January 14th, 2011 | by Kevin Allocca | published in Youtube
Each weekday, we at YouTube Trends take a look at the most interesting videos and cultural trends on YouTube as they develop. Right now, we want to highlight some of the cool stuff we’ve come across recently:We found evidence from around the country o…
OSUOSL’s Code-in results are in!
January 14th, 2011 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
The Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSL) participated for the first time in the Google Code-in contest, and we’re pleased to report that the results of the contest were incredibly valuable for us. We had eight students actively working with us…
January 14th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Next Monday, January 17, marks the 25th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. We join Americans in celebrating the life and …
January 14th, 2011 | by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
People expect email to be as reliable as their phone’s dial tone, and our goal is to deliver that kind of always-on availability with our applications. It’s been a couple years since we blogged about the reliability of Gmail, so we thought we’d share s…
January 14th, 2011 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
This Saturday, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PST. You’ll be unable to log in to your AdSense account during this time, but we’ll continue serving ads to your pages and tracking your clicks, impressions, and …
45º imagery update for various U.S. cities
January 14th, 2011 | by Deanna | published in Google Earth
We’re now well into the new year, and to kick off 2011, the Geo Imagery team has just rolled out some refreshed 45° imagery for a number of places in the United States. So whether you already miss the places you may have visited over the holiday sea…
January 13th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
On Saturday, January 15, the AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PST due to our regularly scheduled system maintenance. While you won’t be able to log into your account during this time, your campaigns will continue …
January 13th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
This week, we’re launching the Contextual Targeting Tool to help you more easily reach customers as they spend time on millions of sites in the Google Display Network.As you may already know, contextual targeting helps you reach potential customers a…
January 13th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Youtube
Ready for some football? Or perhaps some Garlic Ginger Chicken Wings?For the third year running, we’re proud to launch the Ad Blitz Pre-Game program, sponsored by Chrysler. Ad Blitz is a one-stop shop for anything and everything related to the NFL Play…
January 13th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Over a year ago, we launched Ad Sitelinks on Google.com as way to help you enhance your top-performing ads with additional relevant information. The results for Ad Sitelinks have been stunning, with the two-line format increasing clickthrough rates, on…
Student Tip: Using Google Calendar for Student Groups
January 13th, 2011 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
Paula is a Senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, double-majoring in marketing and management. Here she shares how several student organizations she works with, such as American Marketing Association and International Impact, have ut…
January 13th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by David Tattersall, Associate Product ManagerA few months ago, we asked for your help to make Tasks better by voting on your top feature requests. We were blown away by the number of responses we received, with over 17,000 people participating …
Have Androids. Will Travel.
January 13th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[The first part of this post is by Reto Meier. —Tim Bray]From c-base in Berlin to the Ice Bar in Stockholm, from four courses of pasta in Florence to beer and pretzels in Munich, and from balalikas in Moscow to metal cage mind puzzles in Prague – on…
January 13th, 2011 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Earlier this week, Google announced that Chrome’s HTML5
January 13th, 2011 | by Harrison | published in Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of posts on apps or topics in the Google Apps Marketplace that have caught our eye here at Google. We’ll do this every so often as we see things we’d like to share. Look for the label “marketplace highlig…