If your friend is away from his or her computer or not logged in to Google Talk at all, you can leave a voice message which will be converted to an MP3 file and sent to their email account. In fact, if you’re too nervous to ask out that special friend …
Eating cereal aside, nobody likes to hear snap, crackle and pop. When we built Google Talk, we focused on voice quality, and our users seem to notice and appreciate that. Whether you’re calling your kid at school twenty minutes away or your friend trav…
While you’re showing Google Talk to your manager, your dentist or your mother-in-law, you might want to add them to your Friends list. But however charming they might be, perhaps you don’t want them to stay on your Friends list after the demo. Fortunat…
Google Talk has been out for over a year now, and here on the support team we’re pretty used to the bells and whistles that make it a special product. But we realize that many people are new not just to Google Talk, but to chatting online itself. So we…
Posted By: Emma McKeithen, Account CoordinatorAs you probably already know, Google announced an alpha test of Google Print this week. This BusinessWeek story has a concise description of Google Print, so we won’t rehash the details. We think a couple o…
Look who’s talking now!A few of us from the Google Talk and the orkut teams got together a while back and started teaching orkut how to talk. After all, orkut users are already a very social bunch — so we thought they might enjoy talking to each other…
Posted by Grace Ting, Account StrategistAbout 10 days ago, the three Google CPG teams in New York, Mountain View, and Chicago met in Chi-Town to plan for the upcoming year and discuss how we can best support CPG marketing. The big hitter for us in 2007…
Posted by: Vrishali Wagle, Software EngineerLast week, Ethan Zuckerman wrote a great article explaining why Custom Search Engines would be so useful for communities such as the Global Voices network. He built a CSE to search over 3000 blogs from across…
Posted by Paul Komarek, Software EngineerSince we introduced it last week, people have created many thousands of Custom Search Engines (CSEs). We all have our personal favorites (mine is the Costume Search Engine–for the name alone), but it’s hard to …
Posted by Rich Godwin, Senior Account ExecutiveLikely you’ve been seeing the Coke + Mentos video on YouTube since sometime last summer. These are tricky times for marketers, having something so big that’s out of your control. Uh, was “soda explosions” …
Posted by Brendan McGeever, Industry Marketing Manager, CPG teamWelcome to our new Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) blog. Our motto: all the news from Google’s ad team that fits in your fridge or pantry…and maybe a little bit more. A bit of background i…
Tired of getting the old “did-not-receive-your-chat” error message every time a friend disconnects while you are writing? If so, you will be pleased to hear that we’re making things a little bit better by turning on another top requested feature in Goo…
Posted by Margaret Healy, Strategic PartnershipsWanna see a recent National Hockey League game you missed? How about reliving a classic like Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Final between the New York Rangers and Vancouver Canucks? To celebrate the NHL’s…
Posted by: R.V. Guha, Tech Lead and Patrick Riley, Software EngineerWelcome to the Google Custom Search blog. This is where we aim to share our news, along with your ideas and expertise — whether you are a sole proprietor or part of an organization or…
We want to hear how you’re using Google Talk — and we’re looking for everything from the practical to the wacky. As in: did Google Talk help you get a date? Has it it reduced the cost of your small business communications? Is it easier to keep in touc…