June 22nd, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted on the Google News Blog and the Google Public Policy Blog)Over the past few months, we’ve announced $5 million in grants to be distributed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the International Press Institut…
June 22nd, 2011 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and the Google Public Policy Blog)Over the past few months, we’ve announced $5 million in grants to be distributed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the International Press Inst…
June 22nd, 2011 | by Gopal Shah | published in Google SketchUp, Uncategorized
Guy de Lijster is a designer from the Netherlands who works with the IBI Group in Portland, OR on transit-related architecture, like light rail, subway and bus stations, and occasionally even bridge design.I’ve really enjoyed working with SketchUp si…
June 22nd, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
YouTube previously offered a specialized way of embedding playlists (as well as uploads and favorites feeds) for playback on third party sites in a customizable interface—we called this the Custom Player. While the Custom Player had its fans, it neve…
A Look Back at Trends from the April Ad Planner 1000
June 22nd, 2011 | by Pamela Eng | published in Google DoubleClick
We’re back on this month with some interesting observations for the April Ad Planner 1000 list. It appears that the change of season had its impact particularly on sports, weather and technology sites as 2011 moved into the spring season in the north…
Businesses innovate and scale faster on Google App Engine
June 22nd, 2011 | by Harrison | published in Google App Engine, Google Enterprise
Posted by Gregory D’alesandre, Sr. Product Manager, Google App Engine team It was another exciting year at Google I/O for Google App Engine, with more than a dozen businesses participating in the Developer Sandbox showcasing the innovative apps they ar…
June 22nd, 2011 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine, Uncategorized
Now that things have settled down from last month’s Google I/O, we thought it would be a good time to highlight some of the technical talks given by the App Engine team. At this year’s I/O, we emphasized some of the big themes we’ve been focusing…
June 22nd, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Martin Gruau, Consumer Operations There is a powerful but little known Gmail feature that lives in Labs called “Add any gadget by URL.” Once you turn it on, you can add iGoogle gadgets (or any gadget specified by an .xml file) to the side…
June 22nd, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
There are more than 2.4 billion conversations about brands every day, according to our latest “Word of Mouth” study with Keller Fay. More than half of consumers involved in these conversations say they’re likely to make a purchase based on what they…
June 22nd, 2011 | by Julie Z | published in Google Mobile, Google Translate, Uncategorized
Some of you may already be using the new optical character recognition (OCR) and translation of Russian in Google Goggles that we previewed at last week’s Inside Search event. Starting today, we’re pleased to introduce some additional new features,…
Diary of a Summer Intern – Madelaine
June 22nd, 2011 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Hey guys! It’s been a fast-paced week, but I’m finally getting adjusted to how things work here in Mountain View. This summer, I will be working on revamping how ads are displayed on Google image search, which means collaborating with people from a…
June 22nd, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
NativeDriver is an implementation of the WebDriver API which drives the UI of a native application rather than a web application. I am happy to announce that the Android version is available for download and we are welcoming all users and contributors….
June 22nd, 2011 | by Shane Cassells | published in Google Analytics, Google Conversions
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, a few engineers from our team are sharing improvements they’ve made to Map Overlay reports.
In GA, we’re always looking for ways to improve existing reports. For example, we noticed that you can only see state (i.e. province/region) breakdowns if you’re looking at the United States. Surely, this information ought to be available for other parts of the world?!
It seemed like something that could be done in a short amount of time and yield a big win for our users. So, we’re glad to announce that as of this week’s release, you can now see region level maps of over 170 countries!
To try it out, simply go to the Location report (under Visitors > Demographics) and click a country. We’ll try France.
Voila! We can see at a glance that Ile-de-France sends the most visits to our site. To see cities, just click “City” in the “Viewing:” list immediately below the map. Once you’re on the cities view, you can try out another feature we rolled out recently — a magnifying glass that appears when cities are clustered closely together.
Enjoy the new features in your maps. We hope they speed you on your way to gaining actionable insights and metrics. Happy analysing!
P.S. Did you know you get map overlay in more places than just the Visitors > Demographics > Location report? Take a look at the tab on the Visitors > Technology > Mobile report
Posted by Eyal, Jerry, Yinnon, and Brian, Google Analytics Frontend Team
June 22nd, 2011 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense, Uncategorized
If you’ve spent time wandering around the Performance reports tab in the new interface, you’ve likely stumbled upon the Columns button. This button lets you customize your report to view earnings by page views, ad requests, matched requests and indiv…
June 22nd, 2011 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
You can now open Office files stored in Google Docs directly from Microsoft Office. After downloading the file with Google Cloud Connect, you can sync changes to the file stored in Docs and collaborate with others. Editions included: Google Apps, Googl…