Searching without a query

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Sep Kamvar, Engineering Lead for Personalization</span><br /><br />You already know that search is at the core of everything we do: we want to deliver useful and relevant information every time you do a search. But what about when you don't have a query in mind, or if you just don't feel like typing in a query? Today we're releasing two features that reduce the need for you to type in specific queries to get the information you want. Both of these are available to <a href="http://www.google.com/searchhistory">Search History</a> users.<br /><br />The first is a recommendations button on the Google Toolbar that looks like a pair of dice. Click on the dice, and we'll take you to a site that may be interesting to you based on your past searches. If you want another, just click the dice again and we'll show you a new one. We'll give you up to 50 new sites per day that might be of interest. Just <a href="http://toolbar.google.com/buttons/add?url=http://toolbar.google.com/buttons/defs/picks_for_you.xml">add the button to your Toolbar</a>. (In order to use this feature, you need the <a href="http://toolbar.google.com/">latest version</a> of the Toolbar.)<br /><br />If you prefer to get your information at a glance, we've added a recommendations tab that you can add to your personalized homepage. Simply click on "Add A Tab" on your Google Personalized Homepage, and type in "Recommendations" for the tab name (keep the "I'm feeling lucky" checkbox checked). We'll give you a page of recommendations that are updated daily.<br /><br />Don't expect very much at the beginning, but the more you build up your search history, and the more you use these features, the better they'll become. Over time, we will give you more and better recommendations.

Searching without a query

Posted by Sep Kamvar, Engineering Lead for Personalization You already know that search is at the core of everything we do: we want to deliv...

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We're expecting

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Sam Schillace, Engineering Director</span><br /><br />Well, we tried to keep it a secret as long as we could, but to be honest, we've been dying to tell you about the bun we've got in the oven. We'll soon be welcoming a new addition to the Google Docs & Spreadsheets family: presentations.<br /><br />First of all, we want to welcome the team from Tonic Systems to Google. Tonic, which we've just acquired, is based in San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia. They have some great technology for presentation creation and document conversion, and it will be a great addition as we add presentation sharing and collaboration capabilities to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.<br /><br />We've already freed those of you working in teams from the burdens of version control and email attachment overload when going back and forth on word processing and spreadsheets. It just made sense to add presentations to the mix; after all, when you create slides, you're almost always going to share them. Now students, writers, teachers, organizers, and, well, just about everyone who uses a computer can look forward to having real-time, web-based collaboration across even more common business document formats.<br /><br />Our due date is this summer. We promise to share family photos just as soon as we can.

We're expecting

Posted by Sam Schillace, Engineering Director Well, we tried to keep it a secret as long as we could, but to be honest, we've been dying...

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An agreement with Clear Channel Radio

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Scott Silverman, Strategic Partner Development Manager</span><br /><br />It's been more than a year since my dMarc Broadcasting colleagues and I <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/dmarc.html">joined Google</a>. We've been taking incremental steps toward our long term vision of bringing simplicity, efficiency, and accountability to the buying and selling of radio advertising. To do this, we've fully integrated dMarc technology into Google AdWords, and we've partnered with hundreds of radio stations across the U.S., connecting these broadcasters to new advertisers who in many cases had previously not advertised on radio.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/clear_channel_radio.html">Today's announcement</a> of a strategic multi-year agreement with Clear Channel Radio, the largest radio station group owner in the U.S, is an important milestone for us. This new relationship with the leading U.S. radio group gives our advertisers access to guaranteed inventory on top-rated AM and FM stations all over the U.S., making it much easier for them to reach their target customers with radio ads. Since radio advertising is new for Google, we're excited to be able to learn from and collaborate with the market leader and ultimately bring more value to radio.

An agreement with Clear Channel Radio

Posted by Scott Silverman, Strategic Partner Development Manager It's been more than a year since my dMarc Broadcasting colleagues and I...

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The next step in Google advertising

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Susan Wojcicki, Vice President, Product Management</span><br /><br />At Google, we are constantly looking for new, innovative ways to make the information you want more accessible and more relevant—and to deliver it as fast as possible. Since Google's inception, it has always been our intention to present users with highly targeted, useful advertisements when appropriate—ads that unobtrusively complement users experience. We have always believed in, and tirelessly pursued, the idea that serving relevant, unintrusive ads would best serve our advertisers in the long term.<br /><br />To that end, we are truly excited to announce our acquisition of DoubleClick. DoubleClick provides a suite of products that enables agencies, advertisers, and publishers to work efficiently, that will enable Google to extend our ad network and develop deeper relationships with our partners.<br /><br />This new partnership represents a tremendous opportunity for us at Google to broaden and deepen our inventory of available ads and to better serve both our publishers and users. Together, Google and DoubleClick will empower agencies, advertisers, and publishers to collaborate more efficiently and effectively, which will, in turn, provide a better experience for our users.<br /><br />Sponsored information served by Google has always been, and will always be, clearly distinguished from objective content available via our search results and across our partner network. We want you to find the information that you are looking for—be it in an ad or elsewhere—quickly and without hassle. We know that our collaboration with DoubleClick will serve and advance this goal.<br /><br />For more information on this new acquisition, please read our <a href="http://services.google.com/blog_resources/DC_FAQ.pdf">FAQ</a>.

The next step in Google advertising

Posted by Susan Wojcicki, Vice President, Product Management At Google, we are constantly looking for new, innovative ways to make the infor...

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Google Checkout arrives in the UK!

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Jerry Dischler, Senior Product Manager</span><br /><br />We're excited to tell you that as of this morning the speed, security, and convenience of Google Checkout is available to online shops and shoppers in the United Kingdom. Here's <a href="http://checkout.google.co.uk/">Google Checkout UK</a>.<br /><br /><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">From now until 2008, m<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">erchants that offer Checkout in the UK will receive free credit and debit card processing for all of their Checkout sales. And just so buyers don't feel left out, we're giving them £10 off all orders over £30.</span></span></span>

Google Checkout arrives in the UK!

Posted by Jerry Dischler, Senior Product Manager We're excited to tell you that as of this morning the speed, security, and convenience ...

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Blogger: Now in more languages

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Eric Case, Product Manager</span><br /><br />Today <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Blogger</a> is available in eight new languages! Check it out in <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=nl">Nederlands</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=da">Dansk</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=fi">suomi</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=no">Norsk</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=sv">Svenska</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=ru">Русский</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=tr">Türkçe</a> and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=th">ภาษาไทย</a>, which brings us to <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/language.g">19 total</a>. Blogging is clearly a <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/">global phenomenon</a>, and we're incredibly excited to help bring it to ever more people around the world. With Blogger, you can:<br /><ul><li>easily set up a weblog with just a few clicks </li><li>share <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41378">writing</a> and <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41641">photos</a> for free </li><li>customize your blog's <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=43708">layout</a> with different <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=43709">fonts and colors</a></li><li>only show your blog to <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42673">friends and family</a></li></ul>We have more languages in the works too -- stay tuned!

Blogger: Now in more languages

Posted by Eric Case, Product Manager Today Blogger is available in eight new languages! Check it out in Nederlands , Dansk , suomi , Norsk ...

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Hikes on the fly

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Larry Fox, Business Development, Trimble Outdoors</span><br /><br />Many of you reading this may already know that <a href="http://www.trimbleoutdoors.com/" title="Trimble Outdoors">Trimble Outdoors</a> has partnered with Google to provide Google Earth viewers with GPS-based interactive hiking information. We’re very excited about being able to share all the great GPS content we’ve developed over the years and through partnerships with magazines including <span style="font-style: italic;">Backpacker</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Bicycling</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Mountain Bike</span>. It’s an outstanding resource for outdoors enthusiasts, or really, anyone who wants to do a little research before setting out on a hike. You can access lots of multimedia info on fitness and outdoor adventures, including routes, points of interest, pictures, video segments and even audio clips. Essentially, anytime, anywhere you can launch <a href="http://earth.google.com/" title="Google Earth">Google Earth</a>, you can view hundreds of hikes that have already been logged and completed, and view personalized web content. Then, through the convergence of Trimble Outdoors’ technology and Google Earth, you can click one button, and the exact trail route is exported to your GPS-enabled phone.<br /><br />This partnership between Google Earth and Trimble Outdoors is designed to support the community of outdoor enthusiasts with exciting new ways to explore the earth and share adventure stories online.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipEE1qQu7ClYChASazek-oRw7fgNqiZmbqEeHb8hErYv9t4KOyNv94uaov9EuRsYqZw-DkNAq3ysh3Lv-IaqjOm79Cic0ghp3BpZ9qK4l0b95aIJZvX2vq2XH4EpxnpqB71K0k45CPYQp5/s1600-h/trimble-outdoors-layer-image1.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052664535404160194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipEE1qQu7ClYChASazek-oRw7fgNqiZmbqEeHb8hErYv9t4KOyNv94uaov9EuRsYqZw-DkNAq3ysh3Lv-IaqjOm79Cic0ghp3BpZ9qK4l0b95aIJZvX2vq2XH4EpxnpqB71K0k45CPYQp5/s320/trimble-outdoors-layer-image1.JPG" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCE-6YTBLU1ktAed7bruDT78ltXqPYFPh1H1KKWcH03AoimRgJMqoSlVA-40zCXCNz5-aIF08gHjAQ5lshqiX2hRznsLMroRUZ0ddwnu3fqVyiPW3hYcUljDhyphenhyphent8igVxtY4sWPHsdRcvsw/s1600-h/trimble-outdoors-layer-image2.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052663234029069490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCE-6YTBLU1ktAed7bruDT78ltXqPYFPh1H1KKWcH03AoimRgJMqoSlVA-40zCXCNz5-aIF08gHjAQ5lshqiX2hRznsLMroRUZ0ddwnu3fqVyiPW3hYcUljDhyphenhyphent8igVxtY4sWPHsdRcvsw/s320/trimble-outdoors-layer-image2.JPG" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a>

Hikes on the fly

Posted by Larry Fox, Business Development, Trimble Outdoors Many of you reading this may already know that Trimble Outdoors has partnered w...

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