Captions available for all Google I/O videos
November 20th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
We work hard to make sure that the videos on the GoogleDevelopers channel on Youtube are captioned, but when I/O added over a hundred hours of video content, we got a little behind. I’m happy to announce that we’re finally caught up! Every English and …
‘New software version’ notifications for your site
November 20th, 2009 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster level: AllOne of the great things about working at Google is that we get to take advantage of an enormous amount of computing power to do some really cool things. One idea we tried out was to let webmasters know about their potentially hackab…
Saluting Google Power Posters
November 20th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Thousands of administrators visit the Google Apps Help Forum every day in need of advice and technical knowledge. The heart and soul of this community are known as the Google Apps Power Posters: LMckin51, Jim McNelis, jlee, ScienceMan, Benjamin, FrankM…
Google Apps highlights – 11/20/2009
November 20th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subscribe to the series. – Ed.Over the last two weeks, we’ve made improvements across Google Apps, some geared f…
November 19th, 2009 | by Sarah Nahm | published in Google Chrome
Today we released Chromium OS, the open source project behind Google Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS is an operating system that is intended for people who spend most of their time on the web. It aims to provide a computing experience that is fast, simpl…
November 19th, 2009 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Website Optimizer
It’s a great week for the Website Optimizer YouTube channel. On the heels of Dan Siroker’s talk, How we used data to win the election, we just posted two recorded webinars. The first webinar is Planning and Running your First Experiment with Website Op…
Two webinars now up on the Website Optimizer YouTube channel
November 19th, 2009 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Website Optimizer
It’s a great week for the Website Optimizer YouTube channel. On the heels of Dan Siroker’s talk, How we used data to win the election, we just posted two recorded webinars. The first webinar is Planning and Running your First Experiment with Website Op…
More new imagery in November
November 19th, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google Earth
We just launched new imagery for Google Earth and Google Maps. Check to see if any of your favorite places has gotten an update! You can download this KML for viewing in Google Earth or you view the updates in Google Maps. Or you can view the updated a…
November 19th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Creating captions for your videos on YouTube becomes much easier today, thanks to automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology.Auto-Timing: Upload a transcript (a simple file with the text of what’s said in the video), and through speech recognition t…
November 19th, 2009 | by Mickey Kataria, Google Sydney | published in Google Maps
Over the last four years, developers have created hundreds of thousands of mashups that use the various Maps APIs. These range from practical and useful to fun and bizarre. With so many API sites out there, how do you find one about a specific topic …
Testing Chrome OS
November 19th, 2009 | by JulianHarty | published in Google Testing
By Julian HartyThe open-source launch of Chrome OS was announced today, and the source is available to download and build http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os. The entire project, including testing, is being open-sourced and made available for scrutiny …
Cool. Even Batman uses Google.
November 19th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
When I first started at Google, Craig Nevill-Manning, engineering director here in New York, said to me: “The Google homepage doesn’t belong to us. It belongs to the millions of people who use it.” Besides the fact that Craig can make one of those insa…
November 19th, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
At Google, we are committed to giving you a consistent user experience across products and devices, and we really value the feedback you’ve given us about Google News for mobile. Today we’re excited to announce a completely new Google News offering for…
November 19th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Pablo Chavez, Managing Policy CounselUPDATE 11/24/09: Full-length video of our announcement event in Washington, D.C. has been posted to YouTube and is embedded at the bottom of this blog post. We have included English captions using our new …
November 19th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
This past Saturday, we launched the first ever mapping competition in Latin America during a live session on Map Maker at the Campus Party Mexico 2009. The competition officially kicked off at the event in Mexico city, where tech enthusiasts from all o…