July 31st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Ever since we assembled a 1.6 MW solar panel installation at our headquarters in Mountain View in 2007, we’ve been wondering, “Does cleaning the solar panels make them more effective?” We thought it might, but we needed to be sure. So we analyzed the m…
July 31st, 2009 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Hal Abelson, Visiting FacultyAt Google Research, we are making it easy to build mobile applications, and we’re collaborating with faculty from a dozen colleges and universities to explore whether this could change the nature of introductory c…
July 31st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
A few months ago when we announced the Search Options panel, we promised that you would soon see similar functionality across our other search properties. Today we are rolling out Search Options for Google Images.This new feature offers quick access to…
July 31st, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Johanna Shelton, Senior Policy CounselMuch of the world’s knowledge is trapped in physical books. People fortunate enough to attend large research institutions like Stanford or the University of Michigan can access vast library collections, b…
July 31st, 2009 | by Misko | published in Google Testing
by Miško HeveryEveryone seems to think that they are writing OO after all they are using OO languages such as Java, Python or Ruby. But if you exam the code it is often procedural in nature.Static MethodsStatic methods are procedural in nature and the…
July 31st, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Even for experts and scientists, analysing data on emissions and climate change can seem like a rising sea of numbers. The United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) in collaboration with several Googlers has created a map that visualizes green…
July 31st, 2009 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: Christine Moschella, Online OperationsA few weeks ago, we announced support for transliteration in Custom Search in a bunch of languages, including Arabic and a set of Indic languages. The auto-transliteration feature allows your users to co…
July 31st, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
OK, Ashton might have more followers on Twitter thanwe do, but we’re not going quietly into the night. Let’s take afriendly celebrity tussle to Facebook, shall we? where we’ve got the 12th most popular Product/Celebrity fan page(thankyouverym…
July 31st, 2009 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Ah, Burlington, Vermont in late summer….can you do any better? The summer is winding down and the last quarter of the year is still a ways away and easily prepared for. All of France is on vacation. 
The weather is just right on Lake Champlain. Th…
July 31st, 2009 | by Anita | published in Google Checkout
We’re happy to announce the launch of the Google Checkout store gadget in Google Labs. In a matter of minutes, you can create an online store that’s powered by Google Checkout and has inventory managed in a Google Docs spreadsheet. Selling online has n…
July 31st, 2009 | by Mickey Kataria, Google Sydney | published in Google Maps
2-D maps are great, but sometimes it’s cool to gaze into the distance. Today we’re happy to announce support for perspective in the Maps API for Flash. We’ve taken the regular API, added pitch and yaw, borrowed the look-around control from Google Eart…
July 30th, 2009 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Now when you send an email using another address within your domain or within an aliased domain, your original username won’t be listed in the “Sender” header, so your recipients won’t see “on behalf of.”Editions included:Premier and Education Editions…
July 30th, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
Here at Google, user feedback helps us improve our products. While we love to hear praise on what’s working well, the honest direct feedback on what’s not working is just as valuable and motivating. We’d like to share a couple of stories about recent p…
July 30th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Emmanuel Pellereau, Software Engineer Quite a few of you use Gmail’s custom “From:” to send messages with one of your other email addresses listed in place of your Gmail address. Since these messages are sent by Gmail’s servers but “from” a n…
July 30th, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
Global Health Corps (GHC) places recent university graduates to year-long assignments with public health organizations. Last night members of the Google.org team were delighted to celebrate the inaugural class of Global Health Corps Fellows as they ass…