Adding a few sprinkles

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Jessica Ewing, Product Manager</span><br /><br />We launched our first version of the Google personalized homepage in May. It started as a project on <a href="http://labs.google.com/">Google Labs</a> in response to numerous requests from people who wanted to add at-a-glance info by the Google search box. Today we're thrilled to "graduate" from Labs and add a <a href="http://www.google.com/ig">Personalized Home</a> link on the Google homepage. Though we realize that many love the vanilla Google, there are those who might want to add a few sprinkles.

Adding a few sprinkles

Posted by Jessica Ewing, Product Manager We launched our first version of the Google personalized homepage in May. It started as a project...

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Find out what's happening with Blog Search

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Jason Goldman, Blog Search Team</span><br /><br />Every day millions of bloggers use the web to express themselves - sometimes to just a few friends, sometimes to a worldwide audience. We wanted to create a better way to allow people to find out what's being written in blogs, as it's being created.<br /><br />Today we are launching <a href="http://www.google.com/blogsearch">Blog Search</a> - the easiest way to search for blog content. Blog Search includes content from blogs all over the web (in other words, not just from our own service, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Blogger</a>). And we're continuously adding new content, very nearly in real time. That way you can find commentary on <a href="http://www.google.com/blogsearch?q=roberts+confirmation">breaking news</a> as it's being created by millions of individuals. Or get the latest take on the <a href="http://www.google.com/blogsearch?q=Supernatural+WB">premiere of a new TV show</a>.<br /><br />No matter what you care about, there is likely someone writing a blog post on it right now. With Blog Search you can find out what folks are saying about what's interesting to you. For example, I wonder <a href="http://www.google.com/blogsearch?scoring=d&q=%22blog+search%22">what people are saying</a> about Blog Search.

Find out what's happening with Blog Search

Posted by Jason Goldman, Blog Search Team Every day millions of bloggers use the web to express themselves - sometimes to just a few friends...

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Judge clears way for Dr. Lee

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Nicole Wong, Associate General Counsel</span><br /><br />A Washington state judge ruled today that Dr. Kai-Fu Lee can immediately begin working for Google. (There's a profile of Dr. Lee in <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/13/BUGL2EMMGJ1.DTL&hw=kai+fu+lee&sn=001&sc=1000">today's San Francisco Chronicle</a>.) We're thrilled, and he's excited to get right to work on several big things, including recruiting, building our Chinese R&D center, and related government relations.<br /><br />You may remember that in July, right after <a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/rd_china.html">we hired Dr. Lee to build and head our new China R&D center</a>, Microsoft sued both of us. They argued that Dr. Lee was going to do work at Google that was competitive with what he had been doing at Microsoft - which they said would violate the one-year non-compete agreement that Microsoft requires employees to sign. (They sued even before knowing what Dr. Lee was going to be doing here. Hmmm...) At first, the judge in the case decided temporarily to limit what work Dr. Lee could do at Google until he learned more about the dispute.<br /><br />But after listening to evidence at a two-day hearing last week and reviewing various documents and court briefs, the judge decided today in his ruling on Microsoft's request for a preliminary injunction to allow Dr. Lee to work on a much broader range of things for Google. There are some restrictions, but the ruling basically allows Dr. Lee to do what we've wanted him to be able to do. The judge said that Microsoft had "not sufficiently shown that it has a clear legal or equitable right to enjoin Dr. Lee, pending trial, from Establishing and Staffing a Google Development Facility Center." A trial is still set for January to get a final decision.<br /><br />And we filed suit against Microsoft in California to stop them from enforcing a Washington state non-compete against an employee who wants to work for us in California and China. The first court hearing on that will be Oct. 14.<br /><br />A lot of legal process, but the bottom line is Dr. Lee is going to get busy. Chinese speakers note: Dr. Lee has <a href="http://www.kaifulee.com/">a website</a>, and there's also a <a href="http://www.kaifuleegoogle.com/">blog about this case</a>. <a href="http://www.kaifuleegoogle.com/"><br /></a>

Judge clears way for Dr. Lee

Posted by Nicole Wong, Associate General Counsel A Washington state judge ruled today that Dr. Kai-Fu Lee can immediately begin working for ...

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Two new Katrina search tools

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Bret Taylor, Product Manager</span><br /><br />We've launched <a href="http://www.google.com/katrina.html">two new search features</a> designed specifically for finding information about the hurricane's aftermath more quickly. With the ongoing help of the American Red Cross, Microsoft, Yahoo and many other organizations, we've indexed a large number of public Katrina databases, including <a href="http://www.katrinasafe.com/">KatrinaSafe.com</a>.<br /><br />The new Katrina People Search helps people to search across all of these databases at once to find information on friends or family who may have been affected by the hurricane.<br /><br />We also built a special search index that only returns results from Katrina-related web pages, so you can search on any keyword and know all the results will be relevant.

Two new Katrina search tools

Posted by Bret Taylor, Product Manager We've launched two new search features designed specifically for finding information about the h...

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We get letters (2)

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Google mailbag is filled with stories like this one, demonstrating the reach of Google across countries and between people. Occasionally we'll feature such a story here. If you have a noteworthy tale about how you've used Google, <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/success.html">write to us</a>. </span><br /><br />Howard and Melissa of Boca Raton, Florida, were the happy new parents of twins, a boy and a girl named Andrew and Carly. Though they were preemies born in mid-July, both babies were safely home two weeks later. "Then suddenly," Howard wrote to us, "Andrew had to be admitted to the ER. We thought it was for something little - but the doctors discovered something major." The doctors observed that his hemoglobin levels had dropped substantially - from 14 to 7 - since he was born. (Carly was not tested.)<br /><br />"Since hemoglobin is what takes oxygen to the brain," continues Howard, "the doctors wanted to do an emergency blood transfusion - and time was of the essence." But to the dismay of the parents, the doctors said the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_blood">cord blood</a> they had conscientiously saved would not help: They would need to use a stranger's blood, since there was no time to process theirs.<br /><br />"We were shaken and quite upset," Howard recalls. "Armed with only a cell phone - and a very low battery - I was able to Google [<span style="font-weight: bold;">hemoglobin "premature infant"</span>] and found a <a href="http://www.aafp.org/afp/980515ap/tracht.html">medical journal article</a> claiming that it's perfectly normal for preemies to have their hemoglobin levels drop to 7 between the first and third months of life, and apparently this is especially true with twins." He showed the mobile screen citing this fact to the neonatalogists, who went off to research the issue for a couple of hours. They returned, says Howard, "and sheepishly admitted that our son was indeed fine - no treatment was necessary."<br /><br />Howard concludes, "Google literally saved our newborn son from having to endure an extremely dangerous, and totally unnecessary, blood transfusion. Melissa and I <span style="font-weight: bold;">really</span> appreciated your help with this one." And as you see, Andrew and Carly are both in good form now:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/Sprite_Sized_twins-723961.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/Sprite_Sized_twins-720450.JPG" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We can only add that we're thrilled to have played a role in the family's health and well-being.

We get letters (2)

Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team The Google mailbag is filled with stories like this one, demonstrating the reach of Google across c...

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Extras for your Mac Gmail Notifier

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Greg Miller, Software Engineer </span><br /><br />As some <a href="http://www.wootest.net/gmailgrowl/">clever users</a> have already discovered, the <a href="http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/index.html">Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X</a> we launched last week can do a little bit more than meets the eye. A couple interesting features:<br /><br />1. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fetch mail for only one Gmail Label</span><br />This is very useful if you only want to be "notified" about certain emails. For example, to only fetch mail with the label "ImportantStuff", run the following command from the Terminal:<br /><br />defaults write com.google.GmailNotifier Label -string "ImportantStuff"<br /><br />2. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Extend the Notifier using plugins</span><br />The Gmail Notifier supports plugins written in AppleScript, or full-blown Cocoa Bundles in Objective-C. Details about the Objective-C plugin API can be found inside the Gmail Notifier application bundle in the required header file, GGPluginProtocol.h (control+click Gmail Notifier.app -> Show Package Contents -> Contents -> Headers).<br /><br />AppleScript plugins are written by simply implementing a handler like:<br /><br />on NewMessagesReceived(messages, fullCount)<br />-- Your code goes here...<br />end NewMessagesReceived<br /><br />To install, simply copy the script (plugin) to Library/Application Support/Gmail Notifier (create the directory if it doesn't exist), and restart the Gmail Notifier. An example of a great plugin for the Gmail Notifier for MacOS X is the <a href="http://www.wootest.net/gmailgrowl/">Gmail+Growl plugin</a>, which sends <a href="http://www.growl.info/">Growl</a> notifications when new mail arrives.<br /><br />Our thanks to those of you who have already written cool plugins. We look forward to many more!

Extras for your Mac Gmail Notifier

Posted by Greg Miller, Software Engineer As some clever users have already discovered, the Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X we launched last we...

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Cerf's up at Google!

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Vint Cerf</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/vintcerf.html">The news is out</a> that I will join Google on October 3 as Chief Internet Evangelist (I tried for Archduke, but it didn’t work). What I really like about Eric, Larry, Sergey and the whole Google family is its collective and eminent practicality and seemingly boundless creativity. In fact, my recent interactions with many of Google's senior staff have simply underscored my admiration for the extraordinary talent at Google that has been assembled in a short amount of time. Google has come so far since the early days!<br /><br />Among other things, I am committed to the vision of Google’s criticality to the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people. The public Internet and the growing cadre of corporate virtual private networks are already enablers of Google applications. As information pours into the Internet from all sides, Google tools will become, if they are not already, indispensable. <br /><br />I appreciate deeply the opportunity to become part of the Google family and to do what I can to contribute to its future. <br /><br />See you on the ‘Net!

Cerf's up at Google!

Posted by Vint Cerf The news is out that I will join Google on October 3 as Chief Internet Evangelist (I tried for Archduke, but it didn’t ...

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