This week in search 1/8/10
January 8th, 2010 | 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.In honor of the first full week of the new year, it seems the perfect opportunity to t…
January 8th, 2010 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Jack Hebert, Matthew Watson and Corrie Scalisi, Software EngineersToday you may notice a change to the Google News home page: Near the bottom, we’re now displaying stories from Google Fast Flip, the article-reading service we launched in Sept…
Subscriptions Enhanced With Bulletins, Progress Bar & Ability to Remove Videos
January 8th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
The subscription system delivers videos from content creators to eager viewers and has become such an essential part of YouTube that that “subscribe” button is clicked over 1 million times every day. That’s a lot — which is why we’re especially focuse…
Popular Woodworking in the Warehouse
January 8th, 2010 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
One of the great benefits of working on the SketchUp team for the past five years has been the opportunity to be around designers who have inspired me to become a woodworker (albeit a fledgling one). That said, it was a nice surprise to find Popular Wo…
Vote Now: Send a YouTube Activist to Davos to Meet with World Leaders
January 8th, 2010 | by Olivia | published in Youtube
The entries are in and the finalists have been chosen. Now it’s your turn to determine who should go to this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Judges Arianna Huffington, Paolo Coehlo and Muhammed Yunus watched all of the entries in our…
Find us at the National Retail Federation Big Show in NYC next week
January 8th, 2010 | by Elaine Filadelfo | published in Google Earth
Shoppers are increasingly turning to Google.com and Google Maps to find, learn about, map, and get directions to retail locations. We offer several tools that help retail businesses connect with these shoppers, such as Local Business Center to make sur…
Google Apps highlights – 1/8/2010
January 8th, 2010 | 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 holidays, clever elves left us some nice improvements to Google Apps for …
In Case You Missed It
January 8th, 2010 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Before you say goodbye to the holidays, take a look at this great holiday list on the official Google blog by our very own Avinash Kaushik, called Top Ten Ways To Get Your Business Ready For The Holidays. By publishing this now in January, we’re hoping…
January 8th, 2010 | by Evelyn O'Keeffe | published in Google Conversions
A new year tends to bring new year’s resolutions, so why not make one now to get even more sales and leads from your AdWords campaigns? To help you do this, we’d like to share the new Google AdWords Optimisation Centre with you. This is an online guid…
New Year, New Media
January 7th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
At the beginning of the year, most people take time to reflect on what they’ve accomplished in the past year and what their goals are for the next year. New Year’s Resolutions are a chance to reinvent yourself and try out new experiences.It’s also a go…
January 7th, 2010 | by acd | published in Google Wave
There’s a simple, powerful, and fun technique which leads to a better Google Wave experience for you and your friends: edit other people’s content! You can edit any message in a wave, not just those you started.Waves are often shared among a group of p…
January 7th, 2010 | by Heaven | published in Google Mobile
Last month, Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering, demonstrated at the Computer History Museum the ability to search by using your location as the query. Starting today, you can try this yourself by going to Google.com in your iPhone or Android browser and …
FCC seeks short extension to complete National Broadband Plan
January 7th, 2010 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselToday the FCC asked Congress for a one-month extension to deliver its National Broadband Plan, explaining that it needs more time to review the public record and to brief key officials. The d…
Site maintenance on Saturday, January 9
January 7th, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
This Saturday, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. You’ll be unable to log in to your AdSense and Ad Manager accounts during this time, but we’ll continue serving ads to your pages and tracking your clicks, i…
Shaking things up
January 7th, 2010 | by Elaine Filadelfo | published in Google Earth
At around 10:00am in Mountain View, our building shook. Really shook. Coming from the Midwest, earthquakes have always intrigued me (I wondered things like: Does it really feel like you’re standing next to a freight train? Answer: Yes). So being the ea…