My Places now helps you manage your important locations
June 15th, 2011 | by Lat | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
Almost every day you encounter new places and businesses, whether it’s a new store you spotted on your commute to work, or a restaurant you visited with friends over the weekend. To date, you’ve been able to star places on Google Maps, rate them vi…
June 14th, 2011 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Scheduled Release track features update 6/14/11The following features are now available to these domains:Gmail:- Advanced IMAP controls lab graduating- Nested labels lab graduating- Superstars lab graduatingThe following features are intended for relea…
June 14th, 2011 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Ariel Levine, Google eBooks Last month I went to visit a friend in Seattle. Wanting to make the most of it, I did three things to prepare: (1) I asked my friends for advice on where to go, (2) read up on Seattle’s demographics, major economic…
June 14th, 2011 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
It’s a great day for the citizens of Argentina — and for Canadians in the nation’s capital. We’ve released new Building Maker imagery in six new cities:Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCórdoba, ArgentinaMar Del Plata, ArgentinaMendoza, ArgentinaRosario, …
Testing at the speed and scale of Google
June 14th, 2011 | by jthomas | published in Google Testing
(Cross-posted from the Google Engineering Tools blog) By Pooja Gupta, Mark Ivey and John PenixContinuous integration systems play a crucial role in keeping software working while it is being developed. The basic steps most continuous integration system…
June 14th, 2011 | by dly | published in Google Mobile
Our thirst for knowledge extends beyond the time we spend in front of our desktop computers. At Google, we are seeing mobile search grow at an exponential rate, increasing five-fold worldwide in just the past two years – a rate comparable to the early …
June 14th, 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…
⌘ + Q: I didn’t mean to do that
June 14th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
by Robert Sesek, Software Engineer
In Chrome, have you ever accidentally hit ⌘ + Q when you meant to hit ⌘ + W? It’s both frustrating and a productivity killer to close your entire browser by accident, because you then have to restart and wait for all the pages to reload. It happens to us too. But now we’ve added a new feature in Chrome for Mac that can help keep you from losing your work.
On the Mac, Chrome can now warn you before quitting so that you don’t accidentally quit the browser when you’re just trying to close a single tab. To enable this feature, go to the Chrome menu in the upper-left and select Warn Before Quitting. The next time you press ⌘ + Q, a floating window will appear, instructing you to Hold ⌘Q to Quit. This way, if your hand slips and you press Q instead of W, you can go right on browsing without interruption. If you really do want to quit, hold down ⌘Q as it says and, after a second, all the windows will fade away and you can release the keys. If you want to skip this warning and quit quickly, you can just press ⌘ + Q twice.
As a side note, if you ever accidentally close a tab or window, you can use Chrome’s tab restore feature to get it back. Simply press ⌘ + shift + T, which will reopen the most recently closed tab or window. Just like the Undo command in your word processor, you can use this shortcut multiple times to repeatedly reopen closed tabs. You can also find tabs you’ve recently closed on the bottom of the New Tab page, or in the History menu.
We hope this feature helps prevent you from losing your place accidentally. Happy browsing!
June 14th, 2011 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
A common question for the AdWords API Team is “when is the best time to run reports” (and for that matter, when to retrieve statistical data via the API). The quick answer is: it depends on the type of data and report. Read on for details.The repo…
June 14th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Today, innovations in targeting, optimization, and measurement can help you achieve greater performance with your Display Network campaigns. We’re investing heavily in these areas, and we’re pleased to announce several tools that give you better me…
June 14th, 2011 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs, Uncategorized
You may not have noticed the description field for items in your documents list, but descriptions hold great potential for sharing information and file management.When you have an item selected, you’ll see information about the item in the details pa…
There’s a perfect ad for everyone
June 14th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
On Thursday, June 9th, Neal Mohan, Google’s VP of Display Advertising, delivered a keynote at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Innovation Days @ Internet Week. The talk is entitled “There’s a perfect ad for everyone,” and during it Neal mad…
June 13th, 2011 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
You can now paste images directly from your clipboard into Gmail messages. This is currently limited to Google Chrome users. Release track: Rapid and Scheduled Release*Editions included: Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and EducationLa…
June 13th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
We’d like to invite you to our first live, interactive webinar on AdWords Campaign Experiments this Wednesday, June 15 from 9 to 10 am PDT.In case you’re not already familiar with AdWords Campaign Experiments (ACE), it’s a free tool in AdWords that…
June 13th, 2011 | by Ariel | published in Google Orkut
Ever wonder how popular your photos are? Now you can know! There’s a new feature in Orkut’s photo albums that shows you how many times each photo has been viewed. Each and every one of your photos will have a counter, keeping accurate stats on its …