April 1st, 2010 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
We’ve long felt that not enough people know what a browser is. Too many people just use the browser that comes with their computer. The time has come for browsers to speak up and be heard. Even though we’ve experimented with visual improvements in …
April 1st, 2010 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Sam Schillace, Gmail Engineering DirectorIf you logged into Gmail over the last hour (or visited the Gmail homepage), you probably noticed that something looked a bit off: all the vowels are missing. We realize this makes things difficult for…
April 1st, 2010 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Many of our improvements to search quality come from analyzing actual search queries. We’re constantly trying to surface more relevant search results in as many situations as we can.Well, I’m happy to announce that for those of you who turn to Goo…
April 1st, 2010 | by Jason | published in Google Voice
Ah, remember the days when you’d be in the middle of leaving a voicemail and suddenly hear an unexpected beep to indicate you had run out of time for that message? Or when you’d return from vacation only to find your voicemail box was full and frie…
April 1st, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM (Centr…
April 1st, 2010 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
In January, we added the ability to upload and store any file in Google Docs, and in response to your feedback, we increased the maximum file size to 1 GB a couple weeks later. Based on the overwhelming response to this feature, we’re happy to announc…
April 1st, 2010 | by Carol Smith | published in Google Open Source
The Google Annotations Gallery is an exciting new Java open source library that provides a rich set of annotations for developers to express themselves. Do you find the standard Java annotations dry and lackluster? Have you ever resorted to leaving mes…
April 1st, 2010 | by Brandon Badger | published in Google Books
Posted by Jeff Breidenbach, Dan Bloomberg, and Nathan Naze, Software EngineersThese days, 3D seems to be everywhere. From Hollywood blockbusters to LCD televisions, those iconic cardboard glasses seem to be everywhere, even on President Obama. Our fri…
April 1st, 2010 | by Hicham Alaoui | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Earlier this year we launched the ability to store and share any file on Google Docs. Since then, we’ve received great feedback from our users and today we’re excited to announce the logical extension of this feature: the ability to store anything on G…
April 1st, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
It’s great news that there are 24 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, we support 1080p and HD uploads are rising quickly, but that’s also meant increasing bandwidth costs cutting into our bottom line. And so, in our drive to keep expen…