October 25th, 2011 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Yaroslav Kurovtsev, Software Engineer, Google Translate
To help bridge language barriers between you and the news of interest to you from around the world — and to bring you more diverse perspectives on foreign events — we’ve added a new “translate” button to the expandable story boxes in the U.S. English edition of Google News. Clicking the translate button reveals the English translation of the original headline using Google Translate. Clicking on the headline takes you to the publisher’s website where you can choose to use Google Translate to see an English version of the entire article. Headlines are labeled with their country of origin. To do this, we look for foreign articles from local sources on a relevant news topic.
For example, in the case of the flood in Thailand, in addition to surfacing English articles from international press like New York Times, we might show a related article from a local source like อาร์วายที9.
At the same time, we hope readers will benefit from finding relevant news in other languages and being able to read it without knowing the language.
October 25th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog, Uncategorized
From sharing photos, to collaborating on documents, to enjoying online games, web apps make the web fun, useful and entertaining. Since the beginning, Chrome has been designed to allow apps to do more, faster. Today, changes in Chrome make it even eas…
October 25th, 2011 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog, Uncategorized
We are happy to announce that the 2012 GRAD CS Forum application is now open! As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encouraging students of underrepresented backgrounds in technology to pursue graduate study, we are pleased to host the 2012 Googl…
October 25th, 2011 | by Pete Frisella | published in Google Analytics
One of the great aspects of being part of the Developer Relations team for Google Analytics is that I get to work with a lot of awesome partners that build cool and successful apps using the Google Analytics API. We’ve decided to share these successes …
October 25th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
How do governments affect access to information on the Internet? To help shed some light on that very question, last year we launched an online, interactive Transparency Report. All too often, policy that affects how information flows on the Internet i…
October 25th, 2011 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Dorothy Chou, Senior Policy Analyst (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)How do governments affect access to information on the Internet? To help shed some light on that very question, last year we launched an online, interactive Tran…
Making Chrome even more app-ealing
October 25th, 2011 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
From sharing photos, to collaborating on documents, to enjoying online games, web apps make the web fun, useful and entertaining. Since the beginning, Chrome has been designed to allow apps to do more, faster. Today, changes in Chrome make it even easi…
Introducing bid-per-call in AdWords
October 25th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords, Uncategorized
Over the next few weeks in the US and UK, we’ll be rolling out the ability for advertisers to bid for phone calls — in addition to bidding for clicks — when they show Google search ads on computers and tablets. Potential for more calls Let’s sa…
Use your Google+ profile with your Blogger blogs
October 24th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blogger Buzz, Uncategorized
In fewer than 4 months since its launch, more than 40 million people have joined Google+, making it a living, breathing space for social connections and sharing to thrive. Today we’re excited to announce the first way you will be able to leverage Goo…
Technology and human rights
October 24th, 2011 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Christine Chen, Senior Manager, Policy and Communications Every day we see Internet users around the world finding new ways to use technology to help bring about political, economic and social change. It’s exciting to see people exercise t…
Add local knowledge to the map with Google Map Maker for Canada
October 24th, 2011 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth
Today we’re opening the map of Canada in Google Map Maker for users to add their expert local knowledge directly to Google Maps. Users know their neighborhood or hometown best, and with Google Map Maker they can ensure the places they care about are …
A Spectrum of Results – All Good
October 23rd, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
We are pleased to announce the final results of this year’s OpenICC participation in the Google Summer of Code program. OpenICC mentored two students directly and one student through collaboration with the openSUSE organization. All three of our stude…
Google Apps highlights – 10/22/2011
October 22nd, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subscribe to the series. – Ed.
In the spirit of helping people work better together, over the last few weeks …
Fridaygram: small world, little robots, tiny feature
October 21st, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorSatellite images make the world seem smaller by letting us view images of buildings and neighborhoods that are thousands of miles away. The satellite views in Google Earth and Google Maps are updated periodicall…
Improved workflow and productivity in DS
October 21st, 2011 | by Kit Broussard, Product Marketing Manager | published in Google DoubleClick
(cross posted from the DoubleClick Search blog. To learn more about DoubleClick Search, contact your Account Manager or request a call from a DoubleClick Search specialist.)In addition to Floodlight segmentation, we’ve made some exciting enhancements…