Tour the homepages of your favorite celebrities
June 3rd, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Have you ever wondered what celebrities do when they use the web? Today, we’re announcing the new iGoogle Showcase, which allows you to see and share the homepages of some of your favorite icons. These 30 preeminent people, including Dave Matthews, Ra…
Working with Google: Business tips to help you engage customers, monetize your site and work more efficiently
June 3rd, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
On this blog, we usually focus on helping you make the most of the products we’ve designed specifically with IT departments in mind. But Google has lots of other tools that other parts of your organization (such as the sales and marketing teams) might …
Google Flu Trends for Australia and New Zealand
June 3rd, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
As the flu season begins in the southern hemisphere, we’re excited to announce the expansion of Google Flu Trends to Australia and New Zealand.By using aggregated search data, we’ve been able to produce estimates of flu activity for these countries in …
June 2nd, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
A few weeks ago we asked you to submit and vote for your most pressing questions for YouTube star Michael Buckley. Over 100 of you participated enthusiastically by asking 84 questions and voting 1,623 times. And while we would have loved it if Michael …
Google Ambassador holds Rubik’s Cube Workshop on campus
June 2nd, 2009 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
And now a word from the Google Campus Ambassador at the University of Toronto, Eran Henig…My name is Eran Henig and I have had the privilege for the last year of being the Google Campus Ambassador at the University of Toronto. I was given the opportu…
Post Google I/O 2009
June 2nd, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
We would like to thank the thousands of developers who joined us last week and made this year’s Google I/O a wonderful developer gathering. We announced some of the things we’ve been working on and shared our thoughts on the future of the web. 140 comp…
June 2nd, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’d like to let you know about two upcoming maintenance periods for the system which processes AdSense statistics. As a result, you may see slight delays in your reports during these times:Wednesday, June 3: 3pm – 6pm PDT (GMT -07:00)Saturday, June 6:…
June 2nd, 2009 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
By Patrick CopelandI’m excited to announce that James Whittaker has joined us as our newest Test Director at Google. James comes to us most recently from Microsoft. He has spent his career focusing on testing, building high quality products, and design…
June 2nd, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
“I thought the Grants program was free AdWords advertising. Why does my account say I have balance??”This is a common question we receive from grantees since seeing costs and an account balance in your AdWords account can be confusing. As such, I thoug…
June 2nd, 2009 | by Anita | published in Google Checkout
Whether you’re shopping for a Father’s Day or graduation gift, or even a little something for yourself, Google Checkout can help you save time and money this summer.Hundreds of Checkout stores are offering exclusive discounts of $5, $10, or $20 on pu…
June 2nd, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Last January we introduced a video website especially for people who wanted to access YouTube videos through their Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii game consoles. You could say we’ve now “expanded” on that. Just as there’s a YouTube browser for mobile devices…
June 2nd, 2009 | by Sebastian Tonkin | published in Google Analytics
As a Google Analytics user, chances are you know the value of good data on traffic to your website. More data means you can make better-informed decisions about how to drive traffic to your site and to your brick-and-mortar locations. But your websit…
Places Directory app for Android
June 2nd, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
As an engineer based in Taipei, I frequently travel to Google headquarters in Mountain View. When I’m there, I’m always looking for local businesses to try out, like coffee shops and restaurants. I also forget where the banks and ATM’s are. While Se…
June 2nd, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
We’d like to share with you some upcoming, free Google webinars in June, ranging from general AdWords topics to topics geared specifically toward the travel and auto industries:AdWords ongoing UK webinar seriesAlong with a number of on-demand webinars …
June 2nd, 2009 | by Google Base Blog | published in Google Merchant
We’d like to let you know about an important change we’re making to the Product Search data feed requirements. As you know, you can help shoppers find your products by including high quality, frequently updated product information in the form of attrib…