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Google News in Hindi

Posted by Vinodh Kumar R, Software Engineer Millions of Hindi speakers across India and the rest of the world have a reason to cheer: Google News is now available in <a href="http://news.google.com/news?ned=hi_in">Hindi</a>. <a href="http://news.google.com/">Google News</a> gathers news stories from the various Hindi news sources on the web and presents a ranked one-page summary with all the links to your favourite news sources in the various sections. One of the interesting challenges we faced in this edition was the fact that not all our Hindi news sources are in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8">UTF-8 format</a>. Though we strongly back and urge the adoption of the <a href="http://www.unicode.org/">Unicode</a>-based UTF-8 standard by all Indian language websites, we didn't want to deprive our readers from reaching content on some of their favourite news sources which are not yet there. So we internally translate this information to the UTF-8 standard and do all the processing necessary to provide links to these sites. We hope that this edition will enable the huge Hindi-speaking Internet population to easily reach all of your favourite news content across the web, and also help news publishers to connect to their audience better. We at the <a href="http://www.google.co.in/jobs/sw-bangalore.html">Google Bangalore</a> office are pleased to launch our first Indian language edition of Google News -- and we will certainly be following up with more Indian languages in the future. On a personal note, this launch also marks the completion of a fun-filled and exciting first year for me at Google. And now I'm off to tell my beloved family members and friends all the great news --or should I say Google News?

Google News in Hindi

Posted by Vinodh Kumar R, Software Engineer Millions of Hindi speakers across India and the rest of the world have a reason to cheer: Google...

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Taking steps to further improve our privacy practices

Posted by Peter Fleischer, Privacy Counsel-Europe, and Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP addresses and cookie details. Previously, we kept this data for as long as it was useful. Today we're pleased to report a change in our privacy policy: Unless we're legally required to retain log data for longer, we will anonymize our server logs after a limited period of time. When we implement this policy change in the coming months, we will continue to keep server log data (so that we can improve Google's services and protect them from security and other abuses)—but will make this data much more anonymous, so that it can no longer be identified with individual users, after 18-24 months. Just as we continuously work to improve our products, we also work toward having the best privacy practices for our users. This includes designing privacy protections into our products (like Google Talk's “<a href="http://www.google.com/talk/chathistory.html#offrecord">off the record</a>” feature or Google Desktop’s <a href="http://desktop.google.com/gettingstarted.html#stop" title="“pause” and “lock search”">“pause” and “lock search”</a> controls). This also means providing clear, easy to understand <a href="http://www.google.com/privacy.html">privacy policies</a> that help you make informed decisions about using our services. After talking with leading privacy stakeholders in Europe and the U.S., we're pleased to be taking this important step toward protecting your privacy. By anonymizing our server logs after 18-24 months, we think we’re striking the right balance between two goals: continuing to improve Google’s services for you, while providing more transparency and certainty about our retention practices. In the future, it's possible that data retention laws will obligate us to retain logs for longer periods. Of course, you can always choose to have us retain this data for more personalized services like <a href="http://www.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=1593">Search History</a>. But that's up to you. Our engineers are already busy working out the technical details, and we hope to implement this new data policy over the coming months (and within a year's time). We’ll communicate more as we work out these details, but for now, we wanted you to know that we’re working on this additional step to strengthen your privacy. If you want to know more, read the <a href="http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/services.google.com/en/us/blog_resources/google_log_retention_policy_faq.pdf">log retention FAQ</a> (PDF). Update (April 2008:) After the explanation above concerning our decision to anonymize our server logs after 18-24 months, we subsequently decided on 18 months, which we explain <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-long-should-google-remember.html">here</a>. <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-long-should-google-remember.html" target="_blank"></a>

Taking steps to further improve our privacy practices

Posted by Peter Fleischer, Privacy Counsel-Europe, and Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel When you search on Google, we collect information...

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Talk on your Personalized Homepage

Posted by Rhett Robinson, Software Engineer We created the Personalized Homepage to help you gather all the things you care about on Google and across the web in one place. And since one of the things we all care about is communicating with friends, today we're excited to unveil a new version of Google Talk for your Personalized Homepage. The Google Talk Gadget lets you see your contacts and chat with your friends right on your homepage, and you don't have to download anything to start chatting. We've also added a few new features to make your chats a bit more colorful, like the ability to view <a title="YouTube videos" href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube videos</a> and <a title="Picasa Web Albums" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/">Picasa Web Albums</a> photos in your chats. And just like many other gadgets, you can also add the Google Talk Gadget to your own webpage or blog. To see the Google Talk Gadget in action on the Google Personalized Homepage, check out this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPTP3rXKHvc">short video</a>. You can also read more about it on the <a href="http://googletalk.blogspot.com/">Google Talk Blog</a>. Then go ahead and <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/add?moduleurl=googletalk.xml&source=gtgb">add it to your homepage</a>.

Talk on your Personalized Homepage

Posted by Rhett Robinson, Software Engineer We created the Personalized Homepage to help you gather all the things you care about on Google ...

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Google Code Jam Latin America 2007

Posted by Berthier Ribeiro Neto, Engineering Site Director, Google Brazil On March 1, we celebrated the Latin American coding community by hosting the first-ever <a href="http://www.google.com/codejamlatinamerica/">Google Code Jam Latin America</a> competition. Registrations definitely exceeded expectations: more than 5,000 eager programmers from around the continent signed up. The Code Jam consists of two online rounds, in which participants compete to solve three coding problems more quickly and accurately than their competitors. Then we invited the top 50, who came from across the region (and included one woman!), to compete in the onsite finals at our engineering office in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Belo+Horizonte,+Brazil&ie=UTF8&z=13&om=1&iwloc=addr">Belo Horizonte</a>. This year's <a href="http://www.google.com/codejamlatinamerica/previous.html">grand prize went to Fábio Dias Moreira</a>, a student at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. The winner of the 2004 Global Code Jam, Sergio Sancho of Buenos Aires, took second place. Here's a photo of me with Fábio just after he'd won. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh81i_BQ0G4_zRnTYeo7gdmO6e9ty0vgXYQnQCDRLMIM_xXRhGNjU5nY65_4qSweAcPcpVn5DEwDgh4lObbE3D625Uwbw8eEuov0ACJg8H6tlDSiVUKSmoIvVrmnlk3TJVs5agXI_4YWv5e/s1600-h/LatAm_2007_codejam_winner+%282%29.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041484531498801138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh81i_BQ0G4_zRnTYeo7gdmO6e9ty0vgXYQnQCDRLMIM_xXRhGNjU5nY65_4qSweAcPcpVn5DEwDgh4lObbE3D625Uwbw8eEuov0ACJg8H6tlDSiVUKSmoIvVrmnlk3TJVs5agXI_4YWv5e/s320/LatAm_2007_codejam_winner+%282%29.JPG" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a> This Code Jam also featured Google engineering presentations and information about our R&D activities in Latin America. We're delighted that so many of the finalists expressed their interest in joining Google. If you're interested yourself, visit <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=about.html&about=locations">our global jobs page</a>.

Google Code Jam Latin America 2007

Posted by Berthier Ribeiro Neto, Engineering Site Director, Google Brazil On March 1, we celebrated the Latin American coding community by h...

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World Cup action is upon us

Posted by Sadeesh Kumar Duraisamy, Software Engineer If you're not into cricket, read no further. But if you are, you must know that everyone has an opinion on cricket and each point of view is unique. You sometimes choose to share your views with friends and family over a ‘dinner and watching the cricket match’ get-together ritual. Your uncle often interjects with his usual support for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Warne">Shane Warne</a>'s superb bowling, even though Shane is now retired and not playing for Australia in this year’s <a href="http://cricketworldcup.indya.com/">World Cup</a>. Whatever your favourite mode of cricket expression might be, the <a href="http://www.google.co.in/cricket">Google cricket campaign in India</a> allows you to join in the world cup excitement in more ways than one. Howzzat? Talk cricket on Orkut Cricket discussions that started in the elevator can spill over to the <a href="http://www.orkut.com/">Orkut</a> network. Especially this season, in association with us, cricket expert and former Indian cricket captain <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krish_Srikkanth">Krish Srikkanth</a> has created <a href="http://www.orkut.com/worldcupwithkrish">his own community on Orkut</a> to interact with cricket lovers, debate the latest happenings and just share cricket views. Express yourself on a blog Write your own views about cricket on <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Blogger</a>, and then publish and share them with the world online. If you would rather read about cricket than write, Krish has also created <a href="http://www.worldcupwithkrish.blogspot.com/">his own blog</a> on this year's World Cup action. Get to know him and his take on the games and his memories of his 1983 victory at close quarters. And if you've taken a fancy to blogging, submit your own blog this World Cup season to our <a href="http://www.google.co.in/cricket/contest.html">cricket blogging contest for Indian audiences</a>. Get cricket scores & news If work or school are getting in the way of your cricket enjoyment, keep up to date with match scores and World Cup cricket news by personalizing your Google homepage with the latest <a href="http://www.google.co.in/ig/add?moduleurl=http%3A//www.google.co.in/cricket/igoogle/news.xml">cricket gadgets</a>. If you prefer, you can also get cricket scores, exciting images and cricket videos straight to your desktop with Google <a href="http://desktop.google.co.in/plugins/c/sidebar/sports.html?hl=en-gb">desktop cricket gadgets.</a> So if you're a cricket aficionado, join the World Cup fun with Google. And if you're not? More for the rest of us to enjoy!

World Cup action is upon us

Posted by Sadeesh Kumar Duraisamy, Software Engineer If you're not into cricket, read no further. But if you are, you must know that eve...

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Places you never thought you would visit

Posted by James Leape, Director General, WWF International Not long ago, after tending to official meetings in Yaounde, Cameroon, I had an opportunity to drive seven hours southwest of the capital to one of WWF’s project sites<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj-lG7JSgWfkbCeIKlcL7sqWSYoQBx5KHAsydfbLNFGctJCPy3wwk_HYCGBazVLMH2jpNCHnrpAHoluY4D5R3ZfIGKtqfPPL85MZ-PwlAuAF5vlx04RXJ_RQ7DD0tW9Tae4iu6iUX1Zpg/s1600-h/WWF+blog+image.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040115081626988098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj-lG7JSgWfkbCeIKlcL7sqWSYoQBx5KHAsydfbLNFGctJCPy3wwk_HYCGBazVLMH2jpNCHnrpAHoluY4D5R3ZfIGKtqfPPL85MZ-PwlAuAF5vlx04RXJ_RQ7DD0tW9Tae4iu6iUX1Zpg/s320/WWF+blog+image.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a>—the Campo-Ma'an National Park—which you can now visit on <a title="Google Earth" href="http://earth.google.com/">Google Earth</a>. Created in 2000, the Campo-Ma’an park is a nature lover’s paradise with 80 species of mammals, including endangered elephants, gorillas and chimpanzees, as well as at least 302 species of birds, 122 species of reptiles, more than 80 species of amphibians, 249 species of fish, and a high level of endemic plant life. However, it is the local people who make this area so special. The communities living near the park are keen to protect their natural resources, but also desperate for economic development. WWF is working in partnership with them to promote community-based nature tourism as one solution. By opening Google Earth and selecting the new WWF layer under "Global Awareness," you too can visit this extraordinary place. Watch this and over 150 WWF projects across the world and connect with <a title="WWF’s global website" href="http://www.panda.org/">WWF’s global website</a>.Track Campo Ma’an’s progress; it will take some time, but if we succeed in this project, both the local communities and the park will benefit.

Places you never thought you would visit

Posted by James Leape, Director General, WWF International Not long ago, after tending to official meetings in Yaounde, Cameroon, I had an o...

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A bird's eye view of mountaintop destruction with Google Earth

Posted by Mary Anne Hitt, Executive Director, Appalachian Voices The first time I flew over southern West Virginia and saw <a href="http://www.ilovemountains.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mountaintop removal coal mining</a> from the air, I knew that if everyone could see what I had seen—mountain after mountain blown up and then dumped into streams in the neighboring valleys—they would think twice about where their electricity came from the next time they flipped a light switch. That's why we at <a href="http://www.appalachianvoices.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Appalachian Voices</a>, and our partner groups, created the <a href="http://www.ilovemountains.org/memorial/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">National Memorial for the Mountains</a>, using Google Earth to tell the stories of more than 470 mountains that have been lost, as the centerpiece of our website <a href="http://www.ilovemountains.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.iLoveMountains.org</a>. We never imagined that those stories would now be available to over 200 million people as part of the latest release of <a href="http://earth.google.com/featured_content.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">featured content</a> in Google Earth. Now it's your turn to fly over the region. I invite you to take a look at the mountaintop removal layer in the new featured content for <a href="http://earth.google.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Google Earth</a>. Look for "Appalachian Mountaintop Removal" under the "Global Awareness" folder of the "Layers" sidebar. You can take the site tour of a mountaintop removal operation, explore the featured mountains and affected communities marked with blue flag buttons, and use the slider bar to see high resolution images of these mountains before and after mountaintop removal. To view all the locations of the over 470 mountains that have been destroyed, please visit the full featured version of the Memorial on <a href="http://www.ilovemountains.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.iLoveMountains.org</a>. Thanks for visiting and helping us spread the word, and thanks to everyone at Google Earth who worked so hard to help us bring this important information to life.

A bird's eye view of mountaintop destruction with Google Earth

Posted by Mary Anne Hitt, Executive Director, Appalachian Voices The first time I flew over southern West Virginia and saw mountaintop re...

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