February 27th, 2012 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
A few months ago we announced an experimental version of the the Python® 2.7 runtime for App Engine. Since then we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and adding optimizations. Today we’re happy to announce that this runtime has graduated from E…
February 27th, 2012 | by Katie Wasilenko | published in Google Adwords, Uncategorized
Are you interested in connecting with your customers in new ways? Join our live webinar on Tuesday, February 28th at 10am EST (3pm GMT) to learn more about how you can bring your business and your customers closer together using Google+.Key topics that…
February 27th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog, Uncategorized
Introduction: Today’s post is the third in our series on Exploring Design @ Google, which highlights the work of the user experience (UX) team at Google. The user experience team is a multi-disciplinary team of designers and researchers who collabora…
February 27th, 2012 | by Alex | published in Google Mobile
Each and every day, we are humbled by the trajectory of Android and our partners.
With a year-on-year growth rate of more than 250%, 850,000 new Android devices are activated each day, jetting the total number of Android devices around the world past 300 million. These numbers are a testament to the break-neck speed of innovation that defines the Android ecosystem.
Last year at Mobile World Congress (MWC), we announced that there were more than 150,000 apps in Android Market. That number tripled to more than 450,000 apps today, with over one billion app downloads happening every month. Think about the astonishing number of songs Shazam’ed, places Qype’ed and foursquare mayorships! To celebrate the hard work and success of our developer community, we’ve built special “app pods” into our Android stand at MWC. Many of these featured apps demonstrate the latest Android innovations, such as Android Beam, which lets you share content like web pages, videos, directions, and apps—just by touching two Android phones back to back.
The Android Stand on the eve of Mobile World Congress 2012
If you walk around the Android stand, it’s also evident that our hardware partners are thriving. There are 100+ devices on display at the conveyor belt bar, which is just a small portion of the 800+ Android devices that have launched to date. And what better sign of innovation than the Bling Bot—powered by the Android ADK—which can bedazzle your Galaxy Nexus backplate with perfect precision.
We’re just getting started at Mobile World Congress, so keep checking android.com/mwc and the +Android page on Google+ for updates.
Posted by Andy Rubin, SVP, Mobile and Digital Content
February 24th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog, Uncategorized
Hopefully you’ve had a chance to read our Googler profiles in honor of Black History Month. If not, you can catch up on what you missed by reading our Q&A with Brittney Fraser, Software Engineer, Jana Landon, People Operations Rotation Associate, a…
February 24th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog, Uncategorized
Time to polish the champagne flutes and brush up on your movie trivia—it’s almost Oscar night again. Before you make any Oscar bets, get an edge by exploring Google Insights for Search. Out of the major entertainment awards shows (Tonys, Emmys, Gra…
February 24th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
As we celebrate Black History Month, we bring you a series profiling black Googlers in various roles. Today we’re finishing up our series with Yolanda Mangolini, Director of our Global Diversity Talent & Inclusion and Talent & Outreach Progra…
February 24th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
The Umit Project team has been working very hard since Google Summer of Code ended in August to deliver our first version of Open Monitor and we’re very close to releasing an alpha in the next few weeks for selected trusted testers.If you’re interested…
February 24th, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Uncategorized
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest author is Dr. Scott Loarie, a fellow at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford and co-director of iNaturalist.org, a biodiversity citizen-science website. Pepperwood Preserve was the recipient of a Google Eart…
February 23rd, 2012 | by Josh Pyle | published in Google Affiliate Network
Since migrating to the Google stack last September, we’ve been working to improve the Google Affiliate Network interface by both adding new features and enhancing some existing ones.As a part of that effort, we’ve just pushed out a brand new releas…
February 23rd, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps, Uncategorized
The Google Earth and Maps Imagery team recently published another batch of satellite imagery. In this post, we’ll explore a few well-known locations from across the globe.Our first example is the Bristol Motor Speedway, located outside of Bristol, Te…
February 23rd, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog, Uncategorized
Today we’re making it easier for you to hone in on that perfect image or explore your topic visually with an update to related search links. Related search links have been around for awhile—they’re the row of blue links running across the top of …
February 23rd, 2012 | by Vincent Paquet | published in Google Voice
To help make it even easier for you to organize your contacts, today we’re adding Google+ Circles to Google Voice. Circles give you more control over how you manage your callers; for example, calls from your “Creepers” circle can be sent straight to Voicemail, only your “College Buddies” circle will hear you rap your voicemail greeting, or you can set your “Family” circle to only ring your mobile phone.
You can customize your Circles settings by visiting the Groups & Circles tab in your Google Voice settings.
Give it a try and let us know what you think.
Posted by Tom Ford, Software Engineer
February 23rd, 2012 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy, Uncategorized
Posted by Susan Wojcicki, SVP, Advertising There’s been a lot of debate over the last few years about personalization on the web. We believe that tailoring your web experience — for example by showing you more relevant, interest-based ads, or makin…
February 23rd, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research
Posted by John Blitzer and Douglas Eck, Google Research At the 25th Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in Granada, Spain last December, we engaged in dialogue with a diverse population of neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, sta…