Site maintenance on Saturday, February 20
February 18th, 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…
Google Docs: the tool for the 21st century classroom
February 18th, 2010 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Guest post: Tara Seale teaches 9th grade English in the Bryant Public School District and recently attended the Google Teacher Academy. English teachers polled in the last decade of the last century about the one tool that they could not live without i…
The New AdWords Interface: A Quick Navigation Guide, Part 1 of 3
February 18th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Savvy advertisers have been gaining mastery of the new AdWords interface now that it has been around for a little while. To help you take advantage of the new layout and features, we’d like to offer a brief series on the new interface that has taken …
AdWords system maintenance on February 20th
February 18th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
On Saturday, February 20th, 2010 the AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 10AM to 2PM PST, for maintenance. While you won’t be able to sign in to your accounts during this time, your campaigns will continue to run as usual. AdWords sys…
Google Voice, explained
February 18th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted from the Google Voice Blog)Google Voice is about giving you more control over your communications, through dozens of features — ranging from call screening to voicemail transcription to the ability to send and receive SMS by email.While…
Explore the Games with Google
February 18th, 2010 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
Have you been too busy hitting the books to keep up with the Games in Vancouver or don’t know where to look? Well, you’re in luck because we’ve compiled a list of great tools for you the explore the Games with Google.Check out google.com/games10 for al…
February 18th, 2010 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by John Costigan, Software EngineerNow that people have been playing with Google Buzz in Gmail for a week and we’ve rolled out the improvements we announced here over the weekend, we wanted to let you know about some tips and tricks to help you…
Spotlight on Google Analytics features: Custom variables
February 18th, 2010 | by Brian O' Sullivan | published in Google Conversions
You may remember that back in November 2009 we announced multiple custom variables. While at first look this feature may appear a little daunting, in this post I hope to explain how you can use custom variables to enhance the insights you get from Goog…
New web clipboard for Google Docs that improves copy and paste
February 18th, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
This new clipboard temporarily stores items you’ve copied in the cloud, then allows you to paste them with proper formatting into documents, spreadsheets and presentations.Editions included:Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLangu…
Going Native: Using the Google Maps API v3 in Smartphone applications
February 18th, 2010 | by Thor Mitchell | published in Google Maps
Over the last couple of years, my office has been working on using the Google Maps API to display the Missouri State University campus map. The map is used by campus faculty, staff, students, and visitors and includes buildings, parking and transit …
February 17th, 2010 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
This week, the US federal General Services Administration (GSA) has approved listing Google Analytics in its apps.gov web site, which is a place for government agencies and services to find approved cloud computing applications. It’s goal is to drive i…
Announcing the winner of our Map Maker global competition
February 17th, 2010 | by Elaine Filadelfo | published in Google Earth
Google’s first Global Mapping Competition ran from December 15 – January 31, 2010 and the big moment has come: announcing the winner! The competition entrant who added the most universities, schools, hospitals, and medical clinics with high quality int…
Google Grants Help for Haïti – One month after
February 17th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Many of the non-profits in the Google Grants program are still taking part in the relief efforts in response to the Haïti Earthquake. In order to provide them with more effective support, many Google Grants volunteers got involved and offered up some …
What to expect at Google I/O 2010
February 17th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Back in January, we announced the start of early registration for Google I/O (our annual developer conference), and our team was excited to publish our new website for this year’s event. Today, we’re excited to give you a quick update on what’s in stor…
February 17th, 2010 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
(cross-posted with Google Translate Blog)Yesterday, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Eric Schmidt and I demonstrated a prototype version of Google Goggles that showcases the potential of integrating Google’s machine translation and image reco…