Celebrating free expression 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
October 23rd, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)In 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall became a striking symbol for free expression far beyond the borders of Germany. Just 20 years later, Iranian citizens used online tools like YouTube and Twitter to share firsthand…
October 22nd, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Custom Search, Google Mobile
Google Custom Search makes it easy for web site owners to add Google-powered search boxes to their sites. Since a rapidly growing percentage of web search traffic originates from smartphones, we’re pleased to announce that Google Custom Search now for…
Reading gets personal with Popular items and Personalized ranking
October 22nd, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted from the Official Google Reader Blog)Today, we’re launching two changes to Google Reader to help you discover more interesting content faster. Just as the launch of Personalized Search improved search results based on your search history,…
October 22nd, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Last March, we announced that we would be requiring all US grantees to actively manage their accounts. In a couple of months we will be extending this requirement to all of our grantees worldwide. To help grantees better learn how to manage their accou…
October 22nd, 2009 | by Inside AdWords Group | published in Google Adwords
Back in April, we introduced keyboard shortcuts you can use to zip around AdWords. As fans of Gmail shortcuts already know, if you want to save time navigating your account, ditching your mouse can give you a major boost.To help you learn shortcuts fas…
October 22nd, 2009 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search
In our recent Product Ideas survey, one of the most-requested features was about enabling a mobile version of Custom Search. Guess what: It’s here! As announced on the Google Mobile blog, Custom Search now enables a rich interactive mobile experience o…
October 22nd, 2009 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllYou may have seen our recent announcement of changes to the verification system in Webmaster Tools. One side effect of this change is that blogs hosted on Blogger (that haven’t yet been verified) will have to use the meta tag verifi…
New version of the AdWords API v2009
October 22nd, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
For those of you who use the AdWords API, we’re happy to announce the launch of the latest version, v200909. This version offers a number of exciting new features, including asynchronous calls, keyword and placement ideas, and location extensions. AdWo…
Find App Engine news and content at reddit
October 22nd, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
We’re pleased to announce that you can now submit and comment on App Engine news and articles on a new App Engine specific section of the popular social media site, reddit. Our subreddit is for any articles, blog posts, or other content relevant to App…
October 22nd, 2009 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Brian Axe, Product ManagerWe’re happy to report that the new version of Picasa 3.5 is compatible with Windows 7. We’d also like to provide some guidance for people who switch to Windows 7 from Windows XP or older versions of Windows, as you’l…
October 22nd, 2009 | by Panayiotis Mavrommatis | published in Google Online Security
Written by Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Security Team As part of Cyber Security Awareness Month, Google’s Anti-Malware Team is publishing a series of educational blog posts inspired by questions we’ve received from users. October is a great time to brush up…
October 22nd, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google Earth
Hope you all had a great time exploring this new imagery around the globe and that you answered all the questions in the quiz correctly.Here are the answers to the quiz:1. This city was once a mill town in UK. The person who invented multi spool spinn…
October 22nd, 2009 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We’re happy to announce the newest version of AdWords API v2009! v200909 introduces several new features to the AdWords API; we’ve highlighted the main points below. For a complete list of the changes in v200909, please see our release notes.v200909 Hi…
Time to let the process unfold
October 22nd, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselThis morning, the FCC voted unanimously to begin consideration of proposed rules that would protect and promote open broadband pipes to the Internet. Over the next several months, an official…
Art meets engineering with Google Chrome Artist Themes
October 22nd, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
A couple of weeks ago we introduced Artist Themes for Google Chrome. We asked leading designers, artists, illustrators and musicians to use the browser as their personal canvas for designing interesting themes.Since then, we’ve enjoyed hearing your tho…