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…
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…