December 31st, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog, Uncategorized
With just a few hours of 2011 remaining in Mountain View, Calif., we’re taking our traditional look at the past year on the Official Google Blog, as well as Google’s presence on Google+ and Twitter. On the blog this year, we published 471 posts (in…
December 29th, 2011 | by Shannon -jj Behrens | published in Uncategorized, Youtube API
Using video on your website can add greater depth and richness for your audience. However, to do encoding, hosting and streaming right it takes some time and skill. If you’re lacking in either, here are some suggestions for sites that make it easy to…
December 28th, 2011 | by Shannon -jj Behrens | published in Youtube API
Have you ever tried to show a user a YouTube video embedded on your site only to find out that they don’t have access to view it? For instance, if you try to play the video below, it’ll say “This video contains content from test_yt_owner, who has…
CernVM’s fruitful summer
December 28th, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
This was the first year CERN participated in Google Summer of Code, and it turned out to be an amazing experience for us! We were given four students to mentor, all of whom proved to be very skilled developers. The students quickly familiarized themsel…
December 28th, 2011 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense, Uncategorized
A lot of great things happened this year in AdSense, so as 2011 comes to an end, we’d like to take this opportunity to reflect on some of the highlights.New InterfaceWe fully transitioned to the new AdSense interface and launched a number of new feat…
December 28th, 2011 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Uncategorized
The following features are now available to domains following the Scheduled Release track:- No new featuresThe following features are intended for release to these domains on Jan 3rd:Gmail: The new look for Gmail starts to roll out as the default inter…
December 27th, 2011 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords, Uncategorized
We’re pleased to announce that professor registration for the 2012 Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC 2012), our global student competition, is now open!Student registration, however, will open January 31, 2012. In order for student teams to par…
December 25th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
In many parts of the world, today is Christmas—but in Russia and Eastern Europe, which use the Orthodox calendar, December 25 is just an ordinary day. Little known to most, however, it’s also a day that marks the anniversary of a key development in…
December 23rd, 2011 | by Nick | published in Google Analytics
Welcome to the holiday episode of Web Analytics TV! Web Analytics TV, as you well know by now, is powered by your amazing questions. In this merry episode we had questions from France, Australia, Sweden, India, Germany, The Netherlands and the US.If yo…
December 23rd, 2011 | by Gopal Shah | published in Google SketchUp, Uncategorized
[Cross-posted on the Official Google blog]It’s that time of year again! The stockings are hung by the chimney with care and Google and NORAD are ready to answer the question of “where?”NORAD’s tradition of tracking Santa on Christmas Eve starte…
December 23rd, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Apps, Google Code, Uncategorized
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorThis is the last Fridaygram of 2011, and like most everybody else, we’re in a reflective mood. It’s also the 208th post on Google Code Blog this year, which means we’ve averaged more than one post every tw…
December 23rd, 2011 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
(Cross-posted on the Official Google blog)It’s that time of year again! The stockings are hung by the chimney with care and Google and NORAD are ready to answer the question of “where?”NORAD’s tradition of tracking Santa on Christmas Eve starte…
December 23rd, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
It’s that time of year again! The stockings are hung by the chimney with care and Google and NORAD are ready to answer the question of “where?” NORAD’s tradition of tracking Santa on Christmas Eve started in 1955, when a Sears and Roebuck ad pr…
December 22nd, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of ResearchAccess to massive computing resources is foundational to Research and Development. Fifteen awardees of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Cluster Exploratory Service (CLuE) program have been applying large sca…
December 22nd, 2011 | by Andres | published in Google Maps, Uncategorized
This is a guest post by Joel Mahoney, a 2011 Fellow at Code for America. Joel worked with the City of Boston on projects related to public education.
Every year in Boston, parents navigate the school selection process in an effort to get their kids in…