published @ August 1, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A few months ago when we announced the Search Options panel, we promised that you would soon see similar functionality across our other search properties. Today we are rolling out Search Options for Google Images.This new feature offers quick access to existing tools, including search by color and image type. Color search will find [...]
published @ July 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Have an idea for how to expand high-speed Internet access across the United States? Here's your chance to have your voice heard.Under the terms of the recent economic stimulus package, the Federal Communications Commission must deliver to Congress a National Broadband Plan by February 2010. Several weeks ago, we laid out Google's vision for [...]
published @ July 11, 2009 # No Comment Yet
As an avid traveler, I know how helpful it can be to see a map when searching for a location on Google. Using our Universal Search technology, we have provided maps in our search results for more than two years. However, as any traveler could tell you, knowing the geographical location of a place [...]
published @ July 9, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Let's say you're a blogger. You've just returned from a trip to New York City, and you're writing a post on New York landmarks. You want to illustrate your travel guide with an image — as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. It's easy to find images of New York [...]
published @ July 3, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Ever since the new Google Blog Search homepage launched, we've been fielding requests for a myriad of different features. Today we're happy to announce the launch of our most requested feature: RSS and Atom feeds. Simply click on the links under "Subscribe" in the left-hand column of the Blog Search front page to subscribe [...]
published @ June 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This is the first of a series of posts from YouTube's news and politics blog, Citizentube. -Ed.YouTube is the biggest video news site on the Internet, and at no time in our site's history was that more apparent than in these last two weeks of the crisis unfolding in Iran. As hundreds of thousands of [...]
published @ June 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
While many organizations are doing great work to enable community service locally, it's not simple to search across opportunities from a variety of places to find what's right for you. We have some experience finding relevant information from among many scattered sources, and when we learned that President Obama and the First Lady were [...]
published @ June 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Science fiction books and movies have long imagined that computers will someday be able to see and interpret the world. At Google, we think computer vision has tremendous potential benefits for consumers, which is why we're dedicated to research in this area. And today, a Google team is presenting a paper on landmark recognition [...]
published @ June 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Thanks to everyone who has been a loyal reader of this blog over the past year and a half. We've decided to replace this blog by launching a new retail blog which includes a range of topics relating to the retail industry and not just AdWords related news. Go ahead and check out the [...]
published @ June 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Some information is easy to find. If you want to learn the rules of golf, you can search Google for [golf rules] and we'll return a list of relevant web sites right at the top. But not all your information needs are that simple. Some questions can be more complex, requiring you to visit [...]
published @ June 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
If you're a local business owner, it's likely that Google plays a role in helping customers find you. And we're not just talking about your website — thanks to Google Maps and Google Search, you may also be getting a lot of online traffic to your business listing. You've probably seen one of [...]
published @ June 3, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Have you ever wondered what celebrities do when they use the web? Today, we're announcing the new iGoogle Showcase, which allows you to see and share the homepages of some of your favorite icons. These 30 preeminent people, including Dave Matthews, Rachael Ray and Katie Couric, are sharing their iGoogle pages with you [...]
published @ June 2, 2009 # No Comment Yet
It's hard to conceptualize the number 1,000,000,000. One billion sheets of paper could circle the earth at the equator well over five times. Counting to one billion would take about 30 years of your life, even if you never stop to sleep. And if you had to find a single piece of information by [...]
published @ June 1, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Since we launched the Custom Search AJAX gadget for Blogger on our experimental site, we've gotten some great feedback. Now, the tuned-up search gadget is available to all Blogger users. You can configure this gadget to help your readers search all the information that's relevant to your blog — your posts, webpages that you [...]
published @ May 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I came to Google because I wanted to work on hard problems and have a big impact on the world. Four years later, I'm still constantly awed by how challenging search is. We work on improving the entire search process, including formulating queries, evaluating results, reading and understanding information, and digging deeper with this [...]