July 15th, 2010 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Chris Beckmann, Product ManagerTwo weeks ago we gave the Google News homepage a new look and feel with enhanced customization, discovery and sharing. This redesign was our biggest since Google News launched in beta in 2002.Some of you told us…
Tailored and Effective “Third Way”
July 15th, 2010 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Today we submitted comments supporting the FCC’s proposed Third Way. In a letter to the agency two months ago, Google along with other technology companies expressed the view that the Thi…
July 15th, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
We’d like to share a little bit about why we adopted the OpenSocial platform for our new online service, called Workbench (http://network.nature.com/workbench), but first we should probably fill in some details about who we are.Founded in 1869 as a v…
Imagery Update – Week of July 12
July 15th, 2010 | by Deanna Yick | published in Google Earth
Hot off the heels of early July’s imagery update, we’ve got another batch of new images ready for people to dive into this summer. Have fun exploring the world from Queens, NY to the Queen Hatshepsut’s temple in Egypt.Queens, New YorkQueen Hatshepsut’s…
The most World Cup-crazy countries
July 15th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Last weekend, Spain won the 2010 World Cup. For the month leading up to the final, Googlers joined the world in cheering for their favorite teams. Around our campus, games were watched on computer screens and on cafe video screens. Code went unwritten….
Our op-ed: Regulating what is “best” in search?
July 15th, 2010 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Public Policy Communications Google’s Marissa Mayer wrote in the Financial Times today about the impact for consumers of governments potentially regulating search results. Because the article is behind the…
July 15th, 2010 | by Caitlin Pantos | published in Google Student Blog
(cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)We recently told you about CS4HS, our workshop program for high school and middle school computer science teachers in the U.S. We now have some additional news to share: our 2010 EMEA (Europe, the Middle East…
July 15th, 2010 | by Ethan | published in Google Product Ideas
The Google Places team has been hard at work crafting some great video responses to your submissions to Product Ideas for Google Places. You can visit their YouTube channel for all videos, or take a look below. Product Ideas for Google Places is now cl…
Use Chrome like a pro
July 15th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This week I sent a note to Googlers about some of the Chrome team’s favorite extensions. So many of them asked if they could share the list with people outside the company that I thought I would just do it for them. Here it is. We’re proud of the Chro…
Ad Extensions: Added Them Yet?
July 15th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
If you’ve been searching on Google.com you’ve probably seen a number of ads including some additional lines of information, such as a phone number, a business address, or even some product images. We’ve added a series of ad extensions in recen…
July 15th, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Version 1.9 of Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook® has been released with the following new features:- If Outlook® crashes or doesn’t shut down properly during a sync, the utility starts the sync again from a point preceding the crash or improper…
Our 2010 EMEA CS4HS Awardees
July 15th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
We recently told you about CS4HS, our workshop program for high school and middle school computer science teachers in the U.S. We now have some additional news to share: our 2010 EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) CS4HS awardees have been selec…
Will Using Google Analytics Have A Negative Effect On My Ranking?
July 15th, 2010 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Good news from the horse’s mouth. We don’t mean to call Matt Cutts a horse, but, well, if you know him, you know what we mean. Matt heads the webspam team here at Google and also speaks on behalf of Google answering questions about ranking and resu…
July 15th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Research
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of Research and Special Initiatives(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)We introduced the Google Fellowship program last year in the United States to broaden our support of university research. The students who were…
July 15th, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
Editor’s Note: Brant Mitchell is Associate Deputy Director of the State of Louisiana Department of Homeland Security. The state of Louisiana Department of Homeland Security is a Google Earth Enterprise customer that leverages Google Earth Enterprise …