UNCF/Google Scholarship

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Aneto Okonkwo, Associate Product Manager</span><br /><br />When I <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/uncf-google-scholarship-program.html" title="learned in October">learned in October</a> that Google had established a new <a href="http://www.uncf.org/scholarships/scholarDetailSGA.asp?id=29" title="scholarship program ">scholarship program</a> with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), I was excited. The number of African-Americans in the field of engineering is critically low: according to the National Science Foundation, as recently as 2003, African-Americans accounted for <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/figh-1.htm">less than four percent</a> of the total scientific and engineering workforce. When I was an undergrad, I applied for scholarships similar to the UNCF/Google Scholarship Program; those few opportunities were instrumental in my career development.<br /><br />So it's especially meaningful that I've been able to participate in the program's review process. We will have eight U.S. undergraduate students who will each receive a $5,000 scholarship toward their 2006-2007 academic year tuition. The selected scholars will also be invited on a trip to our Mountain View headquarters this spring. While at the Googleplex they'll have the opportunity to meet each other and attend technical talks and professional development workshops, not to mention explore the San Francisco Bay area. We hope this program will encourage students to excel in their studies in years to come, inspire them to become role models and leaders, and attract more African-American students to the fields of science and technology. All congratulations to this year's winners:<br /><p></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""> Olaniyi Bajulaiye, Benedict College</li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""> Desmond Baldwin, Morehouse College </li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""> Keitha Griffin, Alabama A&M University </li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""> Jennifer Hairston, Wilberforce University </li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""> Keith Morren, Florida Memorial University </li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""> Derrick Nnaji, Prairie View A&M University </li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""> Lawrence Secrease, Florida A&M University </li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""> Shantavious Williams, Alabama A&M University </li></ul>

UNCF/Google Scholarship

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Real-time quotes for free

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group Product Manager</span><br /><br />At Google, we get excited about making all kinds of information accessible to everyone. The more up-to-date the information, the more valuable it is. This is particularly true in the world of finance; information, and timing of that information, is money. Today, real-time quotes are not freely and easily available on the web. Some websites offer one real-time quote at a time, but typically only after you have enrolled in a service and/or signed a complicated legal agreement. Other sites approach the problem differently and show you streaming <span style="font-weight: bold;">delayed</span> data, but that doesn't solve the problem either -- it masks it. What's really important is getting free, easy and fast access to real-time quotes so you know how the market or your company is doing now, not as of twenty minutes ago.<br /><br />As a result, we've worked with the <a href="http://sec.gov/">SEC</a>, the <a href="http://www.nyse.com/">New York Stock Exchange</a> (NYSE) and our D.C. trade association, <a href="http://www.netcoalition.com/">NetCoalition</a>, to find a way to bring stock data to Google users in a way that benefits users and is practical for all parties. <a href="http://www.netcoalition.com/vertical/Sites/%7BF1D948CC-5797-482E-B502-743C873E2848%7D/uploads/%7B2DE79A1C-7CFE-4DD8-BE12-EAEF3CE234C6%7D.PDF">We have encouraged the SEC</a> to ensure that this data can be made available to our users at fair and reasonable rates, and applaud their <a href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/economy/feeds/ap/2007/01/03/ap3296574.html">recent efforts</a> to review this issue. Today, the NYSE has moved the issue a great step forward with a <a href="http://apps.nyse.com/commdata/pub19b4.nsf/rulefilings">proposal</a> to the SEC which if approved, would allow you to see real-time, last-sale prices across all Google properties including <a href="http://finance.google.com/">Google Finance</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/finance_portfolios.xml">Personalized Google</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/mobile/">Mobile</a>, and of course, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-14,GGGL:en&q=goog">Google.com</a>. It won't matter if you're on Wall Street or Main Street -- you'll have free, easy and fast access to real-time prices from NYSE on Google.<br /><br />So stay tuned on our progress with this. We're excited that financial data as we know it is about to change. In the meantime, <a href="http://finance.google.com/finance/portfolio?action=view&pid=2">set up your portfolio</a> on Google Finance today.

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We made the list

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Adam Redlich, Lead Recruiter, Engineering</span><br /><br />I don't need a magazine to tell me I work for <a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2007/snapshots/1.html">the best company</a> around. They didn't stop by the Santa Monica office where I work, or they would have had a much easier time figuring it out. I could have told them all about working here over a gourmet lunch, in December, on our rooftop deck overlooking the Pacific Ocean - we're just 6 blocks away!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN08WHBsMG81TvncD_hBDItKvVVWXT1jOp9kdcCy86wfZd3mnswtHLhGoSfEeLPnIDBIyCwyIl6yUWbG6XljRN7t7Re0lp6ITBhgrYxXA_BDXMerDgGYad4g3QRNyuQqbqnK_Dxuv1vSwB/s1600-h/SMO_sundeck.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018189437331393074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN08WHBsMG81TvncD_hBDItKvVVWXT1jOp9kdcCy86wfZd3mnswtHLhGoSfEeLPnIDBIyCwyIl6yUWbG6XljRN7t7Re0lp6ITBhgrYxXA_BDXMerDgGYad4g3QRNyuQqbqnK_Dxuv1vSwB/s320/SMO_sundeck.JPG" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a><br /><br />The Santa Monica office is a small but growing enclave with +200 Googlers. We're a close-knit bunch, enjoying company-sponsored happy hours every week at different Santa Monica hotspots plus several other non-work functions. What's great about working in Santa Monica is the opportunity to really make a big splash in the "sea of Google" with lots of visibility at all levels of the company. We work on projects ranging from customer-facing ad systems to Picasa to Google Video to the Google Search Appliance, and more.<br /><br />OK, all for now. Back to the salt mines. <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?loc_id=1118&dep_id=1173">Want to join me?</a>

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Posted by Adam Redlich, Lead Recruiter, Engineering I don't need a magazine to tell me I work for the best company around. They didn...

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Super models wanted

<span class="byline-author">Posted by John Hanke, Director, Google Earth & Maps</span><br /><br />That’s right, Google is looking for the hottest models on the planet. They can come from any city in the world, and they can be any height, but they must be interesting to look at, well-made and lightweight.<br /><br />Of course, by "lightweight" we mean that the file size should be reasonably small.<br /><br />If you’re confused, you may not have heard about the recent updates of Google Earth, Google SketchUp, and the 3D Warehouse. With these launches, all the pieces are now in place for contributors to the 3D Warehouse to see their creations show up in Google Earth for all the world to see.<br /><br />Here’s how it works:<br />1. Download <a href="http://sketchup.google.com">Google SketchUp</a>. Create a 3D model of something in your neighborhood, city or state -- your house, your business, your favorite restaurant, or the statue of Buckminster Fuller in the center of town. Be sure to geo-locate your model in Google Earth.<br /><br />2. Upload your model to the <a href="http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/">3D Warehouse</a>. Don’t forget to put your name on it (if it shows up in Google Earth, you’ll want the credit).<br /><br />3. Download the most recent version of <a href="http://earth.google.com">Google Earth</a> (a necessary step, as older versions don’t support super models). Launch Google Earth, go to the 3D Buildings folder under the Layers tab in the lefthand sidebar, and activate the “Best of 3D Warehouse.” Then fly to the location of the model you submitted. It might be there!<br /><br />If you don’t find it, keep checking -- sometimes it takes several weeks for models to appear in Google Earth. In the meantime, visit “Best of 3D Warehouse” to see some that have made the cut. (<a href="http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57057&hl=en">Here are the guidelines for building "super" models</a>.) Fly to Denver CO, Boulder CO, New York, NY and Calgary, Canada to start. Then investigate other cities to see if they contain 3D buildings yet.<br /><br />In short, 3D modelers, Google Earth is your palette; Google SketchUp is your brush. Show the world what you've got!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Update</span>:</span> Added a short list of cities already featuring "best of" models.

Super models wanted

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A field trip to Google

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Jenna Warman</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">[We often host visitors in Google offices. Just recently, as part of a Chamber of Commerce program, a group of Seattle-area high school students visited our Kirkland office. The point of such visits is to inspire teens to think about working in technology some day. Here's a firsthand report from Jenna Warman, a student at Lake Washington High School.</span> - Editor.] </span><br /><br />I had no idea there was a <a href="http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=720+4th+Avenue+98033&ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=47.678449,-122.19595&spn=0.071196,0.144882&om=1&iwloc=addr">Google campus located in Kirkland</a>, but recently 35 of us filed off the bus and into the large brown building. As the large metal doors slid open, we all fell out of the elevator and took in our very first sights of Google. <br /><br />What I liked most about the Google building were the different Google <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/holidaylogos.html">Doodles</a> all along the walls and the lava lamps in the reception area that were Google colors. Then we met some of the Google workers, who showed us their current projects they had been working on, such as Google Maps and Google Talk. I had never known about Google Talk or Gmail until then. After that they each grabbed a small group of kids and led us up and down the hallways showing us the different offices and mini kitchens. My tour guide explained that at Google the employees do not just sit in their offices all day -- they walk around and visit each other. The environment and atmosphere seemed warm, welcoming and friendly.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTkMxw4R4HyN2p_xBeBXJZNfd4Z-Gvxw6UAGOkbNKr4jQEc0WI1jha1MHM7KY-fSrK9xLEUj6h8aLar8a2Q8c8HVkcBH-3yVPwWTAy50QJzLhOUhDcZ6_kj1qZveN01Z-Sq1-qXHj4Tmbl/s1600-h/Kirkland_HS_google+tour+(2).JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016230953367873234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTkMxw4R4HyN2p_xBeBXJZNfd4Z-Gvxw6UAGOkbNKr4jQEc0WI1jha1MHM7KY-fSrK9xLEUj6h8aLar8a2Q8c8HVkcBH-3yVPwWTAy50QJzLhOUhDcZ6_kj1qZveN01Z-Sq1-qXHj4Tmbl/s320/Kirkland_HS_google+tour+(2).JPG" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a><br /><br />When the tours were finished we all piled into the reception area again and we all squished together to take a group photo so we could always remember our wonderful visit to Google. But wait, it did not end there -- we got back on the bus and were driven to Carillon Point where we would be eating lunch with many different people with many different and interesting jobs. We had the privilege to listen to <a href="http://www.museumofflight.org/Display.asp?Page=050921DunbarAnnouncement">Dr. Bonnie Dunbar</a> talk about her exhilarating adventures up into outer space and the Museum of Flight. Listening to this amazing and courageous woman explain about the different experiences she had in space, about the telescope they were working on the space station, it kind of made me want to become an astronaut.<br /><br />After that, it was time to go back to school and brag about what an amazing opportunity we'd gotten, and all of the wonderful things we saw and learned about at the Google campus. The last thing that I have to say is thank you to all of the people that gave me this wonderful opportunity. I hope other young students will be able to experience something like this during their high school career.

A field trip to Google

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Kirkland calling

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Narayanan Shivakumar, Director, Seattle-Kirkland R&D Center</span><br /><br />When we set up an R&D shop in downtown <a href="http://maps.google.com/?q=720+4th+Avenue,+Kirkland,+WA+%28Google+Kirkland%29">Kirkland, Washington</a> two years ago, we hoped to attract the best talent in the Pacific Northwest -- folks who are serious about their coffee and don't especially want to move to Silicon Valley. Since then we've attracted many engineers who were tickled silly about working on large clusters of several thousands of machines, not to mention shipping web and client-based consumer apps used by millions of people. In the last two years, our Kirkland engineering team has conceived and launched a dozen products ranging from core search product improvements to Ads Optimization, Sitemaps and Webmaster Central, plus such consumer applications as Google Talk, Chat, Pack, Video, Music Trends, and mobile SMS. (<a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/google_wa_product_listing.pdf">Here's a summary</a> of what we've done out of the Kirkland office.)<br /><br />But it's not all work -- there's the food. Like a single day's lunch menu this week: roasted turkey breast, chili red bean patties, scalloped potatoes, roasted cranberry & Satsuma orange salad, classic clam chowder, carrot and coriander soup. You really can't operate in the Seattle area without offering good food, of course, so we offer as much good fuel -- fresh, healthy, and, whenever possible, locally-grown -- as it takes!<br /><br />So if you're an engineer, UE expert or product manager who loves coffee (not to mention the mountains and the sea) -- and you want to have a great time while you're building world-changing products, please consider our <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?loc_id=1123&dep_id=1173">Northwest outpost</a>. <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?loc_id=1123&dep_id=1173"><br /></a>

Kirkland calling

Posted by Narayanan Shivakumar, Director, Seattle-Kirkland R&D Center When we set up an R&D shop in downtown Kirkland, Washington t...

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Latin American Code Jam opens

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Engineering Site Director</span><br /><br />Programmers from Latin America and the Caribbean ready to test their coding skills against the region's best can register now for <a href="http://www.google.com/codejamlatinamerica">Google Code Jam Latin America</a>. The top 50 contestants win an all-expenses-paid trip to our Brazilian engineering office in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Belo+Horizonte,+Brazil&ie=UTF8&amp;amp;z=5&ll=-19.932041,-43.945312&spn=27.286788,29.970703&om=1&iwloc=addr">Belo Horizonte</a> to compete in the finals. Registration is open until January 23, when the first round of the competition begins -- spread the word! <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7609/900/1600/813636/CodeJam_LatAm.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7609/900/320/465501/CodeJam_LatAm.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a>

Latin American Code Jam opens

Posted by Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Engineering Site Director Programmers from Latin America and the Caribbean ready to test their coding skill...

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