When you publish a public blog post, you want to share it with the world—immediately! Blogger helps by feeding your posts to subscribers all over the web. Unfortunately, while we really want things to be as speedy as possible, sometimes it can take a…
YouTube is offering musicians around the globe the opportunity to join a symphony orchestra via video through the world’s first collaborative online orchestra. This is a chance to perform alongside world-renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, learn …
On Friday, November 14, we hosted the Grand Finals of Google Code Jam. The event brought together the top 100 coder participants from around the world, who’d been taking their programming skills to the limit over the last few months, solving fiendish a…
Here at Blogger we’re always working to make the site and your blogs faster and more reliable. We want you to think of us as a big truck: able to handle anything you can dump on us.Tuesday’s election was a good chance to see just how big a truck Bl…
In February, we launched the East Africa Gadget Competition that saw students from 10 universities in 6 East African countries compete in creating and developing the “next big thing”. Following several other such competitions around the world, the East…
I recently had the chance to interview several long-time Googlers about the early days. To commemorate our 10th birthday, we’ve been revisiting our memories by digging into company lore. As fun as it has been to look back, of course we’ve also got our …
We’ve just posted the first three videos in the Google Technology Roundtable Series. Each one is a discussion with senior Google researchers and technologists about one of our most significant achievements. We use a talk show format, where I lead a dis…
The Google Earth Education team is excited to announce two new science outreach initiatives. Both are part of our effort to increase educational outreach and expand upon the successful workshop we held in Boulder at the University of Colorado in the sp…
Political participation is at an all-time high this election season, and a record number of voters have already started to cast ballots — a few even camped out in Ohio to be the first in line for early voting yesterday. But roughly 1 in 4 Americans …
Frontend web design and backend server programming are enough to make many people’s heads spin. However, for Matt Pokrzywa, it was the essence of his highly technical work during his summer internship with Google and the Checkout team. Here is his st…
Remember those days when you just couldn’t wait for the bell to ring on that last day of class? You’d sprint down the hall, burst through the door, and head for daylight, because it’s…SUMMERTIME! It’s time for iced lemonade and laying out at the bea…
The study of Computer Science can be challenging and fun, and Google wants to inspire students to become active participants and leaders in creating technology. With this in mind, our educational outreach group, University Programs, and Diversity and …
At Google, we are trying to do more to increase diversity in the technology industry. If you are a computer science major you probably already know that women and minorities are significantly under-represented in the field. Did you know that each year …