If you saw this text on a webpage, how would you figure out what it means?Если вы читаете этот текст, вы, вероятно, уже говорите по-русски. Однако миллионы людей не знают русского и не могут прочитать миллионы русскоязычных...
Selasa, 30 Juni 2009
Celebrating Gay Pride 2009
All around Google, we're proud of our work, our culture and, most importantly, our people. In the spirit of celebration, this spring and summer Googlers have participated in Pride celebrations in Tel Aviv, New York, Zürich,...
Google heads to grade school: New resources for K-12 teachers and students
We use the Internet all the time: at home, at work (especially at Google!), on the move, and, increasingly, at school. We believe that the Internet and cloud-based tools are a key part of a 21st century classroom, helping...
Senin, 29 Juni 2009
Media and citizens meet in the YouTube Reporters' Center
This is the first of a series of posts from YouTube's news and politics blog, Citizentube. -Ed.YouTube is the biggest video news site on the Internet, and at no time in our site's history was that more apparent than in these...
Extending Google services in Africa
At Google we seek to serve a broad base of people — not only those who can afford to access the Internet from the convenience of their workplace or with a computer at home. It's important to reach users wherever...
Jumat, 26 Juni 2009
Outpouring of searches for the late Michael Jackson
At Google, we are moved by the life and untimely passing of Michael Jackson. As word spread of his death, millions and millions of people from all over the world began searching for information about the pop icon. The following...
We have a winner for the Google Photography Prize
Huge congratulations to Daniel Halasz from Hungary, who was awarded the Google Photography Prize this week. This was a global student competition to create themes for iGoogle. More than 3,600 students from across the world...
Kamis, 25 Juni 2009
Google Voice invites on their way
A couple of months ago we announced Google Voice, a service that gives you one phone number to link all your phones and makes voicemail as easy as email. We are happy to share that Google Voice is beginning to open up beyond...
Rabu, 24 Juni 2009
Announcing the AdSense for Mobile Applications beta
You don't have to be a mobile expert to see how smartphones are revolutionizing our daily lives. Lower prices, faster network speeds and unlimited data plans mean that people often reach for their cell phone rather than...
The Day in the Cloud Challenge has begun
Today, we invite you to take part in the Day in the Cloud Challenge, an online scavenger hunt that's being played simultaneously on the ground and in the air aboard Virgin America flights across the U.S. The Day in the Cloud...
Selasa, 23 Juni 2009
Let's make the web faster
From building data centers in different parts of the world to designing highly efficient user interfaces, we at Google always strive to make our services faster. We focus on speed as a key requirement in product and infrastructure...
Senin, 22 Juni 2009
All for Good: Bringing search, scale and openness to community service
While many organizations are doing great work to enable community service locally, it's not simple to search across opportunities from a variety of places to find what's right for you. We have some experience finding relevant...
A new landmark in computer vision
Science fiction books and movies have long imagined that computers will someday be able to see and interpret the world. At Google, we think computer vision has tremendous potential benefits for consumers, which is why we're...
Kamis, 18 Juni 2009
Google translates Persian
Today, we added Persian (Farsi) to Google Translate. This means you can now translate any text from Persian into English and from English into Persian — whether it's a news story, a website, a blog, an email, a tweet or...
GoogleServe: Thinking globally and serving locally
What do painting murals, teaching tech classes, and gardening have to do with Google? These are a few of the activities Googlers have participated in over the past few weeks as part of our second annual GoogleServe — a chance...
Blogger is turning 10
Google's about to have its second tenth birthday. In late August, Blogger will officially turn 10 years old. As our birthday draws near, we thought it would be interesting to share some fun facts about Blogger:Every minute...
The next edition of Google Books
Today, we're launching a host of new features in Google Books that give you more ways to browse and share the content from the Google Books collection. For example, we've added a feature that allows you to embed previews...
Rabu, 17 Juni 2009
Free webinar: Google Apps Education Edition
Around the world, schools and universities continuously face the difficult challenge of reducing costs while improving the quality of education they provide. This challenge becomes even more critical in turbulent economic...
iGoogle goes au naturel
We are excited to release a new set of iGoogle themes today. Drawing on the arrival of summer and the spectacular beauty of the world around us, our new iGoogle themes focus on nature. To create these themes, we worked...
Selasa, 16 Juni 2009
Citizentube: Watching video change our world
As you might have noticed, there's a lot of fascinating stuff that happens on YouTube every day. For example, did you know that a nine-year-old recently used YouTube to successfully campaign to save his local kickball lot?...
Jumat, 12 Juni 2009
Voting for iGoogle photo themes now open
A few weeks ago we launched the Google Photography Prize, a global student competition for students to create themes for iGoogle. Our goal was to find talented student photographers and give them unprecedented online and...
Kamis, 11 Juni 2009
Snack time with the new iGoogle for Android and iPhone
(cross-posted with the Google Mobile Blog)We like iGoogle because it lets us "snack" on interesting information all day long. We can read a little bit of news here and there, glance at finance portfolios, take a look at...
Get creative with the Google Chrome icon
Two years ago, we invited people around the world to participate in a video project imagining how Gmail messages travel around the world. The response was overwhelming, with 971 video submissions in total — many of which...
Rabu, 10 Juni 2009
Experience our largest developer gathering online
Google I/O has come and gone, and we've been working to get all of the content online so those of you who couldn't be there could experience some of the excitement. At the conference, we shared our thoughts on the future...
Selasa, 09 Juni 2009
The state of cloud computing
Earlier today at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco, we convened a group of journalists, partners and customers for a discussion on Google Apps in the enterprise. We're pleased to report that the "state of the cloud" is strong,...
Translating the world's information with Google Translator Toolkit
At Google, we consider translation a key part of making information universally accessible to everyone around the world. While we think Google Translate, our automatic translation system, is pretty neat, sometimes machine...
Senin, 08 Juni 2009
Design It Shelter Competition: Unleash your inner architect
Today, Frank Lloyd Wright's 142nd birthday, we're excited to announce the Design It: Shelter Competition. Held by the Guggenheim Museum and Google SketchUp, the competition is inspired by Wright's assignment for his apprentices...
Kamis, 04 Juni 2009
Picasa Web Albums stays big, gets faster
I use Picasa to manage the photos on my computer in part because it's the fastest way to manage all of the pictures I take. When I started working on Picasa Web Albums, the speed and responsiveness of the desktop program...
Rabu, 03 Juni 2009
Square your search results with Google Squared
Some information is easy to find. If you want to learn the rules of golf, you can search Google for [golf rules] and we'll return a list of relevant web sites right at the top. But not all your information needs are that...
Tour the homepages of your favorite celebrities
Have you ever wondered what celebrities do when they use the web? Today, we're announcing the new iGoogle Showcase, which allows you to see and share the homepages of some of your favorite icons. These 30 preeminent people,...
Selasa, 02 Juni 2009
Search billions of documents with the Google Search Appliance 6.0
It's hard to conceptualize the number 1,000,000,000. One billion sheets of paper could circle the earth at the equator well over five times. Counting to one billion would take about 30 years of your life, even if you never...
The Local Business Center dashboard opens its doors
If you're a local business owner, it's likely that Google plays a role in helping customers find you. And we're not just talking about your website — thanks to Google Maps and Google Search, you may also be getting a lot...
Senin, 01 Juni 2009
Blog search and beyond
Since we launched the Custom Search AJAX gadget for Blogger on our experimental site, we've gotten some great feedback. Now, the tuned-up search gadget is available to all Blogger users. You can configure this gadget to...
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