January 28th, 2010 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
(Cross-posted on the Google Korea Blog)Webmaster Level: AllLegitimate websites may require that their visitors install software. These sites often do so to provide their users with additional functionality beyond what’s available in standard web browse…
January 28th, 2010 | by Ethan | published in Google Product Ideas
If you’ve been visiting the Product Ideas page recently, you’ve probably noticed we have a series running for YouTube. As part of the YouTube team’s spring cleaning project, we’re collecting your feedback and ideas to make YouTube better.So, head on ov…
January 28th, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Today, we’re beginning a troubleshooting series to help you diagnose and solve common issues with your ads, search boxes, and account functionality. We’re kicking things off with a look at how to correctly implement your ad code and an explanation of w…
January 28th, 2010 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Kelvin Ho, Nexus One Product Manager and Soujanya Bhumkar, CEO and Co-founder, Cooliris Managing your media on a mobile phone can sometimes be cumbersome – many phones have cameras that make it easy to take photos and record videos on the g…
January 28th, 2010 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Sometimes when you’re searching for a local business on your mobile device, you’re not looking for their website, but rather to connect by phone. After searching for a restaurant, you might want to call and make a reservation. Or, after searching for a…
January 28th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
When people search for goods or services using their mobile phones, they often prefer to call a store rather than visit that store’s website. Whether they’re placing a direct order, making a reservation, or inquiring about services, the ability for pro…
January 28th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
During a recent visit to Africa, the Google Earth Outreach team announced the availability of the Google Earth Outreach program in most African countries.Now, organizations in Africa have new tools to help them use Google Maps and Google Earth to bring…
January 28th, 2010 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By Greg Robbins, Software EngineerSeveral years ago, I began hosting the email for my personal domain with the free Standard Edition of Google Apps. At first I remained a curmudgeon, and set my email client to delete messages from the server after retr…
January 28th, 2010 | by Jessica Smallman | published in Google Checkout
This Valentine’s Day discover sweet savings with Google Checkout.Now through February 11th, save $5, $10 or $20 on gifts for you and your loved ones. A variety of stores are offering exclusive discounts with Google Checkout, including BlueNile.com, Fro…
January 28th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
We’ve got great news for users of orkut and Google Chrome (Google’s awesome and free web browser): We’ve just launched a cool orkut extension for Google Chrome.
This extension adds an orkut icon on your browser’s toolbar and shows the number of unviewed updates from your friends. When you click the icon, you’ll see a drop-down menu with quick links to main orkut pages, plus the number of updates currently on your orkut homepage and scrapbook. This extension also has a “Share this page” link, so you can tell your orkut friends about interesting online content with a single click.
The orkut extension also includes a universal search box that lets you search for content on orkut and jump directly to a friend’s profile in a matter of seconds:
The extension lets you work online, or browse the internet while staying up-to-date on the latest happenings on orkut. It pops up new updates on photos, scraps, videos, status messages and applications from your friends as they occur. And you can set the notification interval that works best for you.
To download this new orkut extension visit the installation page. Have fun using orkut on Google Chrome, and don’t forget to share your feedback with us!
Posted by Megha Gupta, Satyanarayana M. and Shishir Birmiwal, software engineers
January 28th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
About 18 months ago, we published a graph showing that Unicode on the web had just exceeded all other encodings of text on the web. The growth since then has been even more dramatic.Web pages can use a variety of different character encodings, like ASC…
January 28th, 2010 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Jane Horvath and Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy CounselDid you know that today is an international holiday, one that’s celebrated in the U.S., Canada, and 27 countries in Europe? Known as Data Privacy Day in North America and Data Protection…
January 28th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Starting today, when you upload a video to YouTube, you’ll see a rapid-fire assortment of thumbnails from the video after it begins uploading to the site. Aside from being fun to watch (it’s kind of like a flipbook of your video!), this visual represen…
January 27th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Thursday, January 28th marks International Data Privacy Day. We’re recognizing this day by publicly publishing our guiding Privacy Principles.Use information to provide our users with valuable products and services. Develop products that reflect strong…
January 27th, 2010 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Today a group of DNS and content providers, including Neustar/UltraDNS and Google are publishing a proposal to extend the DNS protocol. DNS is the system that translates an easy-to-remember name like www.google.com to a numeric address like 74.125.45.1…