October 8th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
If you’re like us, you’re probably thinking a lot about how this year’s flu season might affect you and your community. To help you out, we at Google.org are excited to announce the expansion of Google Flu Trends to 16 additional countries, including m…
October 7th, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Finding the exact information you need sometimes requires filtering and refining your search results. Earlier in the year, we launched a collection of tools called Search Options which enable you to easily and quickly do this from a computer. Today i…
October 7th, 2009 | by Niki Fenwick | published in Google.org
The Google PowerMeter team is pleased to announce an important milestone for our product — open enrollment. This means that utilities can enable self-serve sign-up for customers to use the Google PowerMeter gadget. More users means improved feedback …
October 7th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
On Saturday, October 10th, 2009 the AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 10AM to 2PM PDT, for maintenance. While you won’t be able to sign in to your accounts during this time, your campaigns will continue to run as usual.AdWords syste…
October 7th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Time to have your socks blown off. Jacques (a.k.a. Silvershadow) is a SketchUp god who hangs out on the SketchUcation Community Forums, and he’s done it again. I’m completely serious when I say that looking at his work makes me, simultaneously:inspired…
October 7th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Every month we run free AdWords webinars to help you better understand your online advertising and to answer your questions live.Coming up in October we have: Optimizing for the Content NetworkExport Series: Using AdWords to reach new marketsExport Ser…
October 7th, 2009 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Two weeks ago, we launched the Google Docs viewer, which made it easier for webmasters to embed PDFs in their sites and let visitors view these PDFs in their browsers with the formatting intact. Today, the search team has brought the same functionalit…
A gold medal-worthy Street View update
October 7th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
En FrançaisAs a former Toronto resident, one of the most enjoyable experiences I look back on is taking in the city from a street car gliding along Queen Street West. From my perch high atop cars and cyclists it afforded me the chance to see vibrant, …
October 7th, 2009 | by John Mueller | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster level: AdvancedToday we’re excited to propose a new standard for making AJAX-based websites crawlable. This will benefit webmasters and users by making content from rich and interactive AJAX-based websites universally accessible through searc…
YouTube EDU goes international – a global classroom for all
October 7th, 2009 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
Universities from the Europe and Israel have now joined YouTube EDU. The site now provides over 45,000 videos from over 20 top universities in nine countries with academic lectures, public talks and college life from universities including Cambridge U…
October 7th, 2009 | by Mickey Kataria, Google Sydney | published in Google Maps
As you may have seen on the Lat Long blog today, we’ve made some significant changes to the map data for the United States. We’re excited to bring new features and functionality to Google Maps, including comprehensive parcel data, more detailed natural…
October 7th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
One of the exciting challenges of working on the Geo team at Google is that the physical world is constantly changing, and keeping on top of these changes is a never-ending endeavor. For example, 15,000 miles of roadway are built in the United States e…
October 7th, 2009 | by Vincent Paquet | published in Google Voice
When we launched Google Voice, we offered free calling to the continental US. We’ve just expanded this to all 50 states by adding free calling to Alaska and Hawaii.You can initiate free calls to Alaska and Hawaii from your inbox online, from our mobile…
October 7th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Our friend Daniel Tal’s new book about SketchUp is getting terrific reviews, and we couldn’t be prouder of him. Google SketchUp for Site Design: A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture is a rollicking thrill ride of 1970′s murder and i…
October 7th, 2009 | by Kristin Hall | published in Google Affiliate Network
Earlier this week, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission released revised guidelines governing endorsements and testimonials that take effect on December 1, 2009. Among other things, these guidelines say that a blogger that endorses a product or service mu…