May 14th, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
For this Mobile Mondays post we’ve invited Netbiscuits to offer you best practices and tips for creating a good mobile experience for your users. Netbiscuits is a leading cloud platform for the development and delivery of next generation web ap…
Street View: Your Summer Vacation Preview
May 14th, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
Summertime means summer travel. Whether you’re planning the next family trip or group outing, Google Maps can help. Street View’s immersive views lets you preview your adventure by transporting you to famous landmarks and tourist destinations around …
May 14th, 2012 | by Shane Cassells | published in Google Conversions
In March I presented a webinar on building mobile-friendly websites with UK site examples. There was a large turnout of website owners but there have also been a lot of calls for copies of the recording so I’m including the link here for those of you who are interested.
So, if you like to get your updates aurally and visually rather than having to read it all yourself, check out the webinar.
Summary of Contents:
- The mobile momentum
- Why mobile sites matter
- 10 mobile site best practices
- Best practices in action
- Build a mobile website
If you have feedback or questions, please leave a comment.
Posted by Shane Cassells, Google Conversion Team
Fab Friday is Happy
May 11th, 2012 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
We’ve had two different Google Maps API office hours events since I last posted here. Last week week, Marcelo Camelo and Paul Saxman hosted office hours focused on the Google Places API:
Then this week, Chris Broadfoot and Luke Mahe hos…
May 11th, 2012 | by Allison Sommer | published in Google Adwords
As of June 12, 2012, AdWords Editor versions 9.0 and prior will be sunset. After this date, changes made via these versions will not be implemented in your AdWords account. Please download the latest version (9.7.1.) at your earliest convenience, but…
May 11th, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
Do you have a spreadsheet of locations that you’d like to see on a map? Here on the Google Earth Outreach team we talk to many nonprofits who use Google Earth and Maps to tell their stories and visualize their data. Often the data is in spreadsheets,…
May 11th, 2012 | by Allison Sommer | published in Google Adwords
When we launched bid simulator in 2009, we wanted to make it easy for you to understand the impact of bids on your advertising results. Until now, you’ve been able to access bid simulator at the keyword and ad group level.To allow you to more easily …
How Nissan Uses Ecommerce Tracking Without Directly Selling Online
May 11th, 2012 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics
This post originally appeared on the Google Analytics Japan blog.Google Analytics’ e-commerce tracking allows online merchants to measure items sold and tie those results back to their digital marketing activities. But did you know that it can also b…
May 10th, 2012 | by Blog | published in Google Orkut
Every day, many interesting discussions arise on our Orkut communities. Whenever we want
to join them, we have to access each of our communities and search for the most recently
created topics. With so much content, sometimes an interesting topic is overlooked simply
because we forgot to check in our communities.
As of today, we will show you a list of the “hottest” topics that are trending in your
communities to guarantee you never lose another interesting discussion. These hot topics can
be found on a new tab, called explore, that we added right on your main communities page.
In addition, you can also filter your results and select to view yesterday’s or last week’s hot
topics.
This way, it will be even easier to discover the most interesting discussions trending in your
communities!
Posted by Maira Nascimento, Google Engineer
May 10th, 2012 | by Michelle | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Posted by: Nicole Ravlin, Co-founder of People Making Good Editor’s Note: Today’s guest blogger is Nicole Ravlin, Co-founder of People Making Good, a public relations company based in Burlington, Vermont. People Making Good is a public relations a…
Reminder: Migrate to the new Core Reporting API
May 10th, 2012 | by Pete Frisella | published in Google Analytics
At the end of 2011 we announced the Google Analytics Core Reporting API as a replacement for the Data Export API. We also announced a 6 month deprecation period for the Data Export API version 2.3, after which all v2.3 queries will return a v2.4 respon…
May 10th, 2012 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
One of the most requested additions to the Google App Engine platform has been a SQL database, and more than 10,000 developers have signed up for the Google Cloud SQL service since the preview launch last October. Google Cloud SQL automatically provisi…
May 10th, 2012 | by Raj Sarkar | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by Joe Faith, Product ManagerGoogle Cloud SQL frees you from the chores of managing, maintaining and administering relational databases. It powers your App Engine applications with a familiar relational database (MySQL) in a fully-managed cloud …
May 10th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
These days, moms use technology in a ton of creative and resourceful ways to keep their families running smoothly. As a working mom myself, I use Google Calendar to keep track of our three busy kids and all their different activities, sports and school…
Google Summer of Code 2012 by the Numbers: Part 1.1
May 10th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
So many of you have asked about the number of students from your particular country that we’ve decided to simply post the whole list. Number of Accepted Students by Country India = 227United States = 173Germany = 72Russian Federation = 56China = 45P…