With just a few hours of 2011 remaining in Mountain View, Calif., we’re taking our traditional look at the past year on the Official Google Blog, as well as Google’s presence on Google+ and Twitter. On the blog this year,...
Sabtu, 31 Desember 2011
Minggu, 25 Desember 2011
Remembering a remarkable Soviet computing pioneer
In many parts of the world, today is Christmas—but in Russia and Eastern Europe, which use the Orthodox calendar, December 25 is just an ordinary day. Little known to most, however, it’s also a day that marks the anniversary...
Jumat, 23 Desember 2011
Santa Claus is coming to town... find out where with Google and NORAD
It’s that time of year again! The stockings are hung by the chimney with care and Google and NORAD are ready to answer the question of “where?” NORAD’s tradition of tracking Santa on Christmas Eve started in 1955, when a...
Rabu, 21 Desember 2011
On your mark, get set, GOMC!
Professor registration for the 2012 Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC) is now open. GOMC is a global online marketing competition open to professors and their students in any higher education institution. Professors...
Test your creativity with our search caption challenge
Our main goal at Google Search is to bring you the most relevant and useful results as quickly as possible. But, we are aware that often that is only part of your task or journey. Sometimes, you need more than simple results....
Selasa, 20 Desember 2011
One more present under the tree—custom video messages from Santa
Last Friday Santa opened up the Ho Ho Hotline and teamed up with Gmail to send personalized holiday phone calls to anyone you know who has been nice (or naughty, for that matter) in the U.S. or Canada. In just a few days...
What were we watching this year? Let’s rewind 2011.
One hundred years into the future, when our great-grandkids look back to what was capturing the world’s imagination on YouTube in 2011, what will they make of us? Will they still be delighted by babbling babies? Will they...
Ending the year with another clean energy investment
We’ve made a new $94 million investment in a portfolio of four solar photovoltaic (PV) projects being built by Recurrent Energy near Sacramento, California. This brings our portfolio of clean energy investments to more than...
Senin, 19 Desember 2011
Make your own online scrapbook with 2011 green search trends
Last week we unveiled this year’s Zeitgeist, including the fastest rising searches in 2011. Those of us on the Google Green team were pleased that the search trends include several popular searches related to the environment...
Google+: A few big improvements before the New Year
Today we’re pleased to announce a goodie basket full of Google+ features and functionality for you to unpack and enjoy over the holidays. Some of these were on nearly everyone’s wishlist... and some we hope will be welcome...
Jumat, 16 Desember 2011
Ho-ho-hold the phone: Santa’s on the line
Last year, Santa got his very own Google Voice number, and people around the U.S. received a special personalized holiday phone call from Santa Claus.This year, Santa wants you to reach out to him (after all, reindeer are...
Google Apps highlights – 12/16/2011
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.The elves got an early jump on the holidays this year...
Searching closer to home
Yesterday, my colleague, Amit Singhal, posted about the global trends revealed in our 2011 year-end Zeitgeist. In addition to looking broadly at topics from more than 40 countries around the world, the site included the...
Dabble in Doodle history on our new site
Have you ever seen a doodle you loved, but when you went to see it again it was gone? Ever curious about what doodles in Italy look like, or how your favorite holiday has been celebrated each year? Or wanted to get a behind-the-scenes...
Kamis, 15 Desember 2011
Zeitgeist 2011: How the world searched
This year marks our 11th annual look back at the searches that compose the year’s Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time. With Zeitgeist, we look at the most popular and the fastest rising terms—the terms with the highest growth...
Rabu, 14 Desember 2011
Google Cloud Print picks up steam
Last April, we announced our plans for Google Cloud Print (GCP), the service that powers printing on Chromebooks as well as a new generation of connected apps and devices. The goal of GCP is to enable simple, secure...
Google+ Hangouts: going beyond the status update
All too often, physical distance and frantic schedules get in the way of spending time together, especially during the holidays. But you know what? They don't have to.With Google+ Hangouts, you can go beyond “status updates,”...
Giving back in 2011
As the holiday season approaches we thought it was a good moment to update you on some grants we're making to support education, technology and the fight against modern day slavery.STEM and girls’ educationScience, technology,...
Senin, 12 Desember 2011
Experience the tsunami-affected areas of Japan through Street View
Back in July, we announced our initiative to digitally archive the areas of Northeastern Japan affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Today, we’re making good on that promise—after driving more than 44,000 kilometers...
Kamis, 08 Desember 2011
A Big Tent for free expression in The Hague
Google has long worked hard to raise the issue of Internet freedom in Europe. So when the Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal took the initiative to host a meeting bringing together foreign ministers from more than 16 countries...
Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+
We want to bring you a great experience across all Google products which, for Gmail and Contacts, means understanding what you care about and delivering it instantly. With that in mind, we’re introducing some new integrations...
Congratulations to three Googlers elected ACM Fellows
It gives me great pleasure to share that the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that three Googlers have been elected ACM Fellows in 2011. The ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing...
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