Google Drive is the new home for all your Google Docs and more. Get started.
September 17th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Docs
(Cross posted from googledrive.blogspot.com: the new home for news and updates about Google Drive and Docs. This blog, googldedocs.blogspot.com will no longer be updated. And don’t worry–if you were subscribed to googledocs.blogspot.com, you’ll still automatically get all of our updates in your feed).
Several months ago, we launched Google Drive: one place to create, collaborate, share and keep all your stuff. If you’ve used Docs in the past, Google Drive is the new home for all your files and folders including your Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
This means all your files that were previously stored in Google Docs will now be available in Google Drive. If you haven’t already started using Google Drive, you’ll see a message to try it out the next time you visit docs.google.com.
With Google Drive, you’ll get access to new features.
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Access everywhere, every device. Drive comes with desktop and mobile apps, making it much easier to upload, sync and access your stuff from any device. Get Drive for Android and iOS and you can create and edit documents, open and share files, and upload photos and videos.
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Find your stuff faster. Look for files by keyword and Drive searches everything — even text within scanned documents or images without any text at all. Drive also comes with a simplified navigation to help you better organize your files, and there’s a new grid view to help you see thumbnails at a glance.
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Work with more apps in Drive. Google Drive is integrated with a growing number of third-party apps, so you can do things like send faxes, edit videos and create website mockups all in one place.
Just in case you’re not quite ready for change, you can click the “Temporarily use the old look” button on the pop-up message, but eventually all Docs users will be switched to Drive.
You may also have noticed a few other changes in the Docs world. First, you’re reading this post on the brand new googledrive.blogspot.com. But don’t worry–if you were subscribed to googledocs.blogspot.com, you’ll still automatically get all of our updates in your feed.
Our social sites have also made the switch to Drive, so if you aren’t already, follow us on plus.google.com/+GoogleDrive and twitter.com/googledrive to stay up on the latest news and updates from our team.
Visit the help center to learn more.
Posted by Scott Johnston, Group Product Manager
New AdWords budget option: Shared budgets
September 17th, 2012 | by Katie Miller | published in Google Adwords
Shared budgets is a new feature that lets you establish a single daily budget that’s shared by multiple campaigns in an AdWords account. Shared budgets can make it easier to match your AdWords spending with how your business allocates marketing budge…
Social that Adds Up: Performance and Measurement
September 17th, 2012 | by Katie Miller | published in Google Adwords
Join us for a webinar on Tuesday, September 18th at 11am PT, in partnership with Hootsuite, to learn how we can make better decisions based on performance metrics of social networks using Google Analytics social reports. Register today, it’s open to …
Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger now in the UK!
September 17th, 2012 | by Erica Sievert | published in Google Affiliate Network
Earlier this year, we launched Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger in the US and added new enhancements in June. The positive results and feedback we’ve received are very promising, and we’re excited to announce that this gadget is now available to Bl…
Fab Friday is Experimental
September 14th, 2012 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
Welcome to another edition of the Fab Friday Post. Today we have a quick update on our Google Developers Live events. Our latest video is up, Experiments in Big Data Visualization. Brendan Kenny and I took a look at using the CanvasLayer Utility Lib…
September 14th, 2012 | by Katie Miller | published in Google Adwords
Recently, we’ve been explaining how our systems and policies stop unwanted ads from showing on Google and elsewhere. One part of these efforts is our constant review of our policies for advertisers, to make sure they keep up with evolving practices …
September 14th, 2012 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
Many of you are already familiar with the terrific Stack Overflow website, which has become the de facto resource on the web for all types of programming questions. And many of you have been asking YouTube API questions on Stack Overflow for some time now, but haven’t received any official responses from the YouTube API Developer Relations team. That’s because, for the past five years or so, our focus has been on providing developer support via our dedicated Google Group. We’ve decided that instead of continuing to maintain a dedicated Google Group for YouTube API questions, it would help more users if we focused on responding to Stack Overflow posts.
We encourage all developers who have questions about the YouTube API to start posting on Stack Overflow today using the tag youtube-api. You can use this new question template to pre-populate the tag for you so that you don’t forget. While we’ll do our best to find and answer relevant questions that aren’t tagged with youtube-api, you’d be making our job easier (and you’d get a quicker answer) if you tag things correctly from the get-go.
Here are a few tips for folks new to Stack Overflow:
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Before posting, search to make sure your question hasn’t been asked before. To do this, put [youtube-api] as the first part of your search, then type in some keywords that describe your problem or question.
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If you need to ask a question, make sure you apply the youtube-api tag, as well as the tag that indicates the language that you’re using. If you’re using PHP to access the API, your question should be tagged youtube-api as well as php.
- Make sure you watch your question after posting it, as experts that can provide you with an answer might leave comments to ask you for clarification.
Stack Overflow prides itself in being a destination for questions and answers, and not a place to file bug reports or feature requests. We ask that developers do not post on Stack Overflow for those sorts of things, and instead make use of the templates we have for filing a bug or filing a feature request in our existing public issue tracker. (Be sure to check the list of existing open issues before filing a duplicate.)
On October 15, we’ll be switching the existing discussion Google Group into archive-only mode, meaning that it will no longer accept any new posts. You don’t have to wait until October 15 to start asking questions on Stack Overflow or to file reports in the issue tracker, though.
For those developers who mainly “lurked” in the discussion Google Group and used it as a way of getting official announcements about the YouTube API, we have a number of other communication channels to recommend. Subscribing to this blog’s RSS feed is a great idea, for instance. You can also follow us on Google+ at http://google.com/+YouTubeDev. If you’d like to submit a question to one of our weekly YouTube Developers Live broadcasts, you can do that for the next upcoming scheduled show. Finally, for those who prefer to get updates via email, we will be keeping the announce-only Google Group active, and we’ll continue to post important messages there.
Cheers,
—Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
September 14th, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
As we announced last year, we support the latest version of Google Chrome (which automatically updates whenever it detects that a new version of the browser is available) as well as the current and prior major release of Firefox, Internet Explorer and …
Apply today for Google’s Engineering Practicum Internship Program
September 14th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Introduction: Over the summer we host a variety of programs and internships for technical and non-technical students. We’re relaunching the My Summer @ Google series to give you an inside look at each of these programs, hearing from the stu…
Social that Adds Up: Performance and Measurement
September 14th, 2012 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics
Join us for a webinar Tuesday, September 18th 11am PT, in partnership with Hootsuite, to learn how we can make better decisions based on performance metrics of social networks using Google Analytics social reports. Register today, it’s open to everyo…
Social Fridays: Gain visibility by verifying your Google+ page
September 14th, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Every Friday, we’re posting Google+ tips to help publishers make the most of all of the features and resources available. Be sure to check back each week for the latest in our educational Social Fridays series!Now that you’re regularly posting cont…
Google Shopping: momentum and merchant success
September 14th, 2012 | by Katie Miller | published in Google Adwords
Originally posted on the Google Commerce blogIn May, we announced Google Shopping, a new way for people to find and research products, and discover where to buy those products online or nearby. Google Shopping helps people turn their shopping intention…
500 Chrome Experiments and counting…
September 14th, 2012 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
The web is capable of amazing things and is becoming more capable all the time. To show some of the potential of a better web, we launched ChromeExperiments.com in March 2009 with 19 inspiring examples by the creative coding community of what’s possi…
Interns Making an Impact: Tim Blakely
September 13th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Introduction: Our interns explore new ideas, accelerate the launch of new product features, and are big contributors to Google. Technical interns are embedded in every major engineering team where their impact is unconstrained by titles. They truly “…
Enhanced sitelinks rolling out globally
September 13th, 2012 | by Katie Miller | published in Google Adwords
In February, we announced enhanced sitelinks on desktop search ads. We display enhanced sitelinks by combining multiple sitelinks and closely related search ads into a larger nested format. Early testing showed that enhanced sitelinks could make ads th…