Posted by Suzanne Michel, Senior Patent Counsel In passing and signing the America Invents Act, Congress and President Obama recognized the high costs and harms to innovation posed by invalid patents. To help combat the problem, the law creates three …
Posted by Rogier Klimbie, Policy Manager, AmsterdamEditor’s note: In parallel with the Big Tent event in the Hague, earlier today we partnered with the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, DC to hold a seminar on internet freedom at the Newseum. …
Posted by Ben Gomes, Google Fellow(Cross-posted on from the Official Google Blog)This summer we posted a video that takes a peek under the hood of search, sharing the methodology behind search ranking and evaluation. Through this methodology, we make r…
Posted by Pablo Chavez, Director of Public Policy This morning Google copyright policy counsel Katherine Oyama will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on the Stop Online Piracy Act. You can read her written and her oral testimony.We strongly…
Posted by Matt Cutts, Distinguished Engineer Starting today, we’ll begin cross-posting some entries from our Inside Search blog to help pull back the curtain even further on how Google search works. We hope to provide greater transparency by posting r…
Posted by Kevin Lo, General Manager, Google AccessYesterday, we announced that we’ve partnered with Startup Weekend—a global organization committed to promoting real entrepreneurship in local communities. Startup Weekend hosts events in more than 2…
Posted by Christina Chen, Product Manager, Search(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and Inside Search blog)Earlier today, President Obama spoke about the importance of helping returning military veterans find work. Thousands of businesses have c…
Posted by Winter Casey, Senior Policy Analyst, GoogleThe global economy relies on the free flow of information more than ever before. Companies large and small can use the Internet to reach new markets, which contributes to economic growth, job creati…
Posted by Carrie Laureno, Audience Evangelist and Founder of the Google Veterans Network Last week, Google launched the “Chrome for Wounded, Ill and Injured Warriors” program in partnership with the American Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces. G…
Posted by Dorothy Chou, Senior Policy Analyst (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)How do governments affect access to information on the Internet? To help shed some light on that very question, last year we launched an online, interactive Tran…
Posted by Christine Chen, Senior Manager, Policy and Communications Every day we see Internet users around the world finding new ways to use technology to help bring about political, economic and social change. It’s exciting to see people exercise t…
Posted by Evelyn Kao, Product Manager (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) We’ve worked hard over the past few years to increase our services’ use of an encryption protocol called SSL, as well as encouraging the industry to adopt stronger se…
Posted by Will DeVries, Privacy Policy Counsel We know that staying safe while navigating the web can be a challenge for many people. Today, we’re launching a new resource on the Google website, Good to Know, that makes learning about security and p…
Posted by Seth Webb, Senior Policy ManagerWhen someone uses Google to search, it’s our job to provide them with answers. We’ve come a long way in developing search technology that delivers the most relevant results for our users, but there ar…
Posted by Shree Bose, Google Science Fair winner(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and the Google Science Fair blog)Last week, 17-year-old Shree Bose from Fort Worth, Texas, the grand prize winner of the Google Science Fair, visited Washington, …