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 couple of weeks, we introduced several...
Jumat, 30 Juli 2010
Rabu, 28 Juli 2010
Alex Trebek, teachers and Googlers unite at the Google Geo Teachers Institute
(Cross-posted from the Lat Long Blog)What do Alex Trebek, teachers and Googlers have in common? Last week, these individuals and groups all came together at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA to celebrate exploration and...
What to search when you’re expecting
This is part of our summer series of new Search Stories. Look for the label Search Stories and subscribe to the series. -Ed.Having been a new dad for six months now, I’ve quickly come to learn two valuable parenting lessons....
Selasa, 27 Juli 2010
Stargazing in Pittsburgh
Humans have always been fascinated by the night sky. And Googlers are no exception. Over the years, Google engineers have used their 20 percent time to create Google Sky, Moon, Mars and most recently Google Sky Map for Android....
Senin, 26 Juli 2010
Light summer reading: entertaining legal opinions
Last November, we added legal opinions to Google Scholar. Legal opinions consider serious issues and help refine the laws that govern our country—but they can also be surprisingly entertaining. We’ve shared some of these...
Introducing Google Apps for Government
Today we’re excited to announce a new edition of Google Apps. Designed with guidance from customers like the federal government, the City of Los Angeles and the City of Orlando, Google Apps for Government includes the same...
Honoring the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
[Cross-posted on Google Public Policy Blog] Bending, walking, breathing, hearing, seeing and sleeping are simple things that are often taken for granted, as are thinking, learning, and communicating. Twenty years ago...
Minggu, 25 Juli 2010
This week in search 7/25/10
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.As we seek to expand the most comprehensive search experience on the web, we've...
Sabtu, 24 Juli 2010
Life in a Day: thank you for filming
(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)On behalf of Ridley Scott, Kevin Macdonald, LG, the Sundance Film Festival and all of us at YouTube, thank you to everyone who took part in “Life in a Day.” Using the footage you shot,...
Life in a Day: Cameras, set, action...today!
(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)What are you doing today? Something routine like cooking breakfast or taking the dog for a walk? Or is it something extraordinary like your child's first soccer game or your wedding...
Jumat, 23 Juli 2010
Announcing the winners of the Google Online Marketing Challenge 2010
This year we held the third edition of the Google Online Marketing Challenge — a global university competition that gives students hands-on exposure to online marketing. Each team receives the equivalent of $200 to work...
YouTube Play jury selected and ready to view your work
(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)For artists, YouTube is a 21st century canvas. Since the YouTube Play project was announced last month, more than 6,000 videos ranging in genres, topics and budget have been submitted...
Kamis, 22 Juli 2010
2010 EMEA Scholars’ Retreat: top CS students share their impressions
Back in June, our Zurich engineering headquarters welcomed 100 of EMEA’s brightest computer science students to our annual Europe, Middle East and Africa Scholars’ Retreat. Recipients of the Google Europe Scholarship for...
Rabu, 21 Juli 2010
He said, she said: a sibling search story
This is part of our summer series of new Search Stories. Look for the label Search Stories and subscribe to the series. -Ed.My sister is my best friend in the world. But that wasn’t always the case. When we were young,...
Selasa, 20 Juli 2010
Ooh! Ahh! Google Images presents a nicer way to surf the visual web
When you think about “information,” what probably comes to mind are streams of words and numbers. Google’s pretty good at organizing these types of information, but consider all the things you can’t express with words: what...
Reducing our carbon footprint with the direct purchase of renewable energy
When we decided in 2007 to voluntarily become carbon neutral, our intent was to take responsibility for our carbon emissions and promote sustainable environmental solutions. We approach this goal in three ways. First,...
Jumat, 16 Juli 2010
Deeper understanding with Metaweb
Over time we’ve improved search by deepening our understanding of queries and web pages. The web isn’t merely words—it’s information about things in the real world, and understanding the relationships between real-world...
Google Apps highlights – 7/16/2010
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 couple of weeks we rolled out some nice...
Kamis, 15 Juli 2010
The most World Cup-crazy countries
Last weekend, Spain won the 2010 World Cup. For the month leading up to the final, Googlers joined the world in cheering for their favorite teams. Around our campus, games were watched on computer screens and on cafe video...
Use Chrome like a pro
This week I sent a note to Googlers about some of the Chrome team's favorite extensions. So many of them asked if they could share the list with people outside the company that I thought I would just do it for them. Here...
Our 2010 EMEA CS4HS Awardees
We recently told you about CS4HS, our workshop program for high school and middle school computer science teachers in the U.S. We now have some additional news to share: our 2010 EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa)...
Google PhD Fellowships go international
We introduced the Google Fellowship program last year in the United States to broaden our support of university research. The students who were awarded the 2009 fellowships were a truly impressive group, many having high...
Rabu, 14 Juli 2010
Translating Wikipedia
(Cross-posted from the Google Translate Blog)We believe that translation is key to our mission of making information useful to everyone. For example, Wikipedia is a phenomenal source of knowledge, especially for speakers...
Google Books goes Dutch
(Cross-posted from the European Public Policy blog)In recent months, I’ve got to know a group of people in the Hague who are working on an ambitious project to make the rich fabric of Dutch cultural and political history...
Our commitment to the digital humanities
(Cross-posted on the Google Research Blog)It can’t have been very long after people started writing that they started to organize and comment on what was written. Look at the 10th century Venetus A manuscript, which contains...
Selasa, 13 Juli 2010
Introducing our Google Fiber for Communities website
In February we announced our plans to build experimental, ultra-high speed broadband networks. Over the past several months, our team’s been hard at work reviewing the nearly 1,100 community responses to our request for...
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