July 27th, 2010 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
My favorite thing about Robin de Jongh’s excellent new SketchUp book is the clever writing; I tend to like my technical reading to be entertaining, too. My favorite chapter title: “How To Collect An Arsenal Rambo Would Be Proud Of”SketchUp 7.1 for Arch…
Adding PowerReviews to the Google Product Reviews Program
July 27th, 2010 | by Vivek Tata | published in Google Merchant
In April, we launched the Google Product Reviews Program to give shoppers on Google easy access to product reviews and user ratings from participating retailers. Today, we’re pleased to announce that we will be adding PowerReviews, a leading provider o…
July 27th, 2010 | by Ethan | published in Google Product Ideas
As you’ve probably noticed, we’re just changing things up here on the Product Ideas team, and going for a new approach. Some of our series are closing down temporarily, and we’re going to focus on short-term PI series to collect your feedback for…
July 27th, 2010 | by Scott McMullan | published in Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of posts on apps in the Google Apps Marketplace that have caught our eye here at Google. We’ll do this every few weeks or as we see things that we’d like to share. Look for the label “marketplace highligh…
Chris DiBona’s OSCON Keynote: Your Work in Open Source
July 27th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
If you missed seeing Google’s Open Source Programs Manager Chris DiBona speak live at OSCON last week, the video from his keynote is now available online.There are also notes available from multiple OSCON sessions on Google Wave – check out the full …
July 27th, 2010 | by Michele Flannery | published in Youtube
“Did you really kiss a girl?” “Do you ever laugh at the parody videos making fun of you?” “Are you and Russell planning on having kids?” The call was to ask Katy Perry anything you wanted, and you responded with a record-breaking 20,500 tex…
July 27th, 2010 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Will DeVries, Policy Counsel Updated video added belowHow do you come up with solutions for online privacy when technology is constantly evolving? It’s a challenge that engineers face every day when figuring out how to make it intuitive, s…
July 26th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Last November, we added legal opinions to Google Scholar. Legal opinions consider serious issues and help refine the laws that govern our country—but they can also be surprisingly entertaining. We’ve shared some of these for your summer reading ple…
July 26th, 2010 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES), creators of the IES VE tools for building performance analysis and simulation, recently announced their partnership with us. We wanted to let you know a little bit about this and the features in the new version…
July 26th, 2010 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: AllWhen Googlebot crawls your site, it’s expected that most URLs will return a 200 response code, some a 404 response, some will be disallowed by robots.txt, etc. Whenever we’re unable to reach your content, we show this informatio…
Supporting the U.S. Navy’s humanitarian mission with Google Apps
July 26th, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Editor’s Note: We’ve invited U.S. Navy Captain Douglas Wied to share the story of how Google Apps is being used to improve coordination in disaster relief efforts. Captain Wied currently leads the Navy’s effort to develop and foster Non-Classifie…
July 26th, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Last September, we announced our intent to create a Google Apps environment dedicated to our government customers, and to complete United States government security certification for Google Apps. Today, we’re delivering on both.Today, we’re pleased…
What’s new with the Ad Planner 1000 list for June
July 26th, 2010 | by Pamela Eng | published in Google DoubleClick
We hope you have been enjoying our monthly updates on the Ad Planner 1000, a valuable resource for determining the top 1,000 global sites on the web by unique users as measured by DoubleClick Ad Planner.This month, we’re pleased to expand the number of…
July 26th, 2010 | by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager | published in Google Apps
To meet the security and policy requirements of federal, state and local government agencies in the U.S., we have introduced Google Apps for Government. In addition to the applications and administrative controls available in the business edition of G…
July 26th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Today we’re excited to announce a new edition of Google Apps. Designed with guidance from customers like the federal government, the City of Los Angeles and the City of Orlando, Google Apps for Government includes the same great Google applications t…