April 5th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
As an AdWords advertiser, you’re in complete control of your advertising costs. Today, we’d like to highlight some tools and strategies that you can use to make sure that you’re spending effectively.For example, you can focus your budget on what gets …
April 5th, 2010 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
(Cross-posted from the Google Public Policy Blog)We all receive an electricity bill once a month that is hard to decipher besides the total amount due. What if we instead had access to more useful and actionable information about our energy consumption…
April 5th, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: Today’s guest blogger is Jeremy Lawrence, CIO of The Mind Research Network (MRN), an organization dedicated to the discovery and advancement of clinical solutions for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and other br…
Gmail on the iPad
April 3rd, 2010 | by Arielle | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Alex Nicolaou, Engineering ManagerWhen the iPhone and Android devices came out, we started building for advanced mobile browsers and optimizing the Gmail interface for touchscreens, culminating in the Gmail for mobile HTML5 web app. As portab…
A word on site clinics
April 2nd, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllWe try to communicate with webmasters in lots of different places. For example, when we send representatives to conferences we’re happy to participate in public site clinics where we share best practices on how to improve the craw…
A new look for Google Transit maps
April 2nd, 2010 | by Elaine Filadelfo | published in Google Earth
At the beginning of last year, the Google Maps team launched the Transit Layer, showing the layout of public transportation networks on top of the map in over 50 cities worldwide. Since then, we have grown our coverage to nearly 450 cities and added m…
April 2nd, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Like many of you, we’re excited about the upcoming release of Apple’s iPad and the promise of tablet computers. Innovative products like the iPad are on the cutting edge of a whole new class of devices that promise to make accessing information and…
April 2nd, 2010 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
The international community likes to define Liberia’s recent history primarily through two events: its fourteen-year civil war, which ended in 2003, and the work of the country’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first democratically elected fe…
OGRE’s Latest Release Features Google Summer of Code Projects
April 2nd, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilising hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. OGRE has taken part…
Google services on the iPad and tablet computers
April 2nd, 2010 | by Kai | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
Here at Google we’re really excited about the promise of tablet computers, which will be great for browsing the web and using apps. We’ve been working hard to optimize our services for the new format – larger touchscreens, increased portability, ri…
Mapping new drinking water sources in Haiti
April 2nd, 2010 | by Elaine Filadelfo | published in Google Earth
We have all heard how the earthquakes in Haiti have uprooted millions of people, with many of them displaced from their homes in Port-au-Prince to the rural areas.charity:water is a non-profit organization working tirelessly to bring clean and safe dri…
Improved comment collapsing for Google Buzz posts
April 2nd, 2010 | by Arielle | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Sean McBride, User Experience DesignerAny Google Buzz post can turn into a lively discussion. Sometimes these conversations can gather lots of new comments very quickly, turning them into “skyscraper” posts that can dominate your entire scree…
April 2nd, 2010 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
The success of the film An Inconvenient Truth had several outcomes: it moved the issue of climate change into the spotlight and forced average citizens to think about their consumption; it catapulted former U.S. Vice President Al Gore into the role of …
Vote in the Model Your Town competition!
April 1st, 2010 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
We’ve held past competitions open to students, and last December we announced the Google Model Your Town Competition, open to people from all over the globe. Folks created geo-located 3D models of their towns in stunning detail, and now it’s time f…
Happy Birthday, Google Grants!
April 1st, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
2010 marks the 7th year of Google Grants and to celebrate our birthday, we’d like to share 7 pieces of Grants-specific AdWords wisdom from the Google Grants volunteers.Maximize your ad: You don’t have to repeat your organization’s name in your ad text …