Carolyn Dalton, Head of Government Affairs and Public Policy, Australia and New ZealandThe other day, we blogged about the importance of a national broadband policy in the U.S. In fact, this is a critical issue confronting countries around the globe….
Written by Ron Adler, Janis Stipins, and Maile OhyeWe’ve received numerous requests to improve our indexing of Adobe Flash files. Today, Ron Adler and Janis Stipins—software engineers on our indexing team—will provide us with more in-depth informat…
Posted by Vijay Koduri, Product Marketing ManagerImagine bringing the experience of search on Google.com and the power of cloud computing to your website. That’s Google Site Search in a nutshell.Our hosted website search product now offers enhanced ind…
We created the Google Maps API Blog in November 2005 to better connect with Google Maps API developers. At that time, Google Maps itself was still a young product. The blog offered timely and targeted announcements of interest to Maps API developers, a…
Posted by Mussie Shore, Product ManagerWondering how to make your site more social? We’d like to make it easier for you, which is why earlier tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex, we announced a preview release of Google Friend Connect.Google Frie…
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Developer ProgramsI’m pleased to welcome you to the new iGoogle Developer Blog. With the sandbox now open to all gadget developers, this blog will follow the model set by the orkut Developer Blog, providing updates on the status…
Posted by Prashanth Koppula, Product ManagerLast spring, the Sitemaps protocol was expanded to include the autodiscovery of Sitemaps using robots.txt to let us and other search engines supporting the protocol know about your Sitemaps. We subsequently a…
Posted by Jessica, Google Grants TeamWhen we launched the Google Grants program, we set out to harness the power of Google search to support organizations that share our philosophy of community service. Through the in-kind advertising awarded to grant …
Posted by: Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product ManagerWebmasters often want the ability to promote specific information or web pages when users search for specific things via their Custom Search Engine (CSE).Here are some examples where this is useful:* Yo…
Posted by Chris DiBona, Open Source TeamThree years and some 320 posts ago, we launched the code.google.com blog with a post detailing (with too many exclamation points) that we had released some 4 programs kicking off what was to become a very popular…
Posted by Kushal Dave, Tech Lead, Google Notebook Hello, loyal Notebook fans! As Notebook evolves, we’re staying up to speed on your thoughts by reading your blog posts. Now, we’re pleased to introduce a blog of our own so that you can keep up with new…
Posted by Mike Chu, software engineer, Google mobile teamWe’ve all been there: You’re out and about, and you need to figure out where you are, what’s around you, and how to get there. Google Maps for mobile can help you do all that, but first you have …
Posted by Marc Vanlerberghe, Product Marketing DirectorWelcome to the new Google mobile blog. We hope this will be your first stop for the latest news and views from our global team that has been working to bring you innovative mobile products for awhi…
Posted by Matt Wytock, Software EngineerSince we launched Google Custom Search last year, webmasters and businesses around the world have been able use specific language controls to build customized search experiences. However, the Custom Search admini…
Following last week’s announcement of the Open Handset Alliance, today we’re happy to offer an early look at the Android SDK. We’re eager to get feedback from lots of developers in our discussion group. We’re also providing developer documentation and…