May 22nd, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Larry Page, CEO Cross-posted from the Official Google BlogThe phones in our pockets have become supercomputers that are changing the way we live. It’s now possible to do things we used to think were magic, or only possible on Star Trek–l…
May 22nd, 2012 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
Today’s Chrome Beta channel release is chock full of bug fixes. Thanks to automatic updates, you can sit back, relax, and let the goodness come to you.Posted by Dharani Govindan, Technical Program Manager
May 22nd, 2012 | by Carlos Cuesta | published in Google Maps
Map of the Week: Airbnb
Why we like it: Airbnb has created a really great ‘search by map’ interface for their vacation rentals services. There’s also a really nice implementation of Google Street View to help renters make an informed decision abo…
May 21st, 2012 | by Emily Wood | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Cross-posted from the Blogger in Draft blog
In 2007, we introduced Blogger In Draft, a special version of Blogger where new features could reach users early and let people try new things. We also introduced the Blogger In Draft blog, and for the past five years, we’ve introduced new updates and options here, often before we told the rest of the world on our official blog, Buzz.
With the recent launch of our Google+ page, we have another great way to keep you updated on new features, both for everyone and those of you who love seeing things early. To simplify the many places you can get updates, we will be retiring the Blogger in Draft blog, with this being the final post. Going forward, we’d like to invite you to follow our official blog and our Google+ page to find out what’s new with Blogger.
This doesn’t mean the Blogger In Draft service is going anywhere, so don’t fret! You’ll still get all the shiny goodness as fast as we can bring it to you. But we’ll be talking about it somewhere else.
May 21st, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
Today is the first day of coding for our 8th year of the Google Summer of Code program. This year 1,208 students will spend the next 12 weeks writing code for 180 different open source organizations. Students are working on a diverse group of projects …
May 21st, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
QLife is a leading hospital finder, drug database and health-care information website. QLife’s mobile application, “Medicine Search” is one of the biggest health-care applications in Japan. The app enables users to search for information on a ran…
May 21st, 2012 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Isaac Elias, Software EngineerWhen we built Gmail, we wanted to bring that same great search experience Google is known for to email. And today, we are making that experience even better by improving the autocomplete predictions you see when …
May 21st, 2012 | by Gopal Shah | published in Google SketchUp
It’s our sincere pleasure to unveil The SketchUp Showcase, a home for the most impressive, interesting, and inspiring project stories that have been shared with us. Why a new showcase? Often, when you find an amazing model in the 3D Warehouse, it d…
May 18th, 2012 | by Allison Sommer | published in Google Adwords
DoubleClick Search V3 is one year old! Over the last year we’ve focused on:Campaign ManagementDeeper InsightsBid OptimizationBetter ResultsTo learn more about a year of DoubleClick innovation, visit the DoubleClick Search blog.Posted by Allison So…
May 18th, 2012 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
We have a couple of events in the next two weeks. Andrés Ferraté and I will be at the SMI Developer Day 2012 in Buenos Aires on the 23rd and Mundo Geo in São Paulo on the 30th of May. This will be my first trip to Argentina, so I’m very excited…
May 18th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
We work hard to ensure that our commitment to diversity is built into everything we do—from hiring our employees and building our company culture to running our business and developing our products, tools and services. To recap our diversity efforts …
May 18th, 2012 | by Alexis R. Shellhammer | published in Google DoubleClick
Last year at IAB’s Innovation Days, I made a number of predictions, all focused on answering one central question: how can we put the user at the center of all that we do? One year later, I think it’s time for a progress report – to hold ourse…
May 18th, 2012 | by YouTube Staff | published in Youtube API
Web developers are accustomed to making magical user experiences with a few lines of elegant JavaScript, but when faced with talking to RESTful services like the YouTube API, the options have been anything but simple. The most common approach relies on…
May 18th, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research
Posted by Valentin Spitkovsky and Peter Norvig, Research Team Yet in each word some concept there must be…— from Goethe’s Faust (Part I, Scene III) Human language is both rich and ambiguous. When we hear or read words, we resolve meanings to menta…
May 18th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
And now the news that some of you have been waiting for: the annual list of schools with the largest number of accepted students for Google Summer of Code 2012!RankSchoolCountry# of Accepted Students# in 20111University of MoratuwaSri Lanka29272Polytec…