October 19th, 2010 | by Google CPG Marketing | published in Google CPG
Close your eyes. Envision a US boomer. What comes to mind? How old is he/she? Are you having trouble envisioning what a boomer looks like? Now think about the last advertisement you may have seen targeted to a boomer. Having trouble thinking of on…
Tracking your ad clicks with dynamic destination URLs
October 19th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Today, we are announcing an update to ValueTrack, a feature for those of you who use third-party tracking software or have access to your web logs. Using the features previously announced, we made it easy to track your search and content campaigns sepa…
YouTube Leanback officially launches — on Google TV
October 18th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Back in July, we announced the launch of YouTube Leanback in beta. If you didn’t get a chance to check it out, Leanback is a new way to experience YouTube on a big screen. We named it “Leanback” so you could do just that: kick back and, with as l…
Thanks for your SketchUp Ideas
October 18th, 2010 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
Friday, October 1st marked the closure of our SketchUp Questions and Ideas Series. We want to thank everyone who participated; whether you provided an idea or a vote, we’re incredibly excited that you contributed. In the last month, 643 people have s…
October 18th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Eyeglasses, the bicycle, the latex condom…What everyday products or services have changed the world as we know it and solved some of the world’s biggest problems?For the past month, this question has been posed through a website called Search for t…
October 18th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Free software advocate and Linux developer Rusty Russell sat down for an interview with Google’s Jeremy Allison when they were both in Japan for LinuxCon. They discuss Rusty’s role maintaining the Linux kernel (0:15), why Australia has produced so…
October 18th, 2010 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Slav Petrov, Research ScientistThe Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP ’10) was recently held at the MIT Stata Center in Massachusetts. Natural Language Processing is at the core of many of the things that w…
Introducing the DoubleClick Ad Planner Marketplace
October 18th, 2010 | by Stephen Kliff | published in Google DoubleClick
We know that as a publisher it can be challenging to get noticed by advertisers – let alone find and contact all the potential advertisers who may be trying to reach your site’s demographic or content areas.Today we’re excited to announce the beta laun…
October 18th, 2010 | by Stephen Kliff | published in Google DoubleClick
We know that as a publisher it can be challenging to get noticed by advertisers – let alone find and contact all the potential advertisers who may be trying to reach your site’s demographic or content areas.Today we’re excited to announce the beta laun…
October 18th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
This Wednesday, October 20th, we’ll be hosting a live online course on remarketing. This interactive presentation will be delivered by an Online Media Specialist and will take approximately one hour, including time for Q&A. Remarketing is a simple …
October 18th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
We are happy to announce that the video recordings from our recent Google Grants workshop in Mountain View, California are now available on our YouTube channel! Check out our channel to view sessions presented by Googlers and by your fellow grantees. Y…
October 18th, 2010 | by Vivek Tata | published in Google Merchant
(Cross posted from the Google Enterprise Blog)If you’ve been to a grocery store or even switched on your television this week, you may have noticed that Halloween is here – a telltale sign that the holiday season is approaching. And since holidays …
More transparency and control over location
October 18th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
We’ve always focused on offering people the most relevant results. Location is one important factor we’ve used for many years to customize the information that you find. For example, if you’re searching for great restaurants, you probably want to…
Q3’10 spam & virus trends from Postini
October 18th, 2010 | by asoghoian | published in Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: The spam data cited in this post is drawn from the network of Google email security and archiving services, powered by Postini, that process more than 3 billion email messages per day. More than 50,000 businesses and 22 million users us…
‘Tis the Season for Placement Targeting: Optimize Your Ad Units
October 18th, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Last week, we discussed DoubleClick Ad Planner, a media planning tool to help you improve your placement targeting. Now that you’ve made your website visible to advertisers with Ad Planner and ad placements, we want to help you ensure that your ad un…