Story: Xooglers, Google’s former Marketing Director tells his story
Some great stories about Google’s early days, with more to come. Original post by Chris Gilmer and software by Elliott Back
Month: December 2006
Launch: Google Music, search for bands and albums
Original post by Chris Gilmer and software by Elliott Back
Launch: Google running AdWords in newspapers
Google is buying the leftover ad space in the _Chicago Sun-Times_ and filling it with AdWords ads related to the rest of the content. I wonder how they’re going to charge advertisers. The domains posted are the real domains, so …
Launch: Google Pages, new Geocities-style site-building software
Google has released a new program that gives users 100MB of web space to make simple HTML pages in. Original post by Chris Gilmer and software by Elliott Back
Launch: Google Code Search
Google now lets you do searches — including regular expression searches — across public source code. Original post by Chris Gilmer and software by Elliott Back
Preview: Google testing new site design
James Yu has a screenshot of a new design Google has been testing lately. Original post by Chris Gilmer and software by Elliott Back
News: Google launches “Features, Not Products” initiative
Sergey Brin is telling employees to stop making old products and start improving new ones. “For example, said Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Google plans to combine its spreadsheet, calendar and word-processing programs into one suite of Web-based applications.” Original post …
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Launch: searchmash, an experimental site started by Google
Uses Ajax and some other web2.0-ish features. Original post by Chris Gilmer and software by Elliott Back
Where on Earth is Santa?
<<Posted by Melissa Crounse, Chief Elf As you know, every Christmas Eve Santa Claus gets busy on his tricked-out sleigh, soaring around the globe to deliver presents to (presumably deserving) children the world over. This year, even if you don’t …
Google Adsense Referrals and Others
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New multimedia guide about the Google content network
<<Search advertising is very effective, but how are you reaching the millions of internet users who are online but not searching? To help you reach these folks, you might consider advertising on the Google content network. To help explain the …
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Holiday Gadgets
<<Posted by James Yum, Support Engineer We’ve released some very fun and festive gadgets just in time for the holidays! Try these out: Christmas Tree by EK Chung and James Yum [USA] A tree that you can decorate. Choose lights, …
From the field: Skates on Haight
<<Posted by Joren Winge, E-commerce Manager, Skates on Haight Our goal at Skates On Haight is to get our skate supplies into the hands of as many skaters as possible as quickly and inexpensively as we can. Google Checkout helps …
New Sidebars for All
<<Posted by Kevin Tom, Product Manager Happy Holidays! Santa has delivered Google Desktop 4.5 in 27 more languages — and the Japanese version is also coming out of beta. Now everyone can take advantage of new features, including: Transparent Sidebar …
Google Desktop 4.5 now international
<<Posted by Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing Manager Since the debut of the new transparent Sidebar in Google Desktop 4.5, we’ve been working hard to make it widely available outside of the English-speaking world. And it’s finally done — now you …
Happy Holidays with Google Desktop 4.5
<<Posted by Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing Manager Since the debut of the new transparent Sidebar in Google Desktop 4.5, we’ve been working to make it widely available outside of the English-speaking world. We’re finally done, and now you can get …
del.icio.us Launches JSON-fed “save to del.icio.us” badges
<<del.icio.us has just released a new badge called the “Tagometer”. The tagometer is like the save to del.icio.us widget, but with more stuff: From the del.icio.us blog, deusx writes: The Tagometer opens things up from there – using a JSON …
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Taking flight with Google Book Search
<<Posted by Jim Gerber, Content Partnerships DirectorAs a private pilot of both airplanes and helicopters, it doesn’t take much to get me thinking about all things aviation. The passing of a major milestone, such as the December 17th anniversary of …
Blogger’s new bag of tricks
<<Posted by Lexi Baugher, Software Engineer Blogger has always been the easiest-to-use blogging software around, but it just got way more powerful. We’ve added a bunch of new features, which you can check out in the new version: You can …
Holiday Greetings from our Soldiers
<<Warm messages from the soldiers’ hearts to their loved ones. Happy Holidays everyone!Click here to watch “Holiday Greeting from PV2 Ernest Marshall”Deployed Service Members send Holiday Greetings to their family and friends14 secClick here to watch “Holiday Greeting from SGT …