July 22nd, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Back in June, our Zurich engineering headquarters welcomed 100 of EMEA’s brightest computer science students to our annual Europe, Middle East and Africa Scholars’ Retreat. Recipients of the Google Europe Scholarship for Students with Disabilities…
July 22nd, 2010 | by Deanna Yick | published in Google Earth
One of my favorite truisms is, “no matter where you go, there you are.” Call me sappy, but it’s a nice way to remember that every place on Earth has meaning, history and identity. But let’s face it: when you’re on an airplane, traveling over …
July 22nd, 2010 | by Michele Flannery | published in Youtube
If you want easier ways to discover music on YouTube, just start here. Our revamped music page – part of a redesign that started with our shows and movies pages – showcases the most viewed music videos, special promotions, curated playlists, unsigned t…
July 22nd, 2010 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
With new site templates being created every day, there are times when you find the theme you want after you have already created your site. Based on your feedback, we added the ability to apply a site template’s theme to any existing site. To choose …
July 22nd, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
Traditionally held at the end of July, Viljandi Folk Festival completely transforms the city: thousands of people, mostly students, fill the streets, checking out parties, concerts, and shows. To celebrate this festival, the orkut team decided to make a special doodle:
If you’d like to learn more about it, join the Viljandi Folk Festival community. You can have your own personal music festival on orkut by adding the “My Music” app to your profile. Don’t forget that you can also join the thousands of music communities on orkut and learn more about your favorite artists. Enjoy the celebration!
Posted by Karl Pae, Google AdWords team member and a fellow Estonian
July 21st, 2010 | by Deanna Yick | published in Google Earth
For all those interested in outer space (come on, who isn’t at least a tad bit curious?), we want to let you know about an exciting project just getting underway. As part of Google’s ongoing relationship with NASA, Googler Tiffany Montague is on he…
July 21st, 2010 | by Jessica Lulovics | published in Google Student Blog
Hello Everyone,This week was pretty crazy. we’ve been having a hackathon, which is basically an event where our whole team meets in one city to try and quickly fix the bugs we have on file.. It has included doughnuts, cupcakes, pierogi, a…
July 21st, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
There’s lots of misinformation floating around the web about the way AdWords works, and our AdWords support teams get to hear most of it. Since many of the same issues seem to keep popping up again and again, we thought we’d run a blog series to help…
July 21st, 2010 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
Back in 2005, we held our first-ever SketchUp conference here in Boulder, Colorado — a good time was had by all. Two years ago, about 300 of you met us at Google’s headquarters in California for 3D Basecamp 2008. Our guests told us they had a fantasti…
July 21st, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
To enjoy this feature, just add the bookmarklet to your browser visiting www.orkut.com/share
Check out this video to see how it works:
Want people to share your webpage or blog on orkut? You can do that too! To add “orkut share” buttons on your pages (like the one below), just visit www.orkut.com/howtoshare
Happy sharing, folks!
Posted by Sagari Venkata, orkut operations team
July 21st, 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 sister is my best friend in the world. But that wasn’t always the case. When we were young, my sister and I always had our…
July 21st, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
With OSCON underway, we’re excited about the opportunities that many of us have to present at the conference and we’ve taken some time to prepare resources for OSCON attendees to use Google Wave to “live wave” during the event.If you’re not familiar wi…
July 21st, 2010 | by Deanna Yick | published in Google Earth
Last month we announced the U.S. launch of Google Tags, a new advertising product that allows local business owners to add a yellow tag and additional information to their listing for an affordable flat monthly fee. Thousands of businesses are already…
July 21st, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Alright, alright…settle down, class. It’s time for another session of YouTube Summer School.You’ll remember that the semester started last week with a deep-dive into physics; now we’re on to a loftier subject — art! Our educational platform, Y…
July 21st, 2010 | by Nate Weinstein | published in Youtube
This Saturday, don’t forget to charge those batteries, polish those lenses, and get your cameras ready to capture a glimpse of your life for “Life in a Day.”Two weeks ago, we announced this historic cinematic experiment to create the world’s largest …