Posted by Dorothy Chou, Policy AnalystIf you used Google today you may have noticed we highlighted a LIFE Photo Archive slideshow commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Check it out, if you haven’t already. The photos are a …
Posted by Michelle Lee, Deputy General Counsel and Head of Patents and Patent StrategyThis afternoon the U.S. Supreme Court considered oral arguments in Bilski v. Kappos, a potential landmark case in intellectual property law that will determine what k…
Posted by Alma Whitten, Software Engineer, Yariv Adan, Product Manager, and Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog.)Today, we are excited to announce the launch of Google Dashboard. Have you …
Posted by Dorothy Chou, Policy AnalystIt’s important that parents and educators help kids to develop healthy, safe, and responsible online habits. But this can be a challenge, even for the tech-savviest families.That’s why we’re launching a tour with i…
Posted by Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change & Energy InitiativesThe need to address the climate crisis provides us with an unprecedented opportunity to rebuild our energy system with vast economic, security, and environmental benefits. By put…
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselIn our response today to the FCC’s inquiry about Google Voice, we announced that our engineers have developed a tailored solution for restricting calls to specific numbers engaged in what som…
Posted by Michael Terrell, Energy Policy CounselPresident Obama today announced $3.4 billion in federal stimulus funding to build a “smarter” electricity grid. The funds are the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, accor…
Posted by Dan Berlin, Public Sector Engineering Manager(Cross-posted from the Google Public Sector Blog.)Last year we worked with partners to launch tools that made it easier to find basic voting information like when to register, where to vote, and ho…
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselThis morning, the FCC voted unanimously to begin consideration of proposed rules that would protect and promote open broadband pipes to the Internet. Over the next several months, an official…
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselThis morning, the FCC will propose and ask for public feedback on rules designed to protect and promote open broadband pipes to the Internet. (The Commission will be streaming live video of t…
Posted by Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google, and Lowell McAdam, President and CEO of Verizon Wireless(Cross-posted on the Verizon PolicyBlog.)Verizon and Google might seem unlikely bedfellows in the current debate around network neutrality, or a…
Posted by Mistique Cano, Manager, Public Policy CommunicationsEarlier this week, Vint Cerf, one of the original architects of the Internet and our Chief Internet Evangelist, joined other pioneers in a letter to the FCC expressing support for the Commis…
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselThis morning, in an open letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, 24 CEOs and founders representing the world’s leading Internet and technology companies — including Facebook, Sony, Amazon…
Posted by Pablo Chavez, Managing Policy CounselWe’ve long labeled most of the ads we serve on the Google Content Network (our AdSense partner websites) with an “Ads by Google” attribution. We do this because we want consumers to have an awareness and u…
Posted by Aseem Sood, Product ManagerThis post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. In previous posts, we’ve told you about how data is used for webspam detectio…