Apply for a summer 2010 Google Policy Fellowship
November 11th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Joe Sexton, Fellowship CoordinatorInternet policy wonks are different. When the weather gets colder and most people think about planning their July beach vacation, we think about what’s going to be on July’s docket at the FCC, or what tech le…
How We Think About Social
November 11th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Social features like commenting, rating, video responses and even just emailing or IMing a video’s link have always been a part of the YouTube experience. So that’s why we spend a lot of time here thinking about how to make the site an even more social…
November 11th, 2009 | by Justin Mattson | published in Google Android
Written in collaboration with Michael Burton, Mob.ly; Ivan Mitrovic, uLocate; and Josh Garnier, OpenTable.OpenTable, uLocate, and Mob.ly worked together to create a great user experience on Android. We saw an opportunity to enable WHERE and GoodFood us…
World Bank public data, now in search
November 11th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
When we first launched public data on Google.com, we wanted to make statistics easier to find and to encourage debate based on facts rather than intuition. The day after we launched, a friend who worked at the World Bank called me, her voice filled wit…
Western Union launched in new countries
November 11th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’re excited to announce the launch of Western Union payments in the following new countries:Puerto RicoJamaicaVirgin Islands (British)EcuadorCosta RicaParaguayWestern Union Quick Cash payments will reach you much faster than checks, and they’re free …
Locking SafeSearch
November 11th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
When you’re searching on Google, we think you should have the choice to keep adult content out of your search results. That’s why we developed SafeSearch, a feature that lets you filter sexually explicit web sites and images from your search results. W…
YouTube Salutes Vets and Their Supporters
November 11th, 2009 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
Today, we’re shining the spotlight on the men and women who have bravely served — and are presently serving — in all branches of the U.S. military. Video has become a vital tool for current soldiers who are trying to communicate their wartime experie…
Post-Halloween Treat: New Keywords User Interface!
November 11th, 2009 | by Sagar Kamdar | published in Google Webmaster Central
Our team had an awesome Halloween and we hope you did too. Yes, the picture below is our team; we take our Halloween costumes pretty seriously. :)As a post-Halloween treat, we’re happy to announce a brand new user interface for our Keywords feature. W…
Twice the storage for a quarter of the price
November 10th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted from the Google Photos Blog)People today have more personal data online than ever before. More and more people are starting to move the bulk of their data off the desktop and into servers “in the cloud,” where it’s accessible from any com…
More extra storage for less
November 10th, 2009 | by Zach Yeskel | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Elvin Lee, Software EngineerWhen Gmail launched five years ago, it came with a gigabyte of storage space. A gigabyte doesn’t seem like very much any more, and now every Gmail account comes with more than seven gigs of space (and growing). Sti…
Community Update: deferred, open source, and more
November 10th, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Here are some of the recent developments from the greater developer community.deferred.deferNick Johnson recently added a new module to the App Engine Python SDK which allows you to use the task queue service to execute deferred function calls. This li…
November 10th, 2009 | by Heaven | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
Since the launch of Google Latitude earlier this year, we’ve been getting a lot of feature requests. One of the most popular ideas was for Latitude to keep track of location history, allowing you (but not your friends) to see where you’ve been at any p…
AdWords Downtime: November 14th, 10am-2pm PDT
November 10th, 2009 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We’ll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday, November 14th 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…
Upcoming webinars from the AdSense team
November 10th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Following up on our recent webinar geared towards education sites, we’re starting to roll out more webinars geared towards specific types of sites. Webinars are free web seminars where one of our AdSense team members will deliver a presentation on a ce…
Go: A New Programming Language
November 10th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Have you heard about Go? We released a new, experimental systems programming language today. It is open source and we’re excited about sharing it with the development community. For more information, check out the Google Open Source blog.By Robert Gri…