October 31st, 2010 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing
By James WhittakerI told the crowd at GTAC during my talk: “I wasn’t sure what to expect from India. I was not disappointed.” Be careful how you quote me on this statement as getting it even a little wrong can make it seem like an insult. It is no such…
October 30th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
Boo! We’ve been getting some strange reports recently. Bat sightings, ghosts appearing out of thin air, wolves howling in the night. Oh, and don’t even get us started on the number of zombies that have been seen lurching around. Even the orkut logo…
October 30th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
With it being Halloween season and all, we’ve got an especially spoooooky edition of Release Notes for you. First-ever user-designed Doodle: You may have noticed that once in a while, we change our homepage logo to match a special occasion — for examp…
October 30th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
As Americans gear up for the midterm elections on November 2, we wanted to share a few tools that make it easier to gather voting information.When you search on Google for [polling place] or [where to vote], you’ll see a search box to help you find y…
October 29th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This is one of a regular series of posts on search experience updates. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. – Ed.This week we’ve overhauled local search and made other tweaks to help you find the places, products and pe…
October 29th, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Gmail offers users the ability to switch between conversation view and the traditional message-based unthreaded view. When a user switches to unthreaded view, messages are no longer grouped together into a conversation, and each message is shown as a …
October 29th, 2010 | by Vivek Tata | published in Google Merchant
This week, we announced the launch of Google Commerce Search and Google Shopping in Japan. If you’d like to make your items available to Japanese users, you can register a feed for Japan, with prices in Yen. Japanese speakers can learn more about this…
October 29th, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Happy Halloween from the Google AdSense Team!Posted by Katrina Kurnit – Inside AdSense Team
October 29th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Tech demos. They’ve been around as long as… well, technology. They’re helpful. They’re useful. They’re also a little boring. That’s why tech demos often go overlooked by so many people. Unfortunately, it’s generally the people who could b…
October 29th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Every October, it seems like every third question you hear is “What are you going to dress up as for Halloween?” We see this question reflected annually in Google searches, as millions of people turn to the Internet to help them prepare for this cr…
Google Apps highlights – 10/29/2010
October 29th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subscribe to the series. – Ed.In the last few weeks, we made Gmail better for iPhone and iPad users and improv…
October 29th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords, Youtube
YouTube served its 500,000,000th Promoted Video view this week. Using Promoted Videos (available in your AdWords account), businesses can promote a video against search results on YouTube. But Promoted Videos offers a discovery component as well, all…
October 29th, 2010 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
This weeks’ featured app on the Analytics App Gallery is the BAM Analytics Pro app for the iPhone. If you have ever needed to reference your site metrics in a meeting or situation where it wasn’t appropriate to fire up the laptop and open up your a…
October 29th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program, is writing weekly guest posts for the YouTube blog on filmmaking in the digital age. You can catch up on previous posts here.Since I started working in web video, the most common misconception I …
October 29th, 2010 | by Michelle | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: Over 3 million businesses have adopted Google Apps. Today we’ll hear from David Bullock, CFO of YETI Coolers based in Austin, Texas. To learn more about other organizations that have gone Google and share your story, visit our communit…