December 7th, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Editor’s note: today Google held a launch event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Fresh off the stage, we’ve invited Vic to highlight the mobile team’s announcements, and the unique set of technologies that make them possible. (All […
December 7th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Just before Thanksgiving we made Google Maps Navigation available on Android 1.6 (Donut). Before we head out for the holidays, we wanted to launch one more update to Google Maps for Android-powered phones to help you get around during your holidays. Wi…
December 7th, 2009 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
We all love the holiday season, and so now, here are a few reasons to love it even more! A few weeks ago, we announced a set of powerful, flexible, and intelligent features. Today, at SES Chicago, Phil Mui announced additional features that build on th…
Google Translator Toolkit Data API
December 7th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the Google Translator Toolkit Data API. Translator Toolkit is a powerful but easy-to-use editor that enables translators to bring a human touch to machine translation through translation search, bilingual…
Search for ads in the Ad Review Center
December 7th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
When we announced the new AdSense interface a few weeks ago, we mentioned how we’ve been working on building more functionality into the Ad Review Center to make it easier for you to find and manage your ads. Today, we’d like to let you know that we’re…
December 7th, 2009 | by Kristin Hall | published in Google Affiliate Network
We are currently experiencing issues with signing into the Google Affiliate Network platform. Tracking is not impacted.We will update this post when the issue is resolved.Update: 3pm CST – services have been minimally restored, we are working to get b…
FTC roundtable explores privacy in an information economy
December 7th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Jane Horvath, Global Privacy CounselWhat happens to privacy when new technologies are adopted by society? That’s what the Federal Trade Commission is looking into today in the first of a three-part series of roundtable discussions about the p…
studiVZ, meinVZ and schuelerVZ launches OpenSocial support
December 7th, 2009 | by Chris Chabot | published in Google OpenSocial
Our three platforms studiVZ, meinVZ and schuelerVZ are Germany’s largest social network with close to 16 million users.We are proud to announce that our platform has OpenSocial 0.8.1 up and running. Developers can upload and test their Apps against ou…
Explore a whole new way to window shop, with Google and your mobile phone
December 7th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
What if you could decide where to shop, eat or hang out, with a little help from local Google users?It might take you a while to ask them all, so to make it easier we’ve launched a new effort to send window decals to over 100,000 local businesses in th…
Climate tools for Copenhagen and beyond
December 7th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Representatives from around the world arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark today to negotiate a successor treaty for the Kyoto Protocol. This 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) has been called the most important conference in a decade.In fact, in an unpreced…
December 7th, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google Earth
Back in June of 2008, some of my fellow engineers and I got to thinking: how could we recreate the experience of seeing the impressive imagery from our geo products in a more seamless way? We scrounged some spare Linux workstations, and in our 20% time…
This week in search 12/4/09
December 4th, 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, we’re pleased to bring you a number of great enhancements to the way you se…
The Google Grants Blog in your language
December 4th, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
With readers from more than 16 countries around the world, and more joining us every day, we thought it might be helpful to add a new feature to the blog so that you could read blog posts in your own language.All you have to do is choose your language …
Webinar on Basic Editing Techniques: Dec. 17, 2009
December 4th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
YouTube’s Creator’s Corner and Videomaker magazine are pleased to offer another free Webinar to help newer videographers get comfortable with every aspect of the production process. This time, the topic is Basic Editing Techniques, and it will take pla…
Personalized Search for everyone
December 4th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Today we’re helping people get better search results by extending Personalized Search to signed-out users worldwide, and in more than forty languages. Now when you search using Google, we will be able to better provide you with the most relevant result…