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You may have noticed that we’ve changed the look of the player on YouTube. You may even have noticed that we’ve been experimenting with changing the look of embedded players too. Coming up on August 10, all embeds will automatically be updated to t…

As we get ready for App Engine to leave preview release later this year, we want to make clear that in addition to improving our reliability, adding new features, and introducing developer support, we are also committed to demonstrating we have suffici…

Posted by Eran Feigenbaum, Director of Security, Google Enterprise

One of the ways our customers can be are assured their data is protected is through third-party audits and certifications. Since 2008, Google Apps has successfully undergone annual SAS…

(Cross-posted on the Inside Search Blog)I’ve been working with Matt Cutts and Ben Gomes in the same office for over 10 years. We work on search every day, and earlier this week, we took our office talk to the stage at an event hosted by the Churchill…

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We believe that the Internet can be a transformational force for societies and for empowering individuals. That is why we were so excited to hear …

This past March, we announced Street View imagery of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Known as the “Atomic Bomb Dome,” the Memorial bears witness to the devastation of nuclear war. The once proud pre-war structure nearly destroyed by the bomb still st…

This session at Google I/O demonstrated how developers can take advantage of new and little known GIS capabilities in all of our geo services.

We started out showing some of the GIS capabilities in Google Maps API, which amongst other features, let…

Late last year Google backed the bid to buy the papers of the British computer scientist and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing and return them to their rightful home at Bletchley Park. We were thrilled when this was finally achieved in February. Now we

Whether you’re looking to brush up on certain features of DoubleClick for Advertisers or are entirely new to using the product, the DFA training team offers a variety of training experiences that best suit your needs. In addition to in-person classroom…

We continue to add new features like pagination and discussions to the new document editor, and we want to make sure you always have access to all of the latest functionality — whether you’re creating a new doc from scratch or using a template from …

Every Friday this summer we have spotlighted three or four of the new organizations participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code. For our final post in the summer series we have organization administrators from Processing, Orange, and FOSSASIA …

Do you love Google Analytics? Are you passionate about web technologies? Want to help drive cutting edge Analytics extensions and integrations?If this sounds like you, then we’re looking for qualified and inspired engineers to join our Analytics team t…

Posted by Maciek Nowakowski, Associate Product Manager(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog.)When we check our email, many of us rely on the message snippets to figure out which emails to open first. We’ve been listening to your feedback though, and we kno…

Posted by Maciek Nowakowski, Associate Product ManagerWhen I check my email, I often rely on the message snippets to figure out which messages to open first. Sometimes, though, I want to see more than snippets, which is why I’m happy to announce that…

(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)

News organizations tell stories online in ways that bring together the best of traditional and digital journalism, whether that involves long-form investigative features, compelling photo slideshows or interactive maps and charts that add new levels of engagement to the day’s news. To help connect you to the best works of news publishers, Google News is introducing a new section in the right-hand column of the U.S. edition. The section is called “Editors’ Picks,” and it displays original content that publishers have selected as highlights from their publications. This is the latest addition to recent improvements we’ve made to the variety and presence of stories and multimedia on Google News.

An array of news organizations, including local, national and niche publishers, are now using Editors’ Picks to display their best, most engaging content. Because Google News relies on algorithms, Editors’ Picks will always be just that—picks provided by publishers themselves, and not by Google. You can browse a set of publisher feeds that span national, specific and local interests—like The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, ProPublica, the Guardian and The Root, among many others—via the side-to-side arrows next to each publisher’s logo. The feeds you see are chosen based on a variety of factors, including your news preferences. If you’re interested in using source preferences on Google News, Editors’ Picks helps you do that with the slider that appears just below the articles.

You may have first noticed Editors’ Picks as an experiment last year. Based on the data from that experiment, we have been working with nearly two dozen publishers in recent months and have seen a positive response from readers and publishers alike: readers get the news they’re interested in from the sources they trust, and publishers receive higher traffic to their websites. We encourage any news organizations that are interested to visit our Help Center to get started.

Posted by Yogita Mehta, Software Engineer, Google News Team