February 22nd, 2012 | by Jessica | 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 continuing our series with Jana Landon, a people operations rotation associate on the non-technical University Programs team. — Ed.Can …
February 22nd, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research, Uncategorized
Posted by David Harper, Head of University Relations, EMEAAs part of EMEA’s 2011 Android Educational Outreach program, we recently granted over 300 Android-powered mobile phones to 40 universities across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. These p…
February 22nd, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Uncategorized
Lao-tzu once said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” In Google Earth, that single step is often searching for the name of the place you want to go. The search field is the gateway to all of the amazing places you might vi…
February 21st, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Uncategorized
The following features are now available to domains following the Scheduled Release track:- Sites: New interface when uploading images and attachmentsThe following features are intended for release to these domains on Feb 28: – No new features to annou…
February 21st, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Uncategorized
Welcome to Russia! You can now virtually travel through the world’s largest country to the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg using Google Maps Street View. Take an online stroll around famous Red Square and Moscow Kremlin, or go to outskirts of Mos…
February 21st, 2012 | by Ashley Chandler | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Posted by Michael Walsh, CIO, D-LinkEditors note: D-Link is a global leader in providing network connectivity solutions to small and medium businesses. The company has more than 90 global offices to serve North America, Asia, and Europe. See what other…
February 21st, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense, Uncategorized
We recently posted about personalized optimization tips you can receive via email or directly in your AdSense account. Today we’d like to introduce another form of optimization tips that we’ll be rolling out over the next several weeks. These recommend…
February 21st, 2012 | by Stephen Kliff | published in Google DoubleClick
We’re always adding new features to DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP). The list below contains some highlights. For a complete list, please visit the DFP or DFP Small Business Help Centers.Available in DFP and DFP Small Business:Alerts: Preventing del…
February 21st, 2012 | by Mark Valkenburgh | published in Google CPG
In case you missed it, here’s a light-hearted Valentine’s Day clip that’s worth watching. Enjoy!
February 18th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
It all started with last year’s Google Summer of Code where I, along with over 1100 others, took part in the program designed to pair university students with open source organizations for a three month project writing code over the summer. I was acc…
February 17th, 2012 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps, Uncategorized
It’s Friday again, and it’s time for another Fab Friday post on Google Geo Developers! This week, we’ve got something for the jQuery developers out there. There’s a jQuery UI module for the Google Maps API. This enables you to quickly integrat…
February 17th, 2012 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor
Google Public DNS is a fast, free DNS service that we introduced a little more than 2 years ago. As the Official Google Blog post aptly puts it, “DNS acts like the phone book of the Internet”, translating from human-readable URLs to all-numeric IP addresses. Google Public DNS started as an experimental service and has now become the most-used public DNS service in the world with over 70 billion requests per day, mostly from outside the U.S. Will the next step be support for users in more distant places? (Probably not there.)
Speaking of faraway places, astronomers using images from the Hubble space telescope have found black hole HLX-1, which appears to be all that’s left of a dwarf galaxy that once contained other stars. The theory is that this late galaxy was torn apart by a nearby spiral galaxy, leaving only HLX-1. The other stars became part of the larger galaxy.
While you’re musing on this supermassive black hole, consider some much tinier creatures: little chameleons, just about one inch long, recently discovered in Madagascar. Scientists think this miniaturization might be an evolutionary response to limited resources.
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Finally, we can’t help but jump on the Linsanity bandwagon. Of course, we’re doing it in a nerdy way by pointing you to this article (interesting even for non-sports fans) about why talent evaluation is so tricky.
On Fridays we take a break and do a Fridaygram post just for fun. Each Fridaygram item must pass only one test: it has to be interesting to us nerds. Special thanks to Wired Science for having many excellent posts this week.
Images: Glaw, F., et al., PLoS ONE
February 17th, 2012 | by Laura Clowes | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by Steve Walker, IT Director and Google Apps Product Manager at Trinity Mirror. Editors note: Today’s guest blogger is Steve Walker, IT Director and Google Apps Product Manager at Trinity Mirror. In November Trinity Mirror, one of the UK’s l…
February 17th, 2012 | by Blog | published in Google Orkut
We’ve just launched a convenient way to reply to your friend’s scraps: simply reply to the scrap email notification and you’re done! This is very handy since you can quickly reply to Orkut scraps without ever leaving your email client.For security re…
February 16th, 2012 | by Erica Sievert | published in Google Affiliate Network, Uncategorized
Over the past few years, Google Affiliate Network has helped advertisers and publishers grow their businesses with the right mix of technology, service, and data insights. We’ll be sharing these stories on the blog over the coming weeks. Today, …