A simple way for local businesses to enhance their listing
February 19th, 2010 | by Elaine Filadelfo | published in Google Earth
We recently launched a trial, currently limited to the cities of San Jose and Houston, for a new ads feature in local search that allows business owners to enhance their listings. We’ve seen a lot of curiosity about this feature, so I wanted to take th…
Release Notes: Nonprofit Program, Private Sharing, Streams
February 19th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
News from the YouTube universe… Nonprofit program launches in Australia and Canada: Like their American and British cohorts, nonprofits in Australia and Canada can now apply to become part of the YouTube Nonprofit Program. Members receive free b…
RTEMS and Google Summer of Code 2009
February 19th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
The RTEMS Project had 6 students accepted for Google Summer of Code™ 2009, with one additional student that was funded through the donation that Google gives to mentoring organizations in conjunction with a donation from OAR Corporation. We were ext…
February 19th, 2010 | by Google Data | published in Google Merchant
In late 2009, the Enterprise team here at Google launched a new tool, Google Commerce Search, to help online retailers improve site usability and raise conversions. We’re excited to see results and metrics coming in that show the impact this new produc…
Go Mobile! Series: Targeting options to make your mobile ads relevant
February 19th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Last week, we showed you how to use Google Analytics to understand how mobile visitors interact with your website. We also showed you how to use that information to optimize your AdWords campaigns. This week, we’ll show you how you can tailor your camp…
February 19th, 2010 | by Larry Adams | published in Google Affiliate Network
We will be performing system maintenance February 20; the interface will be unavailable at this time. Tracking will not be interrupted and reporting data will be restored shortly after the interface comes back online.We anticipate the interface will be…
February 19th, 2010 | by acd | published in Google Wave
Last week, Dennis Elliot at Clear Channel in Greensboro, North Carolina added [email protected] to a wave which we’d love to share here on the blog.Just wanted to tell you guys that we are loving the wave here at Clear Channel Radio in Green…
Google Voice, explained
February 19th, 2010 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
While Google Voice has features that almost anyone would find useful, it’s especially well suited for students. If you are anything like me when I was a student, you’ll appreciate the automatic voicemail transcriptions, free outgoing SMS, and voicemai…
Up Six: Discount Office Items Switches to Google Commerce Search and Increases Revenue 6%
February 19th, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: Today’s guest blogger is Tim Horton, Co-Founder and CEO of DiscountOfficeItems.com, one of the largest office supply superstores on the internet. Offering more than 65,000 name brand office supplies, technology products and office furn…
February 18th, 2010 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
We’re happy to announce a new Android application called Google Shopper. Shopper lets you find product information quickly by using your phone’s camera. It can recognize cover art of books, CDs, DVDs, and video games, along with most barcodes. You ca…
Tiger Woods Press Conf.: Live on YouTube 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET
February 18th, 2010 | by Chris Dale | published in Youtube
Tiger Woods will emerge from his silence tomorrow morning, speaking publicly for the first time since December 2009, when he admitted to marital infidelity — a scandal that tarnished his squeaky clean image and stymied his golf career. Many sports fan…
May we recommend…
February 18th, 2010 | by Laurence | published in Google Reader
Posted by Laurence Gonsalves, Software Engineer
Long time readers of our blog will note that we occasionally throw in links to crazy, interesting, and fun items in our posts. You may be wondering, “How can I find such interesting content to share?” Today we’re launching two new features that are designed to help you do just that:
We hope these new features will help you find more content that interests you, whether that’s LOLcats or cooking.
As always, feel free to come visit our help forums or Twitter to leave us some feedback.
May we recommend…
February 18th, 2010 | by Laurence | published in Google Reader, Uncategorized
Long time readers of our blog will note that we occasionally throw in links to crazy, interesting, and fun items in our posts. You may be wondering, “How can I find such interesting content to share?” Today we’re launching two new features tha…
Control your Buzz settings in Google Dashboard
February 18th, 2010 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Pablo Chavez, Managing Policy CounselEarlier this week, I noted some of the improvements we’ve made to Buzz based on some really helpful user feedback. We’ve made a few other efforts to make Buzz settings easier to manage, including adding Bu…
February 18th, 2010 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
by Vardhman Jain, Software Engineer, Mountain ViewLatency is a word you hear a lot at Google. We are always looking for ways to make our products faster, because we have consistently found that faster page loads mean more satisfied users. This post is …