Gingerbread NDK Awesomeness
January 11th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Chris Pruett, an outward-facing Androider who focuses on the world of games. —Tim Bray]We released the first version of the Native Development Kit, a development toolchain for building shared libraries in C or C++ that can be used i…
Google Code-in Wrapup
January 11th, 2011 | by Carol Smith | published in Google Open Source
This was a great year for Google Code-In. We had a total of 361 students complete at least one task during our contest period. We are still compiling the statistics on our participants and plan to post a follow-up once we are done reviewing tasks soon….
January 11th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
When you’re out and about, is your phone your go-to computer? If you find yourself doing mobile searches for information, directions, or even real-time price comparisons, you’re not alone–mobile search is growing fast. Over the past two years, Goo…
January 11th, 2011 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We’ll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday, January 15 from approximately 10:00am to 2:00pm PST. You won’t be able to access AdWords or the API during this time frame, but your ads will continue to run as normal.Best,- Eric Ko…
January 11th, 2011 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
We’ve long been admirers of the creative things educators and students do with SketchUp. Michael Hathorn is a high school teacher in Hartford, Vermont who teaches an innovative class that he describes as a “digital history” of their small town. T…
January 11th, 2011 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Fiction: Publishers can put ads on auto-generated pages or other copied content that was not created by them.Fact: We don’t allow sites with auto-generated or otherwise unoriginal content to participate in the AdSense program. This is to ensure that …
January 11th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted on the Google Docs Blog, Google Student Blog and Google LatLong Blog) Are you a student who loves science? Do you have a good idea for an experiment that you’d like to share with the world? In 1996, two young computer science students…
January 11th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
On Wednesday, January 12th, we’re hosting a free live online course in the AdWords Online Classroom (UK) about getting the most for your AdWords budget through basic optimisation and targeting. In this live course, we’ll cover ways to manage your b…
Community Elections 2011: The Polls are open!!!
January 11th, 2011 | by Mark W. | published in Google OpenSocial
The election for the OpenSocial Foundation’s Community Board representative is now open. If you are a member, you should have received an email directing you to submit your ballot. The election will close at 11:59 PM PDT on Friday, January 21, 2011…
Community Elections 2011: The Polls are open!!!
January 11th, 2011 | by Mark W. | published in Google OpenSocial
The election for the OpenSocial Foundation’s Community Board representative is now open. If you are a member, you should have received an email directing you to submit your ballot. The election will close at 11:59 PM PDT on Friday, January 21, 2011…
January 11th, 2011 | by Jamie | published in Youtube
Your votes are in. The professionals have had their say. And now, 101 people from more than 30 countries around the world are heading to Sydney Opera House to perform together in March as the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011.These final 101 outstanding …
January 10th, 2011 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Google Analytics does a great job of allowing you to analyze your web traffic through a very important metric: top exit pages. This metric, along with bounce rate and time on site, is valuable as it allows you to measure the impact of changes to your w…
January 10th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
In any given month, we experiment with hundreds of subtle variations of the Google search results page, testing everything from font sizes and colors to layouts and spacing, as well as dozens of other variables. Recently, we found that by standardizin…
Google Science Fair seeks budding Einsteins and Curies
January 10th, 2011 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog, Google Docs Blog, and Google LatLong Blog) Are you a student who loves science? Do you have a good idea for an experiment that you’d like to share with the world? In 1996, two young computer science studen…
Google URL Shortener gets an API
January 10th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
When we launched Google’s URL shortener externally back in September, there was no accompanying API to allow people to integrate goo.gl into their applications and web pages. However, we said that we were working on one, and today we’re happy to anno…