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This week in search 11/20/09

This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label and subscribe to the series. - Ed. This week brought a number of new features to the fore. Google Translate The biggest and most visible ...

From A GOOGLER, Official Google Blog,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Google Apps highlights – 11/20/2009

This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label "Google Apps highlights" and subscribe to the series. - Ed. Over the last two weeks, we've made improvements across Google Apps, some geared ...

From A GOOGLER, Official Google Blog,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Motorola, Inc.

Cool. Even Batman uses Google.

When I first started at Google, Craig Nevill-Manning, engineering director here in New York, said to me: "The Google homepage doesn't belong to us. It belongs to the millions of people who use it." Besides the fact that Craig can make one of those ...

From A GOOGLER, Official Google Blog,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Releasing the Chromium OS open source project

In July we announced that we were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web. Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google ...

From A GOOGLER, Official Google Blog,  19 Nov 2009

Automatic captions in YouTube

Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I ...

From A GOOGLER, Official Google Blog,  19 Nov 2009

What's cooking with iGoogle...

We're both huge foodies, and we always love spending time in the kitchen with friends and family, especially around the holidays. Particularly during this season, many of us turn to Google when searching for recipes. But, in addition to spicing up your ...

From A GOOGLER, Official Google Blog,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Alton Brown,  Paula Deen,  James Parker,  Marissa Mayer

Explore images with Google Image Swirl, now in Labs

Back in 2001, to give people a new, quicker way to find images, we launched Image Search. When you do a search for [eiffel tower] you'll find an array of images of the tower in the daytime, in black and white, at sunset and more. With Similar Images, ...

From A GOOGLER, Official Google Blog,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Finding the laws that govern us

As many of us recall from our civics lessons in school, the United States is a common law country. That means when judges issue opinions in legal cases, they often establish precedents that will guide the rulings of other judges in similar cases and ...

From A GOOGLER, Official Google Blog,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Planned Parenthood

New site hierarchies display in search results

Google usually shows a green web address, or URL, at the bottom of each search result to let you know where you're headed. Today we're rolling out an improvement that replaces the URL in some search results with a hierarchy showing the precise location ...

From A GOOGLER, Official Google Blog,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Vint Cerf

Connecting citizens and journalists with YouTube Direct

(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog) Every day, people with video cameras are changing the ways we get our news. We see it during elections. We see it during earthquakes, fires and other natural disasters. We see it on our freeways, in our schools and ...

From A GOOGLER, Official Google Blog,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NPR,  Washington Post Company

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