This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label "This week in search&qu...
AstraZeneca Settles
Here is the latest in the parade of legal settlements of cases of alleged wrong-doing by health care organizations. As reported by Duff Wil...
A ghooooulish Googleween
When it comes to holidays, Halloween is one of our favorites. You get candy corn, creepy crawlies, ghosts and goblins, blustery weather and ...
An Alliance on Mental Illness or for Pharmaceutical Companies?
A recent article by Gardner Harris in the New York Times focused on the financial links among health care corporations and not-for-profit d...
Three contest winners making their way to television
(Cross-posted from the Google TV Ads Blog ) Small businesses often think that television advertising is too expensive and cumbersome for the...
Making search more musical
Every day we get millions of search queries about music. You want to know more about your favorite artists, find that new album or iconic so...
Failing to Report Adverse Effects of Treatments
We have frequently advocated the evidence-based medicine (EBM) approach to improve the care of individual patients, and to improve health ca...
Growing the next generation of computer scientists and business leaders
(Cross-posted on the Google Student Blog ) We had a busy summer here at Google interacting with students through a wide variety of scholarsh...
Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0
(Cross-posted with the Google Mobile Blog ) Since 2005, millions of people have relied on Google Maps for mobile to get directions on the g...
Similar Images graduates from Google Labs
Today, we're happy to announce that Similar Images is graduating from Google Labs and becoming a permanent feature in Google Images. You...
Introducing the Google Earth heroes project
Hundreds of millions of people use Google Earth every day to discover, explore and learn more about the world around them. We're especi...
Sesame Street comes to Google: Improving our education system at the Breakthrough Learning forum
If you could reinvent the American education system, what would you do? It's a question we think about a lot here at Google. This week w...
Use Google Voice with your existing number
Up until now, if you wanted to use Google Voice , you needed to choose a new number (a "Google number"). Taking calls through your...
Energy Secretary Chu visits Googleplex
Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu joined us at the Google campus today to talk about how the U.S. can build a prosperous economy powered ...
Contextual search within Wikipedia
We are excited to announce that we've built a Custom Search Wikipedia skin that makes it easier for you to complete your research on Wi...
Liberate your Google Docs with Convert, Zip and Download
This past September, you may have heard about the launch of our Data Liberation site, a central place on the web detailing how you can easi...
Introducing Google Social Search: I finally found my friend's New York blog!
Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content i...
Who Should Sponsor Comparative Effectiveness Research?
We have tried to argue why comparative effectiveness research is a good idea. To cut and paste what I wrote in a previous post , Physicians ...
Clinic's medical files vanish
At " Data Malpractice on T-Mobile Sidekick: But Don't Worry, Your Medical Data is Safe ", on Oct. 16 I wrote: One of the prom...