July 22nd, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
For the 8th Friday this summer we’re highlighting organizations participating in their first Google Summer of Code. The organization administrators and mentors from Catroid, Komodo OpenLab, and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (…
July 22nd, 2011 | by Lat | published in Google Earth
Thirty-five years ago this week, the Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of Mars, beginning an olympian mission of exploration lasting more than 6 years. Today, the Liquid Galaxy immersive Google Earth display lands at the Smithsonian National …
July 22nd, 2011 | by Google TV Ads | published in Google TV Ads Blog
At Google we love data. We feel that the more of it you have, the better decisions you’re likely to make. It’s for this reason that we’re excited to introduce Web Attribution, Google TV Ads’ newest feature that, for the first time, allows you to measure the impact your TV ads have on driving traffic to your website.
So how’s it work? Web Attribution links historical website visitation trends from Google Analytics with your TV campaign data in AdWords. By establishing a baseline of typical web traffic patterns, we look for deviations from the norm. Matching these deviations with the exact times and places your TV Ads air on our system, we are able to attribute visits that resulted from exposure to your ads. Daily reporting of your Attributed Visits, as well as the Cost per Attributed Visit, will be available on a per-airing basis so you can see which networks, programs, and ad creatives are delivering the best results for your campaign.
This is just another way that Google TV Ads is working to make your TV buy smarter. We encourage you to find out how to get started with Web Attribution today. You can also always find more information about Google TV Ads at google.com/tvads.
Posted by Jody Shapiro, Product Manager, Google TV Ads
July 22nd, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Our homepage doodle today celebrates the birthday of Alexander Calder, an American artist best known for inventing the mobile.Last year I wandered into a white room at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago full of Alexander Calder’s delicate “objects…
July 21st, 2011 | by Lat | published in Google Earth
Since June of 2011, Council Bluffs, Iowa and the surrounding area has experienced record flooding along the Missouri River. Google has a data center in Council Bluffs, along with many employees that live in the city and surrounding region.Along with ou…
July 21st, 2011 | by Lat | published in Google Earth
Making constant tweaks and adjustments to our user interfaces and overall user experience have always been the norm at Google, and you may have recently heard about our renewed effort across all Google products to make the user experience more focused,…
July 21st, 2011 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Jasson Schrock, User Experience Designer
Beginning today in the U.S. English edition of News, you may notice a few changes in the look and feel. This is part of a Google-wide initiative to improve your experience, and today we’re happy to extend this to Google News.
For starters, we’ve cleaned up the Google News homepage a bit. With fewer visual distractions and less clutter on the page, it should be faster to find the news important to you. The editions menu and “Personalize” button at the top should be easier to see. The “Personalize” button links to your recently consolidated personalization settings including your preferences for topics and favorite sources. Throughout the site, all the features and functionality are still there, but this updated design is aligned with the new consistent look across other recently updated Google sites like Gmail, Maps and Search.
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In the coming months, you’ll continue to see more improvements to the layout and design of the site, and we’ll also expand internationally.
July 21st, 2011 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
Back in September of 2010, we added support to manage AdWords Campaign Experiments (ACE) via the API. With the release of v201101, we are extending the API to allow you to fully manage your experiments, as we’ve included new experiment fields for use…
July 21st, 2011 | by Dirk Dougherty | published in Google Android
[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]At Google I/O we announced our plans to add several new capabilities to help developers manage their products more effectively in Android Market. We’re pleased to let you know …
July 21st, 2011 | by Scott Lininger | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Scott Lininger, SketchUp TeamAround the office here we’re always amazed at the awesome Ruby scripts you developers create. They make SketchUp more productive, smarter, and downright snazzy. So it’s no surprise when we hear from users who have…
July 21st, 2011 | by Lisa Ding | published in Google Blogger Buzz, Uncategorized
Post by Lisa Ding, Community ManagerOf the blogs that I read every day, more than half are blogs that link me to news articles, websites, or other blog posts on the web. It used to be that bloggers were expected to write original content. While origina…
July 21st, 2011 | by Natasha | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by Clay Maffett, The Google Earth Pro TeamGoogle’s users have always found creative and inspiring ways to get the most out of our products. The Google Earth Pro team is reminded of this daily as we speak with companies across industries aroun…
July 21st, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Kathleen Chen, Consumer OperationsIn this month’s Faces of Gmail we’re profiling Sarah Price, our history-loving, lindy-hopping community manager.What do you do on the Gmail team?I’m the Community Manager for Gmail. That means that I wa…
July 21st, 2011 | by effie | published in Google Mobile, Uncategorized
Since launching Nexus S with Samsung, T-Mobile and Sprint customers have enjoyed the pure Google experience, running the latest Android releases and Google mobile apps. Today we’re excited to announce a Nexus S device optimized for AT&T, availabl…
App Engine 1.5.2 SDK Released
July 21st, 2011 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
As the summer heat descends on the Northern Hemisphere we thought we’d release our newest App Engine version with some changes that are sure to keep you playing around in the cool, air-conditioned indoors (hey, you don’t want your computer to overh…