February 25th, 2010 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Amit Singhal, Google Fellow(Cross-posted from the Google European Public Policy Blog)Yesterday’s news that the European Commission has opened a preliminary inquiry into competition complaints from three companies has generated a lot of questi…
February 25th, 2010 | by Evelyn O'Keeffe | published in Google Analytics, Google Conversions
Within the next two weeks, Google Analytics will be performing a system upgrade. This upgrade is to further improve the scalability and reliability of Google Analytics to meet the demand of the increasing number of enterprises using Google Analytics. …
February 25th, 2010 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick, Uncategorized
The mission of DoubleClick Ad Planner, Google’s free research and media planning tool formerly named Google Ad Planner, is to provide the deepest, most accurate insight into online audiences possible. This insight helps display advertisers select the b…
February 25th, 2010 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
The mission of DoubleClick Ad Planner, Google’s free research and media planning tool formerly named Google Ad Planner, is to provide the deepest, most accurate insight into online audiences possible. This insight helps display advertisers select the b…
February 25th, 2010 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
Over the past year we’ve built upon the central role of DoubleClick’s technology products within Google’s display advertising business. For example, we released our next generation ad serving platform for publishers, we strengthened the ties between me…
February 25th, 2010 | by Olivia | published in Youtube
While some people are calling it the most important political event of the year and others deem it political theater, one thing is clear: today’s health care summit, featuring President Obama and top legislators from both bodies of Congress, will be a …
February 24th, 2010 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Mark Knichel, Software EngineerWe launched Gmail Labs over a year and a half ago as a playground where engineers can come up with new features and let your input help decide which are good ideas and which don’t quite work out. Any engineer at…
February 24th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
The Internet is going mobile. Every week, tens of millions of people search on Google from their mobile phones and generate hundreds of millions of searches. Using mobile ads, you can reach these consumers while they’re on-the-go.Please join us for an …
Upcoming System Upgrade for Greater Scalability & Reliability
February 24th, 2010 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Analytics
Within the next two weeks, Google Analytics will be performing a system upgrade. This upgrade is to further increase the scalability and reliability of Google Analytics to meet the demand of an increasing number of enterprises using Google Analytics…
February 24th, 2010 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Website Optimizer
Within the next two weeks, Google Website Optimizer will undergo a system upgrade. During this upgrade, Website Optimizer will be in maintenance mode. Your experiments will continue to run and collect data, and you’ll be able to view your reports. However, you will not be able to create or modify experiments. This includes launching, pausing, or stopping an experiment.
We’ll notify you of the exact timing of this upgrade both here on the blog and with a message inside your Website Optimizer account. Thanks for bearing with us as we continue to make Website Optimizer better.
If you also use Google Analytics you should know that they’ll be undergoing a similar upgrade, which you can read about on the Google Analytics blog.
Update: 3/2/2010 at 8:55 AM
We’ve begun the upgrade and Website Optimizer is currently in maintenance mode. A reminder that you’ll be unable to create or modify experiments during this time.
Update: 3/3/2010 at 8:10 AM
As of about 2AM PST this morning, Website Optimizer is out of maintenance mode and working normally. Thanks for bearing with us during the maintenance period.
Posted by Trevor Claiborne, Website Optimizer team
February 24th, 2010 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Website Optimizer
Within the next two weeks, Google Website Optimizer will undergo a system upgrade. During this upgrade, Website Optimizer will be in maintenance mode. Your experiments will continue to run and collect data, and you’ll be able to view your reports….
A smoother voice and video experience
February 24th, 2010 | by Serge Lachapelle | published in Google Talk
We have spent the last few months focusing on three things: quality, quality, and quality! For those of you with the Google voice and video chat plugin installed, you have recently received an automatic update that contains:
- A fix that reduces crashes on newer macs (Mac OS X v10.6.2 specifically)
- A fix for webcam compatibility on Windows (including HP webcams)
- Several fixes to increase plugin stability
- Several fixes to the infrastructure used to set up and connect your video calls.
From users who have chosen to “Report quality statistics” in their chat settings, we can see a substantial increase in call connection rates and a big decrease in the call drop rate (see chart below). We hope that this will result in more enjoyable conversations with our software.
As with all software, working on improving quality is a never ending process, so we hope that you will continue to report any issues you have in our user forum, and we will continue to work on improving connection rates and call quality.
Thanks to all of you who use our service — and especially those of you who report issues!
Posted by Jessan Hutchison-Quillian and Mikael Drugge
Software engineers
A smoother voice and video experience
February 24th, 2010 | by Serge Lachapelle | published in Google Talk
We have spent the last few months focusing on three things: quality, quality, and quality! For those of you with the Google voice and video chat plugin installed, you have recently received an automatic update that contains:A fix that reduces crashes o…
February 24th, 2010 | by Kristin Hall | published in Google Affiliate Network
Reposted from the Google Retail blogWhat other consumer trends should we keep an eye on in 2010? The lengthening shopping cycle we discussed last week hinted at the increasing importance of research as a trend to watch.Taking a look at category level r…
February 24th, 2010 | by Tasha Danko | published in Google SketchUp
Often, while drinking morning coffee at my desk, I read the latest SketchUp-related stories and blog posts found by my favorite search engine and alert tool. One of these searches led me to the folks at Lowney Architecture. Their firm uses SketchUp for…