Interoperability is one of the biggest goals of Google Talk, so we’ve been committed to open standards from the very start. Google Talk furthers this commitment by offering support for Speex, the leading open-source voice codec.When used with libjingle…
Hey, check out this press release by JPMorgan. I’m not an “institutional investor,” but I still think it’s pretty cool that they used our open platform to build a way for their clients to get updates as they’re performing important trades. This isn’t e…
I’ll be taking part in a panel discussion entitled “IM: The State of Presence”. This panel should be lively since the industry is increasingly supporting interoperability among IM networks. We’re particularly excited about this topic–a lot of our re…
Google Talk’s got a new gig. Google and eBay have signed an agreement around text-based advertising and “click-to-call” advertising, in which Google Talk and Skype will power voice calls between customers and merchants. (Read the full press release h…
Posted by Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing ManagerStarting today, Google Desktop 4 is coming out of beta in 26 languages (including Romanian!); a Japanese version is now available in beta too. It’s easier than ever to search and personalize your comput…
Posted by Tom Oliveri, Product Marketing ManagerOne of our goals at Google Checkout is to help our merchant partners build their businesses by offering buyers a faster, more secure checkout experience. Today, those buyer benefits got one garment larger…
Posted by Allen Hutchison, Engineering ManagerAs we noted earlier, we’re hosting our first-ever Conference on Test Automation in London in September.We’ve heard from many interested parties, and now have 13 excellent presentations lined up. Now we are …
Posted by Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing ManagerEvery 4 years, football (a.k.a “soccer” in the U.S.) fans from around the world focus their attention on one event. Swept up by the frenzy, some of the Google Desktop team have harnessed their passion t…
Posted by Franz Och, Research ScientistBecause we want to provide everyone with access to all the world’s information, including information written in every language, one of the exciting projects at Google Research is machine translation. Most state-o…
Posted by Allen Hutchison, Engineering ManagerAutomated testing is one of my passions: it has hard problems to be solved, and they get harder every day. Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to work on several automation projects, and now I…
Posted by Rick Boardman, User Experience ResearcherThe raison d’etre for our user experience research team is driven by Google’s keen interest in focusing on the user. So we help many product teams provide the best possible experience to everyone aro…
Posted by Roy Ju, Software Engineer Have you been waiting to use Google Desktop 3 in something other than English? Your wait is over, at least in these 15 languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, traditional Chinese, si…
Posted by Corinna Cortes, Head, Google Research NY Google Research is about teamwork with outstanding engineers to solve novel and challenging problems that have an impact. But it’s also about being at the forefront of scientific innovations. We’re an …
By Chetan Patel, Engineering Manager & Stephen Stukenborg, Product ManagerWhile Google Base provides data structure and distribution for a wide range of content and information, a subset of items are for sale. To help users more easily purchase and…
Posted by Peter Norvig, Director, Google ResearchWe’ve been asked what Google Research is like, and we thought the best way to answer is with a blog. First let me say that we’re not like the stereotype of a Research Lab: the place where you hide all th…