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This post originally appeared on the DoubleClick Publisher Blog.There has been explosive growth in ad technology over the last 20 years. From each of our perspectives — whether you are an agency, an advertiser, publisher or a technology provider — we…

As opposed to what? The *non*-technical conference for people who write operating systems in their free time? Anyway, it turned out mostly true.  It was my first BSDCan and it was very focused on actually developing BSD systems, as opposed to …

After launching nearly four years ago, the Google Affiliate Network Help Center has been regularly updated with articles to help you find answers to common issues, manage your account, and learn affiliate marketing best practices. Today, we’re excite…

Posted by Pablo Chavez, Director of Public PolicyThis morning Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee on Internet Governance and the Inte…

By Christiaan Adams, Developer Advocate, Google.org Crisis Response Team
Cross-posted with the Google.org Blog

On June 2nd and 3rd, volunteers around the world are coming together for the Random Hacks of Kindness Global Hackathon. Born in 2009,…

Since we first launched the Website Translator plugin back in September 2009, more than a million websites have added the plugin. While we’ve kept improving our machine translation system since then, we may not reach perfection until someone invents …

There has been explosive growth in ad technology over the last 20 years. From each of our perspectives — whether you are an agency, an advertiser, publisher or a technology provider — we can all still see unprecedented opportunities as the digital wo…

Posted by Eric Davis, Policy Manager, Security and Heather West, Policy AnalystSecurity online is a shared responsibility and we take our role very seriously. We work hard to proactively identify security threats, protect our users and their personal i…

[Cross-posted to the Google Mobile Ads Blog.]Advertisers want to manage their mobile display campaigns with the accountability and ease provided by the DoubleClick platform. Toward this goal, in November 2011, we introduced a streamlined workflow for m…

There has been explosive growth in ad technology over the last 20 years. From each of our perspectives — whether you are an agency, an advertiser, publisher or a technology provider — we can all still see unprecedented opportunities as the digital wo…

A great thanks goes out to Google for hosting the 3rd Gerrit Code Review Hackathon earlier this month at their Mountain View campus, it was well attended and very productive. After quickly deciding to focus on adding a plugin framework to Gerrit during…

Google Voice helps you customize how you treat callers by giving you the ability to play a custom greeting for your parents or send your chatty neighbor straight to voicemail.

Many users have asked us for controls aimed at people who are NOT in their address book. So today, we’re adding two groups of callers for Google Voice users:

• People in your address book: this allows you to customize the experience of all contacts in your address book. This also works by exclusion. For example, you can set a special greeting just for people in your address book, or screen anyone not in your address book.
• For anonymous callers: these are callers who do not have a caller ID. They sometimes appear as unknown, or restricted, depending on why the caller’s number is not shown. You can use this group to for example screen any call without a caller ID.

Those two new groups are specific to Google Voice and can be managed from the group tab.

As always, we hope you like this new feature and welcome your feedback.

Posted by Tom Ford, Software Engineer

Every day we see more Orkut users creating their profiles on Google+ and sharing lots of interesting content there. Now we are making it easier for Orkut users who also use Google+ to share their updates with their Orkut friends  by linking th…

When we launched support for lists of videos in the YouTube player in March, it was greeted with a lot of enthusiasm. However, some developers pointed out that at first glance it didn’t look very much like a playlist. In particular, they wanted the l…

Last year we announceda new kind of computerThis is the next stepAll of you haiku fans (like many of us on the Chrome team) can stop here; the rest can read on for more details. A year ago we introduced a new model of computing with the launch of Chrom…