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Your slice of the web

Posted by Payam Shodjai, Product Manager for Personalization I'll probably visit more than 100 web pages today, and so will hundreds of millions of people. Printed and bound together, the web pages you'll visit in just one day are probably bigger than the book sitting on your night table. Over the next month alone, that's an entire bookcase full! The idea of having access to this virtual library of information has always fascinated me. Imagine being able to search over the full text of pages you've visited online and finding that one particular quote you remember reading somewhere months ago. Imagine always knowing exactly where you saw something online, like that priceless YouTube video of your friend attempting to perform dance moves from a bygone age. Better yet, imagine having this wealth of information work for you to make searching for new information easier and faster. Today, we're pleased to announce the launch of Web History, a new feature for Google Account users that makes it easy to view and search across the pages you've visited. If you remember seeing something online, you'll be able to find it faster and from any computer with Web History. Web History lets you look back in time, revisit the sites you've browsed, and search over the full text of pages you've seen. It's your slice of the web, at your fingertips. How does Web History work? All you need is a Google Account and the Google Toolbar with PageRank enabled. The Toolbar, as part of your browser, helps us associate the pages you visit with your Google Account. If you're currently a Search History user, you'll notice that we've renamed Search History to Web History to reflect this new functionality. To sign up for Web History, visit <a title="http://www.google.com/history" href="http://www.google.com/history">http://www.google.com/history</a>.

Your slice of the web

Posted by Payam Shodjai, Product Manager for Personalization I'll probably visit more than 100 web pages today, and so will hundreds of ...

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Back to basics

Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search & User Experience, and Jeff Bartelma, Product Manager, Google Product Search (the product formerly known as Froogle :) ) Today, we're making some changes to how we help users find things to buy. You may be familiar with our product Froogle (a pun on "frugal"). Froogle offers a lot of great functionality and has helped many users find things to buy over the years, but the name caused confusion for some because it doesn't clearly describe what the product does. So we're renaming Froogle as <a href="http://www.google.com/products">Google Product Search</a>. We're taking the opportunity to refocus the user experience on providing the most comprehensive, relevant results in a clean, simple, easy-to-use UI. We're also excited about how Google Checkout can help searchers have a fast and secure purchase experience, so the new interface makes it easier to buy with Checkout. One thing we didn't change is the wide variety of items you can find with Product Search. Perhaps you're looking for a <a title="toaster" href="http://www.google.com/products?q=toaster">toaster</a>, a<a title="wireless router" href="http://www.google.com/products?q=wireless+router&btnG=Search+Products"> wireless router</a>, or an <a title="apple slicer" href="http://www.google.com/products?q=apple+slicer&btnG=Search+Products">apple slicer</a>. Or maybe you're in the market for a <a title="Lego watch" href="http://www.google.com/products?q=kids+lego+watch&btnG=Search+Products">Lego watch</a> (like Jeff's) or a new <a title="longboard" href="http://www.google.com/products?q=loaded+vanguard+bamboo&btnG=Search+Products">longboard</a> (go for Flashback wheels). We hope this update makes it easier to find whatever you're looking to buy.

Back to basics

Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search & User Experience, and Jeff Bartelma, Product Manager, Google Product Search (the product formerly...

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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 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. 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.) 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. 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

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 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. 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. 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. 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

Posted by Scott Silverman, Strategic Partner Development Manager 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. <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

Posted by Susan Wojcicki, Vice President, Product Management 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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