Month: May 2009

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<<A lot of the content we post on this blog is about social. Social is new, social is big, social is better (all true!) … but, non-social is important too, and gadgets should behave gracefully when users have not enabled …

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<<Google Chrome 2.0.172.27 has been released to the Beta channel. This release adds translations for all new features in all  supported languages . We’ve made a number of fixes to improve reliability and updated the version of Gears to 0.5.19.0. …

Beta Update: Bug fixes and translations Read more »

<<On Tuesday, we announced Search Options , which are a collection of tools that let you slice and dice your results and generate different views to find what you need faster and easier. We know that people search for a …

Behind the scenes of the Search Options panel Read more »

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<<Last month marked the 7-year anniversary of Google News. We thought we’d celebrate this year by refreshing the look and feel of the site with a new design that we launched today. First of all, you’ll probably notice that we’ve …

Google News gets a makeover Read more »

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Question 1: How long does it take for adsense to approve? Question 2: Well I’ve approved every ad, and set "Auto approval" for Bidvertiser, yet it still shows only one ad, the rest are "YOUR AD HERE" which is hell …

Adsense + Bidvertiser Read more »

<<Imagine opening your Sunday paper and seeing ads from a large supermarket chain that didn’t list actual products for sale; instead, they simply listed the categories of products available – offers like “Buy discount cola” and “Snacks on sale.” The …

Update to U.S. ad text trademark policy Read more »

Afternoon everyone. I was doing some testing on one of my sites and noticed a large different in the number of impressions vs number of unique visitors to my site. About 10 to 1 for impressions to visitors using adsence. …

Better to use multiple networks? Read more »

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<<You spend a lot of time creating great content for your site, but are you ever curious about which parts of your website your community likes best? Now you and your visitors can easily find out with the new Recommendation …

Surface your best content Read more »

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<<Whenever we build out new products and features at Google, we try to ensure that we provide users with two key components: transparency and control. About a month ago we released the Google Update source code to give users and …

Google Update Releases Update Controls Read more »

<<Almost every Friday, I jump on my bike in San Francisco and ride roughly 45 miles to get to work at the Google campus in Mountain View — it takes about 3 hours. Most people think I’m crazy, but seeing …

Bike to Work Day 2009 Read more »

<<For approximately one hour today starting at 7:48 am Pacific Time , Google had an error in routing traffic that prevented Google Analytics from collecting a small amount of data for some web properties. On average, this will appear as …

Temporary System Error this Morning – Now Resolved Read more »

<<This post is part of the Who’s @ Google I/O , a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who’ll be speaking or demoing at Google I/O . Today’s post is a guest post written by …

Yahoo! Pipes and Read more »

<<Today on New Interface Thursdays we’ll be taking a look at customizable columns. Customizable columns are one of the ways that new AdWords interface helps you manage your campaigns more effectively. With customizable columns, you can select which metrics are …

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