As you may have seen in one of our previous posts, we recently launched a site called 2008 US Voter Info on Google Maps that shows users everything from their polling place to their custom registration information. It’s been quite popular across the…
This is a guest post from the folks at liveclimate.org, an organization we worked with to offset the Google Apps bus tour’s carbon footprint. Developing countries will be the hardest hit by effects of climate change, and hundreds of projects around th…
Many of you students will soon have your first voting experience. And in this year’s election, every vote counts. Here at Google, we’ve discovered data that proves how people like you have increasingly been searching for voting information, like how to…
A few months ago the Gmail team introduced Gmail Labs as a way to quickly launch experimental new features. Some of these might really help your productivity like Superstars, Quick Links, or the Forgotten Attachment Detector, while others — like Old S…
After starting the week at UNC Greensboro, the Google Apps Road Trip was off to its next stop at my alma mater and home of the Cavaliers, the University of Virginia. Needless to say, as an alum, I was both giddy and nostalgic as we headed north on 29 t…
Last week kicked off our second week of the Google Apps Bus Tour adventure! The Google decorated school bus pulled into The Commons at Vanderbilt University early Thursday morning and prepared for a fun day with the Vandy students. It proved to be the …
At Google we’re committed to helping build a clean energy future, and we have several projects and initiatives in the works to support this goal. As part of that responsibility, Google has committed to being carbon-neutral, meaning we offset carbon for…
The Google “App to School” bus tour stopped at my campus, Abilene Christian University, on Monday, September 15th. The bus rolled into place early in the morning and by the time most students were heading to class the Googlers were hard at work showin…
Back in October 2006, the Google Apps team met with Adrian Sannier, the Chief Technology Officer at Arizona State University. Just two weeks later we announced that ASU was the first major university to fully deploy Google Apps to its 65,000 students. …
Yesterday, the App to School bus rolled into Los Angeles for our first stop at the University of Southern California. The sun was shining, and the students were out in full force, visiting our demo stations, hanging out in our tour bus, and picking up …
Going to college can be exciting, but how do you keep your friends and family back at home updated on all the new things happening in your life? Well, one easy way is to create your own personal blog.Blogs are a great way to share information (just lik…
If you’re reading this you probably go to college, can’t wait to get to college, or desperately wish you were still in college. You’re in the right place. Some of us on the Apps for Education team are in the “still wish we were in college” camp and hav…
According to Google lore, our company founders didn’t really get along when they first met as Stanford graduate students in 1995. Larry was a 24-year-old University of Michigan alumnus on a weekend visit; Sergey, 23, was assigned to show him around cam…