June 25th, 2010 | by Michele Flannery | published in Youtube
This Sunday (June 27) Paul McCartney takes to the stage to headline Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park and YouTube will be hosting a stream from the event at the BornHIVFree channel. Starting at 8.30pm in the UK (12.30pm Pacific Time), visitors to the chan…
June 25th, 2010 | by Tasha Danko | published in Google SketchUp
We have just added some new language support to Google SketchUp 7.1, making ‘3D for Everyone’ available to people who speak French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean and Traditional Chinese. Today, I’m pleased to say “wel…
June 25th, 2010 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Marc Miller, Software EngineerIf you receive Microsoft® Word files as attachments in Gmail, you can now view them with a single click — no need to download, save, and open files with a desktop application when you just want read them. …
June 25th, 2010 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Will Brockman, Software EngineerAs an undergraduate I dabbled in Classics, and I remember being surprised by the term hapax legomenon (ἅπαξ λεγόμενον). That’s “written once” — a word that occurs in only one place in the written…
June 25th, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
The recent update to the Google Calendar interface is now the default for all Google Apps domains. Some of the changes include a change to colors, less white space and the ‘Create event’ link is now a button. The link for ‘Tasks’ has also been …
June 25th, 2010 | by Chang Kim | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Posted by Jiho Han, Software EngineerSharing is an important feature for bloggers. When your readers find an interesting post, they probably want to share it with other people; this in turn brings more traffic back to your blog.Blogger now offers new …
June 24th, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Fiction: Site maintenance periods and delays in my AdSense reports mean that data isn’t being recorded properly.Fact: Although there can sometimes be delays in the stats pipeline, all data is still tracked accurately.We call the process of tracking y…
June 24th, 2010 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
She’s a global music star with hypnotic dance moves, a philanthropist and a YouTube phenom (her “Waka Waka” video, made for the 2010 World Cup, has over 32 million views). But now, Shakira is opening herself up to your questions.
Beginning today…
June 24th, 2010 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Analytics
Do you like Web Analytics? Do you want to stay up to date on the latest developments in the industry? Recently, a few Web Analytics “geeks” decided to start an audio podcast to interview key people/vendors in the Web Analytics space. The podcast als…
June 24th, 2010 | by Hicham Alaoui | published in Google Enterprise
Editor’s Note: We’re pleased to welcome back James Ferreira who previously wrote about adopting Google Apps. James is the Chief Information Officer for the Office of the New Mexico Attorney General, providing IT services to the largest law office in t…
June 24th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Back in November we launched Ad Sitelinks to help you get even better results from your top performing ads. Since then, we’ve seen advertisers experience huge gains with Ad Sitelinks, boosting their clickthrough rates on average by more than 30%. T…
June 24th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This is part of our summer series of new Search Stories. Look for the label Search Stories and subscribe to the series. -Ed.My dad’s family grew up in Vietnam. Even as they faced an uncertain future, they attended school, believing strongly in the v…
June 24th, 2010 | by Jeff Scudder | published in Google Ajax API
Earlier this year, we launched the Tashkeel (Diacritization) service on Google Labs. I’m pleased to announce that we’ve added an experimental Diacritization component to the Google Language API. This is a simple JSON API which you can use to add diacritic symbols to strings of Arabic text.
To test it out, try clicking this link:
https://www.googleapis.com/language/diacritize/v1?lang=ar&message=مرحبا%20العالم&last_letter=false&callback=result
A URL-encoded string is supplied as the message parameter, and it’s returned by the API with diacritics included. These symbols are useful to people just learning the language and as an important pre-step for several text processing applications.
Right now, the API only supports Arabic, but we’re working on adding more languages, as well as a JavaScript API, so be sure to watch this blog for details. For more information, see the documentation and our post on the Google Arabia blog (you may want to click “view post in English”).
Posted by: Adam Feldman, Product Manager and Jeff Scudder, Software Engineer
June 24th, 2010 | by Jeff Scudder | published in Google Ajax API
Earlier this year, we launched the Tashkeel (Diacritization) service on Google Labs. I’m pleased to announce that we’ve added an experimental Diacritization component to the Google Language API. This is a simple JSON API which you can use to add diac…
June 24th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
A month and a half ago we had the pleasure of hosting 80 participants from 53 Irish charitable organizations for a full day Google Grants Workshop in Google’s European Headquarters in Dublin.The day started with some refreshments and mingling amongst…