Update: Blogger’s new look
October 17th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blogger Buzz, Uncategorized
Back in August, we announced a completely new, streamlined blogging experience that makes it easier for you to find what you need and focus on writing great blog posts. Since then, millions of you have opted to try it out, and we’ve received tens of…
October 17th, 2011 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Will DeVries, Privacy Policy Counsel We know that staying safe while navigating the web can be a challenge for many people. Today, we’re launching a new resource on the Google website, Good to Know, that makes learning about security and p…
October 17th, 2011 | by Alex | published in Google Mobile, Uncategorized
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)We’re hearing from people at check-out counters throughout the country that paying with your phone is a little like magic. Just look at the ecstatic reaction on the faces of our friends who made their first G…
Google Code-in: Are you in?
October 17th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code
By Carol Smith, Google Code-in Program Manager, Open Source TeamCross-posted from the Google Open Source BlogListen up, future coders of the world: today we’re launching the second annual Google Code-in competition, an open source development contest…
More Google Wallet merchants are live. Now you can pay AND save in a single tap.
October 17th, 2011 | by Alex | published in Google Mobile
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)We’re hearing from people at check-out counters throughout the country that paying with your phone is a little like magic. Just look at the ecstatic reaction on the faces of our friends who made their first G…
More Google Wallet merchants are live. Now you can pay AND save in a single tap.
October 17th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
We’re hearing from people at check-out counters throughout the country that paying with your phone is a little like magic. Just look at the ecstatic reaction on the faces of our friends who made their first Google Wallet purchases last Thursday.Today…
October 17th, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing
By Aaron Jacobs
Google JS Test is a JavaScript unit testing framework that runs on the V8 JavaScript Engine, the same open source project that is responsible for Google Chrome’s super-fast JS execution speed. Google JS Test is used internally by several Google projects, and we’re pleased to announce that it has been released as an open source project.
Features of Google JS Test include:
- Extremely fast startup and execution time, without needing to run a browser.
- Clean, readable output in the case of both passing and failing tests.
- An optional browser-based test runner that can simply be refreshed whenever JS is changed.
- Style and semantics that resemble Google Test for C++.
- A built-in mocking framework that requires minimal boilerplate code (e.g. no $tearDown or$verifyAll calls), with style and semantics based on the Google C++ Mocking Framework.
- A system of matchers allowing for expressive tests and easy to read failure output, with many built-in matchers and the ability for the user to add their own.

See the Google JS Test project home page for a quick introduction, and the getting started page for a tutorial that will teach you the basics in just a few minutes.
Honey harvest 2011: the sweetest time of year
October 17th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
The second year at the Google Hiveplex was a busy one, and two weeks ago, we harvested a delicious bounty from our wildly productive hives. But the sweetest part about having the four hives on campus is the Googlers from all departments who have gotten…
Save the date for Google I/O 2012
October 17th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code
By Monica Tran, Developer Marketing TeamThis year’s Google I/O saw 1 million developers join us from around the world at Moscone Center, via I/O Live, and at our I/O Extended viewing parties. As we prepare to round the corner into 2012, mark your cal…
Save time with targeting presets in DFP
October 17th, 2011 | by Stephen Kliff | published in Google DoubleClick, Uncategorized
Imagine you’re a national news site with a section of your site that is popular with advertisers: a sports section reaching adult males on the West Coast. Since this is a segment that you frequently sell, and thus regularly target your DoubleClick fo…
Google Code-in: Are you in?
October 14th, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
Listen up, future coders of the world: today we’re launching the second annual Google Code-in competition, an open source development contest for 13-17 year old students around the world. The purpose of the Google Code-in competition is to give stude…
October 14th, 2011 | by Unknown | published in Google Voice
MMS has been one of the constant feature requests since we launched Google Voice and we’ve been hard at work trying to make this happen.
Today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve made the first step in our efforts to bring this feature to our users. Google Voice users are now able to receive pictures and other multimedia messages from Sprint subscribers. The multimedia attachments will display on their mobile forwarding phone and in their email inbox when they enable text to email forwarding in their Google Voice settings. We are also planning on making them display in the Google Voice inbox.
We are working with other mobile operators to make this work across all mobile phones and will update our users as more and more operators offer support for this.
Posted by Ilya Frank, Senior Software Engineer
Fridaygram: we want your videos, learn math from chocolate, puzzling with wood
October 14th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorLast month we asked you to upload videos telling us what it’s like to be a Google developer. We really want to hear from you, so we’re reminding you again just in case you haven’t submitted your video yet….
Multi-Channel Funnels: Your top questions from the Webinar
October 14th, 2011 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics
On Tuesday, October 11 we hosted a webinar about Multi-Channel Funnels. During the presentation we collected lots of great questions from participants; you’ll find responses to the top questions below. You can also watch a recording of the webinar he…
A fall sweep
October 14th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
We aspire to build great products that really change people’s lives, products they use two or three times a day. To succeed you need real focus and thought—thought about what you work on and, just as important, what you don’t work on. It’s why …