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Long live Chrome Web Lab
By Chromium Blog

«After just one short year and over half a million visitors to the Web Lab exhibition in the Science Museum in London , the lab will close it doors to the public this coming Sunday evening. Today, with the help of our friends at Tellart , we are open sourcing the two most popular and interact...»   » source  |  + cache

Get ready for college with textbooks on Google Play
By Google Student Blog

«Cross-posted from Android Official Blog Heading to college? Be prepared for the typical rites of passage: decorating your dorm room, choosing your classes and buying textbooks. And when it comes to buying textbooks from the campus store, some things never change like long lines, limited suppl...»   » source  |  + cache

Who is New in Google Summer of Code - Part 8
By Google Open Source Blog

«For the 8th post in our Google Summer of Code series highlighting the new open source organizations we are welcoming into this year’s program, we have organization administrators from LTTng, Constellation and PLASMA describing their student’s projects below. The LTTng project (...»   » source  |  + cache

Making smartphone sites load fast
By Webmaster Central Blog

«Webmaster level: Intermediate Users tell us they use smartphones to search online because it’s quick and convenient, but today’s average mobile page typically takes more than 7 seconds to load . Wouldn’t it be great if mobile pages loaded in under one second? Today we’re announcing new...»   » source  |  + cache

View manual webspam actions in Webmaster Tools
By Webmaster Central Blog

«Webmaster level: All We strive to keep spam out of our users’ search results. This includes both improving our webspam algorithms as well as taking manual action for violations of our quality guidelines . Many webmasters want to see if their sites are affected by a manual webspam action, s...»   » source  |  + cache

Attract new customers with local ads on the Google Maps app
By Inside AdWords

«Over one billion people use Google Maps services every month. On the Google Maps app, these users are often searching for local businesses - from restaurants, to car dealerships, to dentists, and more. Recently, we launched a new version of the Google Maps app for Android, iPhone, and iPad where...»   » source  |  + cache

Introducing the (New) Chromium Web Platform Feature Dashboard
By Chromium Blog

«As web developers, it’s important to stay up to date about the evolution of the web. A few months ago we  started  a simple dashboard on  chromestatus.com  to track new feature development within Blink. It’s become a valuable tool for us, so today we’re excited to int...»   » source  |  + cache

More patents in the service of open source
By Google Public Policy Blog

«Posted by Duane Valz, Senior Patent Counsel Open-source software has accelerated the pace of innovation in computing, leading to better products and services at lower cost. But as the impact of open-source software has grown, so too has the number of patent attacks aga...»   » source  |  + cache

Easily A/B Test Your Website's Call-to-Action Using Content Experiments API
By Google Analytics Blog

«You may have seen our news about the launch of the Content Experiments API a few months ago, and we’re excited to share one of the ways it’s been used since the launch. SiteApps created an experiment to A/B test your website’s call to action using our Content Experiments API -- take a look a...»   » source  |  + cache

More patents in the service of open source
By Google Open Source Blog

«Open-source software has accelerated the pace of innovation in computing, leading to better products and services at lower cost. But as the impact of open-source software has grown, so too has the number of patent attacks against it. In March, we announced an Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) P...»   » source  |  + cache

Diary of a Business Associate Intern - Europe
By Google Student Blog

«Our 'Diary of a Business Associate Intern' series is designed to give you an inside look into the life of Google interns based all over Europe. Today, the spotlight is on Tobias Eppler from Germany, who is a Business Associate Intern with the Large Company Sales team (Northern and Central Europe) i...»   » source  |  + cache

Reach a global audience with video in 3 simple steps
By Inside AdWords

«At Google, we believe that video is such a powerful way to build your brand that everyone should use it. That’s why we’re excited to announce a simplified way to set up your first campaign in AdWords for video. Our new campaign creation flow eliminates the clutter by focusing on the key pie...»   » source  |  + cache

Chrome Beta for Android Update
By Google Chrome Releases

«Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 29.0.1547.49 and will be available in Google Play over the next few hours. This release has a number of crash fixes as well as the following fixes: 260463 : Add more padding to text in fullscreen API bubble, center text 252513 : [WebRTC] Camera ...»   » source  |  + cache

ActionBarCompat and I/O 2013 App Source
By Android Developers Blog

«Posted by Chris Banes, Android Developer Relations Following on the Android 4.3 and Nexus 7 announcements, we recently released two important tools to help you build beautiful apps that follow Android Design best practices: We released a new backward-compatible Action Bar implementation c...»   » source  |  + cache

Beta Channel Update
By Google Chrome Releases

«The Beta Channel has been updated to 29.0.1547.49 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome Frame. This release fixes a number of crashes and other bugs. A full list of changes is available in the SVN log . Interested in switching release channels? Find out how . If you find a new issue, please let us know ...»   » source  |  + cache

Computer Science Teaching Fellows Starting Up in Charleston, SC
By Google Research

«Google recently started up an exciting new program to ignite interest in computer science (CS) for K12 kids. Located in our in our South Carolina data center , the Computer Science Teaching Fellows is a two-year post graduate fellowship for new STEM teachers and CS graduates. The goal is to b...»   » source  |  + cache

Google Cloud Platform enhances Compute Engine, App Engine and Cloud Datastore
By Google App Engine Blog

«Today’s updates to Google Cloud Platform bring lots of new enhancements complementing features we first shared at I/O . Check out the latest additions: layer 3 load balancing capability for Google Compute Engine new features and productivity improvements for Google Cloud Datastore i...»   » source  |  + cache

Google Cloud Platform enhances Compute Engine, App Engine and Cloud Datastore
By Google Code Blog

«By Greg DeMichillie, Google Cloud Platform team Cross-posted from the Google Cloud Platform blog Today’s updates to Google Cloud Platform bring lots of new enhancements complementing features we first shared at I/O . Check out the latest additions: layer 3 load balancing capab...»   » source  |  + cache

Better Know an Intern: Aayush Upadhyay
By Google Student Blog

«It’s intern season at Google! Interns are located at offices all across the globe, and represent a broad diversity of backgrounds, concentrations and interests. So inspired by Steven Colbert’s Better Know a District , we’re bringing to you “Better Know an Intern!” The series will introdu...»   » source  |  + cache

Dev Channel Update
By Google Chrome Releases

«The Dev Channel has been updated to 30.0.1588.0 for Windows, Mac, Chrome Frame and Linux. This release fixes a number of crashes and other bugs. A full list of changes is available in the  SVN log . Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how . If you find a new issue, pleas...»   » source  |  + cache

In-depth articles in search results
By Webmaster Central Blog

«Webmaster level: all Users often turn to Google to answer a quick question, but research suggests that up to 10% of users’ daily information needs involve learning about a broad topic. That’s why today we’re introducing new search results to help users find in-depth articles . These r...»   » source  |  + cache

Volkswagen taps Google+, YouTube talent to highlight in campaign promoting new SmileDrive app
By Google Agency Ad Solutions

«People are always looking for new ways to share everyday experiences with friends and family--and now, even your routine, morning commute can be share-worthy. Today, Volkswagen released SmileDrive , the first social app and web platform designed to help people go for happier drives, exclusively ...»   » source  |  + cache

AdWords scripts now uses OAuth2
By AdWords API Blog

«We are glad to announce that AdWords scripts now uses OAuth2 for authorization. In addition to streamlining the authorization flow, this change also increases the limit of number of scripts per user to 250. When you create a new script, you will be prompted to authorize the script to access your ...»   » source  |  + cache

Group-Based Publishing in the Chrome Web Store
By Chromium Blog

«The Chrome Web Store has become the home for many different apps , extensions , websites , and themes from a wide variety of publishers.  Until now, the Chrome Web Store was only able to associate a single email address with a publisher’s account, which made it challenging to give more...»   » source  |  + cache

Stay on top of AdSense program policies with new notifications in your account
By Inside AdSense

«Our AdSense program policies are defined to ensure we all preserve a healthy ecosystem for users, advertisers and other publishers, and compliance with these policies is an absolute must for every publisher. We’ve heard your requests for more accessible information on policy issues and we’...»   » source  |  + cache

Obama for America uses Google Analytics to democratize rapid, data-driven decision making
By Google Analytics Blog

«For political campaigns large and small alike, time is of the essence when decisions need to be made. Having quick and easy access to actionable data was essential for President Obama’s data-driven re-election campaign in 2012. “To keep our digital teams agile, we needed ...»   » source  |  + cache

Testing on the Toilet: Test Behavior, Not Implementation
By Google Testing Blog

«By Andrew Trenk This article was adapted from a Google Testing on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download a printer-friendly version of this TotT episode and post it in your office. Your trusty Calculator class is one of your most popular open source projects, with many happy users...»   » source  |  + cache

Google Summer of Code Full of Stats - Part 3, Countries
By Google Open Source Blog

«In our third and final series of statistic posts for 2013 Google Summer of Code , and back by popular demand, we have a list of all countries represented in the program this year. Get ready to scroll! There are students from 71 countries this year, complete with two newcomers - Cameroon ...»   » source  |  + cache

An Improved DevTools Editing Workflow
By Chromium Blog

«With Chrome DevTools our goal is to make your experience as a web developer as productive as possible. In the most recent version of Chrome we've added three major new features that will improve your authoring experience more than ever before. Workspaces allows you to live-edit source files withi...»   » source  |  + cache

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