If you did a Google search between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST this morning, you likely saw that the message "This site may harm yo...
Google Toolbar in Firefox: a personalized new tab page
Those of you who use Google Toolbar on Firefox are probably pretty familiar with the many features Toolbar 5 (beta) has to offer — from bo...
Introducing Measurement Lab
When an Internet application doesn't work as expected or your connection seems flaky, how can you tell whether there is a problem caused...
Raising data privacy awareness
For the second year, the U.S. and Canada are joining 27 European countries to celebrate Data Privacy Day today. As we explained last year,...
More computing, less power
In the fall we posted information about the efficiency of Google data centers and promised to update this information every quarter. We...
An update from the Project 10^100 team
As part of our tenth birthday celebration, in September we announced Project 10^100, a call for ideas to help as many people as possible, a...
A look back at spam in 2008
Most people think of "spam" as an unwelcome email that arrives – or, better yet, doesn't – in an email inbox, announcing some ...
How to become a Dummies.com author
I am excited to announce the Knol for Dummies.com competition. I'm particularly excited about this contest because I'm an avid fan o...
The Pope on YouTube
(Cross-posted from the YouTube blog ) Today we're delighted to announce that the Vatican has launched a dedicated YouTube channel. To fi...
Announcing Google's Employee Option Exchange Program
Today we announced our plans to do something more for the people who are responsible for Google's success — our employees. Recognizing ...
Back to the energy future
In 1979 President Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar hot water panels on the roof of the White House. Recently a Googler from our Washington D...
Explore New York City with Google -- from your home, phone, and in person
Posted by Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City [From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest, and are very ...
Search findings from the U.S. presidential inauguration
Today, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America. As we observed throughout the presidential campaign...
A day on, not a day off
Today, Americans celebrate the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the chief elements of the day, as expressed by Dr. King ...
100,000th knol published
A few weeks ago the 100,000th knol was published, and we figured now is an excellent time to reflect on the first five months of Knol's ...
Building engineers
We believe great ideas can come from anywhere and everyone. And we aspire to be an organization that reflects global diversity, because we k...
Supporting equality
In September of last year, Google announced its opposition to California's Proposition 8 . While the campaign was emotionally charged ...
Making your personalized homepage even more personal
The holidays have passed, but if you're anything like me, you've got a gold mine of bear hugs and embarrassing moments captured on f...
Hear how Illinois State University uses Google Search
Search functionality is a critical part of higher education websites due to the diverse audiences that these sites serve. Current and prospe...
Changes to recruiting
As we made clear during our last quarterly earnings call in October, Google is still hiring but at a reduced rate. Given the state of the e...
Changes to engineering
At Google we recognized early on that branching out beyond Mountain View was key to building innovative products for users everywhere. That...
Make over your site using the wisdom of the crowd
It used to be that the design of a website was always left to a single web designer and some good ideas, but with Google Website Optimizer ,...
Network effects: Introducing the Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program
Just under two years ago we launched Google Apps for businesses , offering a set of products that enable secure and cost-effective applicati...
Gingerbread Competition results are in
(Cross-posted from the SketchUp blog ) Having spent some time perusing the entries for the SketchUp Gingerbread House Design Competition , w...
Powering a Google search
Not long ago, answering a query meant traveling to the reference desk of your local library. Today, search engines enable us to access immen...
Google's new favicon
Back in June, we rolled out a new favicon — the small icon that greets you when you access Google on your URL bar or your bookmarks list — ...
Cardboard creativity
A few months ago, the Google Open Source team had an offsite in our Chicago office, and we were looking for something fun, social, and geek...
Google at Macworld
After months of anticipation, Macworld 2009 is finally here. Throughout the four days of the expo (from now until Jan. 9), more than 100 Go...
Introducing Picasa for Mac (at Macworld!)
Sometimes I find it hard to describe Picasa without sounding like a late-night infomercial for a multi-bladed thingamabob: "It's a...