Our goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible. This requires constant tuning of our algorithms, as new content—both good and bad—comes online all the time.Many of the...
Kamis, 24 Februari 2011
Join us on the bridge for International Women’s Day 2011
(Cross-posted on the LatLong Blog)I lead a global team at Google and travel extensively. When I speak about my work, the questions I get are often about the efforts we make to bring more women into engineering and how I...
Slice and dice your recipe search results
As a second-generation Indian who has grown up in the United States, I’ve developed a taste for great home-cooked Indian food, but not a knack for how to make it. Somehow my cooking efforts result in foods that taste over-spiced...
New ways to experience better collaboration with Google Apps
The Google Apps collaboration tools have steadily and swiftly improved over the last couple years, and many companies have found that Google Docs and Google Sites are faster, simpler and more powerful than traditional software...
Rabu, 23 Februari 2011
The three laws of display advertising physics
It’s not just the Android team that is exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy. In recent years, advertising technology has had its own “Big Bang": a rapid onset of incredible growth and expansion in the display advertising...
Investing in news innovation in Europe
(Cross-posted from the European Public Policy Blog)Journalism is changing fast. And as news businesses experiment with new ways of creating and delivering journalism in the digital age, Google is keen to play its part on...
Selasa, 22 Februari 2011
Speech technology at Google: teaching machines to talk and listen
This is the latest post in our series profiling entrepreneurial Googlers working on products across the company and around the world. Here, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at how one Googler built an entire R&D team...
The Data Viz Challenge: can you make tax data exciting?
(Cross-posted on the Code Blog)This time of year, everyone in the United States is starting to fill out—with varying levels of enthusiasm—our federal income tax forms. Yet, after we write our checks to the IRS, most of us...
Jumat, 18 Februari 2011
Google Apps highlights – 2/18/11
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.This Friday update includes improvements to the Gmail...
Explore our U.S. Presidents on a map
(Cross-posted from the Students Blog and Lat Long Blog)When I was in elementary school, I got two days off every February; one for George Washington and another for Abraham Lincoln. I remember classrooms were usually wallpapered...
Kamis, 17 Februari 2011
YouTube Highlights 2/17/2011
This is the latest in our series of YouTube highlights. Every couple of weeks, we bring you regular updates on new product features, interesting programs to watch and tips you can use to grow your audience on YouTube. Just...
Designing award-winning video games with SketchUp
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the biggest video game of 2009. It sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide, was identified by Metacritic as the most critically acclaimed game of the year, racked up more than 50 Game of...
An update to Google Social Search
(Cross-posted on the Social Web Blog)Today we’re doing a little bit more to bring you all the goodness of Google, plus the opinions of the people you care about. As always, we want to help you find the most relevant answers...
Rabu, 16 Februari 2011
Sixteen demos enter. One demo triumphs. Welcome to the Demo Slampionship.
Last October, we introduced Demo Slam based on one simple idea: nobody knows Google tech better than our users. So we asked all of you to submit tech demo videos that showcase our technology in fun ways.Four months and many...
Visualize your own data in the Google Public Data Explorer
(Cross-posted on the Google Code Blog)Over the past two years, we’ve made public data easier to find, explore and understand in several ways, providing unemployment figures, population statistics and world development indicators...
A simple way for publishers to manage access to digital content
(Cross-posted on the Google News Blog)At Humboldt University in Berlin today, Eric Schmidt announced Google One Pass, a service that lets publishers set their own prices and terms for their digital content. With Google One...
Selasa, 15 Februari 2011
Search trends: a clue to 2011 Oscar winners?
Each year, as the Academy Awards bubble to the top of our collective consciousness, we see a major spike in search traffic related to the event. This year, on the day the nominees were announced, four of the top 10 trending...
Making sense of science: introducing the Google Science Communication Fellows
(Cross-posted on the Google.org Blog)In an effort to foster a more open, transparent and accessible scientific dialogue, we’ve started a new effort aimed at inspiring pioneering use of technology, new media and computational...
Senin, 14 Februari 2011
New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
(Cross-posted on the Google Chrome Blog)We’ve been exploring different algorithms to detect content farms, which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. One of the signals we're exploring is explicit feedback from...
Pin your love on the map
(Cross-posted from the Lat Long Blog)This Valentine’s Day, tell your friends, family or significant other that you love them with a fun message from Google Maps.Location can be a powerful trigger of memories—from the Italian...
Jumat, 11 Februari 2011
This week in search 2/11/11
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.With features like Instant, the dynamic left-hand panel...
Kamis, 10 Februari 2011
More “I do”s, less “to-do”s: wedding planning simplified
(Cross-posted on the Google Docs Blog and the Google Photos Blog)For many, your wedding day is one of the biggest, most momentous days of your life. The perfect dress, the right tuxedo, the proper shade of blue, the three-tier...
Advanced sign-in security for your Google account
(Cross-posted on the Gmail Blog)Has anyone you know ever lost control of an email account and inadvertently sent spam—or worse—to their friends and family? There are plenty of examples (like the classic "Mugged in London"...
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