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Cingular BlackBerry 8800 has Google Maps and GPS

Posted by Steve Lee, Product Manager, Google Maps for mobile Some of us have a great sense of direction, and others find themselves, well, a little lost at times. For those in the latter camp, you can thank Cingular for launching the <a href="http://business.cingular.com/businesscenter/blackberry8800/?_requestid=182418%22onClick=%22javascript:urchinTracker%28%27/outgoing/cingular_com%27">BlackBerry® 8800</a>, the latest open GPS-enabled device from a major U.S. carrier. That means that when you use <a title="outbind://91-00000000539B9334C130484888F4AC5FF1F4342E04748000/www.google.com/gmm/gps?utm_source=en-et-blog&utm_medium=et&utm_source=en" href="http://www.google.com/gmm/gps.html?utm_source=en-et-blog&utm_medium=et&utm_source=en">Google Maps for mobile</a>, your location automatically shows up on the map. When you download Google Maps for mobile and fire it up, you'll notice something quite unusual: a blinking blue dot showing you exactly where you are! You can use your auto-detected location to get directions and perform local searches without even entering your location -- instead of "pizza 94043", just enter "pizza" -- and we'll automatically know you want pizza in the zip code "94043." So here's a great big hats off to Cingular -- this BlackBerry® 8800 with GPS is awesome!

Cingular BlackBerry 8800 has Google Maps and GPS

Posted by Steve Lee, Product Manager, Google Maps for mobile Some of us have a great sense of direction, and others find themselves, well, a...

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Getting it done with Google Apps

Posted by Jeremy Milo, Product Marketing Manager As you might have heard recently, in addition to search and advertising, we're focused on a third key area of innovation: powerful applications that run on the web and that let you collaborate and communicate in new ways. Not only do we offer <a href="http://mail.google.com/" title="email">email</a>, <a href="http://calendar.google.com/" title="calendaring">calendaring,</a> and <a href="http://docs.google.com/" title="document creation and collaboration">document creation and collaboration</a> services (and more!) for individuals, but with <a href="http://www.google.com/a" title="Google Apps">Google Apps</a>, businesses, schools and other organizations can customize these tools and use them as their own internal systems. More than 100,000 organizations <a title="large" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZOi8hAOMnQ">large</a> and <a title="small" href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=x0ouWCotdyo">small</a> have started using Google Apps to deliver powerful services to employees, students and members, and since there's no hardware or software to install or maintain, getting up and running is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhLyiuDKNrU&eurl=" title="a snap">a snap</a>. We're hearing great <a href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/customers.html" title="stories from users">stories from users</a>, and we're getting exciting feedback from journalists, analysts and other industry experts. And just this week, PC World named <a href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions.html" title="Google Apps Premier Edition">Google Apps Premier Edition</a> #1 on their list of <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,131935/printable.html" title="Best 100 Product of the Year">The 100 Best Products of 2007</a>. We're honored to be recognized by PC World this way -- and are more inspired than ever to expand what's possible for groups of people to do using the power of the web.

Getting it done with Google Apps

Posted by Jeremy Milo, Product Marketing Manager As you might have heard recently, in addition to search and advertising, we're focused ...

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What's hot today?

Posted by Corey Vickrey, Software Engineer For more than six years, we have compiled a regular list of popular searches called the <a href="http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html">Google Zeitgeist</a>. This has been our way to highlight the sorts of queries people type into the Google search box every day. More recently, we unveiled <a href="http://www.google.com/trends">Google Trends</a> to show the popularity of search terms in relation to each other overtime, and how different cities or regions may care (or not) about the trends. And today we're introducing a new toy we are calling <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends">Hot Trends</a>. It's a new feature of Google Trends for sharing the the hottest current searches with you in very close to real time. What's on our collective mind as we search for information? What's interesting to people right now? Hot Trends will tell you. At a glance, you'll see the huge variety of topics capturing our attention, from current events to daily crossword puzzle clues to the latest celebrity gossip. Hot Trends is updated throughout the day, so check back often. For each Hot Trend, you will see results from Google News, Google Blog Search and web search, which help explain why the search is hot. For example, the <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=creed+thoughts&date=2007-5-17">#7 item on Thursday, May 17th</a> was the cryptic phrase [creed thoughts]. The associated news stories and blog results show that this odd term is the name of a fake website mentioned on the season finale of The Office. Mystery solved. Of course, some searches are not as easily explained. Visit the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-trends-hot-trends">Hot Trends group</a> to read the explanations of others and offer your own. If you want to look further back, you can also see what queries were hot on a particular day. On Wednesday, May 16th, [<a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=melinda+doolittle&date=2007-5-16&sa=X">melinda doolittle</a>], [<a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=halo+3+beta&date=2007-5-16&sa=X">halo 3 beta</a>], and [<a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=ge+dishwasher+recall&date=2007-5-16&sa=X">ge dishwasher recall</a>] were on the Hot Trends list. If you don't know why, maybe you'll learn something. Hot Trends aren't the search terms people look for most often -- those are pretty predictable, like [weather] or [games] or perhaps [myspace]. Yes, [sex] too. Instead, the Hot Trends algorithm analyzes millions of searches to find those that are deviating the most relative to their past traffic. And the outcome is the Hot Trends list. In addition to Hot Trends, we've updated Google Trends so that it's easier to use and, we hope, more useful to you. In addition to viewing the top search terms by country and city, you can view the top "subregions" (e.g. states within the U.S.) across more than 70 countries. You can now compare the leading <a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=hillary+clinton%2C+rudy+giuliani%2C+barack+obama%2C+john+mccain">presidential candidates</a> around the country, for instance, or find out which states have the worst <a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=mosquitoes&ctab=0&geo=US">mosquito problems</a>. With the release of Hot Trends, we're retiring the weekly Zeitgest list, but we will still compile monthly lists for each country, and will continue our annual year-end roll-ups too. Hot Trends is currently available only in English, but we hope to release international versions in the future.

What's hot today?

Posted by Corey Vickrey, Software Engineer For more than six years, we have compiled a regular list of popular searches called the Google Ze...

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Registration open for our scalability conference

Registration open for our scalability conference

Posted by Amanda Camp, Software Engineer As we noted earlier , our Conference on Scalability is taking place in Seattle on June 23. And now ...

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Massage interviews?

Posted by Reza Behforooz, Massage expert and Software Engineer Life at the Googleplex is often full of fun surprises. One day, I was asked if I could do a massage interview. I was already a big fan of our massage program, and I was familiar with doing interviews at Google, but I didn't know about massage interviews. Regardless, it sounded Googley, and I decided to help. Getting a massage at work is a favorite <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=benefits.html&benefits=us#bbb">perk</a> among Googlers. As with anyone we hire, our massage therapists have to go through an interview process...but the actual interviews are a little unique. We ask the therapists to do what they do best -- give massages. And as Googlers, it is our duty to help with the hard task of receiving table or chair massages as part of the interviews. Though we do have to write detailed feedback about the massage, just like any other interview, in this interview, all I had to do was close my eyes and relax. Who knew interviewing could be so easy!

Massage interviews?

Posted by Reza Behforooz, Massage expert and Software Engineer Life at the Googleplex is often full of fun surprises. One day, I was asked i...

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Google Apps Partner Edition

Posted by Hunter Middleton, Product Manager From the beginning, we envisioned making <a href="http://google.com/a">Google Apps</a> available to any organization that might want to offer this innovative set of services to its employees, customers, students, members, or any other associates of the organization. Today, we're excited to take another step in that direction by releasing a version of Google Apps specifically designed for ISPs, portals, and other service providers, whether you have a few thousand subscribers or over a million. This new version, which we're calling the <a href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/partner_edition.html">Partner Edition</a>, makes it easy for large and small service providers to offer your subscribers the latest versions of powerful tools, like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs & Spreadsheets, without having to worry about hosting, updating, or maintaining any of the services yourself. All you have to do is point and click in the easy admin control panel and figure out what branding you'd like to layer on top of the products in order to create a customized look and feel. You can quit spending your resources and time on applications like webmail -- and leave the work to our busy bees at the Googleplex.

Google Apps Partner Edition

Posted by Hunter Middleton, Product Manager From the beginning, we envisioned making Google Apps available to any organization that might w...

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Google Book Search becomes more comprehensive

Posted by Adam Mathes, Product Manager, Book Search <a href="http://books.google.com/"> Google Book Search</a> allows you to instantly search the full text of over a million digitized books, but we thought that wasn't quite enough. Now when you search you'll get both digitized book results as well as records for millions of other books that still just exist in the analog world. When you view these new added book records, you can often read reviews, a summary, or see what other people had to say about the book around the web. Since these books haven't been digitally indexed yet, you can't preview the text online, but if you've discovered something great, we offer links to buy the book or <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/finding-wealth-in-your-library-and.html">find it in a library near you</a>. We're doing this because we want to offer users the most comprehensive book search in the world - whether it's a book you can <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=cyokAAAAMAAJ&pg=PPA7">read online now</a>, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dO-sDl1ySHoC&printsec=frontcover">preview samples</a>, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HbwYAAAAMAAJ&dq=paul+otlet&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;q=documentation&pgis=1">see a few snippets</a>, or just read what <a href="http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0783556756">others have written</a> about the book. We're still very busy digitizing millions more books, but want to make as much discoverable as possible today. To find out more, check out our post on <a href="http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2007/05/found-more-books.html">Inside Google Book Search</a>.

Google Book Search becomes more comprehensive

Posted by Adam Mathes, Product Manager, Book Search Google Book Search allows you to instantly search the full text of over a million digit...

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