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Freddie Wong and his production partner, Brandon Laatsch, describe themselves as “just some cool dudes making sweet vids with rad FX!” And if you’ve ever seen their action-packed, colorfully explosive videos, you know this to be true. Wong is sta…

The holiday shopping season is quickly approaching, and we know merchants are busy planning ways to stand out to the right buyers and increase sales. We’re excited to present a way for active Checkout merchants to partner with Google to help drive Go…

The Maps Data API is being deprecated and will no longer be available after January 31st 2011. For more information, including how to preserve your data and alternative solutions, read on…

When the Maps Data API was launched in Google Code Labs l…

If you’re using the new AdWords API ReportDefinitionService, you may have noticed that monetary values in reports are returned as conventional currency instead of micros. At the request of the developer community, we’ll be changing the format to micros…

Election Day is finally here in the U.S., and many people are turning to the web to get information before heading out to vote. On Hot Trends at 1pm PT today, 13 of the top 20 searches were election-related, most of which had to do with figuring out wh…

Guest post: Stephen Hind (commonly known as Steegle) has been a Top Contributor in the Google Sites help forum since its launch in January 2009. Top Contributors are Google-recognized participants of our help forums who exemplify excellent product know…

Webmaster Level: AllIn time for the holiday season, we now support rich snippets for shopping (e-commerce) sites! As many of you know, rich snippets are search results that have been enhanced using structured data from your web pages. Our new format s…

Google’s Deployment Lead, Alex Diacre, will be hosting a live webcast this Thursday, November 4th at 11:00 AM PT. Alex has been at Google since 2007 and has been leading the Enterprise Deployment Team in deploying Google Apps at businesses all over…

Cross posted from the Google Retail blog by Heidi Spector, Google Retail TeamDo you know that 89% of consumers started their holiday shopping online?Or that searches for ‘coupons’ peak on Saturdays?If not, you should visit our ThinkHoliday site: www.go…

The 2010 Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit was held Saturday and Sunday, October 23rd and 24th, 2010 at Google’s headquarters (the “Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California. 230 Mentors and Organization Admins from over 120 open source projec…

The clocks have just gone back in Europe, it’s getting colder and suddenly 5pm feels like 8pm – which means that winter is just around the corner. If you live in Germany like I do, this isn’t such bad news at all – because it means we’re one step clo…

The control panel is an integrated place for administrators to manage all their Google Apps services. You can manage user accounts and email lists, customize sharing capabilities within applications, turn services on and off, manage mobile device polic…

What if you found out that your AdWords campaigns were bringing you more customers than you realized?Zac Stafford, Senior Search Strategist at Nina Hale Search Marketing in Minneapolis, MN, recently discovered that this was true for his client, modern …

It’s been a memorable campaign season on YouTube, but the time for persuasion and debate is over — now it’s time to vote. As polling results come in from across the country, we’re partnering with CBS News to live stream election results and high…

Two big advantages of building web applications are frequent feature releases and easier cross-product sharing. Today we have a little of both for you. This week, we are adding version history to uploaded files in the documents list as well as drop do…