Posts under ‘Google’

Adding a search box to your site not only offers your visitors an important ease-of-use feature, but provides you, the site owner, with powerful insight into what your visitors really expect from your site. If you don’t have a search box on your site, you might consider using the Google Custom Search Engine (both free and paid [...]

We know many of you enjoy using Twitter to see what people are talking about and to let others know what you’ve been up to, whether it’s sharing a YouTube video or checking in on your friend’s tweets. To help you and your Twitter network stay connected no matter where you are on the web, [...]

We’re pleased to share that Google Friend Connect is now available in beta to any webmaster looking to add a “dash of social” to his or her site. This service lets webmasters add social features to their sites by simply copying and pasting a few snippets of code — no advanced coding or technical background [...]

Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you’re an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it’s not there at all and you’d like to add it. Or maybe [...]

Customers today demand speed. Waiting around is so, well, yesterday — as so many of the things we used to have to wait for are now at our fingertips online. We can read up to the minute news, get directions, and find the answers to our most pressing questions simply by entering them into a [...]

I recently had the chance to interview several long-time Googlers about the early days. To commemorate our 10th birthday, we’ve been revisiting our memories by digging into company lore. As fun as it has been to look back, of course we’ve also got our sights firmly set on what lies ahead.
Vint Cerf has some predictions about the interplanetary Internet, [...]

When I moved to the Bay Area last year, everything was new to me. I didn’t know Los Altos from Los Gatos, good eateries in my neighborhood, or how to get to where I wanted to go. Whether you’re moving to a new area, traveling to a new place, or simply exploring a new part [...]

Did you know that millions of bloggers around the world write new posts each week? If you’re like me, you probably read only a tiny fraction of these in Google Reader. What’s everybody else writing about? Our Blog Search team thought this was an interesting enough question to look into. What we found was a massive [...]

Now that we’re a decade old, we figured we’re long overdue for some spring cleaning. We started digging around our basement and found all kinds of junk: old Swedish fish, pigeon poop, Klingon translation books. Amazingly enough, hidden in a corner beneath Larry’s and Sergey’s original lab coats, we found a vintage search index in mint condition. We dusted [...]

We’ve talked a lot about our mission to organize the world’s information and make it readily available to all, but we haven’t spent as much time as we could helping others understand how they can participate in this endeavor. Last week we took two steps to address this: we updated the Submit Your Content site and we [...]

A few months ago we launched several new features for Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer. Since then, we’ve received many emails asking us when we plan to support all our new features in Firefox.
Guess what: Starting today, you can download the latest version of Google Toolbar for Firefox, available in 29 languages. This new version is the first [...]

The Internet has had an enormous impact on people’s lives around the world in the ten years since Google’s founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what’s going to happen in the next ten years? [...]

Our corporate blog network is more than four years old now. We offer blogs about Google products and initiatives, local blogs (for 11 countries), blogs for advertisers and publishers, and a stable of blogs for developers. We hope you find the contents to be informative, timely, and, on occasion, fun.
To help you keep track of [...]

The Internet has had an enormous impact on people’s lives around the world in the ten years since Google’s founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what’s going to happen in the next ten years? [...]

Today we added new features to Google Maps for Mobile that will help you see a location, find out what people are saying about it, and learn how to get there on foot — all from the convenience of your phone. Street View imagery, walking directions and business reviews are now available for BlackBerry and many Java-enabled [...]

This series of posts has described Google’s search quality efforts in areas such as ranking and search UI. Now I’ll describe search evaluation. Simply put, search evaluation is the process of measuring the quality of our search results and our users’ experience with search.
Let me introduce myself. I’m Scott Huffman, an engineering director responsible for leading [...]

The Internet has had an enormous impact on people’s lives around the world in the ten years since Google’s founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what’s going to happen in the next ten years? [...]

Google’s advertising business was founded on the core principle that advertising should deliver the right information to the right person at the right time. This is very similar to our mission in search, and, like our colleagues in search, those of us on the ads team are constantly striving to achieve better results. We have [...]