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A Bay to Breakers break

Posted by Nat Criou, "We're Feeling Lucky" Team The Bay to Breakers 12k run is a hallowed (if irreverent) <a href="http://www.baytobreakers.com/history/index.html">Bay Area tradition</a> that starts at San Francisco's Embarcadero (the Bay), and ends in Golden Gate Park (sort of close to the breakers of the Pacific - ok, it's a bit of poetic license). Though serious runners compete, the streets are clogged with up to 70,000 hardy souls — <img height="300" src="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/media/btb-crowd.jpg" width="400" /> — a mix of halfway decent and annual runners, often in costume (or not; there's a band of nude runners too). Today's 94th race included more than 40 Googlers running as the "We're Feeling Lucky" team. We ran for fun and to raise money for the <a href="http://www.baytobreakers.com/benefits/llsociety.html">Leukemia and Lymphoma Society</a>. Our "Lucky" Team "donned special T-shirts emblazoned with the <a href="http://www.google.com/doodle8.html"> hurdles doodle from the 2004 Summer Olympics</a> on the front, and individual letters that collectively spell GOOOOOOOGLE on the back. Faster runners got the G-O tees, and well, the rest of us got O-O-G-L-E. <img height="300" src="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/media/btb-ogl.jpg" width="400" /> Of course, we did a little advertising. This was a good crowd to inform that as always, we're <a href="http://google.com/jobs/">hiring</a>. <img src="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/media/btb-recruiting.jpg" />

A Bay to Breakers break

Posted by Nat Criou, "We're Feeling Lucky" Team The Bay to Breakers 12k run is a hallowed (if irreverent) Bay Area tradition ...

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Q&A: the world tour

Posted by Jonathan Betz, Q&A Tech Lead When we launched Google Q&A, <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/just-facts-fast.html">we told you</a> it was just the beginning. Today marks the start of the Google Q&A world tour -- we're kicking off with the UK (<a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=prime+minister+of+the+ united+kingdom">who's the prime minister</a> again?), Ireland (<a href="http://www.google.ie/search?q=what+is+the+population+of+dublin">what's the population of Dublin?</a>), Canada (<a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=Canada+population">how many people live there?</a>), Australia (<a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Australia+capital">what's the capital?</a>), and New Zealand (<a href="http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=new+zealand+area">how big is it, </a> anyway?). So now I can't say it's still just the beginning, but it's still very early. We're putting together a lot of new information like this to help you get the quickest possible answers to all your questions, so keep checking back for more. (updated with a new link)

Q&A: the world tour

Posted by Jonathan Betz, Q&A Tech Lead When we launched Google Q&A, we told you it was just the beginning. Today marks the start of...

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Mini goes Euro

Mini goes Euro

Posted by Rajen Sheth, Google Mini Product Manager Turns out that businesses in London, Madrid and Dusseldorf have the same headaches as tho...

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Library access

Posted by Alex Verstak, Software Engineer As a graduate student at Virginia Tech, I spent many an hour reading volumes of Machine Learning Journal on the fourth floor of Newman Library. Libraries are known for their vast print collections, but that's not the end of the story. I often found interesting citations on the web and wished I could read the articles right then on my computer screen, saving a trip to the library. My wish is now becoming a reality: most academic libraries these days subscribe to electronic versions of journals that authorized patrons can read on their own computers. And today we're launching a feature in <a href="http://scholar.google.com/">Google Scholar</a> that lets people read their academic library's subscriptions directly from their Google Scholar search results. Students at more than 100 participating universities will see links to such library resources as electronic delivery, print catalogs, and interlibrary loan. We are deeply grateful to libraries and library software vendors who worked with us to define and implement library access in Google Scholar. Thirty organizations have participated in the pilot project that led to this launch, and many more have offered their help. We hope that library access in Google Scholar will help researchers like myself discover relevant information so they can build on the work of others and 'stand on the shoulders of giants.'

Library access

Posted by Alex Verstak, Software Engineer As a graduate student at Virginia Tech, I spent many an hour reading volumes of Machine Learning J...

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One more way to access Local UK

One more way to access Local UK

Posted by Abhijit Kalamkar, Software Engineer We were on a roll after we launched Google Local UK last month, and went on to build a mobile...

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They are among us

Posted by Biz Stone, Blogger Team There's no cause for alarm, but we wish to note that millions of people walking around *right now* are carrying little blogging devices. That's what we on the Blogger team call them, anyway. Others might refer to them as "mobile phones." It's all semantics. The point is, <a href="http://go.blogger.com/">we've launched Blogger Mobile</a>. It's nothing fancy, really. All you need to do to use it is send an email or MMS from your phone to go@blogger.com - and that's it. We automatically create your blog, and whatever text or photos (or both) you send in the message becomes your post. Continue posting by sending more messages to go@blogger.com and congratulations: you are a blogger. There's also this part we call "claiming your blog." That means you visit <a href="http://go.blogger.com/">go.blogger.com</a> and enter the token we send to your phone. When you sign in with this token, you get full Blogger access to all of your various settings, plus the ability to switch your posts to an existing blog if you already have one. You may now use a mobile device to create and update your blog while you're <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1131">on-the-go</a>. See? Little blogging appliances — they are among us.

They are among us

Posted by Biz Stone, Blogger Team There's no cause for alarm, but we wish to note that millions of people walking around *right now* are...

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Switch!

Switch!

Posted by Eric Case, Blogger team To make the Google Blog a bit easier to manage behind the scenes, we're now publishing it to its new h...

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