September 21st, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Today we’ve updated our Ocean Expeditions layer in the Ocean folder in Google Earth. Each ship icon represents the most recent post from either a live expedition or one within the last 6 months (look for the yellow-filled ship icon) or the post from th…
September 21st, 2009 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Did you know that you can save clicks and jump directly to a deep-level report from your dashboard? Let’s say that you want to see which cities in California you get traffic from. Ordinarily, you’d need to click Visitors, then Map Overlay in the report…
September 21st, 2009 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
KML is the most common data format for displaying geographic information, with over half a billion KML files on the web. However, much of the world’s geographic information is also in other file types, particularly shapefiles, and image data. Fortunate…
September 21st, 2009 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
Today, in honor of the International Day of Peace, a UN-recognized global day of nonviolence and ceasefire, we’re turning up the volume on this important issue by featuring peace-related film, music, and activism on the site.In the Screening Room, we’r…
September 21st, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Public Policy CommunicationsOur next Google D.C. Talk is coming up on October 9, and it should be a fun one.Two years ago, the blog I Can Has Cheezburger introduced Internet surfers to LOLcats — cute kitten …
September 21st, 2009 | by Evelyn O'Keeffe | published in Google Conversions
Today we wanted to share a cool new website that can help your business by giving insights into what’s going on online. The Google Internet Stats site offers stats on the economic environment, consumer behaviour and current media trends. (Please note t…
September 21st, 2009 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
As a new school year unfolds, here’s an assignment for America’s students from the U.S. Department of Education and YouTube: in two minutes or less, make a video showing the nation and the world how education will help you achieve your dreams, and uplo…
September 21st, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
This was a particularly fun case study to work on. Mitchel Stangl, a longtime Google SketchUp Pro customer and power user, agreed after a trip to this year’s daratechPLANT conference to write a case study about his use of SketchUp Pro and LayOut. His c…
September 21st, 2009 | by Michael Wyszomierski | published in Google Webmaster Central
Recently we received some questions about how Google uses (or more accurately, doesn’t use) the “keywords” meta tag in ranking web search results. Suppose you have two website owners, Alice and Bob. Alice runs a company called AliceCo and Bob runs BobC…
September 21st, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
Many Open Source projects grow too large for free services such as Google Code Project Hosting and SourceForge.net, or simply have infrastructure needs that cannot be met by those services. Where can projects turn if they need a stable hosting environm…
September 21st, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet EvangelistDuring a speech at the Brookings Institution this morning, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined a proposal for explicit rules that would protect consumer access to an open Internet. T…
September 21st, 2009 | by Serge Lachapelle | published in Google Talk
Over the weekend, we released a specific 1.0.15 update for the Google voice and video chat software. This update is for Mac computers only, and is focused on resolving compatibility issues with Mac OS X v10.6, Snow Leopard. All current Mac installation…
September 21st, 2009 | by Serge Lachapelle | published in Google Talk
Over the weekend, we released a specific 1.0.15 update for the Google voice and video chat software. This update is for Mac computers only, and is focused on resolving compatibility issues with Mac OS X v10.6, Snow Leopard. All current Mac installation…
September 21st, 2009 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Voice
This week, I’d like to talk about a Google Voice feature some of you may not have heard about: custom greetings. With custom greetings, you’re able to record personalized voicemail greetings that only play to a specific group of people or to an individ…
September 21st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
You might have noticed an unexplained set of doodles on the Google homepage and a couple tweets from our official Twitter stream, @google, over the last two weeks. On September 5th, we posted a doodle with the abduction of our second ‘o’ and a coded tw…