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Greetings, Earthlings!

Posted by Dave Cohen, Software Engineer On October 14th and 15th, the sleepy desert town of Moab, Utah wakes up to a buzz of excitement. It's not an alien landing and it's not killer bees. It's <a href="http://www.grannygear.com/Races/Moab/index.shtml">24 Hours of Moab</a>, a day-long mountain bike race starting at noon this coming Saturday and ending at noon on Sunday. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/1600/Moab_course.2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/320/Moab_course.2.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a> And Google will be there! We're team Google Earthlings, five Googlers who love mountain biking. We're not pro riders. In fact, none of us have ever competed in a 24-hour race before, so we don't expect to win ... but we do expect to have a good time and make some noise about Google Earth and Blogger to more than 5,000 riders and spectators! Sound sweet? Head on over to our <a href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/">team blog</a> and check out our <a href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/09/riding-gap.html" target="_blank">ride reports</a>, <a href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/09/eating-dirt.html">rants</a>, and <a href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/09/irrationally-exuberant.html">musings</a>, as well as some demos of the <a title="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/10/adding-content-in-google-earth.html" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/10/adding-content-in-google-earth.html" target="_blank">really cool stuff</a> you can do with <a title="http://earth.google.com/" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://earth.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Earth</a>. Gonna be at the race? Swing by our Expo Tent where we'll have laptops running Google Earth so riders can upload their own GPS data and see their home trails in 3D. And, if we can manage to capture an internet signal way out in the middle of the desert, we'll have a couple laptops with Blogger as well, encouraging riders to post their pics, lap times, and ride reports to a team blog. Of course, it wouldn't be a Google event without fun schwag -- we'll be giving away water bottles, blinky pins (we'll be the brightest riders on the course!), T-shirts, and some SketchUp socks. After the race, we'll update the blog with pics and stories, so stay tuned, and see you at the race! P.S. This is not a fake post. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/1600/MOAB_john-hop%200.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/320/MOAB_john-hop%200.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a>

Greetings, Earthlings!

Posted by Dave Cohen, Software Engineer On October 14th and 15th, the sleepy desert town of Moab, Utah wakes up to a buzz of excitement. It...

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Inside Macs at Google

Posted by Rose Yao, Mac Product Manager As a relatively new Mac user, I've found that I can't get enough of Mac stuff. I eagerly await Apple's next announcements, and scour the web for hints of what that could be. There are a lot of people who love Macs at Google, and we're really excited to contribute to the Mac OS X platform. I know how frustrating it is to not get a regular dose of Mac news or find the Mac application you want. So check out the <a title="http://googlemac.blogspot.com/ Google Mac Blog " onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://googlemac.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">new Google Mac Blog </a>to get all the news, tips, and insider stories about Macs at Google. Another site you might want to visit is <a title="http://www.google.com/mac.html www.google.com/mac" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.google.com/mac.html" target="_blank">www.google.com/mac</a>. Created by Ryan Brown, an engineer on the Mac team, this site showcases all of the Google applications for the Mac.

Inside Macs at Google

Posted by Rose Yao, Mac Product Manager As a relatively new Mac user, I've found that I can't get enough of Mac stuff. I eagerly a...

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About that fake post

About that fake post

Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog last night, cl...

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Our security stance

Posted by Heather Adkins, Security Team Most readers of this blog are familiar with our <a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/">mission</a> to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Maintaining the trust of our users and ensuring a positive experience using our products and services is paramount to our ability to accomplish our mission. As a result, Google takes security very seriously and designs all of its services and applications to protect your privacy and data security. Behind the scenes of these efforts is the Google Security Team. We keep the bad guys out of our systems and have brought you features like <a href="http://www.google.com/support/firefox/bin/answer.py?answer=35282&query=anti-phishing&topic=&type=">the anti-phishing extension</a> in Google Toolbar and <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/putting-stop-to-spyware.html">warnings about Internet malware</a>. As part of our commitment to security, we're putting up some additional help content to let users and security researchers know how to quickly contact us on these issues. We've learned that when security is done right, it's done as a community, and this includes everybody: the people who use Google services (thank you all!), the software developers who make our applications, and the external security enthusiasts who keep us on our toes. These combined efforts go a long way toward making the Internet safer and more secure. Please visit our <a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/security.html">new security page</a> and feel free to contact us anytime at security@google.com.

Our security stance

Posted by Heather Adkins, Security Team Most readers of this blog are familiar with our mission to organize the world's information and...

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More developer love with Google Code Search

Posted by Bret Taylor, Senior Product Manager Today we launched <a href="http://www.google.com/codesearch">Google Code Search</a>, which gives programmers a single place to search publicly accessible source code. I am really excited about this launch, as it caps off a long sequence of Google product launches for developers in the past year, including <a href="http://www.google.com/apis/maps/">Google Maps API v2</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/calendar.html">Google Calendar API</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/">Google Web Toolkit</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/">Google AJAX Search API</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/">Google Checkout API</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/hosting/">project hosting on Google Code</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/base/">Google Base API</a>, and <a href="http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/">Google Gadgets for Your Page</a>. Google's developer team is focused on building tools that help developers extend and improve Google's products and improve their own applications, and we are really excited to see all the amazing things that have been created already (<a href="http://www.google.com/ig/add?moduleurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blakeschwendiman.com%2Fgh%2Ftraffic.xml">traffic map for your Google homepage</a>, anyone?). The success of the Google Maps API taught us that an API doesn't need to be complex to be powerful, and that principle has formed the basis of our API design. If you haven't seen how far cut-and-paste can get you, check out the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/samples.html">list of sample applications</a> we've published for the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/">AJAX Search API</a>. Or check out the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/calendar.html#Example">Google Calendar API examples</a>; to get a feed of your calendar entries, you just need to fetch a single URL from Google's servers. We have also launched a number of general-purpose developer and open-source tools like <a href="http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/">Google Web Toolkit</a> and <a href="http://code.google.com/hosting/">project hosting on Google Code</a>. Our view is what's good for the web is good for Google -- we want users to have the best online experience possible, and we hope these tools will help developers create compelling applications for their users. So if you haven't been to <a href="http://code.google.com/">Google Code</a> lately, check it out. We are continuously adding useful tools to our suite of developer products, and it's a great way to leverage the power of Google's infrastructure in your own projects.

More developer love with Google Code Search

Posted by Bret Taylor, Senior Product Manager Today we launched Google Code Search , which gives programmers a single place to search public...

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Got blog? Will ping.

Got blog? Will ping.

Posted by Nikhil Chandhok, Product Manager Today we're launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual b...

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The new Groups experience

Posted by Brett Lider, User Experience Designer, Google Groups Today, the Google Groups team launched a <a href="http://groups-beta.google.com/intl/en/googlegroups/overview.html">new beta version</a>, available to anyone at <a href="http://groups-beta.google.com/">groups-beta.google.com</a>. It may have been awhile since you thought of Groups as cool or sexy — if you ever did — but I couldn’t have been more excited to work on the team responsible for making the current Google Groups better. As a designer, I really relished the opportunity to make a Google product that’s been around for years more compelling and easier to use. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/1600/GROUPS3_frontpage.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/320/GROUPS3_frontpage.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a> One of the things I'm happiest with in the beta version is the new design for individual groups. It’s cleaner and simpler, and yet manages to integrate a lot more features. Group owners can now create a welcome message, upload a group logo and <a href="http://groups-beta.google.com/intl/en/googlegroups/tour3/page4.html">customize</a> your fonts and colors. You can make your group your own, in other words — something you had been telling us you really wanted. Another thing I'm particularly proud of is the <a href="http://groups-beta.google.com/intl/en/googlegroups/tour3/page3.html">Pages</a> feature, which lets you create web pages inside your group, and work on them with others. Instead of only offering rigid templates, we integrated many of the functions of <a href="http://pages.google.com/-/about.html">Google Page Creator</a> right into Groups, so you can create exactly what your group needs: an essay for school, the history your family, a web page with photos, a list of links, and so on. Some of the other improvements to Groups include: <ul><li>Using Gmail's <a href="http://groups-beta.google.com/intl/en/googlegroups/tour3/page2.html">message cards for discussions</a>, which makes them easier to follow</li><li>Adding a <a href="http://groups-beta.google.com/intl/en/googlegroups/tour3/page5.html">Files</a> section so users can share and collaborate on documents </li><li>Helping groups have a better sense of their members with the <a href="http://groups-beta.google.com/intl/en/googlegroups/tour3/page5.html">Member area</a> </li></ul>Of course, the current <a href="http://groups.google.com/">non-beta version</a> of Google Groups is still around and you can still use it (although without the cool new features). But we are going to change all of Groups to this new look soon enough — we’re even trying to (gasp!) take it out of beta reasonably quickly. So try out the new version for yourself. And let us know what else we can do to make the experience even better.

The new Groups experience

Posted by Brett Lider, User Experience Designer, Google Groups Today, the Google Groups team launched a new beta version , available to anyo...

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