If you can select headgear for your LEGO ® action figures, your search engine should let you customize the theme for your search results page, right? Darn tooting!True, Custom Search already lets you customize the look and feel of your search results …
Custom Search themes make it easy for you to customize the look and feel of your search results pages. And if you want to take the customization gig further, you can also customize the result snippet—a small sample of content that gives search users …
Today at the eMetrics conference in Washington DC we announced the new Website Optimizer Experiment Management API. The API allows for the creation and management of experiments outside of the Website Optimizer interface.If you’re not familiar with Goo…
This week, we’ve been celebrating all things mobile across Google. Of course, this wouldn’t be complete without a component for mobile web developers! Two months ago we asked you to make the web faster. Now, we’ve asked the Google Mobile team for some …
View Source is a new series where we crack open cool web sites and applications and detail how they were made, step by step. The series will be hosted on Ajaxian, but the Code blog will always carry a link to any new posts that come out in the series. …
We’re excited to share the dates for Google I/O 2010! Mark your calendars:Google I/OMay 19 – 20, 2010Moscone Center, San FranciscoHere’s a quick look back at this year’s event:Early registration for I/O 2010 will open in January. Until then, you can fo…
Today, we’re happy to share some updates on code.google.com/speed with you.We launched code.google.com/speed in June, to give web developers access to tools and resources that help them improve the performance of their applications. Since then, the dev…
At Google we’re excited about new web technologies like HTML 5, CSS 3, Web Fonts, SVG, faster JavaScript, and more. It’s an exciting time to be a web developer, especially with the major advancements made in modern browsers like Firefox, Safari, Opera,…
We recently published deprecation policies for a number of APIs that graduated from Google Code Labs. They state how long we’ll support each version from when it’s deprecated or a newer version is introduced. It will be 3 years for most, but the time p…
The Developer Sandbox was a new addition to this year’s Google I/O. The Sandbox featured a diverse range of developers and apps, all with one thing in common — they’ve all built applications based on technologies and products featured at I/O. The…
You have seen the previews for I/O sessions that we have published so far (First set, Second set). This time, we have something a little different for you.In this preview, Brian and Ben track down the elusive Genius programmer in the preview for their …
We hope you enjoyed watching the previous set of previews for Google I/O sessions. These previews are a way for the speakers to present their topics in their own voice and for you to be able to pick and choose which sessions you would like to attend ah…
For those who are attending I/O, we thought it might be useful to hear from some of the speakers in advance. These videos provide a preview of one or more topics that will be covered in their talks. If you’re torn between two sessions at the same time …
As a developer, one of the coolest things about working on the Google Chrome web browser is that there’s very little difference between being a Googler working on it and being an external contributor. Most development happens via public wikis, mailing…
I set a quarterly goal to write an application in my 20% time that uses publicly available Google APIs. While some would call this scenario testing, I refer to it as “method user experience design” (think method acting). The process can often be painfu…