May 6th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
In June 2007 Google made a voluntary commitment to become carbon neutral. To honor this commitment, we calculated our global carbon footprint, purchased high-quality carbon offsets, and worked with a third party to certify our calculations and validate…
May 6th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Over the weekend Larry Page delivered the commencement address at his alma mater and encouraged grads to “get a little crazy.” Video of his speech was recently posted and we wanted to share it with our readers. You can also read the full transcript.Pos…
May 6th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
One thing we’ve noticed here at Google over the years is that the more popular something becomes, the more people search for it online. Our annual zeitgeist catalogs some of the more interesting trends we’ve seen in a year’s worth of web search data. …
May 6th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Hello teachers,We hope that your desk was deluged with a bunch of shined-up apples this morning as a thank you from your students for all that you do for them every day. At Google, we’d like to thank you as well, and acknowledge that we wouldn’t be wh…
May 4th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
A few months ago, we introduced Google Latitude, a new feature for mobile and iGoogle that lets you share your location with your friends. Since the launch, a lot of you have asked “What if I want to share my location with people who are not my Latitud…
May 1st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
At our Mountain View headquarters, we have some fields that we need to mow occasionally to clear weeds and brush to reduce fire hazard. This spring we decided to take a low-carbon approach: Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute…
April 29th, 2009 | by Ethan Ambabo | published in Google Product Ideas
Product Ideas for Google Mobile has shown us that users like you have great feedback and enjoy sharing it with the world. As you have seen from previous blog posts, you’ve shown us that you care about location sharing through Google, access to document…
April 14th, 2009 | by The Product Ideas Team | published in Google Product Ideas
We recently made it easier to manage events with Google Calendar for mobile browsers, which should be great news to all those who voted for the No. 1 idea on Google Product Ideas. You can now edit, delete, and respond to events using Google Calendar fo…
February 13th, 2009 | by The Product Ideas Team | published in Google Product Ideas
We’d like to highlight a couple of newly launched features for mobile products that correlate to ideas you’ve posted on Product Ideas. First, Google Sync has been extended to multiple device platforms, which means that more people can enable automatic …
February 5th, 2009 | by The Product Ideas Team | published in Google Product Ideas
When we launched Product Ideas, we asked you to submit your best ideas for Google Mobile. Lana from New York, NY, said she wanted to “see my friends on maps on my phone,” and over 1,200 of you agreed. We’ve had many other great ideas come from mobile e…
December 23rd, 2008 | by The Product Ideas Team | published in Google Product Ideas
Product Ideas for Google Mobile went live on 12/12. So far we’ve seen a lot of creative, interesting ideas being posted about how to make Google Mobile products better and a lot of voting going on. Keep it coming!We’d like to highlight one idea which w…
December 15th, 2008 | by The Product Ideas Team | published in Google Product Ideas
Have you ever thought:”I wish I could just get attention and tell Google what I think of their mobile products…”or”I have an awesome idea for a Google mobile product! Now if only I could show Google how cool this is…”?At Google, we know we’ve got s…