July 9th, 2010 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
When was the last time you checked the bounce rate for visits from Hong Kong? You may never have needed to, until an “alert” in your Intelligence reports tells you that the bounce rate from Hong Kong has suddenly doubled.An automatic alert in Intel…
July 9th, 2010 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
The Orkut engineering team has been hard at work addressing some recent issues and we would like to provide a status update and apologize for the inconvenience our spotty service may have caused you. We’re not done yet, but we wanted to explain to yo…
All things local: Location extensions get a makeover.
July 9th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
In 2009, we launched location extensions, which allows you to “extend” your AdWords campaigns by dynamically attaching your relevant business address to your ads. Today we’re introducing a new enhancement to location extensions that lets you show multi…
July 9th, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: Continuing our “Going Google Everywhere” series, we’ve invited Jeff Hulett, Founder and CTO of Vektrex, an electronics company that produces LED and laser power sources and reliability test systems. Located in San Diego, California…
July 9th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Today at the VidCon 2010 conference, we announced support for videos shot in 4K, meaning that now we support original video resolution from 360p all the way up to 4K. To give some perspective on the size of 4K, the ideal screen size for a 4K video is 2…
Improving the Product Search Experience
July 9th, 2010 | by Vivek Tata | published in Google Merchant
Over the past year, we’ve launched a number of exciting features on Google Product Search. Users can now access YouTube videos, product reviews, and other information from a single page about a product – what we call a “product page.” (For examp…
Investing in the Future of Video: YouTube Announces Partner Grant Program
July 9th, 2010 | by Chris Dale | published in Youtube
The YouTube ecosystem is vibrant and growing fast. We have over 10,000 partners, and 94 of Ad Age’s top 100 advertisers have run campaigns on YouTube and the Google Display Network. We’ve made great progress in the last five years. But we think …
July 9th, 2010 | by Deanna Yick | published in Google Earth
A few months ago we released a new type of aerial imagery to our users, first to the developer community through the Google Maps API, and then later as an experimental feature in Google Maps Labs. Today, we’re excited to announce the release of 45°…
July 9th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Video
Our recent posts about Video Sitemaps are of interest to a wide range of webmasters, so we’ve chosen to post them on the Webmaster Central Blog, rather than the Google Video Blog. As a result we’ve decided to retire the Google Video blog and post news…
July 9th, 2010 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Two months ago we announced the WebFont Loader, a JavaScript library for improving the web font experience. Today we are pleased to announce the availability of the Ascender Module, so now you can use the WebFont Loader with Ascender’s FontsLive web …
July 9th, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Rich text signatures have now been added to Gmail allowing you to add your own formatting, images and links to your email signatures. If you have configured your Gmail account to also send mail using the Send mail as/custom ‘from’ feature, then you…
July 9th, 2010 | by Kate | published in Google Earth
(cross-posted from the Google European Public Policy Blog)In May we announced that we had mistakenly included code in our software in Street View cars that collected WiFi payload data. As soon as we discovered our error, we not only stopped collecting …