April 16th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
The legendary hip-hop pioneer and graffiti artist curates our homepage today. He took his Flip into his studio to tell you about his picks and also jotted down some thoughts on them:Blondies’ video for the song “Rapture” was like my coming out par…
April 16th, 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.Today’s update includes a big batch of new functionality in Google Docs and seve…
April 16th, 2010 | by Ethan | published in Google Product Ideas
Our first round Product Ideas for Google Buzz was a great success. We received a lot of feedback, and the team has already made improvements on collapsing comments and better inbox controls. More improvements are in the works, and we’d like to know mor…
April 16th, 2010 | by Neha | published in Google TV Ads Blog
For many businesses, TV advertising is an entirely new medium that is both intriguing and seemingly intimidating. The most common questions we get from advertisers who are newer to TV revolve around how to strategically budget, target and measure TV ca…
April 16th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
We spend a lot of time thinking about search results, but we also spend a lot of time thinking about search queries. Today we’re announcing three enhancements to help you input your searches more quickly and easily: more localized Google Suggest, imp…
April 16th, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
- You can now drag and drop attachments directly onto a message when composing a new message.- You can now insert a calendar invitation directly from the compose window in Gmail.Editions included:Standard, Premier, Education and Partner EditionsLanguag…
April 16th, 2010 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
This is the 8th edition of Web Analytics TV with Avinash Kaushik and Nick Mihailovski where you ask questions via the Google Analytics Google Moderator site and we answer them.Here is the list of last week’s questions. In this episode we discuss:How …
April 16th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
The Webby Awards announced its 24 nominees this week, and many of them originated right here on YouTube, including “The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody,” ”David After Dentist” and “The Pizza Slap.”While Academy judges such as Martha Stewart, David Bowi…
April 16th, 2010 | by Prashant Tiwari | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Prashant Tiwari, Developer Programs Engineer
Effective today, we’re moving this blog to the Google Code blog, which many of you may already be familiar with as the home to announcements and updates from several other Google APIs. The code blog enjoys a much wider audience and we believe this transition will help us reach out to a much larger number of developers, which will further help grow the community around orkut. This blog will still be available for reference to our older posts but all the new ones will go to the new blog.
Remember to update your bookmarks to googlecode.blogspot.com for all major updates to the orkut development platform, and follow us on Twitter and the orkut Developer Forum for all other community news, events and announcements.
See you there!
April 16th, 2010 | by Prashant Tiwari | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Prashant Tiwari, Developer Programs EngineerEffective today, we’re moving this blog to the Google Code blog, which many of you may already be familiar with as the home to announcements and updates from several other Google APIs. The code bl…
April 15th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Today, leaders of the three largest British parties took part in the U.K’s first live televised debate in the run up to the May 6 general election. Alastair Stewart of ITN hosted Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Labour Party, Conservative Party leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg as they discussed domestic affairs before a Manchester T.V. studio audience.
Nick Clegg, his Liberal Democrat Party, and its manifesto generated many queries as people searched for Lib Dems and Liberal Democrat manifesto 2010. Searches for David Cameron and the Conservatives beat out the well-known incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Labour, but the two parties’ manifestos generated about the same number of searches.
Many Brits sought to watch the debate, searching for ITV election debate and live political debate, while others sought real-time polling information with queries such as debate polls, leaders debate poll and who is winning the debate.
Gordon Brown told David Cameron, “I’m grateful, by the way, David, for you putting up these posters about me and about crime and about everything else. You know, there’s no newspaper editor done as much for me in the last two years, because my face is smiling on these posters, and I’m very grateful to you and Lord Ashcroft for funding that”, generating queries for Gordon Brown poster and Lord Ashcroft. David Cameron’s statement, “We’re going to get rid of some of these quangos” sent users scurrying to determine what a quango is. Nick Clegg’s repeated railing against renewing the Trident missile and David Cameron’s repeated railing against the jobs tax, a one percent increase in National Insurance contributions, were the other issues generating queries. Overwhelming these debate-related queries was the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano and the closure of British air space.
During the three weeks, follow the run-up to the May 6 British general election by watching debate highlights on YouTube and searching web trends using Google Insights for Search.
Posted by Jeffrey D. Oldham, Software Engineer
April 15th, 2010 | by Lauren Hoover-Gordon | published in Google TV Ads Blog
In our final installment of the Power Users series, we’ll cover advanced reporting and measurement capabilities of our platform. As you may know, Google TV Ads delivers precise reporting including impression counts, tuning data and cost metrics; this…
April 15th, 2010 | by Elaine Filadelfo | published in Google Earth
Today, the skies above my home in England are noticeably empty. The UK air traffic authorities and many others across Europe have closed the airspace due to safety fears from an enormous ash cloud originating from the eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull …
April 15th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Last year, in our quest to minimize our carbon footprint (and keep people on their toes), we turned to an unlikely solution for mowing an overgrown field: goats. More than 200 goats from California Grazing have once again arrived at our Mountain View …
April 15th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
As we announced earlier this month, we’ve included the iPad in our list of mobile devices with full internet browsers, making it easy for you to run your campaigns on it.Now that we’ve finished our rigorous iPad testing, we feel confident adding th…