March 22nd, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense, Uncategorized
Whether it’s via blog comments, forum threads, or in-person events, we’ve heard your feedback about AdSense ad controls and the enhancements you’d like to see. With that in mind, today we’re thrilled to announce that we’re rolling out an enti…
March 22nd, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog, Uncategorized
Can you teach an old spider new tricks? Could better understanding alien superbugs cure diseases on Earth? These are the questions that will be asked by the two winning experiments of YouTube Space Lab, the science competition that challenged students …
A better way to buy display
March 22nd, 2012 | by Katie Wasilenko | published in Google Adwords, Uncategorized
Display advertising has undergone a bit of a fairytale-like transformation over the past several years, from the medium of “Click Here!” banner ads, to one that can be smart and sexy and help bring big ideas (even those from advertising’s past) t…
March 21st, 2012 | by Emily Wood | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Hi Bloggers.
Ensuring that your blog, posts, and images are accurately indexed so they appear correctly in search results is valuable. Today we introduced a suite of new features that enable you to more effectively customize your search preferences. Managing how your blog is viewed by search engines is an important aspect of maintaining a healthy blog, regardless of whether you’re new to blogging, or a seasoned veteran.
Here’s an overview of what we added:
The first thing you’ll notice is a new “Search preferences” option under the “Settings” tab.
Clicking it will display three sub-sections: Meta Tags, Errors and Redirections, and Crawlers and Indexing. When enabled, some of these features, such as Search Description and Custom robots header tags will also appear in the “Post settings” area of Blogger’s post editor as well. For example, if you elect to create a Search Description, you may do so for your blog, and/or individual posts.
Also available is the ability to add a custom “Page Not Found” (eg. a “404”) message, and Custom Redirects for pages on your blog.
While most of the new features are located in the Settings tab, a few others can be found in the post editor. For example, we’ve introduced the ability to incorporate “alt” and “title” tags to images in your post.
Last but not least, you’ll also find a “rel=nofollow” link attribute in the link tool. Checking this box means that you don’t want this link to be considered when web crawlers are searching for information they’ll use to index your page.
While most of these features are easy to understand and use, others, such as custom robots header tags are geared toward advanced users only, hence the warning message:
Before diving in, I would encourage a quick read through the Help Center articles. They’re comprehensive, and do a great job translating some technical concepts to the layperson.
We hope you enjoy the new features. It’s all part of our effort to bring you a much improved and modernized Blogger. Next week, we’ll be holding a Hangout on our Google+ page to talk with you about your experience with these features and answer your questions. Follow us on +Blogger for details.
Happy blogging!
Bruce Polderman, Product Manager
Visit the Amazon on World Forest Day with Street View
March 21st, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog, Uncategorized
Last August, a few members of our Brazil and U.S. Street View and Google Earth Outreach teams were invited to the Amazon Basin to collect ground-level images of the rivers, forest and communities in the Rio Negro Reserve. Today, on World Forest Day, we…
Visit the Amazon on World Forest Day with Street View
March 21st, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps, Uncategorized
(Cross Posted on Official Google Blog) Last August, a few members of our Brazil and U.S. Street View and Google Earth Outreach teams were invited to the Amazon Basin to collect ground-level images of the rivers, forest and communities in the Rio Negro …
Updated SDK Tools and ADT revision 17
March 21st, 2012 | by Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead | published in Google Android
Today we are releasing an update to the SDK Tools and the Eclipse plugin. Revision 17 brings a lot of new features and bug fixes in various areas such as Lint, the build system as well as the emulator.Lint is a static checker which analyzes Android pro…
March 21st, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
Earlier this year we announced that we would be conducting a Drupal usability study that we would live stream so viewers could watch as participants worked with Drupal 7. Becky Gessler and I are excited to announce our analysis of the results that we w…
Imagery Update: Week of March 19th
March 21st, 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.The azaleas are in full bloom, which means it’s almost time for The Masters. …
Hangout On Air: Engineering opportunities in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
March 21st, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog, Uncategorized
Life’s pretty good for the Googlers in our Belo Horizonte office, especially when you consider that they’re treated to Feijoada on Fridays! They work pretty hard, too, and we’d like to introduce you to some of these engineers via a Hangout On Air f…
Smart school: Cartoon program uses Google Apps
March 21st, 2012 | by echa | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise, Uncategorized
Editors note: Today’s guest blogger is Michele Ollie, co-founder and President of The Center for Cartoon Studies, based in White River Junction, Vermont. The Center for Cartoon Studies is America’s premiere cartooning school and studio. I founded t…
March 21st, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research, Uncategorized
Posted by Emilie Danna, Google Research & Michal Segalov,Networking SoftwareThe computer networking community will get together in Orlando, Florida the week of March 25th for INFOCOM 2012, the Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Commun…
March 21st, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Docs
One of my early projects at Google was to improve the suggestions that are made when a query is misspelled in Google Search. The neat thing about that system is that it’s adaptive: our suggestions get smarter and smarter based on the words Googlebot sees as it explores the web.
But search isn’t the only place where I make spelling mistakes! And that got me wondering: could we take this adaptive technology and use it to make spell checking better in other places?
The answer is yes. To prove it, today we’re launching an update to spell checking in documents and presentations that grows and adapts with the web, instead of relying on a fixed dictionary. This update has a few big advantages over traditional spell checkers:
- Suggestions are contextual. For example, the spell checker is now smart enough to know what you mean if you type “Icland is an icland.”
- Contextual suggestions are made even if the misspelled word is in the dictionary. If you write “Let’s meat tomorrow morning for coffee” you’ll see a suggestion to change “meat” to “meet.”
- Suggestions are constantly evolving. As Google crawls the web, we see new words, and if those new words become popular enough they’ll automatically be included in our spell checker—even pop culture terms, like Skrillex.
This new spell checker is available for English documents and presentations, but we plan to bring it to more languages soon. We’re really excited to give you a spelling system that continuously gets better. We hope it will make writing more efficient and enjoyable for you.
Posted by Yew Jin Lim, Software Engineer
Gmail New Look will be released to all users starting March 27th
March 20th, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Uncategorized
The New Look opt-out link in Gmail will be removed beginning Tuesday, March 27th and will continue throughout that week. Additionally, all users who have previously opted out will be moved to the new look.Release track: Rapid & ScheduledEditions includ…
Learn why a message was flagged as spam
March 20th, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Uncategorized
Messages in your spam folder now tell you why the messages were put there, and you can learn about any potentially harmful content within them.Release track: Rapid & ScheduledEditions included: Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Educ…