June 12th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Joyce Sohn, Product Marketing ManagerIt’s that time of year when students are graduating, and in many cases getting yet another email address to check — an alumni account — as a graduation present.Whether you have an alumni address, a wor…
Uncovering discoveries
June 12th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
What do cows, coral, craters, and now chameleons have in common? They all have been part of scientific discoveries made possible with Google Earth (if you guessed the letter ‘c’, we’ll still give you credit). Last year we blogged about some of the disc…
June 12th, 2009 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Analytics
If you use AdWords, you’re probably familiar with the AdWords reports in the Google Analytics Traffic Sources section. Using these reports, you can compare AdWords campaigns and ad groups against each other and track individual keyword performance. Bu…
Introducing our Grad Tips series: Make the most of your new alumni email address
June 12th, 2009 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
It’s graduation season, so congratulations to those who’ve walked down the aisle recently, donning cap and gown! To help you with your transition from college life to “the real world,” we’re using our usual Friday series to bring you some Google tips …
Discovering cities with the Transit Layer
June 12th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Earlier this year, we announced the launch of the Transit Layer, a feature that makes it easier for citizens and tourists around the globe to access public transportation line information in their cities. We’re continuously expanding the coverage of …
Voting for iGoogle photo themes now open
June 12th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
A few weeks ago we launched the Google Photography Prize, a global student competition for students to create themes for iGoogle. Our goal was to find talented student photographers and give them unprecedented online and offline exposure. It may seem a…
Street View: Exploring Europe’s streets with new privacy safeguards
June 12th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel(Cross-posted from the European Public Policy Blog)In 2007 we began to look at bringing the highly innovative and very popular Street View to Europe, and I highlighted the new technological challenges th…
Getting ready for the new AdWords interface
June 12th, 2009 | by Ruth Brennan | published in Google Conversions
If you are an AdWords advertiser, you may remember in May we posted on how the new AdWords interface can improve efficiency and results.New features we reviewed in the post included:Graphs to track your performance over timeIntegrated reports that pro…
June 12th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
A few weeks ago, one of our developers posted about using clip masks to crop photos and models in LayOut. In this post, I’m going to take this one step further and show you how you can use clip masks with Google SketchUp models to create cutaway views …
June 11th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(cross-posted with the Google Mobile Blog)We like iGoogle because it lets us “snack” on interesting information all day long. We can read a little bit of news here and there, glance at finance portfolios, take a look at the weather forecast, and then d…
June 11th, 2009 | by Ali Pasha | published in Google Code
My favorite part about Google I/O is the dozens of interesting conversations with developers — getting a first-hand look at the different things that they are doing with our technologies. That’s the spirit of the Google Technology User Groups — regul…
App Engine @ Google I/O goodness for all to enjoy
June 11th, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Back in April when we launched Java support, we gave the first 10,000 developers who signed up access to the new runtime. In case you haven’t heard, we recently announced at Google I/O that App Engine for Java signup is now open. We’re excited to see m…
Searching for clues on Iran’s presidential election
June 11th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Pablo Chavez, Managing Policy CounselIranians head to the polls tomorrow to vote in their 10th post-revolution presidential election, and some observers are studying online behavior for clues on how to predict a contest that looks too close t…
AdWords in the Curriculum Debuts in Boston
June 11th, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
AdWords in the Curriculum has arrived in Boston! After Ann Arbor, Boston was the next logical location for an AdWords in the Curriculum program based on its large student population. These two college towns with Google offices both have the unique adva…
Display your public Latitude location on your Google Profile
June 11th, 2009 | by Heaven | published in Google Mobile
Last month, we launched the new Google public location badge, which lets you publish your Latitude location to your blog or website. Starting today, you can choose to display your badge location on your Google profile. Your Google profile can include…