<<For all those who will be cheering for Cadel Evans as he aims to take home the yellow jersey from this year's Tour de France , but aren't planning on making the long haul to be there in person, you may want to check out the new Street View imagery we released today in Google Maps, which a...>>   (more...)

<<One of the things I look forward to every summer is the Tour de France . I'm always fascinated when I hear about the hairpin turns and steep climbs. To bring the Tour de France to life and help you experience it stage by stage, we're very excited to provide Street View for the 2008 Tour de Fran...>>   (more...)

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<<By Zhanyong Wan, Software Engineer - Testing Technology Team We Googlers are quite excited about testing, but we're even more excited to share the tools we've created with the community. We've Open Sourced our Google C++ Testing Framework, Google Test , under the New BSD License . Google Test...>>   (more...)

<<Google values our users' privacy first and foremost. Trust is the basis of everything we do, so we want users to be familiar and comfortable with the integrity and care we give their personal data. So, today, we're making a homepage change by adding a link to our privacy overview and ...>>   (more...)

<<We'd like to let you know about two recent improvements to video units that make them more easy and appealing to place on your sites. First, we've partnered with some new content providers that we'd like to highlight. These partners have signed on to let AdSense publishers embed their videos and sha...>>   (more...)

<<We all know the importance of writing automated tests to cover our code. To make it easier for everyone to write good C++ tests, today we have open-sourced Google C++ Testing Framework (Google Test for short), a library that thousands of Googlers have been using in our C++ programs. Highlight...>>   (more...)

<<By Stuart Morgan, Google Mac Team If you're like me, some of your information is in the cloud and some is on your machine, and you don't always remember what is where. That can make it frustrating when you try to use your favorite local search tool to find something. Isn't the whole point of sear...>>   (more...)

<<Hi. This is Craig Johnston and Brian Hull of Sudjam, LLC , the company hosting and developing the new online presence for the band Nine Inch Nails . This guest blog entry will cover how we went about creating a Google Earth representation of downloads for NIN's latest album, the slip . We star...>>   (more...)

<<Last week's  Google Teacher Academy  (GTA) got me thinking about the way I got launched into the world of Google back at the GTA in November 2006. I had previously used Google as a search engine but after the GTA I used Google for, well, everything I could! During the Academy, teachers using...>>   (more...)

<<Political participation isn't just about casting your vote; everyone should be able to become an informed participant instantly. When Americans want to learn about candidates and issues using Google, we find that they want more than one source, and immediate results. Instead of sitting through e...>>   (more...)

<<Since the announcements of Google Trends for Websites and Google Ad Planner last week, we've gotten lots of interest from agencies and advertisers excited about the opportunity to expand their media plans to sites that they might have overlooked before. But we've also noticed some confusion as t...>>   (more...)

<<Posted by Aidan Chopra, SketchUp Evangelist Google SketchUp 3D Basecamp 2008 was a blast, but only a little over 300 people were able to attend in person. Luckily, we recorded almost all of the sessions, so now anyone with a computer and an internet connection can partake in the joy of learning a...>>   (more...)

<<Late one night in the summer of 2000, I found myself answering user support emails in response to two new features we had just released, Advanced Search and Preferences (at the time catchily called "Language, Display, and Filtering Options" :)). Busy crafting answers about how to set Safesearch ...>>   (more...)

<<By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team You may recall from our previous write up that Google Zurich hosts a semi-monthly gathering of Free and Open Source Software aficionados known as the Zurich Open Source Jam. Should you find yourself in or around Zurich, Switzerland next Thursday, July 10t...>>   (more...)

<<When we launched the Gmail blog exactly one year ago, our goal was to provide you with new feature announcements, insight into how the Gmail team works, and tips on how to become a Gmail ninja. We hope you've enjoyed reading our posts, and to celebrate our birthday, here's a look back at the ...>>   (more...)

<<Garnet Gratton is back, and in the mood for summer. In her last post , she detailed a creative lesson plan using Docs and Mars Phoenix Lander in the news. This time, she'll be telling us about her experience using Docs form s to make scheduling extremely easy, and leave more time for summ...>>   (more...)

<<By Scott Knaster, Google Mac Team Our busy mobile team is at it again, coming up with cool new iPhone stuff: check out Google Talk for iPhone , now available!>>   (more...)

<<Posted by Aidan Chopra, SketchUp Evangelist The key to modeling spiral stairs, I've found, is to think in terms of components . If each stair tread is an instance of the same component (a single stair tread), you can build relatively complex—and flexible—spiral stairs fairly easily. As wit...>>   (more...)

<<Posted by Adam Connors, Software Engineer, Google mobile team We've just released in the US a new version of Google Talk designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch browsers. In addition to sending your friends Gmail messages from your iPhone, you can now chat with them while you'...>>   (more...)

<<Attention iPhone owners! You can now chat with all your Google Talk buddies while on the go. Our new version of Google Talk is designed specifically for the iPhone and runs in the iPhone's browser, so you don't need to download or install anything. Just visit www.google.com/talk on your iPhone...>>   (more...)

<<May and June were exciting months for our developer team. Not only is it the start of summer in the Bay Area, but also the start of Google I/O and Google Developer Days around the world. Many of the team dispersed to various parts of the globe to meet with developers. Here's a quick recap of whe...>>   (more...)

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<<People start drawing testing cartoons. I was speaking at a conference in Chicago about Website Optimizer and after the talk, one of the people in the audience showed me some cartoons he had doodled during my presentation. I'm quite accustomed to people doodling, IM'ing, and feed reading during ...>>   (more...)

<<As you could imagine, Google has a lot of historical data about keywords and the traffic they generate. Harnessing this data can give you a helpful starting point when you're trying to choose cost-per-click (CPC) bid ranges and keywords for a new product, for which you have no historical keyword o...>>   (more...)

<<Here's a tip for families sharing photos on Picasa Web Albums, or for anybody else who needs to shuttle large sets of photos from one computer to another. With Picasa Web Albums, your viewers can download entire photo albums to their Picasa library on their PC with just a click. This is perfect...>>   (more...)

<<If your site does not appear in Google Search results , you might be understandably worried. Here, we've put together some information to help you determine when and how to submit a reconsideration request for your site.  You can follow along as Bergy (the webmaster of example.com in...>>   (more...)

<<For those of you using newly released Firefox 3, or willing to give it a try , you can take advantage of a new feature that lets you set Gmail as the default for all email links -- those that contain "mailto:" in them. If you're like me and don't have a default email client set up, then clickin...>>   (more...)

<<Posted by Jonathan Matus and Luca Zanolin, Google Maps for mobile voice search team On the Google Maps for mobile team we're always experimenting with new technologies, so we're happy to announce that we've started testing voice search as a new feature. Starting today, you can speak your business...>>   (more...)

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