 14th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Today on New Interface Thursdays we’ll be taking a look at customizable columns. Customizable columns are one of the ways that new AdWords interface helps you manage your campaigns more effectively. With customizable columns, you can select which metri…
The Cannes Short Film Corner: Vote for Aspiring Filmmakers
May 14th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
The Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival is a sprawling marketplace featuring hundreds of works by many of the world’s up-and-coming auteurs. Thanks to the fifth annual National Film Board of Canada’s Short Film Competition, you can check out…
Client Library Updates: Part 1
May 14th, 2009 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
There are a lot of changes going on with the AdWords API lately and we’d like to take a minute to talk about what else we have in store. In recent news, we released the API v2009 Sandbox and we appreciate all the great feedback we are getting (keep it …
This is your pilot speaking. Now, about that holding pattern…
May 14th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected. …
Tips & Tricks: Jog your memory with saved locations
May 14th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
For places I don’t visit frequently, the hardest part about finding them on Google Maps can be remembering the right address. The dentist’s office or a museum, for example — places I’ve found on Google Maps before, but not quite recently enough to rem…
Expert Advice from Eastern Michigan: AdWords in the Curriculum Students Share Best Practices
May 14th, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
A major benefit of Google AdWords is that it allows you to self-manage your online advertising. Unlike other advertising platforms that require long contracts, tearsheets, or the laborious creation of ad material, AdWords gives non-profits and business…
Google OpenID API – taking the next steps
May 14th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Six months ago, we announced our first step in supporting single sign-on using OpenID. Well, we wanted to share with you what we have been working on since. As a strong supporter of open standards such as OpenID, Google’s top priority in this area has …
Create your Google profile
May 14th, 2009 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
When people search for your name on Google, do they find you?A couple weeks ago, we announced that we now show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. This gives you more control over how you appear when people search for …