September 9th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
While many students might be spending their summers backpacking around Europe, working at an investment bank, or catching up on their studies, our Google Summer of Code™ 2009 students Udai Gupta and Johan Hilding were helping to transform techno…
New Website Optimizer feature: Experiment Notes
September 9th, 2009 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Website Optimizer
Part of running a good experiment is documenting what you are testing and the results. We released a new feature today called experiment notes, which helps you include documentation as part of your testing. For any of your experiments you can now add y…
Google Earth 5.1: Think fast
September 9th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
When we released Google Earth 5 earlier this year, we packed it full of amazing new features. We opened up two-thirds of the planet to exploration by letting you dive into the oceans; with historical imagery, we added the ability to go back in time to …
Using Google Docs to manage a website redesign
September 9th, 2009 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Guest post: Michelle Madhok, the founder and CEO of SheFinds Media, a New York, NY company that publishes editorial websites that help women shop online, recently used Google Docs spreadsheets to manage her site’s relaunch. Here’s what she told us abou…
September 9th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
In the previous tip, we covered middle-clicking and ctrl-clicking to open links in new tabs. There are even more shortcuts you can use to take total control over where links open. Feel free to try these:Shift-click: Opens a link in a new window (just…
Site maintenance on Saturday, September 12
September 9th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
This Saturday, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. You’ll be unable to log in to your AdSense and Ad Manager accounts during this time, but we’ll continue serving ads to your pages and tracking your clicks, i…
Resource round-up for September
September 9th, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
This month’s resource round-up for September includes a handy summary of tips for the new AdWords interface, a reminder to vote on the HHS’ Flu PSA contest on YouTube, a live radio segment featuring a few grantees and their use of Google Grants to run …
Mapping for disasters with UNOSAT
September 9th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Seasonal floods are currently affecting West Africa. Senegal, Niger, Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Mali, Liberia and Guinea are all experiencing significant damage to infrastructure and agriculture due to heavy rainfall causing floods in nu…
Remove access privilege in Google Sites
September 9th, 2009 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
You can now remove yourself from the Owner, Collaborator, or Viewer lists in Google SitesEditions included:Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages included:All languages supported by Google SitesHow to access what’s new:To rem…
September 9th, 2009 | by Olivia | published in Youtube
Although the United States Congress was out on recess for most of August, the debate over health care reform was hotter than ever this last month, as the lively town hall meetings and non-stop stumping by politicians has shown.You can watch President O…
September 9th, 2009 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Voice
With Google Voice, you receive SMS messages on your phones AND in your Google Voice inbox, which means you can send SMS replies from either from your mobile phone or your computer. Today, we’re going one step further by allowing you to get text messag…
September 9th, 2009 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
Okay, YouTube — it’s time to trade in those water balloons for some #2 pencils. A new school year is upon us!Thankfully, an organization called Architecture for Humanity (AFH) is trying to make the idea of heading back to school a bit more palatable. …
September 8th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
In July we announced US beta testing of the Opportunities tab, a new section in your AdWords account designed to help you find additional cost-effective traffic for your search campaigns.Today we’ve begun expanding the beta to additional US advertisers…
AdWords Downtime: September 12th, 10am-2pm PDT
September 8th, 2009 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We’ll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday, September 12th from approximately 10:00am to 2:00pm PDT. You won’t be able to access AdWords or the API during this time frame, but your ads will continue to run as normal.Best,-Eric Koleda, A…
Shelter Competition: Vote now!
September 8th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
The submission period for the Design It Shelter Competition is over; now it’s time to exercise your right to an anonymous online opinion by voting for your favorite shelter. Ah, sweet democracy…Check out the People’s Prize page on the Guggenheim comp…