Webmasters, Google Sprechen Deutsch

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Vanessa Fox</span><br /><br />We love our webmaster community, and with <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters">Webmaster Central</a>, we provide as much information and interaction about how Google crawls and indexes websites<span> as we can, in 18 languages. We also regularly provide information and tips in our <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/brand-new-german-webmaster-central.html">webmaster blog</a>. The blog has been available only in English. Until now. We're very happy to launch our first non-English webmaster blog: the <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral-de.blogspot.com/">German Webmaster-Zentrale Blog</a>. If you speak German, head there to read German versions of the English blog posts, as well as news and tips specifically for the German market. Willkommen!

Webmasters, Google Sprechen Deutsch

Posted by Vanessa Fox We love our webmaster community, and with Webmaster Central , we provide as much information and interaction about how...

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Three summers of open source

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager</span><br /><br />Everything is ready. All systems are go. We're now accepting applications for the third <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/">Google Summer of Code</a>, Google's program for introducing college students to open source software development.<br /><br />Not everyone knows it, but open source plays an enormous role at Google. Each time you use the Google search engine, you're using open source software. Google relies on the Linux kernel, GCC, python and Samba and commits code into each of those projects.<br /><br />We also work closely with the open source developer community. Googlers have released hundreds of thousands of lines of code, both as patches to existing projects and as new and wholly open source projects, such as the <a href="http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/">Google Web Toolkit</a>. We've funded <a href="http://osuosl.org/info/sponsors">great work at universities</a> and we host many thousands of active open source projects on <a href="http://code.google.com/">code.google.com</a>'s project hosting facility. Just shy of a year old, this hosting system has become one of the largest online development communities ever developed, second only to our friends at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/">SourceForge.Net</a>.<br /><br />But back to the Google Summer of Code. Last year we paid 630 students from 450 schools in 90 countries $4,500 each to work on open source software projects. These projects, selected by some 100 open source mentoring organizations from over 6,000 applications, provided students with invaluable real-world programming experience.<br /><br />Many of our former students are still actively involved with their mentoring organizations. <a href="http://www.webchick.net/">Angela Byron</a>, for example, started working with the Drupal project during Google <a href="http://code.google.com/summerofcode05.html">Summer of Code 2005</a>; she went on to become an organization administrator for the project for Google Summer of Code 2006 and now sits on the board of the newly created <a href="http://www.drupal.org/">Drupal Association</a>. Other students, such as <a href="http://steffenpingel.de/">Steffen Pingel</a>, have been voted in as committers to their projects. Steffen began working with the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/">Eclipse Mylar</a> project for Google <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2006/">Summer of Code 2006</a> and was voted in as a committer just as he was completing his project work. Still others have gone on to internships or full-time jobs with us or other companies, including IBM and NetApp, or have even started their own consulting businesses.<br /><br />This year we're happy to say that we're expanding the program to accommodate an additional 200 students and some additional open source organizations. If you're a college student who'd like to program over the summer for the good of open source, <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/guide-to-the-gsoc-web-app-for-student-applicants">we're taking applications until March 24</a>. We look forward to seeing yours!

Three summers of open source

Posted by Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager Everything is ready. All systems are go. We're now accepting applications for the th...

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Google News in Hindi

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Vinodh Kumar R, Software Engineer</span><br /><br />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>.<br /><br /><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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Peter Fleischer, Privacy Counsel-Europe, and Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel</span><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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).<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Update</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> (April 2008:)</span> 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>.<br /><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

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Rhett Robinson, Software Engineer</span><br /><br />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 href="http://www.youtube.com/" title="YouTube videos">YouTube videos</a> and <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/" title="Picasa Web Albums">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.<br /><br />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

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Berthier Ribeiro Neto, Engineering Site Director, Google Brazil</span><br /><br />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>.<br /><br />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. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh81i_BQ0G4_zRnTYeo7gdmO6e9ty0vgXYQnQCDRLMIM_xXRhGNjU5nY65_4qSweAcPcpVn5DEwDgh4lObbE3D625Uwbw8eEuov0ACJg8H6tlDSiVUKSmoIvVrmnlk3TJVs5agXI_4YWv5e/s1600-h/LatAm_2007_codejam_winner+%282%29.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><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><br /><br />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

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Sadeesh Kumar Duraisamy, Software Engineer</span><br /><br />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>.<br /><br />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?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Talk cricket on Orkut</span><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Express yourself on a blog</span><br />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>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Get cricket scores & news </span><br />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><br /><br />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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