(Cross-posted on the Commerce, Places, Retail and Small Business Blogs)Portlanders know how to mix the urban (killer coffee, music and art) and the small-town (easy walking, biking and socializing). There’s no end to the...
Selasa, 31 Mei 2011
Google Offers beta starts in Portland, Oregon tomorrow
Senin, 30 Mei 2011
Using search patterns to track dengue fever
(Cross-posted on the Google.org Blog)What does baseball have in common with gazebos? We’re not sure, except that people search on Google for both terms in similar patterns. Last week we introduced Google Correlate, an experimental...
Jumat, 27 Mei 2011
Our 2011 EMEA Faculty Summit
(Cross-posted on the Google Student blog)Earlier this month, we held our fourth Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Faculty Summit at our Zurich office, Google’s largest engineering center in the region. This was EMEA’s...
Kamis, 26 Mei 2011
YouTube highlights 5/26
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...
Coming soon: make your phone your wallet
(Cross-posted on the Google Commerce Blog and Google Mobile Blog)Today in our New York City office, along with Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint, we gave a demo of Google Wallet, an app that will make your phone...
Rabu, 25 Mei 2011
Inside the Big Tent
(Cross-posted from the European Public Policy Blog)At our European Zeitgeist event, held annually near London, we traditionally erect a large marquee for a partner dinner and entertainment. This year we wondered if there...
AdMob celebrates one year at Google as mobile growth accelerates
As we approach the first anniversary of AdMob’s arrival at Google this Friday, it’s amazing to look at how much the mobile industry has grown since last year: an estimated 300 million smartphones were shipped, average smartphone...
Mining patterns in search data with Google Correlate
It all started with the flu. In 2008, we found that the activity of certain search terms are good indicators of actual flu activity. Based on this finding, we launched Google Flu Trends to provide timely estimates of flu...
Thanks, YouTube community, for two BIG gifts on our sixth birthday!
(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)In May 2005, the YouTube founders launched YouTube.com, providing people with a platform to broadcast themselves to the world. Six years on, the world is watching and we wanted to say...
Selasa, 24 Mei 2011
Hacking for humanity in Silicon Valley and around the globe
(Cross-posted on the Code Blog and Google.org Blog)Two years ago representatives from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Hewlett-Packard, NASA and the World Bank came together to form the Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) program....
Investing in the Alta Wind Energy Center
(Cross-posted from the Google Green Blog)The Mojave Desert might be best known for its scorching sun and scary sidewinders, but the wind blows hard where the Mojave sands meet the Tehachapi Mountains in southern California,...
Senin, 23 Mei 2011
The votes are in for the Google Science Fair Finalists and People’s Choice Award Winner
(Cross-posted from the Google Science Fair Blog and on the Google Students Blog)From winged keels to water turbines, from prosthetic limbs to programming in pure English, it’s been a fascinating two weeks for our Google...
Bringing tech knowledge to nonprofits through HandsOn Tech
Community service has always been important to us. When thinking of ways we can give back, we often focus on where our strengths lie—namely, in technical knowledge. More and more frequently, Googlers who volunteer note that...
Jumat, 20 Mei 2011
Google Apps highlights – 5/20/2011
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.Over the last few weeks, we made improvements to instant...
Japan Prize honors Googler Ken Thompson for early work on UNIX
This week, our own Distinguished Engineer Ken Thompson was awarded the Japan Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in science, in the category of Information and Communications. Established in 1985, the Japan Prize is...
Join us at Maker Faire
(Cross-posted on the SketchUp Blog)Creativity at Google isn’t just limited to the time we spend in front of our keyboards—many of us are also enthusiastic about making things with our hands. At our Google Workshops, for...
Kamis, 19 Mei 2011
Making financial comparisons easy with Google Advisor
Financial decisions may be some of the most difficult decisions we face—whether it’s finding the right credit card or understanding the impact of paying an extra point on a mortgage. And these days, it seems like we have...
Launch a mobile business with The Guide to the App Galaxy
The Guide to the App Galaxy, which we showed off last week at Google I/O, is designed to help mobile app developers—regardless of platform—navigate the complexities of launching an app and building a business on mobile....
Define, translate and search for words in Google eBooks
(Cross-posted from the Google Books Blog)When bookworms stumble across a word we don't know, we face the classic dilemma of whether to put the book down to look up the word or forge ahead in ignorance to avoid interrupting...
And the 2011 U.S. Doodle 4 Google winner is...
With more than 5 million votes cast, the anticipation has been building in this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition. Today, the wait is finally over—seven-year-old Matteo Lopez of South San Francisco, Calif. is the national...
Rabu, 18 Mei 2011
Introducing our official search blog
(Cross-posted from the Inside Search Blog)The thirst for knowledge is as old as humanity. It's only in the past decade that the Internet has made knowledge ubiquitous, and we want to help you find the answers you’re looking...
Bringing Google Apps educators together through regional user groups
From grading math quizzes with Google forms to plotting plant growth in a motion chart, teachers around the world are constantly generating new, creative ways Google Apps can improve instruction.To make it easier for educators...
YouTube Town Hall: where your views count
(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)How would you vote if you focused purely on the ideas needed to make our country and our world a better place, rather than on the parties putting them forward? That’s a question that the...
Selasa, 17 Mei 2011
Google Translate: the remix
When we built Google Translate we thought it was a cool tool, but we have to admit we had fairly straightforward ideas about what it would be useful for (lowering language barriers and making more web content available to...
Future female engineers come together in the Technovation Challenge
(Cross-posted on the Students Blog)I was only 12 years old when I was introduced to BASIC, my first programming language, and it influenced my entire career path. Now working as a female engineer in a male-dominated industry,...
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