It's time again for our annual wrap-up of blogging at Google. You may have noticed 2009 marked our fifth year here on the Official Google Blog — our first post was in April 2004 — and it was our busiest year yet. This is...
Kamis, 31 Desember 2009
Selasa, 29 Desember 2009
Ordinary citizens, extraordinary videos
(Cross-posted from Citizentube and the YouTube Blog)The images are grainy, often jerky and hard to follow (like most footage shot using hand-held cameras and cellphones), but the message is unmistakable: in the months since...
Jumat, 25 Desember 2009
This week in search 12/25/09
This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed.Googlers are all about the holidays, and we're always...
Rabu, 23 Desember 2009
Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Track Santa and his sleigh with NORAD
Sipping warm cider, watching the snow fall, unwrapping gifts — these holiday traditions always seem to produce many of the year's sweetest memories. Several years ago, we added another holiday tradition to our list — helping...
Selasa, 22 Desember 2009
Unofficial tech support returns home for the holidays
Whenever I go home to visit my parents, I always assume a handful of new roles — I become the after-dinner dishwasher, the family chauffeur, and appropriately, my parents' personal tech support. As I go home for the holidays...
Senin, 21 Desember 2009
The meaning of open
Last week I sent an email to Googlers about the meaning of "open" as it relates to the Internet, Google, and our users. In the spirit of openness, I thought it would be appropriate to share these thoughts with those outside...
Google Checkout for Non-Profits in 2010
Over the past couple of years, Google Checkout for Non-Profits has helped thousands of organizations collect millions of dollars in donations to support various causes. Today we’re pleased to announce that we’ll be extending...
Jumat, 18 Desember 2009
This week in search 12/18/09
This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed.For Google, the quality of search has always been about...
Tips and tricks for deploying Google Apps
Has your company, school or organization decided to "go Google" — but not yet fully "gone?" Perhaps you'd like more guidance on the technical, marketing or training details? Or maybe you could use some resources to help...
Kamis, 17 Desember 2009
Carbon offsets at Google
As leaders from around the world meet in Copenhagen to address global climate change this month, we thought it was a good time to reflect on our own carbon footprint. In 2007, we committed to become a carbon neutral company....
Go thataway: Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local
Have you ever been lost? Perhaps you missed a turn because a street sign was poorly labeled, hard to see in the dark, or just not where it should have been? These are problems we've all faced, but they're especially complicated...
Translate Google Sites with one click
Google brought translation features to many of our products in 2009, including Google Docs and Gmail and we're happy to add one more before the New Year. To make it easier for people around the globe to read the site you...
Transliteration goes global
Most of us use a keyboard to enter text; it's one of the most basic activities we perform on a computer. However even this simple activity can be cumbersome in many parts of the world. If you've ever tried to type in a non-Roman...
Rabu, 16 Desember 2009
Browser Size: a tool to see how others view your website
In a newspaper, the most important story is featured on the front page. If it's a really important piece, then it's placed "above the fold," which means you can find it on the top half of the first page — the bottom half...
More great news sources to discover in Fast Flip
Three months ago, we launched Google Fast Flip, a service that seeks to make reading articles online as fast and simple as flipping through a magazine or newspaper. It's still early in this experiment, which is why Fast...
What you watched and searched for on YouTube in 2009
(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we're sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments...
Selasa, 15 Desember 2009
Live on YouTube: Leaders answer your questions in the CNN/YouTube Climate Debate
(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)Today, at 8 a.m. ET, a panel of world climate leaders, among them former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and journalist Thomas Friedman, will gather in Copenhagen and answer the top...
Senin, 14 Desember 2009
The top ten ways to get your business ready for the holidays
A few weeks ago, we jump-started the holiday shopping season with Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Like us, you probably browsed the shops and sites for the coolest products and best shopping deals for your holiday purchases....
A deep dive on display advertising
2009 has been a busy year for Google in the area of display advertising — that is, the image, video and interactive ad formats that run across the web.Our goal is to improve display advertising on the web for everyone. We're...
Making URLs shorter for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner
This morning, we launched updated versions of the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner that offer a new URL shortening service from Google called the Google URL Shortener. We mentioned our URL shortener as a feature in both announcements,...
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