Stories by Googlers (9)
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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, while Kai-Fu Lee talks about the growing ubiquity of cloud computing. Also featured are stories from ...
The Presidential debate: Expanding the town hall (8)
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As we promised, here's an update on the search patterns we observed during last night's presidential debate. While a few lucky citizens were able to ask the candidates questions directly, millions of others used Google to find their answers.Similar to last Thursday, people sought to understand the meaning of several words mentioned in the debate: morass, commodity, junket, cynicism, and cronyism to name a few. In the chart below you can see four of the ...
Getting around your neighborhood with Google Maps (3)
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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 of town, this may sound familiar to a lot of people.There's a simple solution: turn to Google Maps to find ...
I clicked to buy and I liked it (22)
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When you view a YouTube video with a great soundtrack, you often see comments from YouTube users asking about the name of the song and where they can download it. Or when users watch the trailer for an upcoming video game, they want to know when it will be released and where they can buy it. Today, we're taking our first steps to providing YouTube users with this kind of instant gratification, by adding "click-to-buy" ...
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Patrick said:
A nice subtle and relevant form of YouTube monetization that stays true to Chris Anderson's Freemium principles.
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Rick Klau said:
Favorite Official Google Blog post title ever.
Knol debates: See both sides, get involved (6)
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As the election season builds to a climax, the candidates have been engaging in a number of debates. With all the excitement, we wanted to get involved, so we've started our own set of debates on our new tool Knol. The debates on Knol are meant to offer a variety of in-depth opinions from experts so you can really understand all sides of an issue. Our first debate focuses on the economy. Economists from the ...
New Technology Roundtable series (7)
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We've just posted the first three videos in the Google Technology Roundtable Series. Each one is a discussion with senior Google researchers and technologists about one of our most significant achievements. We use a talk show format, where I lead a discussion on the technology.While the videos are intended for a reasonably technical audience, I think they may be interesting to many as an overview of the key challenges and ideas underlying Google's systems. And ...
Amazon conservation in San Francisco (6)
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For most of us, today is another Saturday. For a chief of the Surui tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, it's a unique day, because San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has issued a proclamation declaring October 4th as "Chief Almir Surui Day."Chief Almir and the Amazon Conservation Team will be in the Bay Area to attend the world premiere of a documentary film by Denise Zmekhol called Children of the Amazon. They'll also participate in a ...
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Sean Leather said:
Happy Chief Almir Surui Day in San Francisco! You should definitely watch the embedded video. Amazing!
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Felipe Plets said:
Mais americanos querendo a amazônia ou mais uma grande iniciativa do Google?
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Michael said:
Why does...ooooh the *place* not the website. Riiight.
The ONE News YouTube Election Debate in New Zealand (3)
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Over the course of the long U.S. Presidential election campaign, millions of people have checked out the candidates' YouTube Channels on our You Choose '08 platform, and communicated directly with all those running for President. Thousands more submitted questions for candidates in the CNN/YouTube debates, participated in our You Choose '08 Spotlight, or made videos for the Democratic and Republican conventions. Outside the U.S., YouTube has also become an important part of leveling the political ...
Official Google Blog: Hitting 40 languages (2)
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One of our goals is to give everyone using Google the information they want, wherever they are, in whatever language they speak, and through whatever device they're using. A huge part of that goal is making our services available in as many languages as possible. And as I’m sure you can imagine, that isn't as easy as simply as translating a few lines of text.Take Hebrew or Arabic, which are written from right to left. ...
Browse what the world is saying on Blog Search (55)
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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 mix: entertaining items about celebrities, personal perspectives on political figures, cutting-edge (and sometimes unverified) news stories, and a range ...
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df said:
I think this idea is cool: a newspaper made by the people (ie. made up of blog entries). Whether the reality is interesting I will have to judge over time.
Now's the time: Register to vote (23)
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Political participation is at an all-time high this election season, and a record number of voters have already started to cast ballots -- a few even camped out in Ohio to be the first in line for early voting yesterday.But roughly 1 in 4 Americans still aren't registered to vote, according to the most recent Census report. Now is the time -- voter registration deadlines are less than a week away in most states.We're trying ...
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Stewart Rogers said:
well done! By the way, we Canadians have an election on October 14th. You don't have to register, just show up with ID. You register by filing taxes. I think. :-)
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febbrile said:
guardate il video
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blogan said:
If you don't vote, don't complain about the election results. And what an amazing election this will be. We'll either have our first African American president of first female vice president.
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Mark said:
Wow. Awesome. Vote, bitches.
Clean energy 2030 (20)
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Right now the U.S. has a very real opportunity to transform our economy from one running on fossil fuels to one largely based on clean energy. We are developing the technologies and know-how to accomplish this. We can build whole new industries and create millions of new jobs. We can reduce energy costs, both at the gas pump and at home. We can improve our national security. And we can put a big dent in ...
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Jonny M said:
Less ambitious than Al Gore's plan, and only a 40% reduction over the next 20 years??? Too little to late me thinks... Google's doing some great work in this area but this feels a bit like political cold feet.
Saving electricity one data center at a time (36)
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Hundreds of millions of users access our services through the web, and this traffic requires lots of computers. We strive to offer great Internet services while taking our energy use very seriously. That's why, nearly a decade ago, we started work to optimize the energy efficiency of our servers and later set out to build the most environmentally sustainable data centers possible. We now believe that Google-designed data centers are the most efficient in the ...
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Steve said:
some mind-boggling stats in this one
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Steve said:
Energy costs must a large part of Google's costs, but it's good that they are saving where they can regardless of that.
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blogan said:
Laptops aren't the only computers where power consumption is important. Just ask Google.
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Reid said:
incredible
2001: A search odyssey (59)
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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 it off and took it for a spin, gobsmacked to see how different the web was ...
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Isaac said:
such a super idea
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Jeton said:
Google takes us back in time on how the Internet was in 2001. Ah, nostalgia...
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Muhammad Basheer said:
Nice, many things were not there that time !!
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Sandor D said:
A friend of mine helped put this together. Fun to play with.
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wolfie toutomoutochan said:
this is fun!
Your YouTube video: Hot or Not? (34)
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YouTube Insight has helped millions of you learn more about your YouTube videos and figure out when, where, and why your videos are popular. But what if you could learn not just which of your videos are hot on the site, but which specific parts of those videos are hotter than others? What if you could know exactly when viewers tend to leave your videos, or which scenes within a video they watch again and ...
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bamboowarrior said:
Ahahahaha. I know this guy. Awesome stumbling on to old friends on the intarweb.
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Scottah said:
A neat idea
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Ross said:
Pretty interesting.
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Mark Whiting said:
Everything can be analysed.
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Ben said:
This is very cool from Google, I wish my mind was working a bit faster tonight and I could work out a cool way to use it!
Google: What would you ask McCain and Obama? (4)
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Millions of Americans will be tuning in tonight for the first Presidential debate between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Historically, the debates are led by a moderator from a prestigious news organization, asking questions to each candidate and leaving time for a rebuttal from the other. Tonight is no different, with the well-respected Jim Lehrer from PBS serving as the debate moderator.While tonight's event will be exciting, many have argued that we should consider new ...
Ten years and counting (11)
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The Google doodle tradition started a long time ago (in summer 1999, in fact) when Larry and Sergey put a stick figure on the homepage to signify that they were out of the office at Burning Man. Nothing against stick figures, but our logo designs have become rather more varied since then. Today you'll see a special design that commemorates our 10th birthday. We've incorporated a little bit of history by using the original Google ...
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giro said:
no os perdais el timeline
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The Big Guy said:
happy bday google
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Durafei said:
Google and Burning Man ! :)
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Rk said:
Seeing the doodlers is great timepass...
Official Google Blog: Our position on California's No on 8 campaign (77)
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As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions -- Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and gay -- we do not generally take a position on issues outside of our field, especially not social issues. So when Proposition 8 appeared on the California ballot, it was an unlikely ...
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Fran Correas said:
¡Viva Google!
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Tony Chang said:
A bold decision for a tech company. Good job, Sergey.
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Satyajit Grover said:
Right on!
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Jonathan said:
interesting...
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Matt said:
I am proud to work for a company that takes a stance on such an important social issue.I urge all my friends to vote No on prop 8, and if you have friends in California, please urge them to do the same.
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jtuchscherer said:
Wow, Sergey Brin is getting political and encourages everybody to vote against the same sex marriage ban. I like ;-)
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Rialtus said:
Hear hear!
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Andrew said:
What the...Google's really trying to get into morality? Look, it's all good to have personal opinions and all that, but come on. This doesn't even have to do with technology (if it was net neutrality, it would be one thing. But gay marriage???)
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Haidong said:
there is an all time rumor that the two founders are 'special' friends. hmm...interesting
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Ken said:
YES!!
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John MacAdam said:
disappointing that Google would use this platform to promote their support of Homosexuality. If they truly wanted to remain unbiased they should have kept their mouth shut
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eEditor said:
Google rules the internet. It's too bad they can't get their own Moral Compass widget to work. Marriage should be defined between one man and one woman, period.
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Bryan said:
Oh you didn't. Snap!
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c0wb0yz said:
Google soutient le mariage homosexuel et défend sa position. S'engager dans le débat public sur une question sociétale, pour une entreprise, c'est à ma connaissance une première. Google n'est décidément pas une boite comme les autres.
