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See your Facebook Friends on a Google Map

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:52:06 +0000

WhereMyFriends is an interesting mashup that will show the geographic location of your Facebook friends on a Google Map. You simply connect your Facebook Account with WhereMyFriends and the app, within a minute or two, will fetch the location of all your Facebook friends and puts them on a map. You can hover or click [...]

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Speech technology at Google: teaching machines to talk and listen

admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:47:41 +0000

This is the latest post in our series profiling entrepreneurial Googlers working on products across the company and around the world. Here, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at how one Googler built an entire R&D team around voice technology that has gone on to power products like YouTube transcriptions and Voice Search. – Ed. When [...]

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Investing in news innovation in Europe

admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:58:47 +0000

(Cross-posted from the European Public Policy Blog) Journalism is changing fast. And as news businesses experiment with new ways of creating and delivering journalism in the digital age, Google is keen to play its part on the technology side. Over the last year, we’ve been partnering with publishers around the world to develop technological solutions—including, [...]

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The three laws of display advertising physics

admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:24:08 +0000

It’s not just the Android team that is exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy. In recent years, advertising technology has had its own “Big Bang”: a rapid onset of incredible growth and expansion in the display advertising universe. Display advertising is one of our big focus areas. Better display advertising helps to fund the [...]

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Google Apps highlights – 2/18/11

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:24:00 +0000

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. This Friday update includes improvements to the Gmail mobile web app and Google Docs interfaces, a feature long-sought-after by many Google Voice fans, [...]

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Explore our U.S. Presidents on a map

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:02:00 +0000

(Cross-posted from the Students Blog and Lat Long Blog) When I was in elementary school, I got two days off every February; one for George Washington and another for Abraham Lincoln. I remember classrooms were usually wallpapered with a potpourri of decorations left over from Valentine’s Day and token silhouettes of these two Presidents thumb-tacked [...]

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YouTube Highlights 2/17/2011

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:16:00 +0000

This is the latest in our series of YouTube highlights. Every couple of weeks, we bring you regular updates on new product features, interesting programs to watch and tips you can use to grow your audience on YouTube. Just look for the label “YouTube Highlights” and subscribe to the series. – Ed. A lot has [...]

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Designing award-winning video games with SketchUp

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:40:00 +0000

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the biggest video game of 2009. It sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide, was identified by Metacritic as the most critically acclaimed game of the year, racked up more than 50 Game of the Year awards and set a new bar for artistry and storytelling in a video game. [...]

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An update to Google Social Search

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Today we’re doing a little bit more to bring you all the goodness of Google, plus the opinions of the people you care about. As always, we want to help you find the most relevant answers among the billions of interconnected pages on the web. But relevance isn’t just about pages—it’s also about relationships. That’s [...]

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Sixteen demos enter. One demo triumphs. Welcome to the Demo Slampionship.

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:24:00 +0000

Last October, we introduced Demo Slam based on one simple idea: nobody knows Google tech better than our users. So we asked all of you to submit tech demo videos that showcase our technology in fun ways. Four months and many tech demos later, Demo Slam has reached people all over the world. Thanks to [...]

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Visualize your own data in the Google Public Data Explorer

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:01:00 +0000

(Cross-posted on the Google Code Blog) Over the past two years, we’ve made public data easier to find, explore and understand in several ways, providing unemployment figures, population statistics and world development indicators in search results, and introducing the Public Data Explorer tool. Together with our data provider partners, we’ve curated 27 datasets including more [...]

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A simple way for publishers to manage access to digital content

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:04:00 +0000

(Cross-posted on the Google News Blog) At Humboldt University in Berlin today, Eric Schmidt announced Google One Pass, a service that lets publishers set their own prices and terms for their digital content. With Google One Pass, publishers can maintain direct relationships with their customers and give readers access to digital content across websites and [...]

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Search trends: a clue to 2011 Oscar winners?

admin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:59:00 +0000

Each year, as the Academy Awards bubble to the top of our collective consciousness, we see a major spike in search traffic related to the event. This year, on the day the nominees were announced, four of the top 10 trending search terms in the U.S. were Oscar-related. After last year’s awards ceremony, we provided [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at Search trends: a clue to 2011 Oscar winners?

Making sense of science: introducing the Google Science Communication Fellows

admin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:00:00 +0000

(Cross-posted on the Google.org Blog) In an effort to foster a more open, transparent and accessible scientific dialogue, we’ve started a new effort aimed at inspiring pioneering use of technology, new media and computational thinking in the communication of science to diverse audiences. Initially, we’ll focus on communicating the science on climate change. We’re kicking [...]

This post is originally published by Mobaruk Hussain at Making sense of science: introducing the Google Science Communication Fellows

New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:00:00 +0000

(Cross-posted on the Google Chrome Blog) We’ve been exploring different algorithms to detect content farms, which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. One of the signals we’re exploring is explicit feedback from users. To that end, today we’re launching an early, experimental Chrome extension so people can block sites from their web search results. [...]

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Pin your love on the map

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:21:00 +0000

(Cross-posted from the Lat Long Blog) This Valentine’s Day, tell your friends, family or significant other that you love them with a fun message from Google Maps. Location can be a powerful trigger of memories—from the Italian place in San Francisco where you went on your first date to the cabin you rented at Lake [...]

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This week in search 2/11/11

admin — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:49:00 +0000

This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label “This week in search” and subscribe to the series. – Ed. With features like Instant, the dynamic left-hand panel of tools, voice search and Google Goggles, search is becoming more interactive all the time. [...]

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More “I do”s, less “to-do”s: wedding planning simplified

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:00:00 +0000

(Cross-posted on the Google Docs Blog and the Google Photos Blog)For many, your wedding day is one of the biggest, most momentous days of your life. The perfect dress, the right tuxedo, the proper shade of blue, the three-tier cake with chocolate fondant, and all of your closest family and friends—these are just a few [...]

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Advanced sign-in security for your Google account

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:30:00 +0000

(Cross-posted on the Gmail Blog) Has anyone you know ever lost control of an email account and inadvertently sent spam—or worse—to their friends and family? There are plenty of examples (like the classic “Mugged in London” scam) that demonstrate why it’s important to take steps to help secure your activities online. Your Gmail account, your [...]

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Boutiques.com reveals the fashion trends on everyone’s mind

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:31:00 +0000

Since we introduced Boutiques.com last November, we’ve been busy developing new features that we’re proud to unveil as New York Fashion Week hits the runways. More of the boutiques you loveWe’re welcoming hundreds of thousands of stunning new boutiques, including those from designers Helmut Lang, Michael Kors, Billy Reid and Thakoon. Trend data to excite [...]

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