October 26th, 2009 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search
Besides great results relevance, one of the most popular features of Custom Search is the ability for you to customize the look and feel of the results to match your website. Our users have always requested more control over results presentation. What’…
October 26th, 2009 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search
Earlier this year, we announced support for Rich Snippets in Custom Search results. If you provide in-page metadata markup, via RDFa, Microformats, or PageMaps, the Custom Search platform extracts the metadata attributes and returns these as PageMaps …
October 26th, 2009 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search
Wikipedia users can now configure a Custom Search skin to customize their Wikipedia search experience. Once configured, the skin helps you to search Wikipedia, and for contextually relevant articles, from any Wikipedia page. This can make it easier to …
This week in search 10/24/09
October 25th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label “This week in search” and subscribe to the series. – Ed.TwitterOn Wednesday, we announced our newly-formed partnership with Twitter. This wi…
U2 Plays Live on YouTube
October 24th, 2009 | by Michele Flannery | published in Youtube
Did you miss the live event that everyone’s still buzzing about? Check out the concert in full on U2′s YouTube channel.++++++++++++++We are counting down the hours to this evening’s U2 concert at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, CA. The live stream …
Hollywood Honors Top "Come Clean 4 Congo" Video
October 24th, 2009 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
Tonight at the Hollywood Film Festival’s Human Rights Symposium, Matt Smith will accept his award for submitting the winning video to YouTube’s Video for Change program, “Come Clean 4 Congo,” in partnership with the Enough Project. Back in May, we aske…
October 23rd, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
Android 1.6 introduces numerous enhancements and bug fixes in the UI framework. Today, I’d like to highlight three two improvements in particular.Optimized drawingThe UI toolkit introduced in Android 1.6 is aware of which views are opaque and can use t…
A new My Client Center interface
October 23rd, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Starting this week, you’ll see a link on your My Client Center Dashboard that will take you to a new MCC interface that we’re testing. In the new interface, you’ll notice an updated look and feel, as well as some enhancements to help you manage your cl…
October 23rd, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Voice
Voicemail transcription is, in my opinion, one of Google Voice’s coolest features. That’s why I’ve saved it for my last Google Voice tip. When someone leaves you a voicemail, Google Voice transcribes the message and gives you a variety of w…
October 23rd, 2009 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
The leaves are turning here in Mountain View, but they are not the only ones blazing away. It’s a busy time of year for open source for Google, with lots of talks and events going on.Recently:- Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian (Fitz) Fitzpatrick gave the…
The Next Chapter
October 23rd, 2009 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
As we close the chapter on the first ten years over here on Blogger, the team couldn’t be more excited about the possibilities that lie ahead over the next ten. And while we’ve got some great things planned already, we know that the ideas and passion o…
October 23rd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Today the Google Maps team is rolling out a number of refinements to the look and feel of our maps, the biggest such changes since we first launched about 4.7 years ago. In that time we’ve been steadily adding details like walkways, address …
We’re awash in Building Maker models!
October 23rd, 2009 | by Tasha Danko | published in Google SketchUp
We didn’t know what to expect when we released Google Building Maker last week. Would we hear crickets? Would we be hit by a tidal wave? Somewhere in-between? Well, the headline of this post says it all! We’ve been trying to find dry land in the sea of…
Fast, simple and stylish: Not your typical web browser
October 23rd, 2009 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
Google Chrome is a web browser designed to load web pages and web applications at lightning speed. Whether it’s searching directly and quickly from the browser’s address bar when you need to do some intensive research, or getting to the websites you re…
Bright idea: a LayOut case study
October 23rd, 2009 | by Tasha Danko | published in Google SketchUp
Clear communication of ideas and plans is an important part of the design and/or building process, regardless of the scope of the project. Mike Brightman, of See Before Building and Bright Ideas Consulting, has provided a few examples of how he used th…