April 6th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering —Tim Bray]Recently, there’s been a lot of misinformation in the press about Android and Google’s role in supporting the ecosystem. I’m writing in the spirit of transparency and in an attem…
April 6th, 2011 | by Jessica | published in Google Student Blog
Cross-posted from The Official Google Blog.Imagine you’re a ninja, trying to master your deadly grappling hook. Or perhaps you’re a chess grand master, outsmarting your opponent’s every move. Or even a Taoist philosopher, explaining the deep trut…
April 5th, 2011 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
The April 2011 issue of Computer, the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society, features a cover article written by Alberto Savoia and Patrick Copeland (@copelandpatrick). The article, Entrepreneurial Innovation at Goo…
April 5th, 2011 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
As part of the retirement of the Position Preference bidding feature, this feature can no longer be enabled via the AdWords API. Starting tomorrow, calling CampaignService with BiddingStrategy ManualCPC.PositionPreference set to ON will return the erro…
April 5th, 2011 | by lcoffey | published in Google Merchant
If you’ve ever spent your Saturday calling different stores or driving around town in search of one specific product, then it probably occurred to you that there must be a better way. Today we’re announcing Local Product Availability on Google Place Pages – a new feature that automatically brings your offline catalog to the web, letting customers view your products and search your local inventory on your Place Page before visiting your store.
When you provide Google with local product availability data, your Google Place Page will now automatically include a new section, ‘Popular products available at this store’, featuring five popular products along with price and local availability. For shoppers unfamiliar with your business, this section shows the types of products available in your store.
If shoppers are looking for a specific item, they can click ‘Search within this store’ to search your product inventory to see if a particular item is in stock nearby.
Getting started
To automatically display local product availability on your Google Place page, you’ll need to first share local availability data with Google through a Merchant Center account and claim your a Google Place page. For instructions on sharing local product availability with Google, read this Help Center article. Learn how to claim your Google Place page here.
Posted by Paul Lee, Senior Product Manager, Google Product Search
April 5th, 2011 | by Panayiotis Mavrommatis | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Moheeb Abu Rajab, Google Security Team For the past five years Google has been offering protection to users against websites that attempt to distribute malware via drive-by downloads — that is, infections that harm users’ computers when t…
April 5th, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
By James WhittakerI’ve had a number of questions about the SET role and it seems I have confused folks when I say that the SWE is a tester and the SET is a tester and at the same time the SWE is a developer and the SET is a developer. What could possib…
April 5th, 2011 | by Google CPG Marketing | published in Google CPG
As featured on the Google Business YouTube ChannelDo online search campaigns lead to in-store sales? Controlled studies we call ‘Online to Store’ experiments prove time and again that they do! Check out this video for results from large advertisers…
April 4th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Deirdre O’Brien and Diane Tang, Adwords TeamAt Google, experimentation is practically a mantra; we evaluate almost every change that potentially affects what our users experience. Such changes include not only obvious user-visible changes suc…
April 4th, 2011 | by Jarek Wilkiewicz | published in Youtube API
If you are reading this, chances are you are building an app which includes video. Given that over 35 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute, finding the best of it can be challenging. In this post we’ll discuss some interesting approache…
April 4th, 2011 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle
The iGoogle Gadget Directory just got better. Users can now interact with a gadget in the directory before adding it to their page. Have a look at a couple examples like the Google News or Google Hot Trends gadgets.Your gadgets can have live previews t…
April 4th, 2011 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
The Opportunities tab in AdWords can help you find keyword, bid, and budget ideas for your account. With each optimization idea, you’ll also see estimates for how the idea might affect your impressions, clicks, and cost. Until now, you had to log in …
April 4th, 2011 | by Brett Wiltshire | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Posted by Mike Lawther, Chrome Engineer Last week we announced five exciting new ways to view your blog content, which take advantage of the latest web technologies to provide a richer experience for your readers. You can already see these views in act…
April 2nd, 2011 | by Jessica | published in Google Student Blog
Cross-posted from the Google Lat Long Blog.Understanding the world around you is imperative, especially since technology has made it easier and fun to explore places you could, otherwise, only imagine. Being geographically literate helps you interpret …
April 2nd, 2011 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
SketchUp has proven to be a very valuable tool to students and educators. Last year we showcased a few K12 schools who use SketchUp in interesting ways to do everything from creating models of their town buildings to designing furniture.
We now have a…