May 11th, 2011 | by Aaron Lichtig | published in Google CPG
An Obsession with Advertising, Accountability & Awesomeness.A guest post by Avinash KaushikI am so incredibly impressed with the rapid evolution of advertising and marketing possibilities around us. Offline, online, social– there are so many thing…
An Interface Facelift for DFA
May 11th, 2011 | by Pamela Eng | published in Google DoubleClick
Over the last ten years, DoubleClick for Advertisers has gone through many revisions and added scores of new features. The launch of DFA6 in 2008, in particular, was a significant step in improving the overall usability of the trafficking system. Now, …
Because Data Beats Opinion: Introducing Think Insights with Google
May 11th, 2011 | by Google CPG Marketing | published in Google CPG
It’s one of our company’s guiding principles that data beats opinion. And as such, we’ve put a lot of effort into asking some interesting questions — How do new mothers use the Internet? When do people really start their holiday shopping? What t…
May 11th, 2011 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
We’ve seen tremendous growth in Android Market lately. With over 200,000 apps supporting over 300 Android devices, we’ve had 4.5 billion applications installed to date. But with so many apps available, how do you find the ones you really want?…
App Engine at I/O 2011, Day 2
May 11th, 2011 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine, Uncategorized
Good morning I/O-ers and welcome to day two! We hope you got a chance to see all of the great sessions on day one and, if you missed our big announcements from yesterday, take a look at all the great features in 1.5.0 including Backends and our plans f…
A new kind of computer: Chromebook
May 11th, 2011 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
A little less than two years ago we set out to make computers much better. Today, we’re announcing the first Chromebooks from our partners, Samsung and Acer. These are not typical notebooks. With a Chromebook you won’t wait minutes for your compute…
Places everybody, the show is about to begin…
May 10th, 2011 | by Thor Mitchell | published in Google Maps
Google I/O 2011 kicked off today, and we have a great line up of sessions on the Geo track. First up this morning was a session on “Connecting people with places”, in which we were delighted to announce general availability of the Google Places API.
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May 10th, 2011 | by Carlos | published in Google Maps
Reposted from the Google Research Blog
Google Fusion Tables is a modern data management and publishing web application that makes it easy to host, manage, collaborate on, visualize, and publish data tables online. Since we first launched Fusion Tables…
May 10th, 2011 | by Gopal Shah | published in Google SketchUp
[Cross-posted from the Google Lat Long Blog]For years, Google’s geo products have been identified as a powerful learning toolkit that can help students conceptualize, visualize, share, and communicate information about the world around them.This fall, …
May 10th, 2011 | by Gopal Shah | published in Google SketchUp
Recently, our friends (and official Partners) at Igloo Studios released their Product Connect plugin for SketchUp. The plugin is designed to help you get more out of product models stored in the 3D Warehouse.3D models which are “Product Connect-enabl…
May 10th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Rebecca Shapley, Jayant Madhavan, Rod McChesney, and Kathryn Hurley, Fusion Tables teamGoogle Fusion Tables is a modern data management and publishing web application that makes it easy to host, manage, collaborate on, visualize, and publish …
May 10th, 2011 | by Gopal Shah | published in Google SketchUp
Recently, the gang at SketchUp received a very interesting phone call from a gentleman named Christian Sarkar. He had initiated a challenge to see if someone could design a radically affordable $300 house for the poorest of the poor. At first, we were …
May 10th, 2011 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Kevin Landry, Google Books API TeamToday, we are releasing a new Google Books API in Code Labs. The new Books API will help you write applications to query for the more than 15 million books that are searchable on books.google.com including b…
The Year Ahead for Google App Engine!
May 10th, 2011 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Google App Engine has grown tremendously since it launched in Preview status in 2008. More than 100,000 developers use App Engine every month to deliver apps that dynamically scale with usage without the need to manage hardware or software. App Engine…
May 10th, 2011 | by Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead | published in Google Android
As we announced at Google I/O, today we are releasing version 3.1 of the Android platform. Android 3.1 is an incremental release that builds on the tablet-optimized UI and features introduced in Android 3.0. It adds several new features for users and…