August 12th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
In the last three weeks, we showed you tools to effectively plan your display advertising campaigns, develop compelling ads, and target your ads to reach precisely the right audience across millions of both popular and niche si…
August 12th, 2010 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
It’s been less than a month since our last launch, but we couldn’t sit still so today we’re announcing three new features. We think these will help developers create deeper, more engaging user experiences.First, we wanted to make the firehose exp…
August 12th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This is part of a series of stories from people who have shared how Google has helped them in their lives. Check back tomorrow for the last post, and if you have a Google story, tell us about it. -Ed.Like most search quality engineers at Google, the pr…
August 12th, 2010 | by Steve | published in Youtube
There seems to be no hotter topic for discussion among Internet watchers these days than concerns over online free expression — from the role of bloggers in advancing democratic movements, to sophisticated government censorship, to debates over how be…
August 12th, 2010 | by Deanna Yick | published in Google Earth
If you’re anything like me, you can’t get enough of beaches during the summer months. There are few activities as relaxing as sitting by the water, reading a book, and enjoying a cool beverage. This week’s imagery update includes a number of great beac…
Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal
August 12th, 2010 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Over the past few days there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding our announcement of a policy proposal on network neutrality we put together with Verizon. On balance, we believe this p…
August 12th, 2010 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
(cross-posted with the Official Google Blog)Our mobile phones have become modern-day Swiss Army knives. An Android phone is a handheld computer, a music player, a notepad, a GPS navigation unit and more, all rolled into one sleek device that fits in y…
Instantly zap YouTube videos to your Android phone with Chrome to Phone
August 12th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Ever wanted a way to quickly and easily send YouTube videos and other information from your desktop or laptop to your phone to view on the go? The new Chrome to Phone extension adds a button to your Google Chrome browser that instantly sends the curren…
August 12th, 2010 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
(Cross-posted from the Google Chrome blog.) Ever wanted a way to quickly and easily send links and other information from your desktop or laptop to your phone to view on the go? The new Chrome to Phone extension adds a button to your Google Chrome b…
August 12th, 2010 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
I’ve learned a lot as an intern with Google.org’s health efforts the last few months. Just this week I learned about a new collaboration between Google.org grantee HealthMap – the same group mentioned in our previous post Swine flu near you? – and …
Making orkut cleaner and better looking
August 12th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
You probably noticed a visual change on orkut today. It’s the new top bar! We’ve made some visual improvements not only to make your pages look prettier, but also more cleaner and similar to other Google products:
You’ll notice a new link called “scraps”, a quick way to access your scrapbook from any page. We also moved the “themes” menu there, so your most important links are now all in one place.
But you’ll actually see the major improvements more clearly when you apply a theme to your profile. Any theme now looks nicer on your page, changing the background and colors on the top of the page as well:
We hope that you enjoy this new design, and don’t forget to share your feedback with us, we will be glad to improve orkut even more with your help.
Posted by Koji Pereira, Google designer, and Hermes Freitas, software engineer