Google and NORAD Team-Up Again to Track Santa Around the World

AnnouncementDecember 23, 2008Follow Old St. Nick in Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Maps for mobile, iGoogle, and TwitterHe made his list, he’s checked it twice. Santa and his reindeer are ready for their flights! Because of Google’s work with NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command), children around the world will again be able...

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Google Announces 2008 Year-end Zeitgeist

AnnouncementDecember 10, 2008Continuing our annual tradition, today we are excited to announce our 2008 year-end Zeitgeist. “Zeitgeist” means “the spirit of the times” and our end of year Zeitgeist pages use aggregated search queries to determine the top trends, fads and memes of the year. This year’s Zeitgeist also includes top 10 lists from more than 30 countries around the world, providing a fascinating snapshot of what was...

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Hallmark Channel and Google to Form Strategic TV Advertising Agreement

Agreement Gives Advertisers Access to Hallmark Channel Family-Friendly ProgrammingNEW YORK & MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF., December 3, 2008 – Hallmark Channel and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today a strategic agreement to offer advertisers access to high-quality family-friendly programming through the Google TV Ads program. Advertisers will now be able to reach even more viewers by using Google TV Ads platform to place ads on...

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The fastest-rising search terms of 2008

AnnouncementDecember 2, 2008To kick off the month of December we wanted to whet your appetite for our year-end Zeitgeist with this sneak peek of the fastest-rising search terms in the U.S. for 2008. We combed through billions of anonymous, aggregated search queries to bring you this snapshot of what’s been top-of-mind for Americans in the past 11 months.When compared to 2007, the following terms have seen the most growth over...

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Customize Your Search Results with SearchWiki

AnnouncementNovember 20, 2008Google users now have more control over their search experience, thanks to our newest addition to Google Web Search: SearchWiki. With this new set of features, users can add, delete, re-sort or comment on search results for any query, to create a set of search results that’s customized just for them.Just do a web search when logged in to your Google account, and check out all the new tools that are...

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Google SketchUp 7 – Work Smarter, Work Together

AnnouncementNovember 17, 2008 Today, Google is announcing the launch of SketchUp 7 and SketchUp Pro 7, the newest versions of our popular 3D modeling software. Whether a user is an architect drafting solar-powered buildings, a video-game designer imagining wild characters in new worlds, or is entirely new to 3D and discovering the basics,...

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New Version of Google Mobile App for iPhone, now with Voice Search

AnnouncementNovember 17, 2008Today Google released an update for its iPhone app that allows people to search on Google faster and easier than ever before. This launch builds on our previous version of the Google Mobile App for iPhone to offer two innovative new ways for users to search the web while they’re on the go: by voice and by location.With the new version of the app, people can conduct a Google search by simply speaking...

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Google to Present at the Eighth Annual Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecoms Conference

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (November 14, 2008) – Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that Nikesh Arora, Senior Vice President, Google and President EMEA Operations, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Eighth Annual Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecoms Conference in Barcelona. The session is scheduled for 3:45 a.m. Eastern Time / 12:45 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, November 21, 2008.To access the live...

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Google Site Search Gets More Demanding

AnnouncementNovember 13, 2008Google today launched On-Demand Indexing, a new feature for Google Site Search that allows businesses to quickly incorporate new pages and important site updates into search results on their websites. On-Demand Indexing ensures that site visitors have access to a site’s freshest content, and that businesses have the flexibility to share news, product releases and promotions as they happen.With On-Demand...

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Travel back to Ancient Rome with Google Earth

AnnouncementNovember 12, 2008Today Google launches Ancient Rome 3D on Google Earth, making it easy and fun to explore the historic city as it stood centuries ago.Through Google Earth, students, teachers, tourists and historians can:View a virtual representation of the city in 320 AD at the height of its development as the capital of the Roman...

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Flu Trends

AnnouncementNovember 11, 2008By tracking the popularity of certain Google search queries, our engineers have discovered that we can accurately estimate the level of flu in each state, in near real time. Today Google.org launched a tool, Flu Trends, that makes this information accessible to all.While traditional flu tracking systems take 1-2...

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Gmail launches voice and video chat

AnnouncementNovember 11, 2008Makes it easy to chat with video and voice right alongside your emailGoogle today launched Gmail voice and video chat, making it simple for people around the world to chat in high-quality video for free right within Gmail. All you need is a webcam and a small web browser plugin, and you can start video chatting with your friends, family, and coworkers on Gmail and Google Apps. Gmail voice and video...

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Google to Present at the Fourth Annual Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (October 31, 2008) – Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, President, Asia Pacific and Latin America Operations, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Fourth Annual Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit in Laguna Beach, CA. The session is scheduled for 10:15 p.m. Eastern Time / 7:15 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, November 12, 2008.The live webcast of Google’s...

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Take a Vote Hour

AnnouncementOctober 28, 2008During the last national election in 2004, 20% of eligible voters did not vote because they said they were "too busy" with work or school and never made it to the polls. In hopes of driving voter turnout, Google asked CEOs across America to create and upload short videos to YouTube, encouraging their employees to take a vote hour.Donald Trump (The Trump Organization), Jeff Bewkes (Time Warner), Shelly...

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Authors, Publishers, and Google Reach Landmark Settlement

Copyright Accord Would Make Millions More Books Available OnlineNEW YORK, NY (October 28, 2008) – The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and Google today announced a groundbreaking settlement agreement on behalf of a broad class of authors and publishers worldwide that would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number...

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Google Earth Comes to iPhone and iPod touch

AnnouncementOctober 27, 2008Google Earth has long offered users the opportunity to explore their planet with just a few mouse clicks. Today, a few clicks have become a few flicks, with the release of Google Earth for iPhone and iPod Touch. Users will have the whole world in their hands – not to mention their pockets, purses, and backpacks...

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Voting Made Simple

AnnouncementOctober 22, 2008It’s hard to find an excuse not to vote this election season.For the first time, technology companies, election officials, and organizations on both sides of the political spectrum are working together to ensure that voters have easy access to election information online and on their mobile phones.In partnership with state and local election officials, the Voting Information Project (www.votinginfoproject.org)...

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Google Analytics Unveils Enterprise Class Feature Set, Updated Interface, and Integration with Google AdSense

AnnouncementOctober 22, 2008Today at the eMetrics Summit in Washington, D.C., Google Analytics™ web service announced new enterprise-class features including custom reports, advanced segmentation, an API, as well as an updated interface, richer data visualizations, and an integration with Google AdSense™. These new features combine the sophistication and versatility of a full-service web analytics tool with Google Analytics’ ease...

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Google.org Battles Bugs & Viruses

Announces More Than $14 Million in Grants to Partners Working to Predict and Prevent the Next PandemicMountain View, Calif. (October 21, 2008) — Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), has announced grants of more than $14 million to support partners working in Southeast Asia and Africa to prevent the next pandemic. Google.org’s...

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Google Announces Third Quarter 2008 Results*

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New Canvas View Gadgets for iGoogle

AnnouncementOctober 16, 2008Today, we’re starting to roll out an updated version of iGoogle to users in the U.S. The key feature of the updated version of iGoogle is canvas view gadgets, which allows users to expand a gadget to access more content. For example, now users can read news, play games and watch videos in full-page view, without leaving their homepage. A few examples of gadgets that take advantage of this new canvas...

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Google Announces AdSense for Games in Effort to Fuel the Growth of Online Gaming

AnnouncementOctober 8, 2008Every week, over 25% of Internet users worldwide play online games, which amounts to over 200 million people. This number is growing at a rate of almost 17% each year.¹To continue to fuel the growth of online games for users and as part of our ongoing efforts to develop new ways for publishers to earn revenue, Google...

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Google to Announce Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif (October 6, 2008) – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that it will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss third quarter 2008 financial results on Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time).The live webcast of Google’s earnings conference call can be accessed at investor.google.com/webcast. The webcast version of the conference call will be available through...

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Google and Celebs Pair Up to Register Voters

AnnouncementOctober 1, 2008There’s lots of buzz about turnout this year, but 1 in 4 Americans still aren’t registered to vote.We’re trying to help increase participation by making sure voters have easy access to voting information. Google’s Voter Info Map (maps.google.com/vote) currently puts registration, absentee, and early voting information in one place. (If you’re on a phone, you can check out our mobile version at m.google.com/elections.)We...

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Google TV Ads Platform Adds Bloomberg TV to U.S. Inventory

Google to Bring New Advertising Clients to the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® NetworkNEW YORK & MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (September 25th, 2008) – Continuing efforts to make television advertising more relevant, accountable and measurable, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® network will make national cable advertising time in the U.S. available through the Google TV Ads™ platform. By offering self-service...

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Google Calls for Ideas to Change the World with Project 10^100

AnnouncementSeptember 24, 2008We’ve learned over the last ten years at Google that great ideas can come from anywhere. For that reason, Google is announcing as part of its tenth birthday celebration Project 10^100 (pronounced Project 10 to the 100th), a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.For this challenge we are asking our users to send us exciting ideas for ways to improve people’s lives...

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Plan Public Transit Trips in and Around New York City with Google Maps

AnnouncementSeptember 23, 2008Today, we are excited to announce that Google Maps will feature route and schedule information from New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), the largest public transportation agency in the United States. Figuring out how to get around the metropolitan area on subways, buses and regional rail is now just...

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New Collection of iGoogle Themes Created by Leading Fashion Designers and Musicians

AnnouncementSeptember 10, 2008Hi there,Today, Google is introducing a new collection(www.google.com/artistthemes) of iGoogle themes created by leading fashion designers and musicians. This new collection is an extension of the iGoogle artist project that launched in May(googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/where-art-thou.html), where we originally collaborated with almost 70 artists from 17 countries to create themes for iGoogle.You...

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Google Completes Sale of Performics Search Marketing Business

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (September 10, 2008) – Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has completed its sale of the Performics search marketing business to Publicis Groupe (EURONEXT Paris: FR0000130577). Chicago-based Performics, one of the leading search marketing services providers, helps to improve the performance of advertisers’ investments and maximize client campaign effectiveness.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.About...

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NBC Universal and Google Form Strategic Advertising Partnership

NBCU Cable to Implement Google TV Ads Advertising PlatformGoogle to Bring New Advertising Clients to TelevisionPartnership Includes Collaboration on Custom Research Projects to Help Drive New Insights into TV AdvertisingNEW YORK & MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. (September 8, 2008) – As part of its continuing effort to offer innovative advertising solutions to its clients, NBC Universal (NBCU) will join forces with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)...

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Google Chrome: A New Take on the Browser

New Open Source Browser Combines Simple User-Interface with Sophisticated TechnologyMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (September 2, 2008) – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today launched Google Chrome™, a new open source browser intended to create a better web experience for users around the world. Available in beta in more than 40 languages, Google Chrome is a new approach to the browser that’s based on the simplicity and power that users have...

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New Picasa 3.0 Takes Photo Sharing From "Easy" To "Effortless"; Upgraded Picasa Web Albums Now Focuses on the People In Your Pictures

AnnouncementSeptember 2, 2008As people buy more expensive digital cameras in hopes of taking better pictures and sharing more photos with friends and family, many have discovered that a few all-too-familiar problems won’t go away no matter how many megapixels you buy – like clunky PC utilities that seem determined to take the fun out of photography, and labor-intensive photo-sharing sites that feel like a chore unto themselves.So...

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Now Showing: Video in Google Apps

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (September 2, 2008) – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced Google Video™ for business, a new application in Google Apps™ for sharing video in an organization in two easy steps – simply upload a video to Google Apps, and then invite others to view it. With Google Video for business, anyone can upload a video – on anything ranging from executive communications to product training to trip reports –...

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