Google Data

Search, that is. For us, search has always been our focus. And, starting today, you’ll notice on our homepage and on our search results pages, our search box is growing in size. Although this is a very simple idea and an even simpler change, we’re exci…

(Cross-posted on the Google Students Blog)It’s always tough to bid farewell to summer and hit the books again, but for a few million students this back-to-school season, things are looking up. As of this fall, over five million students at thousands of…

This past Monday, when my co-workers asked me what I did over the weekend, I casually mentioned that I ran a 197 mile race. Thankfully, Hood to Coast is a relay, so I finished with my legs intact after journeying from Mount Hood to Seaside, Oregon with…

With more and more kids going online, whether to connect over social networking sites, mingle in chat rooms or play games, it’s become increasingly important for families, schools and service providers to work together to ensure that the younger genera…

Today, we’re really pleased to launch Google Domestic Trends on Google Finance.Google Domestic Trends tracks Google search traffic across specific sectors of the economy. The changes in the search volume of a given sector on google.com may provide usef…

Much has changed since Blogger was released in August of 1999. Writing about Blogger’s founding in his book Say Everything, Scott Rosenberg describes the effect of Blogger simply: “It cleared the obstacles from the path between brain and Web page.” As …

We spend a lot of time thinking about how information travels around the globe. After all, there are Googlers living and working in dozens of countries — and we’re pretty sure our products are used in many more. So we’re familiar with the need to tra…

We’ve just concluded our fifth Google Summer of Code, our flagship global program to introduce college and university students to open source development. Once again, the results this year have been impressive. Nearly 2,000 mentors from 64 countries pa…

Try doing a search for [Hamlet] on Google Books. The first few results you’ll get are “Full View” books — which means you can read the full text. And, because the book is in the public domain, you can also download a copy of Hamlet in PDF form.Starti…

I only followed a handful of blogs when I first started using Google Reader, but was always on the lookout for more great stuff to read. Over time, I discovered that my friends followed lots of interesting sites, and my reading list grew from 4 to 34 s…

(Cross-posted from the YouTube Biz Blog)We first launched the YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) to help some of our more popular users make money from their videos on YouTube. While we’ve focused on accepting prolific users who regularly produce videos…

This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. – Ed. What if you could do a little something to improve the world during your daily drive to work? Here are a few…

[From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest, and we are very pleased to have Harold Varmus join us here. Harold is the Chairman and Co-Founder of the Public Library of Science, a non-profit publisher of open access journa...

People use search to find what they need, and the same holds true in the business world. We want searching your company intranet to be comparable to searching on Google.com, and the Google Search Appliance (GSA) to have the most relevant, high quality …

As more and more businesses and organizations “go Google,” we find that many of the features we develop based on feedback from large enterprises end up benefiting all of our users. We recently rolled out improvements to the way Google Groups interacts …