Posted by Amar Gandhi and Peter Chane, Group Product ManagersThere’s no denying that the web enables communication. The killer apps of the web — email, instant messaging, blogging — have enabled us to communicate with our friends, family, and the res…
Posted by Amar Gandhi, orkut Product ManagerThe orkut team continually tries to build new features based on your feedback — features that help you better express yourself and communicate with friends. But no matter how hard we work, we can’t build fea…
Posted by Mohammed Abdoolcarim and Brian Shih, Google Gadgets TeamWelcome to the new Google Gadgets API blog! Nearly two years after we first launched Google Gadgets on iGoogle, things have certainly changed. And because we have a lot of cool stuff to …
Posted by: Matt Wytock, Software EngineerThe ability to integrate Custom Search with your site is an important feature , and we recently added a new option to the Code tab that makes this integration easier. Using AJAX techniques, you can now get your…
Posted on behalf of the Google.org team by David Bercovich, Product Marketing Manager, Google, Michael Terrell, Team Member, Google.org, and Adam Borelli, Team Coordinator, Google.orgLast week the Nobel Foundation awarded Al Gore and the United Nations…
Posted by Charles Baron, Team Researcher, google.orgLast week, we had the distinct pleasure of a visit by rock legend Neil Young. Neil is touring the country in a soon-to-be converted 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV named Linc-Volt, spreading the word…
We’ve just launched AdSense for mobile, which can help you expand your online content to new platforms. If you have a website optimized for mobile browsers, or are interested in creating one, you can start monetizing your mobile site by accessing a gro…
Posted by Holly Thai, Google Checkout TeamGreat news: you can now sell and deliver digital content with Google Checkout for mobile!In the first release of Checkout for mobile, we provided people with an existing Checkout desktop account the ability to …
Posted by Tom Duerig, Software EngineerWe’ve implemented two frequently-requested features that we think will improve the quality of results in your Custom Search Engine. 1. Keywords now have a much stronger effect on Custom Search results. This help…
Posted by Daniel Conrad, Senior Business Analyst, GoogleJoseph Tackie is the CEO of Meaty Foods Limited, a high-end butcher in Ghana. He’s also the winner of last year’s Believe Begin Become (BBB) business plan competition (run by TechnoServe and spons…
Posted by Kyle Harrison, Product Manager, Google Checkout TeamOne of the highest goals of our seller team is to offer store partners the flexibility and tools they need to serve their customers. Starting this week, merchants based in the U.S. will have…
Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product Manager Today we’re launching a new feature on Google News that will help you quickly and easily find original stories from news publishers — including stories from some of the top news agencies in the world, s…
Melissa S. Brown, Associate Director of Research, Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University; Managing Editor of Giving USAIn 2006, Americans gave more than $290 billion to charity. Which sounds great, but if our country is, as some say, “the most gene…
Posted by Rajen Sheth, Product Manager, Google AppsSince launching Google Apps last August, companies of all sizes have experienced the benefits of delivering simple, useful hosted applications to their employees. However, larger organizations are fr…
Posted by Bill Kee, Associate Product Marketing ManagerWhen we launched Gmail, we set out to change the way email works. We designed it so you should never have to delete mail and always be able to find the message you want. Since then, we’ve added thi…