published @ October 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Employees at big companies often have mountains of information available to do their jobs — information that lives (and hides!) in various areas within the organization. The information can lie buried deep within an enterprise content management system or a company intranet. Unlike the Internet, however, this info isn't necessarily well organized — there [...]
published @ October 5, 2009 # No Comment Yet
We're always keen to share updates about our browser Google Chrome. This past month, we launched a new stable release with speed improvements and updates to key features, as well as a little something extra to make your browser pop: themes. Today, we're excited to build on this initial splash of color. We invited [...]
published @ October 2, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Tomorrow morning, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will decide the host for the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic games. Competing for the honor are four bid cities: Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro.In past years, in addition to seeing a surge in searches during the Games, we typically see a significant swell in [...]
published @ October 2, 2009 # No Comment Yet
In May, we launched Search Options, a side panel that lets you filter, refine and generate different views of your search results. We've received lots of positive feedback, and we're seeing more and more people using Search Options every day.Today, we're announcing nine new Search Options tools: past hour, specific date range, more shopping [...]
published @ October 1, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Today, we introduced a new search feature that makes it easier for you to find forum posts or discussions related to what you're searching for. This new addition to Google search results applies to sites that tend to have a large number of posts on a specific topic. When several different discussions on a [...]
published @ September 29, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Today, we're launching a new web search feature that will help you stay in touch with the latest trends on the web.You might already be familiar with Hot Trends, which lists the fastest rising searches on the web at any given hour. Now, when you search Google.com and your query matches one of the [...]
published @ September 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
For most search results, Google shows you a few lines of text to give you an idea of what the page is about — we call this a "search snippet." Recently, we've enhanced the search snippet with two new features that make it easier to find information buried deep within a page.Normally, a search [...]
published @ September 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
(Cross-posted with the Google Public Policy Blog)The 2008 elections demonstrated how technology can increase political participation, and now we're beginning to see the power of Web 2.0 come to government. On the heels of last week's Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., we're excited to launch Google for the Public Sector, a one-stop shop of [...]
published @ September 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
One problem with reading news online today is that browsing can be really slow. A media-rich page loads dozens of files and can take as much as 10 seconds to load over broadband, which can be frustrating. What we need instead is a way to flip through articles really fast without unnatural delays, just [...]
published @ September 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Search, that is. For us, search has always been our focus. And, starting today, you'll notice on our homepage and on our search results pages, our search box is growing in size. Although this is a very simple idea and an even simpler change, we're excited about it — because it symbolizes our focus on [...]
published @ September 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Today, we're really pleased to launch Google Domestic Trends on Google Finance.Google Domestic Trends tracks Google search traffic across specific sectors of the economy. The changes in the search volume of a given sector on google.com may provide useful economic insight. We've created 23 indexes that track the major economic sectors, such as retail, [...]
published @ August 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - Ed. What if you could do a little something to improve the world during your daily drive to work? Here are a few ideas: tell everybody in the [...]
published @ August 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
People use search to find what they need, and the same holds true in the business world. We want searching your company intranet to be comparable to searching on Google.com, and the Google Search Appliance (GSA) to have the most relevant, high quality results possible. That's why today we're announcing two new tools for [...]
published @ August 18, 2009 # One Comment
Since launching Google Insights for Search a year ago, we've been providing daily insight into what the world is searching for. Whether you're an advertiser looking to expand keyword lists, an economist analyzing economic trends or just looking to settle a popularity contest, Google Insights for Search can help provide the answers.Looking at search [...]
published @ August 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
(If you're interested in meeting the team of Googlers working to strengthen the public sector and civic engagement through technology, check out our Public Sector blog. -Ed.)Organizing public sector information isn't easy, and companies like Google rely on the good work of open government advocates to access useful data. Last weekend more than 150 developers, [...]