Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Feb 10, 2012, 4:02 pm
On Tuesday, January 24, Google Waterloo opened its doors to engineers from the Kitchener-Waterloo area to participate in the first ever Ship Wars Programming Competition. The brainchild of myself and another Waterloo engineer, Garret Kelly, Ship Wars is a competition in which participants code their...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Feb 10, 2012, 2:26 pm
If you walk down the halls of our New York office, you might learn something about the history of technology. This month, our walls showcase the contributions of Black inventors in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in celebration of Black History Month. Black History Month, whi...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Feb 9, 2012, 6:09 pm
Two months ago, we announced our plans to roll out a new design for the Google bar. Our goal was to create a beautifully simple and intuitive experience across Google. Based on your feedback, we realized there were some elements of the new bar that we could improve, and with that in mind, we’re in...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Feb 9, 2012, 3:06 pm
This morning, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced the election of 66 new members, including our very own Amit Singhal, Google Fellow and lead on Google Search. Amit joins a list of nine of us Googlers who have previously been recognized by the NAE: Sergey Brin, Vint Cerf, Jeff Dean, ...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Feb 8, 2012, 12:00 pm
Bestselling Southern American author Anne Rice is coming to Google headquarters to discuss her latest book, The Wolf Gift, on Friday, February 24 at 10am PT. One of the most popular authors of contemporary fiction, Rice has bewitched readers with her vampire chronicles, tales of the Mayfair Witches...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Feb 7, 2012, 12:40 pm
In 2008, we launched Google Chrome to help make the web better. We’re excited that millions of people around the world use Chrome as their primary browser and we want to keep improving that experience. Today, we're introducing Chrome for Android Beta, which brings many of the things you’ve come ...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Feb 6, 2012, 9:10 pm
Last week, we ran an experiment. We hosted a gathering, called “Solve for X,” for experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world. The event focused on proposing and discussing technological solutions to some of the world’s greatest problems. Discussions began last w...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Feb 6, 2012, 6:03 pm
The newest addition to the Google scholarships family is the Google Student Veterans of America (SVA) Scholarship. We’re partnering with the nonprofit Student Veterans of America (SVA) to support their mission of providing veterans with the resources, support and advocacy they need to succeed in h...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Feb 6, 2012, 9:35 am
Now that the final Super Bowl touchdown has been scored, the dip bowl wiped clean and the last of the chicken wings devoured, we’re taking a look at some game-day search trends to see what football fans were searching for this year. As the Giants and Patriots battled it out on the field yest...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Feb 3, 2012, 2:52 pm
Computers store every piece of text using a “character encoding,” which gives a number to each character. For example, the byte 61 stands for ‘a’ and 62 stands for ‘b’ in the ASCII encoding, which was launched in 1963. Before the web, computer systems were siloed, and there were hundred...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Feb 2, 2012, 11:13 am
Women make up more than half the global population, but hold fewer than a third of the world’s engineering jobs. In the U.S., female students comprise fewer than 15 percent of all Advanced Placement computer science test takers. Even in high-tech Israel, few girls choose computer science. Not only...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Feb 1, 2012, 1:39 pm
While thousands of lucky fans will brave the crowds at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind. to fill the coveted seats at this Sunday’s Super Bowl, many more in the U.S. will enjoy the game from home—in front of the TV, with mobile phones and tablets at the ready. As the New York Gi...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 30, 2012, 9:00 am
Our business at Google is rooted in STEM and CS, so we’re passionate about supporting organizations that are expanding access to these fields, especially for students who might not have the opportunity otherwise. The annual Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE) program supports organizat...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 26, 2012, 3:08 pm
Googlers are the types who never really leave the classroom. Guest speakers come to campus to give talks on subjects ranging from fiction to physics. Diverse groups of people work together to understand and solve big problems while groups of Googlers engage in passionate debate in our cafeterias. Gi...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 26, 2012, 1:26 pm
We're taking bird's eye view to a whole new level with the latest version of Google Earth, released today. With Google Earth 6.2, we’re bringing you the most beautiful Google Earth yet, with more seamless imagery and a new search interface. Additionally, we’ve introduced a feature that enables y...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 24, 2012, 4:30 pm
In just over a month we will make some changes to our privacy policies and Google Terms of Service. This stuff matters, so we wanted to explain what’s changing, why and what these changes mean for users. First, our privacy policies. Despite trimming our policies in 2010, we still have more t...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 23, 2012, 12:08 pm
If you could hang out with President Obama, what would you ask him? Would your question be about jobs or unemployment? The threat of nuclear weapons? Immigration reform? Whatever your question is, submit it on YouTube for the opportunity to ask the President directly in a special interview over a Go...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 20, 2012, 5:26 pm
As part of our ongoing commitment to entrepreneurship around the world, we recently took part in a worthy experiment crisscrossing India. Jagriti Yatra is an annual train journey that takes more than 400 of India's highly motivated youth (ages 20-26) on an 15-day trip to introduce them to India’s ...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 20, 2012, 4:29 pm
As we head into 2012, we’ve been sticking to some old resolutions—the need to focus on building amazing products that millions of people love to use every day. That means taking a hard look at products that replicate other features, haven’t achieved the promise we had hoped for or can’t be p...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 18, 2012, 10:00 am
Starting today, we’d like to invite K-12 students in the U.S. to participate in our fifth annual U.S. Doodle 4 Google contest. Draw your rendition of the Google logo and you may see it on the ultimate gallery: the Google homepage. The winning doodler will also take home a $30,000 college scholars...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 18, 2012, 12:40 am
You might notice many of your favorite websites look different today. Wikipedia is down. WordPress is dark. We’re censoring our homepage logo and asking you to petition Congress. So what’s the big deal? Right now in Washington D.C., Congress is considering two bills that would censor the ...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 17, 2012, 2:11 pm
Last August, we announced a joint scholarship program for aspiring journalists with the Associated Press, administered by the Online News Association. A total of six $20,000 scholarships will be awarded to undergraduate and graduate journalism students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the i...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 17, 2012, 12:45 pm
Today, we’re joining the Internet Society and several major Internet companies to announce World IPv6 Launch, a coordinated launch of the next-generation Internet protocol on June 6, 2012. This builds on the success and momentum of last year’s World IPv6 Day by adding major contributions from I...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 17, 2012, 12:00 am
Does this person sound familiar? He can’t be bothered to type a password into his phone every time he wants to play a game of Angry Birds. When he does need a password, maybe for his email or bank website, he chooses one that’s easy to remember like his sister’s name—and he uses the same one...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 16, 2012, 8:13 pm
Today, Martin Luther King Day of Service in the U.S., Googlers around the country worked with community service organizations to lend a helping hand in their area and commemorate the holiday. The Black Googler Network (BGN), an employee resource group made up of volunteers, spearheaded this e...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 13, 2012, 3:29 pm
International soccer phenom +David Beckham is taking off his boots and heading to Google for an exclusive live interview. Have a question you’ve been dying to personally ask Becks? Post it on Google+ with hashtag #GoogleBeckham, and maybe he’ll answer it live! Watch the interview on Thurs...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 12, 2012, 5:30 am
Are human beings born curious, or can curiosity be nurtured through environment, competition or a good teacher? Everyone’s got a question—that’s ours. But we’re sure you’ve got tons of questions, too. Today, we’re inviting students around the world to pose their most pressing questions a...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 11, 2012, 9:00 am
For many, the start of a new year is also the start of a new semester. Whether you’re a current student trying to familiarize yourself with campus, an applicant assessing your options or an alumnus feeling nostalgic, the Street View feature in Google Maps can be your tour guide without the backwar...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Jan 10, 2012, 3:40 pm
In the amount of time it takes you to read this blog post, roughly 382 Android phones will be activated, 250,000+ words will be written on Blogger and 48 hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube. The world is moving faster than ever before, bringing us instant access and split-second connections t...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Dec 15, 2011, 7:40 am
This year marks our 11th annual look back at the searches that compose the year’s Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time. With Zeitgeist, we look at the most popular and the fastest rising terms—the terms ... around the world. For our 2011 Zeitgeist site, we’ve improved the visualizations to make...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Dec 14, 2011, 1:12 pm
... and developers. More than 6 million printers have already been connected to GCP using Google Chrome; dozens of cloud-ready printers have been released or announced by manufacturers like Epson, HP and Kodak; and the developer community has released a flurry of apps and extensions to enable cloud...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Dec 14, 2011, 11:49 am
All too often, physical distance and frantic schedules get in the way of spending time together, especially during the holidays. But you know what? They don't have to. With Google+ Hangouts, you can go beyond “status updates,” and connect with the people you care about using multi-person v...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Dec 14, 2011, 3:01 am
... re making to support education, technology and the fight against modern day slavery. STEM ... , you not only improve her opportunities, but those of her whole family. The African Leadership Academy provides merit ... various nonprofit organizations and academic institutions around the world; o...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Dec 12, 2011, 9:06 pm
... now empty spaces. View Larger Map In the bottom left corner of each image you’ll also see a month and year that tells you when a particular photograph was taken. When looking at images of the magnificent cities side-by-side with images of the ruins left in thei...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Dec 8, 2011, 5:49 pm
... Our answer was to hook up with the Dutch NGO Free Press Unlimited and host one of our Big Tent events, which ... in The Hague. “We are joined in a spirit to fight people who want to shut down free speech," he said. "It makes easy sense for a government to ... to impose national contr...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Dec 8, 2011, 1:20 pm
We want to bring you a great experience across all Google products which, for Gmail and Contacts, means understanding what you care about and delivering it instantly. With that in mind, we’re introducing some new integrations with Google+ that we think will make Gmail and Contacts even better. I...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Dec 8, 2011, 10:30 am
It gives me great pleasure to share that the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that three Googlers have been elected ACM Fellows in 2011. The ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, and the Fellows Program celebrates the exceptional contributi...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Dec 7, 2011, 3:55 pm
Last month 350 CIOs and thousands of live stream viewers joined us for Atmosphere 2011, our annual cloud event. Leading companies from around the world came to explore how businesses are using the web to drive collaboration, innovation and growth in their organizations. In case you missed them, the ...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Dec 7, 2011, 1:29 pm
It’s often assumed that big cities benefit the most from the Internet, but we believe the net offers giant opportunities to everyone from urbanites to small town residents, farmers and nature lovers in the far-flung countryside. We recently tested this thesis in our first-ever European Google eTo...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Nov 2, 2011, 12:01 pm
For the past decade, legions of Google SketchUp users have been quietly shaping the world around us. Two million professionals and hobbyists use this 3D modeling tool every week to design everything under the sun, including houses, room layouts, movie sets, aquariums, bridges, robots and furniture. ...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Nov 2, 2011, 9:00 am
I’m one of hundreds of University of Michigan alumni currently working at Google. So is this guy. I’m proud to have a degree from U-M—and that we made it to two Rose Bowls and one Final Four during my time there. But I’m even more proud that today we’re welcoming my alma mater to the Googl...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Nov 1, 2011, 12:58 pm
Whether you’re planning a trip to a park around the block or around the world, you’ll now find more parks showing up in Street View. Over the past year, the Street View team, equipped with the Street View trike, traveled to 22 different countries to photograph some of the world’s most beautifu...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Nov 1, 2011, 12:04 pm
Back in July we showed you a preview of Gmail's new look, and we’ve been working this summer to make even more updates and improvements. Today, we’re giving you an in-depth look at the new design. If you like what you see, over the next few days you’ll be able to switch to the new look by cli...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Oct 31, 2011, 6:51 pm
Our advertising system is designed to show the right ad to the right person at the right time. Because ads should be just as useful as any other information on the web, we try to make them as relevant as possible for you. Over the coming weeks, we’re making improvements to provide greater transpar...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Oct 31, 2011, 4:10 pm
On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world recorded videos of their lives to take part in Life in a Day, a cinematic experiment to document a single day on earth. From more than 4,500 hours of footage recorded and uploaded to YouTube, Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald and executive ...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Oct 31, 2011, 12:22 am
When I was a little kid, Halloween seemed like the most grown-up holiday of all. For one thrilling night of the year, I got to stay up late trick-or-treating, watch scary movies with my friends, and wield sharp and pointy objects (safety first, of course!) while carving a macabre face into a pumpkin...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Oct 28, 2011, 3:32 pm
The pumpkins are carved, the spiderwebs are hanging, Kids and their pets are door-to-door banging, Witches on their brooms and owls on their perches, Let’s take a look at some Halloween searches. Halloween searches are some of our favorite trends to look at all year. Using ...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Oct 27, 2011, 1:07 pm
We think Google+ should get better every time you use it. It’s not enough to obsess over community feedback (which we do); we also need to surprise and delight you with constant improvements (which we also try and do). Today’s no different, so we’re rolling out four new features in four differ...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Oct 27, 2011, 12:00 pm
There’s a universe of amazing daily deals out there, but it's hard to find them all in one place—and even harder to discover the ones that really matter to you. We’re making improvements to Google Offers that help address this challenge. First, we’re delivering more amazing deals from...
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Roxanne d. posted an article on The Official Google Blog - Oct 26, 2011, 2:10 pm
This time last year, we were tailgating with the USC marching band at the EDUCAUSE conference—an annual gathering of the higher-education IT community. Last week, with more than 15 million people now actively using Google Apps for Education, we ventured to Philadelphia for a few jam-packed days at...
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