December 8th, 2009 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
There was nothing more excruciating for me as a kid than seeing the presents pile up under the Christmas tree but knowing that I couldn’t open them until Christmas morning. On the Google Chrome team, we’ve had the same feeling as we’ve been working to …
December 8th, 2009 | by Chris Chabot | published in Google OpenSocial
MySpace is announcing the public beta of OpenSocial 0.9 with OSML and Data Pipelining.For off-site developers and API-based apps, we’ve had OpenSocial 0.9 REST APIs available for a few months, go check it out. This beta launch represents the second hal…
December 8th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
As an avid travel planner or discerning house hunter, you might always be looking for another view of a location before you make your final decision. On the Google Maps team we’re always looking for ways to make search experiences like this more useful…
December 8th, 2009 | by Mike Pegg | published in Google Maps
Back when I was still an intern at Google, I went on a road trip
around California with a couple of friends while armed with nothing
but a car, a cheap GPS and pure naiveté. Upon arriving at San Diego,
we parked in the middle of the city, wandered aro…
December 8th, 2009 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Offline Gmail is now a regular feature of Gmail and is no longer enabled as part of Gmail Labs.Editions included:Standard, Premier, Education and Partner EditionsLanguages included:All languages supported by GmailHow to access what’s new:Click the “Set…
December 8th, 2009 | by Evelyn O'Keeffe | published in Google Analytics, Google Conversions
A few weeks ago, we announced a set of new powerful, flexible, and intelligent features for Google Analytics. Yesterday at SES in Chicago, Phil Mui, Senior Product Manager for Google Analytics, announced an additional set of features that build on thes…
December 8th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
“Use Google to Make 1000s of Dollars!” or “Easy Cash with Google: You Could be Making up to $978 a Day Working from Home!” You may have seen offers like these using Google’s name or logo that sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately, nearly all of th…
December 8th, 2009 | by Zach Yeskel | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Aaron Whyte, Software EngineerAlmost a year ago, we launched Offline Gmail in Gmail Labs. By installing Offline Gmail, you’re able to use the normal Gmail interface to read and write mail, search, and organize, even when there’s no internet c…
December 7th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted from the Google Photos Blog)I used to take a lot of photos with the best intentions of sharing them with friends and family. But most of the time they just sat on my camera’s memory card, never quite making it to my computer, let alone to…
December 7th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
In our Think2010 post a couple weeks ago, we noted how important experimentation will be in the coming year to help you optimize your campaign for the best possible ROI. A very closely-related tenet is the commitment to speed. There is great access to …
December 7th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted on the Google Research Blog)Today kicks off the nation’s first Computer Science Education Week. The goal of this week is to encourage students to learn about the discipline that powers the computers, applications and technology they use…
December 7th, 2009 | by acd | published in Google Wave
As we wrote in our last post, our users’ top feature request is “more invitations.” We’ve been working to increase the capacity of our preview setup and have sent invitations to everyone who requested an invite through our online form. If you’d like to…
The making of a sweet physical model
December 7th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Remember the Design Your Dwelling competition we ran with Dwell magazine last year? The winner (in case you missed it) was a gentleman named Drew Wilgus from North Carolina. His prize included a physical model from Sweet Onion Creations, a model shop t…
Join us for the 2010 Google GRAD CS Forum!
December 7th, 2009 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Hanah Kim, University Programs[cross-posted with the 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…
Relevance meets the real-time web
December 7th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world’s information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access…