A country in which Google’s search engine enjoys a market share of around 90 percent is soon going to see even more of the company.  Google’s announced that it will build a research center and help create some sort of cultural institute in France. Given that Google has encountered resistance to its book-scanning program in [...]

Today, Google introduced Walking Navigation for Google Maps for mobile 4.5 on Android. This is described as a marriage between the existing Navigation and walking directions features. Users can also now use Street View smart navigation or the new Google Maps search bar.    "Walking Navigation lets you use GPS navigation with walking directions that [...]

Yesterday we introduced Google Instant, a change to make search fast and interactive by showing you results instantly as you type. With Instant we’ve turned search from a static HTML page into an AJAX application, just as we did with Google Maps and Gmail. You can learn more about Google Instant in yesterday’s blog post, [...]

If you have a Google Chrome extension, this news might interest you greatly. Google announced today that it has added support for Google Analytics to the Chrome Extension Gallery.  The move, Google says, will "help you better understand how many people visit your extension pages, where they’re coming from and more."   Users can specify [...]

Google has launched a new Google Earth site featuring images, videos, tous, maps, and tutorials.    "When you think of Google Earth, you might think about flying to the top of Mt. Everest, surveying the ancient Acropolis, or simply finding the house where you grew up," says Product Marketing Manager Tasha Danko. "For the past [...]

Google has announced the launch of some new Android widgets for Google Voice. The widgets are available in an update to the Google Voice Android app.    The widgets are designed to give users immediate access to their Google Voice inbox and settings from the home screen.    "The Google Voice Inbox widget brings your [...]

(Cross-posted from the Lat Long Blog) When you think of Google Earth, you might think about flying to the top of Mt. Everest, surveying the ancient Acropolis, or simply finding the house where you grew up. For the past five years, people all over the world have been discovering new places to explore through our [...]

Last year, the travel industry—like many others—was having a difficult time. To grow its business, Hawaiian Airlines created and ran an engaging and interactive display ad campaign on the Google Display Network (comprising over a million partner websites, as well as Google sites like YouTube), encouraging people to fly to Hawaii. The campaign worked. Hawaiian [...]

(Cross-posted to the Google Public Policy Blog) Helping your children use the Internet safely is similar to teaching them to navigate the offline world. There are parts of the real world that you wouldn’t let your children explore unsupervised—and that goes for the online world as well. But while most of us remember being taught [...]

Google has launched YouTube in Argentina, making it the 25th country to have its own version of the site.    "This means that Argentines will be able to more easily discover local talent like GuadalajaraMan, UESiglo21, farolatino, casiangeles or yoteloexplico, as well as view the most popular and most viewed videos in their country," says [...]