April 29th, 2011 | by Vivek Tata | published in Google Merchant
It’s fair to say Europeans love to shop online. According to industry analysts comScore, three quarters of Europeans visited an e-commerce site in January this year, spending an average of 52 minutes on e-tail sites during the month. That’s why we’re delighted to announce that Google Shopping (also known as Google Product Search in the US) is now available in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. We’re also launching both the Google Merchant Center and Google Shopping in Australia today.
If you’re already submitting a feed to the Google Merchant Center and you’d like to reach more customers in these countries, you don’t need to create a new account. Just create a new feed for each country, and make sure it complies complies with our policies. Then, when registering your feed, choose the target country from the drop-down menu. If you’re a new merchant, we recommend reading the “Getting Started” articles in our Help Center.
In conjunction with Google Shopping, retailers that choose to advertise their product catalogue can now do so through AdWords product extensions in these countries as well. Product extensions use the product information submitted by the retailer and automatically displays this information within ads, where relevant. To learn more about product extensions, visit our AdWords Help Center.
Happy shopping!
Posted by Amy Gepfert, Program Manager, Google Shopping
April 29th, 2011 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
Our May and June 2011 SketchUp Authorized Training Center schedule is now available. The map below contains information on specific locations, dates, and courses provided:View in a larger mapPosted by Shara Rice, SketchUp Training Team
April 28th, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
By Jereme Monteau, Lead Developer at ShortForm(Cross-posted from the Google Code blog, where it is a part of Who’s at Google I/O, a series of guest blog posts written by developers who are appearing in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O.)ShortForm is …
April 28th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Kathleen Chen, Consumer OperationsLast month we kicked off “Faces of Gmail,” a series where we’ll introduce you to some of the members of the Gmail team. For our first post, we spoke with Manu Cornet, an engineer in Paris who made some …
April 28th, 2011 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine, Uncategorized
This is a guest post by Mike Johnston and Fred Cheng, co-founders, Simperium. This post is part of Who’s at Google I/O, a series of guest blog posts written by developers who are appearing in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O. It’s also cross-poste…
April 28th, 2011 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
(Cross-posted to the Google Enterprise Blog)We’re excited to announce that you can now upload images to Google spreadsheets. From the Insert menu, select Image… Then, choose an image file to upload into your spreadsheet.With this feature, you can …
April 27th, 2011 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Analytics
This is part of our series of posts highlighting the new Google Analytics. The new version of Google Analytics is currently available in beta to all Analytics users. And follow Google Analytics on Twitter for the latest updates. This week we’ll be di…
April 27th, 2011 | by Jessica | published in Google Student Blog
Introduction: We recently launched Young Innovators @ Google, a new blog series highlighting the great work of Googlers who, not too long ago, were students like you. In their short careers, these engineers and product managers have had an impact on Go…
April 27th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Voice
For the third installment of Google Voice user stories, we heard from Grant Barrett, the co-host of A Way with Words, a radio show about words and language.
Tell us about your organization
A Way with Words is run by a nonprofit with an educational mission: to further understanding of language, to encourage life-long learning, and to promote human understanding through better communication. It airs in 73 different cities and at a lot of different times, so, our toll-free number is a necessity. We can’t be there at all hours to answer.
How are you using Google Voice?
Calls go from the toll-free number to a local number to voicemail — Google Voice — where we archive them and use them to plan future shows. Five of us look at the transcripts and listen to the calls. We use the notes field to indicate which are feedback for follow-ups, which are new questions that we might want to turn into segments, and which are stories from listeners who want to be heard but maybe don’t want to be on the air. We mix those with what we get via email and social media, and in that way put together a show.
Now that we have more than 2800 calls saved on Google Voice we can use it like we already use our email: as a repository of questions and comments from listeners. So if one person asks about, say, why bell peppers are called mangoes in part of the country, we can search through the voicemail transcripts (which, while imperfect, are good enough), and our email, and begin to get an idea of what a lot of people want to know about that topic. It helps tailor each segment of the show.
There is an insatiable need — a hunger, even — to have questions about language answered. People ask us more questions in a given week than we could possibly ever answer in a weekly, hour-long show. But we’re doing more than we were before, and Google Voice is a part of that.
If you or someone you know is using Google Voice in a unique way, we’d love to hear about it! Fill out this short form and your story may get featured on the Google Voice blog.
Posted by Michael Bolognino, Product Marketing Manager
Everybody’s talking (and translating) with Chrome
April 27th, 2011 | by AV | published in Google Translate
(Cross-posted on the Google Chrome Blog)Today, we’re excited to make a nifty feature widely available in today’s new Chrome stable release: speech input through HTML. Curious about how speech input can be used in real life? Here’s one example: Us…
April 27th, 2011 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
(Cross-posted to the Google Enterprise Blog)Ever wanted to make your Google site feel even more unique? Today, we added a wide variety of Google Web Fonts to Google Sites, making it easier to style your website and make it look awesome.Now you can go t…
April 27th, 2011 | by lcoffey | published in Google Merchant
Back in December, we announced that on June 1, 2011, the Google Base Data API will be decommissioned and it will no longer be possible to submit or access content through the Base API.
To replace the Base API, we’ve introduced two new Shopping APIs: Content API and Search API. If you currently use the Base API for managing your products on Google Product Search, you should prepare for the June 1 change by migrating to the new APIs as soon as possible. These resources will guide you through the transition:
- Content API documentation
- Google Base Data API Deprecation FAQ
- Migrating to the Content API for Shopping
- Migrating to the Search API for Shopping
- Google Content API for Shopping developers forum
If you are a retailer using Google Commerce Search to power search and navigation on your e-commerce site, you will also need to ensure that you are fully migrated over to the new Shopping APIs by June 1. In addition to the documentation above, please also make note of the Migration Guide for Google Commerce Search. Furthermore, if you require any technical support, please submit a request through the Support Portal.
Posted by Kirill Kounik, Product Manager, Google Shopping
April 27th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Gregory Yakushev, Google Calendar Team Google Calendar sync started supporting the 32-bit version of Outlook 2010 back in August. Outlook sync has continued to be a top feature request, which is why we’ve continued to improve upon it and ar…
April 27th, 2011 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Increasingly, people are using mobile phones to access information — from email to web browsing to editing documents. Part of getting work done on the go is being able to easily access, edit and share content, which is why we’re happy to announce th…
Everybody’s talking (and translating) with Chrome
April 27th, 2011 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
Today, we’re excited to make a nifty feature widely available in today’s new Chrome stable release: speech input through HTML. Curious about how speech input can be used in real life? Here’s one example: Using Chrome, you can now translate what y…