November 23rd, 2009 | by yushi | published in Google Research
Posted by Yushi Jing and Henry Rowley, Google ResearchEarlier this week, we announced the Labs launch of Google Image Swirl, an experimental search tool that organizes image-search results. We hope to take this opportunity to explain some of the res…
November 23rd, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
Since we launched printable coupons on Google Maps a few years ago, people are increasingly using their mobile phones to find local information when they’re away from a computer. With more of you going mobile to search for this information, it makes se…
November 23rd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
We know that coupons are a great way for local businesses to drive customers to their stores – that’s why we created the option for businesses to add coupons to their Google Local Business Center listing back in 2007. Now, as the holiday shopping seaso…
November 23rd, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Can you spot the difference between these two sample display ads? Of course you can. However, the most important difference is not discernible to the naked eye.The lower ad was customized and chosen from thousands of different creative elements, automa…
November 23rd, 2009 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Guest post by Bob Hitching, Director of Technology for Xumii, recently acquired by Myriad (Myriad Group AG), Europe’s largest mobile technology company with software in over 2 billion phones.Bob also writes about mobile + geo + social on his blog and…
November 23rd, 2009 | by Evelyn O'Keeffe | published in Google Conversions
This week we wanted to share how Marie Curie improved its website performance using Website Optimiser and saw a 14% increase in donations on the site!Marie Curie felt its ‘Make a donation’ page could be improved to increase conversion rates.The organi…
November 23rd, 2009 | by Rahul Kulkarni, Product Manager | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Srikanth Belwadi and Siddharth Naidu, orkut teamAs part of our continous efforts towards giving orkut users more ways to share interesting content with their friends, we are happy to announce the launch of the orkut Share API. The API allows …
November 23rd, 2009 | by Rahul Kulkarni, Product Manager | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Srikanth Belwadi and Siddharth Naidu, orkut teamAs part of our continous efforts towards giving orkut users more ways to share interesting content with their friends, we are happy to announce the launch of the orkut Share API. The API allows …
November 20th, 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.This week brought a number of new features to the fore.Google TranslateThe biggest and…
November 20th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
At an event organized jointly by the United Nations and Google at Google’s office in New York, 80 United Nations delegates from more than 20 UN agencies, met with various Google product teams to explore how Google’s wide array of products and services …
November 20th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
As Googlers, we love data. More data lets us make better decisions and make improvements to our products. As fellow gadget authors, we know that once you’ve developed a gadget, it can be difficult to get data that lets you know how your gadget is doing…
November 20th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
As Googlers, we love data. More data lets us make better decisions and make improvements to our products. As fellow gadget authors, we know that once you’ve developed a gadget, it can be difficult to get data that lets you know how your gadget is doing…
November 20th, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google SketchUp
Since we released Google Building Maker several weeks ago, we’ve seen a large inflow of new 3D models. Great job!If you’ve been following our posts (or Tweets), you might be wondering why we’re introducing new cities in Building Maker in the same locat…
November 20th, 2009 | by Jessica Bagley | published in Google Student Blog
As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encouraging students of underrepresented backgrounds in technology to pursue graduate study, we are pleased to host the first annual 2010 Google Graduate Researchers in Academia of Diverse backgrounds (GRAD) …
November 20th, 2009 | by Niki Fenwick | published in Google.org
(Condensed Remarks from the 2009 California Cleantech Open) There are still power plants operating today that Thomas Edison could have seen with his own eyes. If he were to tour our electrical grid, he would recognize that too. As former Secretary of…