Over the last month, more than 7,700 Googlers helped serve their communities across 400 different projects as part of GoogleServe, an employee-driven initiative organized almost entirely by volunteers. Through partnerships...
Kamis, 30 Juni 2011
GoogleServe 2011: Giving back around the world
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Selasa, 28 Juni 2011
Evolving the Google design and experience
Starting today, you might begin noticing that things look a little different across Google products. We’re working on a project to bring you a new and improved Google experience, and over the next few months, you’ll continue...
Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web
Update: For our international readers, this post is also available in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. - Ed.Among the most basic of human needs is the need to connect with others. With...
Celebrating Pride 2011
More than a thousand Googlers participated in Pride celebrations in a dozen cities to support equality and remember the sacrifices of those who have made life better for members of the LGBT* community today. While we celebrated...
Examining the impact of clean energy innovation
At Google, we’re committed to using technology to solve one of the greatest challenges we face as a country: building a clean energy future. That’s why we’ve worked hard to be carbon neutral as a company, launched our renewable...
Senin, 27 Juni 2011
The J. Paul Getty Museum collection comes alive with Google Goggles
The Google Goggles team has worked with The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles to “Goggles-enable” their permanent collection of paintings. Now you can use the Google Goggles app on your phone to take a photo of any of...
Webbing the gap between science and the public
We recently held an Innovation Workshop for the 2011 Google Science Communication Fellows, a group of early to mid-career PhD scientists chosen for their leadership in climate change research and communication. The Fellows...
Updated and more detailed Transparency Report
Our Transparency Report discloses the information that governments have asked for over the past six months. For our latest batch of data, covering July through December 2010, we wanted to improve the way we give you the...
Jumat, 24 Juni 2011
Google Apps highlights – 6/24/2011
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.There’s no slowing down as we head into summer. In...
An update on Google Health and Google PowerMeter
In the coming months, we’re going to retire two products that didn’t catch on the way we would have hoped, but did serve as influential models: Google Health (retiring January 1, 2012; data available for download through...
Supporting choice, ensuring economic opportunity
At Google, we’ve always focused on putting the user first. We aim to provide relevant answers as quickly as possible—and our product innovation and engineering talent have delivered results that users seem to like, in a...
Rabu, 22 Juni 2011
Applauding the 2011 Knight News Challenge winners
(Cross-posted on the Google News Blog and the Google Public Policy Blog)Over the past few months, we’ve announced $5 million in grants to be distributed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the...
Wyoming has officially gone Google
Q: What do national parks, female governors and Google Apps have in common?A: Wyoming was the first state in the country to have each of them.This morning, Governor Matt Mead announced that the state of Wyoming has completed...
Selasa, 21 Juni 2011
Google Translate welcomes you to the Indic web
(Cross-posted on the Translate Blog and Research Blog) Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha...
Senin, 20 Juni 2011
Thousands of “hackers for good” build applications for humanity
(Cross-posted on the Google.org Blog)Earlier this month, thousands of “hackers for good” gathered in more than 19 different global locations—from Berlin to Nairobi, and Sydney to Sao Paulo—to participate in Random Hacks...
Minggu, 19 Juni 2011
Give Dad a ring with free calling from Gmail in the U.S.
Today is Father’s Day in many countries around the world, so whether your dad lives across the street, across the country or across the ocean, it’s a good day to let him know you’re thinking about him. Of course, email is...
Kamis, 16 Juni 2011
Go Inside Search to get the most out of Google
On Tuesday, we held a media event in San Francisco to introduce new and faster ways to search using your voice, an image or Instant Pages. We also launched Inside Search, a new website that hosted a live stream of the event....
Rabu, 15 Juni 2011
Watch the lunar eclipse from anywhere
(Cross-posted on the YouTube and Lat Long blogs)We’re always fascinated by the unique wonders of space and the world—what can we say, it’s the geek in us! Naturally, when we learned that part of the world will...
Selasa, 14 Juni 2011
Knocking down barriers to knowledge
As much as technology has advanced, there are still many barriers between you and the answers you’re looking for—whether you’re juggling a clunky mobile keyboard or waiting for a website to load. Today we held a media event...
Tune in this morning for our search event
Today we're hosting a media event in San Francisco to talk about search and introduce some new search-related features. We'd like to invite you to tune in live from 9:30 - 11:00am PDT.You can watch the live stream on our...
Helping homeowners harness the sun
(Cross-posted from the Green Blog)Imagine sitting on your patio watching the sun’s rays pass overhead, knowing that they power your home with clean energy—at a cost that’s less that what you would have paid using just the...
Senin, 13 Juni 2011
Helping publishers get the most from display advertising with Admeld
(Cross-posted on the DoubleClick Publisher Blog)It’s now clear that investments in new technologies, new ad formats and improved buying and selling processes are helping to grow the display advertising pie. This benefits...
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