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Generic Toolbar Indexing Debunk Post

<<Sometimes people think that the Google Toolbar led to Google indexing a page. Here’s a recent such story , for example, which speculates how urls with the substring “mms2legacy” got indexed. Here’s where I started to disagree: The reason for this [supposedly unlisted ur...>> (more...)

New updates to Google.com for the iPhone

<<Unless you're living on a deserted island -- and maybe even if you are -- you know about Apple's 3G iPhone and App Store launch last week. Hopefully you know about the Google Mobile App that we launched last week, as well. And some of you may have noticed that we also released a new version of G...>> (more...)

Updates and Fixes for July 18th

<<Here’s a quick summary of recent fixes and changes we’ve made to Blogger: Blogger is now available in Malay! Blogger has a large base of users in Malaysia and we are excited to now bring them Blogger in their native language. Comment monitoring can now be automatically enabled after a fixed ...>> (more...)

Hitting 40 languages

<<One of our goals is to give everyone using Google the information they want, wherever they are, in whatever language they speak, and through whatever device they're using. A huge part of that goal is making our services available in as many languages as possible. And as I’m sure you can imagine, t...>> (more...)

AdWords Editor service release for Windows and Mac

<<Today we released version 6.0.1 of AdWords Editor . In response to user feedback, it's now possible to download performance statistics for selected campaigns and ad groups, instead of always downloading statistics for the whole account. Once you've installed version 6.0.1, you'll be able to downloa...>> (more...)

Newbie, newbie do

<<(To the tune of "Strangers in the Night") "Publishers with websites, creating content Wondering about their sites If with their content, they could show some ads Before the day was done Something in AdSense, was so inviting Something about those ads, was so exciting Something in our Help Center ...>> (more...)

Getting to really know GWT, Part 1: JSNI

<<The next and hopefully last release candidate for GWT 1.5 is almost upon us. In anticipation, we'd like to really crank up the excitement level and, well, the sheer geek factor of this here blog. If you are new to GWT, you may be wondering what all the excitement is about. Why is GWT differen...>> (more...)

Google chimes in as U.S. Senate explores investment in clean energy

<<With high fuel prices and a troubled credit market dragging down the U.S. economy, why is now the right time for more investment in breakthrough energy technology? Earlier this week, Google.org's Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Dan Reicher, offered an answer to that question ...>> (more...)

Matt Cutts on ranking, spam and the future of search

<<During a recent visit to the Mountain View Googleplex, I had the chance to interview Matt Cutts for our German Webmaster Blog . While enjoying the California sunshine we chatted about how to rank in Google, resources for webmasters and Matt's first encounter with spam. As these topics are not only ...>> (more...)

Getting Giddy with Git

<<For Episode 18 of the Google Summer of Code™ podcast, we were fortunate enough to be joined by two mentors from the Git project , Shawn Pearce and Johannes Schindelin. Among other topics, we discussed the pleasures and perils of distributed version control systems, preparing an organizati...>> (more...)

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Google To Acquire Russian Context Ads Service Begun*

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Intro to the Atom Publishing Protocol

<<Before learning about the Google Data APIs, it may be helpful to get a little background and learn about the Atom Publishing Protocol, since that's what the Google Data APIs are based on. To help with that I put together a little video that gives an Introduction to the Atom Publishing Protocol ...>> (more...)

Practitioner Post: Adwords Auto-Tagging and URL Redirects

<<Recently, I watched all 5 seasons of Angel on DVD, and now I'm watching all 7 seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer . (I realize that I'm going backwards, but I just had to know Angel's back story.) If you've watched the shows, you know that the character Angel starts off as one thing and ends up a...>> (more...)

New toolbar, AJAX saving, and other fixes for the post editor

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Tip: Embed an SQLite3 database

<<While saving into the options object is very easy, you sometimes need more power and storage. Here is a tip on how to use an SQLite3 database in a Windows-only gadget. The first thing you need is the SQLite3 ActiveX object from http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/litex . Just download the zi...>> (more...)

Google Code Jam up and running on App Engine

<<Google Code Jam is a coding competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time. The contest is all-inclusive: Google Code Jam lets you program in the coding language and development environment of your choice. The T...>> (more...)

Grand Prize Winners Visit the Googleplex

<<Earlier this year, we announced our ten grand prize winners for GHOP, the Google Highly Open Participation Contest™ — our first initiative to get pre-university students involved in open source software development. The contest brought together more than 350 students from around the world ...>> (more...)

Introducing our European 2008 Anita Borg Scholars

<<A few months ago we had the great pleasure of announcing the fifth class of Anita Borg Scholars in the U.S. and our first class of Scholars in Canada. Now it's the Europeans' turn. This scholarship program, originally established in the U.S. to honor the work of Anita Borg and to recognize ...>> (more...)

Celebrating young computer scientists

<<Last week, the ten grand prize winners for the first Google Highly Open Participation Contest , our initiative to get pre-university students involved in open source development. We were very excited to welcome these burgeoning computer scientists and their families to Silicon Valley in a celebrati...>> (more...)