August 22nd, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’re excited to announce that we’re organizing our Pan-European AdSense In Your City event! This event will take place in September, in our European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. We’re offering an option of dates on either Friday, September 7th…
August 22nd, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Not too long ago, I arrived here in Zurich, and on August the 31st I am to leave Google. During the last three months as an intern at Google, I have gained years of practical and theoretical knowledge that has made everything I’ve learnt over the pas…
August 22nd, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Today we’re introducing the YouTube Elections Hub, a one-stop channel for key political moments from now through the upcoming U.S. election day on November 6. You can watch all of the live speeches from the floor of the upcoming Republican and Democr…
August 22nd, 2012 | by YouTube Staff | published in Youtube API
If you ever pay attention to your browser’s location bar, you may have noticed that, for a while now, the YouTube.com website has used playlist IDs that are prefixed with the characters “PL” when constructing the URLs for playlist pages. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL72CF07D200AA2AFA is one example of that. This practice of prepended playlist IDs previously didn’t extend over to the Data API—PL72CF07D200AA2AFA would not have been recognized as a valid playlist ID, but 72CF07D200AA2AFA would have.
Starting later today, Wednesday, August 22, the YouTube Data API will accept playlist IDs with the “PL” prefix whenever they’re used as metadata or in API request URLs. In most responses, the API will return playlist IDs with “PL” prefixes. The one exception is that for the next few days, searching for playlists will return playlist ids without the “PL” prefix. This will change on Tuesday, August 28, at which point the “PL” prefix will be included in playlist search results as well.
While we will continue to support using unprefixed playlist IDs as metadata or in API request URLs for the time being, at some point in the future we may require the “PL” prefix to be used whenever a playlist ID is provided. We’ll provide additional guidance if we do decide to stop supporting requests with unprefixed playlist IDs.
This change should be backwards compatible, but if you’re currently manipulating or comparing the playlist IDs that are returned via the API in any way, or making any assumptions about the length of the ID (which you shouldn’t be), please make sure that your code will handle IDs that contain the “PL” prefix.
If you have any questions about this changes, please let us know in our developer forum.
Cheers,
—Jeffrey Posnick, YouTube API Team
August 22nd, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research
Posted by Afshin Rostamizadeh, Google ResearchOur machine learning book, The Foundations of Machine Learning, is now published! The book, with authors from both Google Research and academia, covers a large variety of fundamental machine learning topics…
August 22nd, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
Hailed as the birthplace of the automotive revolution, the city of Detroit, Mich. is taking its transportation legacy down new paths. As Detroit embraces a greener, non-motorized outlook, cycling is steadily increasing in popularity. The Michigan Trail…
Mapping the Motor City with Google Map Maker
August 22nd, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Hailed as the birthplace of the automotive revolution, the city of Detroit, Mich. is taking its transportation legacy down new paths. As Detroit embraces a greener, non-motorized outlook, cycling is steadily increasing in popularity. The Michigan Trail…
August 22nd, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Google Apps administrators can use a new feature in the administrator control panel to manage routing and basic filtering of email to on-premise systems as well as email to Google Apps users. These changes are a part of the integration of Postini and G…
August 22nd, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
The login dialog for users who have enabled Single Sign On (SSO) login to Google Apps, but not Google password login has been simplified (shows only one option for entering a password), and the authentication landing page better redirects users back to…
August 22nd, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Spreadsheets: Users now have the ability to name a range in a spreadsheet. You can then protect such a named range instead of protecting the whole sheet. You can also use the name of the range in formulas.Spreadsheets: Users can now pick the color and …
August 21st, 2012 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics
Google Analytics is constantly being updated to provide you with powerful analytical tools and the best user experience possible. As a marketer or analyst, keeping up with these regular changes, updates, and tools will help you be more effective. You m…
August 21st, 2012 | by Mark Valkenburgh | published in Google CPG
Join social media power influencer +Lynette Young for a look at ways your business can kick start its presence on Google+ in a Learn with Google Hangout on August 23rd at 1pm EDT/10am PDT. RSVP for the Hangout on our Google+ Event page.
Companies big and small are using social media to interact with customers and build digital brands. Even if your business wasn’t an early adopter of social, Lynette will guide you through ways to kick start this channel with Google+. In this hangout, she’ll talk through examples of businesses using hangouts, pages and unique content to grow their audience. As a Learn with Google program, you’ll also hear lots of tips and strategies you can use to build a community from scratch on Google+.
Lynette Young is a digital media specialist helping entrepreneurs and businesses put social ideas into action. She is the founder of Women of Google+ and CEO of Purple Stripe Productions. Kari Clark of the Google+ Marketing team will moderate the conversation with Lynette and other social media specialists including:
- +Esteban Contreras from +Samsung
- +Kip Wetzel from +Comcast
- +Ricky Cadden from +RadioShack
We hope you can join us to begin using Google+ for your business. If you have a question for the panel, leave your questions as a comment on our Google+ Event.
To get yourself geared up for the hangout, check out the two newest Google+ business case studies. Toyota Global has been engaging its Google+ community with content of the latest car models and a hangout with a Toyota engineer. By incorporating Google+ badges on its website and YouTube channel, the car manufacturer has grown to over one million followers. In the education space, ES Corporation is teaching English lessons in hangouts. Using social extensions, the business also saw a 46% increase in click-through rate on search ads.
Posted by Lindsay Rumer, Google+ for Business
August 21st, 2012 | by Katie Miller | published in Google Adwords
(Cross-posted from the DoubleClick Search Blog)If you’re a current DoubleClick Search user, or are considering DoubleClick Search as a solution for managing across platforms, we’re excited to bring you some new product updates to provide a smarter, mor…
August 21st, 2012 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
If there were an Olympic coding event, we have no doubt that the gold medal winner could be found amongst the App Engine developer community. So today we’ve got a new release out so you can hone your skills just in case they are needed in Rio in 2016…
August 21st, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’ve been making continuous improvements to the AdSense interface, whether it’s adding new features or redesigning pages you frequently use. As part of our Google-wide initiative to deliver a simpler, more beautiful experience across all of …