A Super Tuesday for business

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Scott Petry, Director of Product Management</span><br /><br />For those of us who joined Google from Postini, one of the most exciting possibilities was to learn how to operate at Google scale. As a young company, we were accustomed to moving quickly. But now that we're here, we're seeing speed in a whole new dimension: how to quickly make complex technology products accessible and useful to all kinds of businesses. We didn't understand all the implications of Google's resources. (Frankly, we still don't!) But over last couple months the picture has started to come into focus, and now our customers get the benefit of our innovation and scale.<br /><br />Today we announced three new security products that deliver anti-spam, outbound message filtering, transport encryption and archiving and discovery for any email system, from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange to Novell Groupwise. The new services are part of the Google Apps platform, which makes it easy for you to use all the messaging, collaboration and security products at once, or to adopt what you need and grow over time.<br /><br /><a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/02/simplifying-email-security-archiving.html">Read more on the Enterprise Blog</a> or just <a title="get started" href="http://www.google.com/a/security" id="swa9">get started</a>.

A Super Tuesday for business

Posted by Scott Petry, Director of Product Management For those of us who joined Google from Postini, one of the most exciting possibilities...

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Be part of the Super Tuesday action

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Brittany Bohnet, Google Elections Team</span><br /><br />They don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing! Today marks an exciting day in the race to the U.S. Presidency: voters in 24 states will choose their party candidates. This will be the largest number of primaries taking place at one time in the history of the U.S. electoral system.<br /><br />We've joined forces with <a title="Twitter" href="http://twitter.com//" id="k7ge">Twitter</a> to give you instant updates on Super Tuesday. Instead of sitting on the sidelines, you can send a simple text message about your voting experience. Huge turnout? Taking too long in line? Did you just vote for the first time? We want it all, if you can keep to 140 characters or less. (And if candidates can keep their posts to 140 characters, anyone can.)<br /><br />Throughout the day, you can watch Twitter updates from across the country:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip7PR6IbO99Qthg8Jg3SEHf6xu1WwJw62BhKs38gorX47Uu3DssN91X52djdBegkISJfvWB39RX_IMg1nk3L6Vygfth83DChwWFcorvdCzTvYDO3efglIIjIFMwc_DW6l2BYTWcR1sBoZg/s1600-h/Voting-map-2008.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163512631462422914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip7PR6IbO99Qthg8Jg3SEHf6xu1WwJw62BhKs38gorX47Uu3DssN91X52djdBegkISJfvWB39RX_IMg1nk3L6Vygfth83DChwWFcorvdCzTvYDO3efglIIjIFMwc_DW6l2BYTWcR1sBoZg/s320/Voting-map-2008.gif" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /></div><br />Twitter posts are only one piece of the <a title="Google Super Tuesday Map" href="http://maps.google.com/decision2008">Google Super Tuesday Map</a>, a one-stop shop to follow the action today. You can find the latest YouChoose '08 videos, Google News election headlines and primary state results down to the county level. The Google News team is also in on the action. In addition to all the latest stories from thousands of sources in our <a title="new election section" href="http://news.google.com/?topic=el&promo_msg=el" id="r96z">new election section</a>, they've also put together a <a title="gadget" href="http://gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&hl=en&url=http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/elections/2008/miniresults/miniresults.xml?1" id="byyy">gadget</a> that tracks the progress of the candidates in each of the 24 states (of course, the numbers here are not real; they're meant to show you how it may look after the polls close).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNd_NHTo2CDayaxgw_wfM1MFNktHqKYLrEk2hvUnVYYTxGDKF39blMKcDg3CNPhqRQAiAY9lWYPgVCBdUVKOkAXAPWMI4gbrQ7AzfNcjkP3Lf_cCYEQJItGe1bww6zYAgodevob1szMDzu/s1600-h/voting-gadget-2008.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163513013714512274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNd_NHTo2CDayaxgw_wfM1MFNktHqKYLrEk2hvUnVYYTxGDKF39blMKcDg3CNPhqRQAiAY9lWYPgVCBdUVKOkAXAPWMI4gbrQ7AzfNcjkP3Lf_cCYEQJItGe1bww6zYAgodevob1szMDzu/s320/voting-gadget-2008.gif" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /></div><br />Super Tuesday gives us a chance to try out new features and to see how people are using technology to participate in elections. This coming Thursday, we'll post a roundup of highlights. Send suggestions our way to <span style="font-style: italic;">elections at google dotcom</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Update: </span>Gadget results in example are not real numbers or projections.</span>

Be part of the Super Tuesday action

Posted by Brittany Bohnet, Google Elections Team They don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing! Today marks an exciting day in the race t...

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Super Tuesday on YouTube

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Steve Grove, YouTube News and Politics</span><br /><br />Tomorrow is the biggest day in the primary presidential race thus far, and we've created a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/supertuesday">central location</a> to follow the action on video. We're pulling in video clips from voters, candidates, and news organizations across the country on a Google Map as part of our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/youchoose08">You Choose '08</a> platform.<br /><br /><object height="373" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ehedu7-YNqk&rel=1&border=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ehedu7-YNqk&rel=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="373" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />This is the first presidential election in which YouTube has given voters the same power to broadcast the events as the big broadcasters have. Already we're seeing terrific content uploaded to the map as voters in 24 different states prepare for the polls. Seeing all these great videos on one map gives the most diverse narrative of the campaign trail that we've ever seen. Scroll across the map and zoom in to see videos from your area, and keep an eye out for gems like these:<br /><br /><object height="373" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zi7Essb8368&rel=1&border=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zi7Essb8368&rel=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="373" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Stay tuned to You Choose '08 after Super Tuesday as we will continue to bring more and more great political video content from voters, candidates, and news organizations as the political drama thickens.

Super Tuesday on YouTube

Posted by Steve Grove, YouTube News and Politics Tomorrow is the biggest day in the primary presidential race thus far, and we've create...

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Yahoo! and the future of the Internet

<span class="byline-author">Posted by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer</span><br /><br />The openness of the Internet is what made Google -- and Yahoo! -- possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It's what makes the Internet such an exciting place.<br /><br />So Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.<br /><br />Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies -- and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets.<br /><br />Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft -- despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses -- to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet? In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts. And between them, the two companies operate the two most heavily trafficked portals on the Internet. Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions -- and consumers deserve satisfying answers.<br /><br />This hostile bid was announced on Friday, so there is plenty of time for these questions to be thoroughly addressed. We take Internet openness, choice and innovation seriously. They are the core of our culture. We believe that the interests of Internet users come first -- and should come first -- as the merits of this proposed acquisition are examined and alternatives explored.

Yahoo! and the future of the Internet

Posted by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer The openness of the Internet is what made Goo...

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International Science + Engineering Fair

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Alan Eustace, Senior VP, Engineering</span><br /><br />You aren't likely to find your standard potato battery project at the International Science and Engineering Fair (<a href="http://sciserv.org/isef/">ISEF</a>), a project of the <a href="http://www.societyforscience.org/index.html">Society for Science & the People</a>. Nor will you see many forced volcano eruptions. You're more likely to notice the 1,200 students from across the world coming together to share projects like "FDIS: A Fast Frequency Distribution Based Interpolation Search Algorithm" and "Probing for Cancer with Smart shRNA."<br /><br />In 2010, the ISEF will return to Silicon Valley, bringing talented young minds together for innovative discussions and projects in San Jose. We're very pleased to be sponsoring this gathering, which will attract promising young minds from more than 40 nations. Since we're committed to engaging talented minds, we will be delighted to give this global community of future scientists the chance to meet and compete. Prizes on offer include more than three million dollars in awards and scholarships, in addition to opportunities for internships and scientific field trips.<br /><br />It's no surprise that this has been called the "Olympics of science fairs" -- we're excited to see what the next generation of scientists and engineers has to offer! And you may wonder why we're telling you about this now, since 2010 seems far off. Budding scientists who want to compete have a lot to do between now and then. Read more about <a href="http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/about/process.asp">the participation process</a>.

International Science + Engineering Fair

Posted by Alan Eustace, Senior VP, Engineering You aren't likely to find your standard potato battery project at the International Scien...

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Google Finance UK open for business

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Ayan Mandal, Product Manager, Google Finance</span><br /><br />The UK Google Finance site, geared to investors in the UK, is <a href="http://finance.google.co.uk/" id="lwoe">now live</a>. You can access stock prices, mutual funds, financial news, blogs, and charts, all through our easy-to-use and familiar interface. Here are some highlights:<br /><ul><li>Search with a preference for UK companies and mutual funds.</li><li>Google News integration – With a preference for news from British sources. The news is organized in groups by news topic, rather than listed by date, so you won't have to scroll through multiple headlines for the same news story.</li><li>Interactive Charts – Maps market data with corresponding news stories in a single interactive chart, so you can track news to stock performance. You can also click and drag on the charts to see different time periods, and zoom in for more detailed information.</li><li>Front page market summary with FTSE indices and British pound exchange rates.</li><li>Blogs – Incorporates blog postings for related company information from Google Blog Search.</li><li>Discussion Groups – High quality discussion forums are part of the service. We have a team of folks dedicated to keeping the conversation experience free of spam and irrelevant posts. </li><li>Portfolios – A fast and easy way for you to create and track portfolios of stocks and mutual funds in the currency of your choice.</li></ul>Feel free to leave comments on this blog or send us email through the <a title="Help Center" href="http://www.google.com/support/finance/" id="cs:_">Help Center</a>. While we can't respond to all notes, your feedback has a huge impact on how we prioritize new features.

Google Finance UK open for business

Posted by Ayan Mandal, Product Manager, Google Finance The UK Google Finance site, geared to investors in the UK, is now live . You can acce...

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Introducing new search views

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Andrew Hogue, Uber Tech Lead</span><br /><br /><b>Introducing experimental views for search results</b><br />There have been a lot of recent improvements to web search, but the appearance of results themselves has been pretty constant -- 10 or so web pages in a vertical list. Frequently this is exactly the right format, but for some searches you need more options and more control. That's why we've created our <a title="experimental search page" href="http://www.google.com/experimental" id="u5_h">experimental search page</a> to let you try out some of our newest ideas.<br />You may have noticed our <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/behind-scenes-with-universal-search.html">"alternative views" experiment</a> showcased last May. This lets you visualize your search results in new ways, and we'd like to highlight some of the features we've recently added.<br /><br /><b>Map view</b><br />Suppose you're scouring the web trying to find out about <a href="http://www.google.com/views?q=math+conferences+view%3Amap&vwwh=california+&btnGm=Search">math conferences happening in your state</a>. Or you'd like to sit back and enjoy some <a href="http://www.google.com/views?q=good+jazz+view%3Amap&vwwh=manhattan">jazz around town</a>. This information is on the web and accessible through regular web search, but probably spread out over many sites and pages. Unless one of these pages has a map, it might be hard to visualize all the locations at once. Map view solves this problem by plotting some of the key locations contained in your web results onto a map.<br /><br />After scrolling or zooming the map, try clicking on the "Update Results" button near the top left corner of the map to show more results just in the area you're looking at.<br /><br /><b>Timeline view</b><br />Timeline view does the same thing as map view, but for dates found on the web. This includes dates of <a href="http://www.google.com/views?q=biophysics+conferences+view%3Atimeline&vwdr=2008">upcoming</a> or <a href="http://www.google.com/views?q=world+war+ii+view%3Atimeline">historic</a> events, or even <a href="http://www.google.com/views?q=richard+feynman+view%3Atimeline">biographical information</a> -- all generated automatically from your search results.<br /><br />The graph across the top of the page summarizes how dates in your results are spread through time, with higher bars representing a larger number of unique dates. Click anywhere on the graph to zoom in to that particular period of time, and use the text box to the right to specify any range of years, months, or days. Much as in map view, the results below the graph emphasize the dates contained on each page.<br /><br /><b>Info view</b><br />Info view is a bit different. It doesn't dramatically change the visualization of results; web pages are still displayed vertically as usual. Now you'll notice a new control panel on the right side of the page:<br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnO6L3tk4geVXv9EmfGhsmY35tefPUZ3dEpCiNWolAQjPUfMswW3MgKg8XMT2k4fMtnm9qjNkE8RMManobPdAc6mfWbhVMCsG0qJe7c6U5e68ogUDvg6H_uise8gypYD7JmPDfcbJlfJs/s1600/SEARCH-VIEW3.gif" /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><img alt="" src="file:///Users/benjaminc/Desktop/SEARCH-VIEW4.jpg" />Clicking on the different options in the panel changes the information shown below each result. Usually we show some text from the page that includes a few of the words you searched for. Now you can instead reveal text containing dates, locations, measurements, or images. For example, selecting "dates" from the control panel reveals the date of the Sputnik launch in the first result for "space exploration":<br /><div id="s635" style="padding: 1em 0pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: right;"><img src="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/File?id=cgqmq8g4_47ctq8nwgr" style="width: 550px; height: 73px;" /><br /></div><br />And selecting "images" from the control panel displays some nice images from the page:<br /><div id="h2lt" style="padding: 1em 0pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/File?id=cgqmq8g4_48hrw877ct" style="width: 461px; height: 147px;" /><br /></div><br />If you run a search and find many of your results are looking similar, try using info view. It may highlight the differences between results and help you select the best page for your needs.<br /><br /><b>Tell us what you think</b><br />You can opt in to the alternative views experiments so they become your main search UI -- as well as try out many other new search tools -- on the <a href="http://www.google.com/experimental">experimental search page</a>. After opting in, send us feedback by clicking on the experiment name in the upper right part of the search page and selecting "Take our survey". We'd love to hear your thoughts!</div></div>

Introducing new search views

Posted by Andrew Hogue, Uber Tech Lead Introducing experimental views for search results There have been a lot of recent improvements to web...

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