July 21st, 2011 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research, Uncategorized
Posted by David Chan and Lizzy Van Alstine, Quantitative Management TeamAdvertisers often wonder whether search ads cannibalize their organic traffic. In other words, if search ads were paused, would clicks on organic results increase, and make up for …
July 21st, 2011 | by echa | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Posted by Marie Tanguy, Google Apps Team Aperam is one of the world’s leading stainless, electrical and specialty steel producers, based in Luxembourg but with operations in more than 30 countries.Aperam recently decided to choose Google Apps for web…
July 20th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Voice
(Cross posted from the Gmail blog)
Over the years, we’ve expanded Gmail’s communication abilities by allowing you to make voice and video calls to other computers and more recently call phones. Until now, though, you were limited to making one call at a time. Today we’re excited to relax that restriction and allow you to make or receive multiple calls in Gmail.
If you’re in a call and make a second one, your first call will be put on hold while you talk on your new call. You can switch between calls by pressing the “Resume” button on the call you want to talk on, which will automatically put the previous call on hold.
Receiving incoming calls while you’re in another call is just as easy: you’ll receive a notification of the incoming call and can choose to accept it or not. If you take the new call, the previous call will be put on hold.
Whether you make a second call or not, you can now put any call on hold — useful in case you need to talk to someone in the room or grab something off the stove. Just press the “Hold” button and then “Resume” to start talking again.
This feature works across all call types (voice, video, and phone); the only restriction is that a maximum of two outgoing calls to physical phones can be placed at once.
Posted by Richard Dunn, Software Engineer
July 20th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Richard Dunn, Software EngineerOver the years, we’ve expanded Gmail’s communication abilities by allowing you to make voice and video calls to other computers and more recently call phones. Until now, though, you were limited to making one ca…
July 20th, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
As we go into the final half of this year’s Google Summer of Code we wanted to share a few more interesting statistics from this year’s program. Our previous statistics post focused on what countries the 2011 students were from: now we’d like to…
July 20th, 2011 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
This week, we’re introducing a number of enhancements to Google Docs and Sites: a spreadsheets shortcuts menu, support for PPTX conversion, a new RSS gadget, and improved mobile rendering for Sites.Spreadsheets shortcutsAlthough shortcuts have long b…
July 20th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Last week we explained that we’re prioritizing our product efforts. As part of that process, we’ve decided to wind down Google Labs. While we’ve learned a huge amount by launching very early prototypes in Labs, we believe that greater focus is cr…
July 20th, 2011 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Summary
Last week, we posted about a limited outage on July 14, 2011. Now that our internal postmortem is complete, we thought you would also like to get more detail about what went wrong and what we are going to do to ensure this doesn’t happen a…
July 20th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted on the Research Blog)Last week, we held our seventh annual Computer Science Faculty Summit. For the first time, the event took place at our New York City office; nearly 100 faculty members from universities in the U.S., Canada and La…
July 20th, 2011 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We often make changes to the AdWords API client libraries that do not merit a full blog post. We’d like to start publishing a summary blog post every other week to highlight changes that might otherwise go unnoticed.PythonAdded support for OAuth as …
July 20th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Research
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University Relations (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)Last week, we held our seventh annual Computer Science Faculty Summit. For the first time, the event took place at our New York City …
July 20th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code
By Chris Thrasher, Software Engineer, Google Picker APIUsers have content across many Google properties: YouTube, Picasa Web Albums, Google Docs, and more. Now we have a common interface for your users to select Google content. The Google Picker API pr…
July 20th, 2011 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense, Uncategorized
If you use a Custom Search Engine to power search on your site, you may already be familiar with the advanced Custom Search Element launched in 2009. Since then we’ve improved the results pages of these search engines with new features like mobile co…
July 20th, 2011 | by miriam | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Posted by John Collins, Sr. Global Trust Product ManagerIn 1992, while I was an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, some fellow students and I started an ambitious project to connect residence halls to the campus network and the Internet. A…
July 20th, 2011 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Larissa Fontaine, New Business Development, Google Books (Cross-posted on the Google Commerce blog)When JK Rowling’s new website Pottermore opens its doors this Fall, we’ll provide services to help fans make the most of their ebook purch…