Gone fishin’—piloting community supported fisheries at Google

(Cross-posted on the Google Green Blog)I've always loved the ocean—I was born in Shanghai, which means "upon the sea.” And as a chef, I'm always drawn to food that claims a spirit of place. After moving to California, near...

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2-step verification: stay safe around the world in 40 languages

(Cross-posted on the Online Security Blog)Earlier this year, we introduced a security feature called 2-step verification that helps protect your Google Account from threats like password compromise and identity theft. By...

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Catch the London Underground with Google Maps

(Cross-posted on the Lat Long Blog)Starting today, you can get public transport directions for London within Google Maps. One of Europe’s largest metropolitan areas, London is a major destination for both business travelers...

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Save your friends from outdated email—help them switch to Gmail

(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog)I switched to Gmail the first month it came out, mere seconds after receiving an invitation from a friend and two years before joining Google. Since then, I’ve invited hundreds of people,...

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Congratulations Russia, the National Geographic World Champions

(Cross-posted from the Lat Long and Student Blogs)This island has a population of about 57,000 people, with the most settlements concentrated on the west coast. Very little of this island is suitable for agriculture.After...

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OK Go play with Chrome

(Cross-posted on the Google Chrome Blog)We all have a song or a personal soundtrack that speaks to us. But it doesn’t always say exactly what we want it to say.In All is Not Lost — an HTML5 music collaboration between the...

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National Geographic World Championship comes to Google

(Cross-posted on the Lat Long and Google Student blogs)It’s summer vacation for many kids, but 51 students from 17 different regions have been spending their time off polishing and fine-tuning their geographic skills to...

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Celebrating the creativity of YouTube’s Partners

(Cross-posted on the Public Policy and YouTube blogs)College friends make trick basketball shots into a career. A small blender company gets international attention by blending glow sticks and iPads. A musician goes from...

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Making local online advertising easy with Google AdWords Express

(Cross-posted on the Lat Long, Inside AdWords and Small Business blogs)Today, we're officially introducing AdWords Express, a faster and simpler way to start advertising online in under five minutes. We first launched this...

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Think Quarterly: new insights and perspectives for our partners

We use research, analysis and insights—from inside and outside Google—to inform our decision-making and our products. We've spoken to a lot of our partners about how to help them access the same insights and conversations...

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Google Apps highlights – 7/22/2011

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.We’ve added more than a dozen new features to Google...

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Generating Genius in the U.K. with young black talent

On July 14, Google U.K. launched a partnership with Generating Genius at an event in our London office. Google director Adrian Joseph, Member of Parliament Simon Hughes and advisor on culture and youth Munira Mirza spoke...

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Sculpting an interactive doodle for Alexander Calder's birthday

Our homepage doodle today celebrates the birthday of Alexander Calder, an American artist best known for inventing the mobile.Last year I wandered into a white room at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago full of Alexander...

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More wood behind fewer arrows

Last week we explained that we’re prioritizing our product efforts. As part of that process, we’ve decided to wind down Google Labs. While we’ve learned a huge amount by launching very early prototypes in Labs, we believe...

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Faculty from across the Americas meet in New York for the Faculty Summit

(Cross-posted on the Research Blog)Last week, we held our seventh annual Computer Science Faculty Summit. For the first time, the event took place at our New York City office; nearly 100 faculty members from universities...

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Using data to protect people from malware

(Cross-posted on the Google Online Security Blog)The Internet brings remarkable benefits to society. Unfortunately, some people use it for harm and their own gain at the expense of others. We believe in the power of the...

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g.co, the official URL shortcut for Google websites

In the world of URLs, bigger is not always better. In 2009, we helped shrink up long, unwieldy URLs by launching our public URL shortener, goo.gl. Today, we’re announcing a new URL shortcut that will link only to official...

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Shareable Google News badges for your favorite topics

(Cross-posted on the Google News Blog)On Google News, the average reader of political news has read 20 articles about politics in the last six months. Where do you stand? Starting today, in the U.S. edition of Google News,...

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What Do You Love?

A while back, a few of us wanted to make a little tool that we could use to show just about anybody more of what Google makes. That led to some simple ideas, and then a few more ideas and ultimately, to a challenge: how...

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Hats off to the winners of the inaugural Google Science Fair

Yesterday, our top 15 Google Science Fair finalists descended on Google’s headquarters and wowed our luminary judges—as well as more than 1,000 local attendees plus Googlers who stopped by to check out the action. Our exhibit...

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Google Offers beta launching in New York City and the Bay Area

(Cross-posted on the Google Commerce Blog)Following our first launch of Google Offers beta in Portland last month, we’re bringing great deals to the Big Apple and the Bay Area starting today. Subscribers who sign up at www.google.com/offers...

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Tonight, watch the Google Science Fair final event live

The young scientists of the world have proven themselves truly impressive people—inventing technologies to improve the accuracy of prosthetic devices, developing video-audio memory aids for dementia patients and improving...

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The first Google eBooks-integrated e-reader: iriver Story HD

(Cross-posted from the Inside Google Books Blog and the Google Commerce blog)Starting this coming Sunday, July 17, the iriver Story HD e-reader will be available for sale in Target stores nationwide and on Target.com. The...

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Seeking the Americas’ brightest young minds for a spot at Zeitgeist Americas 2011

This year, we’re mixing up our annual Zeitgeist conferences with the launch of Young Minds, a competition hosted by youth engagement agency Livity, supported by Google and hosted on YouTube. Starting this week, we’re searching...

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“Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android

(Cross-posted from the Mobile and Lat Long Blogs)One way we bring you new product features is through Google Labs—a collection of fun, experimental features you can turn on if you’re interested in the functionality. In fact,...

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Google Maps 5.7 for Android introduces Transit Navigation (Beta) and more

(Cross-posted on the Google Lat Long Blog and the Google Mobile Blog)Today we’re releasing Google Maps 5.7 for Android. From Bangkok to Baltimore, we’ve added Transit Navigation (Beta), updated access to directions, better...

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