(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog ) In 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall became a striking symbol for free expression far beyond the borde...
Happy 10th birthday, Blogger
Much has changed since Blogger was released in August of 1999. Writing about Blogger's founding in his book Say Everything , Scott Rosen...
Extending Google services in Africa
At Google we seek to serve a broad base of people — not only those who can afford to access the Internet from the convenience of their workp...
Google translates Persian
Today, we added Persian (Farsi) to Google Translate . This means you can now translate any text from Persian into English and from English i...
Citizentube: Watching video change our world
As you might have noticed, there's a lot of fascinating stuff that happens on YouTube every day. For example, did you know that a nine-y...
The 2008 Founders' Letter
Posted by Sergey Brin, Co-founder & President, Technology Every year our founders take turns writing a letter that is included in our an...
India's 15th general election: tools for citizen empowerment
(Cross-posted from the Google India Blog ) At Google, we believe information is fundamentally empowering. While all of our technologies demo...
New steps to protect free expression and privacy around the world
In a world where governments all too often censor what their citizens can see and do on the Internet, Google has from the start promoted glo...
High-powered search for Arabic-speaking engineers
When I first started working at Google in 2006 I was amazed to see that the fabled 20% time really existed, and that it was up to me to dec...
Information poverty
Today is Blog Action Day , an annual event that rallies blogs around the world to post about a common cause. This year's issue up for di...
The ONE News YouTube Election Debate in New Zealand
Over the course of the long U.S. Presidential election campaign, millions of people have checked out the candidates' YouTube Channels on...
Google in Tamil
The global nature of our mission is reflected in the phrases the "world's information" and "universally accessible....
Hitting 40 languages
One of our goals is to give everyone using Google the information they want, wherever they are, in whatever language they speak, and through...
"In their own words": political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology
Posted by Arnaud Sahuguet and Ari Bezman, Product Managers In this U.S. election year, what information could be more important than the can...
Google Translate adds 10 new languages...
Posted by Jeff Chin, Product Manager ...and that's great news any way you say it. Language is one of the biggest challenges we have in m...
International development & technology: What's working and what's new
Posted by Sonal Shah, Head of Global Development Initiatives, Google.org and Bob Boorstin, Washington Director of Policy Communications Last...
Three more languages for Blogger
Posted by Tyrone Nicholas, Software Engineer Millions of people around the world already use Blogger to participate in the wider Internet c...
The year in YouTube politics
Posted by Steve Grove, Head of YouTube News and Politics Candidates caught singing on camera . Dorm-room presidential interviews . A marti...
The Davos Question
Posted by Ed Sanders, Product Marketing Manager, YouTube Europe Every year, many of the world's top leaders from politics, business and ...
Free expression and controversial content on the web
Posted by Rachel Whetstone, Director of Global Communications and Public Affairs, EMEA Our world would be a very boring place if...