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Google Apps highlights – 9/3/2010

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0000

This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subscribe to the series. – Ed.Recently we introduced powerful, time-saving features in Gmail: Priority Inbox and the ability to call phones right from Gmail. Google spreadsheets added new features, and many more businesses and schools moved to the cloud with Google Apps…

Trimming our privacy policies

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Long, complicated and lawyerly—that’s what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they’re legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand.So we’re simplifying and updating Google’s privacy policies. To be clear, we aren’t changing any of our privacy practices; we want to make our policies more transparent and understandable…

Back to the future: two years of Google Chrome

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:20:00 +0000

(Cross-posted from the Google Chrome Blog)Watching the 1985 classic Back to the Future last night, I was struck by how much things can change with time. The main character Marty McFly travels 30 years back in time, only to find that his house hadn’t been built yet, skateboards hadn’t been invented and nobody had ever heard rock ‘n roll.Looking back today on Chrome’s second anniversary, it’s amazing to see how much has changed in just a short time…

Model the world with Google SketchUp 8

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:00:00 +0000

It’s been 10 years since the first version of Google SketchUp was released, and there are more people modeling in SketchUp now that we ever could have imagined—over a million of you a week, in fact. That’s a pretty humbling number of 3D model makers.People around the world are modeling everything—from a new design for their kitchen to entire cities in Google Earth. For our small part in this global phenomenon, I’m proud to announce that SketchUp 8, the next major version of our 3D modeling tool, is available for download today…

Online publishers: growing the display advertising pie

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:00:00 +0000

This is the latest post in our series on the future of display advertising. Today, director of product management Jonathan Bellack looks at our efforts to help online publishers generate more advertising revenue – Ed.For millions of online publishers—from the smallest blogger to the largest entertainment, news, e-commerce and information sites—online advertising revenue is vital. When publishers can maximize their returns, everyone benefits from more vibrant online content and websites…

Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:55:00 +0000

(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog)People tell us all that time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day—mail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail that’s often not important. It’s time-consuming to figure out what needs to be read and what needs a reply…

Share your story with the new Google Translate

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:21:00 +0000

(Cross-posted from the Google Translate blog)Today, you may have noticed a brighter looking Google Translate. We’re currently rolling out several changes globally to our look and feel that should make translating text, webpages and documents on Google Translate even easier. These changes will be available globally within a couple of days.Google Translate’s shiny new coat of paintWith today’s functional and visual changes we wanted to make it simpler for you to discover and make the most of Google Translate’s many features and integrations…

23 walls of Googley

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:40:00 +0000

A couple months ago while visiting our London office, I noticed a really cool Google logo on the wall. It was a mosaic of photos of London that had been created by a product manager named Clay Bavor and a team of Googlers (in fact, Clay wrote about it). As a few of us admired the wall, we thought there must be other Googlers who could create something equally cool and fun. So we cooked up a little contest for the product management team: create your own version of a “Googley Art Wall” and the team with the best entry wins a nice dinner out and a donation to the charity of its choice…

Arcade Fire meets HTML5

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:09:00 +0000

What would a music experience designed specifically for the modern web look like? This is a question we’ve been playing around with for the last few months. Browsers and web technologies have advanced so rapidly in the last few years that powerful experiences tailored to each unique person in real-time are now a reality.Today we’re excited to launch a musical experience made specifically for the browser…

This week in search 8/27/10

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:51:00 +0000

This is one of a regular series of posts on search experience updates. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. – Ed.Searches come in many flavors, but it’s our job to determine what type of search you’re doing once you’ve clicked your way out of the search box. Whether you’re looking for a blog or a business, our goal is to get you the most relevant type of result back to you—fast…

Find out what’s hot on search with the Google Beat

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:56:00 +0000

Every day, there are more than a billion searches for information on Google. Have you ever wondered what those searches are about—or whether what you’re searching for also happens to be on the minds of millions of others across the country? We’re introducing a new way to find out—a regular video series called the Google Beat that highlights some of the hottest searches on Google in the U.S…

Google Realtime Search: a new home with new tools

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:02:00 +0000

When we first introduced our real-time search features last December, we focused on bringing relevance to the freshest information on the web. Our goal was to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources, integrated right into your usual search results. Today we’re making our most significant enhancements to date, giving real-time information its own home and more powerful tools to help you find what you need…

Sixth annual Summer of Code flexes some serious geek girl muscle

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:29:00 +0000

Our sixth annual Summer of Code program has wrapped up and we want to highlight some of this year’s amazing participants and projects. Summer of Code offers students developers all over the world the chance to get paid to write code for open source projects as an alternative to a summer job.Kicked off in 2005, the Summer of Code has brought together more than 3,400 students with more than 200 open source projects from all over the world to create millions of lines of code…

Call phones from Gmail

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:40:00 +0000

(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog)Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time. Given that most of us don’t spend all day in front of our computers, we thought, “wouldn’t it be nice if you could call people directly on their phones?”Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail…

Google Scholarship program kicks off in China

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:15:00 +0000

About a week ago, we hosted more than 130 Google Scholarship recipients in our Beijing office. These outstanding undergraduates and graduate students in computer science and software engineering from more than 20 universities across China were the recipients of the Google Excellence Scholarship and the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship—our first scholarships in China. The students participated in an awards ceremony and toured the Google office…

What do you think about human rights (and your rights) online?

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:50:00 +0000

Government police shutting down farmer’s protests in China. A tobacco company employing under-age workers in Kazakhstan. Iranian merchants striking to protest tax increases in Tehran. We’ve seen stories like these on our computers and phones every day, and YouTube has been documenting many of them on our breaking news feed on Citizentube over the past few months. Videos like these are more than just breaking news images; they’re often political statements meant to bring about change…

Google Apps highlights – 8/20/2010

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:32:00 +0000

This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subscribe to the series. – Ed.Over the last few weeks, we made it easier to find more kinds of information in Gmail as well as use multiple Gmail accounts at once. Google Docs and Google Sites both added new features, and we released improved tools to move existing data to Google Apps…

Our latest search story: run on

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:15:00 +0000

This is part of our summer series of new Search Stories. Look for the label Search Stories and subscribe to the series. -Ed.Recently, a group of Google product managers challenged one another to run 100 miles over 30 days in the interest of encouraging summer fitness. I grew up in Huntsville, AL, where I always loved exercising and experiencing the great outdoors, so I took to the challenge immediately…

Your Google stories: and some other ways we help people find things

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:50:00 +0000

This is part of a series of stories from people who have shared how Google has helped them in their lives. If you missed the rest of the stories this week, check them out—and if you have a Google story, tell us about it. -Ed.Of all the great stories people send us, some simply make us laugh and appreciate even more why we’re in the search business. For our final post in our series of your Google stories, we’re sharing three tales that we found particularly funny and unique…

Responding to the floods in Pakistan

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:38:00 +0000

Pakistan has been struck by the worst flooding in its recorded history. The latest estimate of the number of people affected by the flood exceeds 14 million—more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Critical infrastructure has been damaged over the last two weeks and clean water is in short supply. As monsoons approach, flooding is expected to worsen…