Google Site Search taps the power of the cloud

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Posted by Nitin Mangtani, Lead Product Manager, Google Enterprise Search, and Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, Search</span><br /><br />Search is never far from our minds -- not just on Google, but also for the millions of websites that don't yet have high-quality search. And since we've already built powerful search technologies into our computing infrastructure, site owners don't have to build it themselves. It's an aspect of something you might have heard about recently: "cloud computing".<br /><br />Our ability to work in the cloud is one reason we've just announced <a href="http://www.google.com/sitesearch" id="qj_r" title="Google Site Search with enhanced index coverage">Google Site Search with enhanced index coverage</a>. Previously known as Custom Search Business Edition, this service gives any website the same relevance, ease of use and familiar search experience you get on Google.com. It takes just minutes to set up, and is hosted entirely by Google, so site owners can have great search capabilities with little or no maintenance and technical resources needed. We've also added enhanced index coverage and customization features that help us crawl and index all content (even pages deep within a site) -- and as a result, we can deliver comprehensive search results on any website.<br /><br />It's not only webmasters who can take advantage of these features; so can site owners who want to maximize e-commerce opportunities and increase their conversions when they deliver a high-quality search experience to site visitors. Read more on the <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/06/super-charging-search-on-your-site-with.html">Google Enterprise blog</a> to learn how you can offer better search on your site.<br /><br />To see Google Site Search in action, watch this video featuring eHealthInsurance:<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/72pBiop9Yec&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/72pBiop9Yec&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object>

Google Site Search taps the power of the cloud

Posted by Posted by Nitin Mangtani, Lead Product Manager, Google Enterprise Search, and Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, Search Searc...

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At long last, real-time stock quotes are here

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome, and Katie Jacobs Stanton, Principal, New Business Development</span><br /><br />We're very excited to tell you that real-time quotes on NASDAQ securities are now available on <a href="http://finance.google.com/finance">Google Finance</a>. This is an important (and <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/real-time-quotes-for-free.html">way overdue</a>) development for everyone who consumes financial information. Historically, real-time stock data was not freely and widely accessible. Either buried behind subscription walls or brokerage sites, consumers typically had to live with 15 or 20 minute price delays. In the world of finance, time is indeed money, and it's critical to have timely and accurate data.<br /><br />Providing free real-time stock quotes is consistent with <a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/">our mission</a>, and we'll continue to work hard to offer tools, features and more real-time data so investors can make informed and timely financial decisions.

At long last, real-time stock quotes are here

Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome, and Katie Jacobs Stanton, Principal, New Business Development We're very excited to tell y...

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Treasure Hunt: the last leg of the journey

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Phillip Grasso, Manager, Engineering/Operations</span><br /><br />Over the last few weeks, we've been <a title="keeping you updated" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/treasure-hunt-week-3.html" id="qstj">keeping you updated</a> on our Treasure Hunt competition — a puzzle contest designed to test your knowledge of computer science, networking, and low-level UNIX trivia. And now it's coming to a close. The fourth and final puzzle will be released at 1212448500. With it, we'll also be highlighting <a title="Google Developer Day" href="http://code.google.com/events/developerday/2008/" id="ndst">Google Developer Day</a>, which is coming up on June 18 at <a title="Wharf 8 in Sydney" href="http://code.google.com/events/developerday/2008/location.html" id="vo-a">Wharf 8 in Sydney</a>.<br /><br />We'll be announcing the contest winners (and their handsome rewards) once the results are tabulated, so keep your spyglasses here over the next few weeks. And, of course, all the prior weeks' puzzles are still available on the <a title="main page" href="http://treasurehunt.appspot.com/" id="z23r">main page</a>.<br /><br />You've come this far... be ye real treasure hunters or just landlubbers in disguise?

Treasure Hunt: the last leg of the journey

Posted by Phillip Grasso, Manager, Engineering/Operations Over the last few weeks, we've been keeping you updated on our Treasure Hunt ...

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Sessions and snacks at Google I/O

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Andrew Bowers, Product Manager</span><br /><br />We hosted <a href="http://code.google.com/events/io" id="gsjp" title="Google I/O">Google I/O</a> at the Moscone Center in San Francisco this week, with 3,000+ developers in attendance. They took advantage of nearly <a id="bmd1" href="http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html" title="100 in-depth technical sessions">100 in-depth technical sessions</a>, on-site massage therapists, and 3,500 pounds of assorted snacks (including 395 pounds of M&Ms and 190 pounds of Gummi Bears).<br /><br />While we can't embed snacks or massages directly into this browser -- we're hoping the <a id="o3lr" href="http://code.google.com/apis/gears" title="Gears">Gears</a> team will make this possible next year -- presentations will be posted to <a id="fab0" href="http://code.google.com/" title="Google Code">Google Code</a> shortly. In the meantime, feel free to check out the Google I/O keynote:<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vk1HvP7NO5w&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vk1HvP7NO5w&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object>

Sessions and snacks at Google I/O

Posted by Andrew Bowers, Product Manager We hosted Google I/O at the Moscone Center in San Francisco this week, with 3,000+ developers in a...

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Happy birthday, Google Gears!

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Chris Prince, Software Engineer </span><br /><br />It has been a year since the launch of Google Gears, and we wanted to offer a glimpse into what's changing, and what's ahead.<br /><br />First of all, to better reflect the open nature of this project, we've decided to rename ourselves. Henceforth, the project will be simply "Gears." We want to make it clear that Gears isn't just a Google thing. We see Gears as a way for everyone to get involved with upgrading the web platform.<br /><br />Our first year focused on offline-enabling applications, but that was only the beginning. Our broader goal has always been to close the gap between web apps and native apps by giving the browser new capabilities. There is no shortage of web application pain points to be addressed! In its second year, Gears will begin to tackle some of these problems.<br /><br />On the applications front, there have been a number of exciting developments. Today, MySpace is launching enhanced functionality for MySpace mail using Gears. They are using the original <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_database.html#sqlite_fts" id="pdr_" title="Gears Database API with Full Text Search">Gears Database API with Full Text Search</a> to enable fast and easy search and sort capabilities. The latest build of WordPress also integrates Gears, to improve performance, and to let users manage their blogs offline. And as many of you know, the Google Docs team added <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/03/bringing-cloud-with-you.html" id="j15p" title="offline capabilities">offline capabilities</a> just a few weeks ago.<br /><br />Gears remains a completely open source project. We <a href="http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/gears-and-standards.html" id="n52g" title="strongly support web standards">strongly support web standards</a>, and we continue to work with the W3C and WHATWG committees to help define standards for browsers.<br /><br />Finally, we want Gears to be available to everyone, regardless of platform or browser. To that end, we are currently adding Firefox 3 and Safari support. And Opera is working to support Gears on both desktop and mobile. These new platforms will nicely complement our current set: Internet Explorer and Firefox, across Windows, Mac, Linux, and even Windows Mobile.<br /><br />We're very excited about our progress this past year, and we have even bigger plans for 2008. All of you are welcome to <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/gears/" id="duuz" title="jump in">jump in</a> and join our fledgling community -- we're helping to push the web forward, and it's a lot of fun! :)

Happy birthday, Google Gears!

Posted by Chris Prince, Software Engineer It has been a year since the launch of Google Gears, and we wanted to offer a glimpse into what...

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Mini Hear, Mini Do

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Cyrus Mistry, Product Manager, Google Enterprise</span><br /><br />The <a href="http://mini.google.com/" id="kgli">Google Mini</a> has been making its way <a href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/map/index.html" id="fv_o">across the globe</a>, reaching <a href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/success_stories.html" id="knz_">thousands of businesses</a> that have taken to our little blue box, and along the way picking up suggestions for improvement from devoted users. As a result we've just introduced to the Mini three greatly requested features that can make search inside businesses even more powerful. Finding the most up-to-date and authoritative document within your company has never been easier now that you can search for documents filed in shared drives and weight documents by date or value. We've also added support for six new languages (Basque, Catalan, Galician, Greek, Hungarian, and Polish).<br /><br />We're listening, so keep those suggestions <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Mini" id="e3ef">coming</a>.<br /><br />Read more about the new Mini features on the <a title="Google Enterprise Blog" href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-mini-gets-not-so-mini-upgrade.html" id="bhbd">Google Enterprise Blog</a>.

Mini Hear, Mini Do

Posted by Cyrus Mistry, Product Manager, Google Enterprise The Google Mini has been making its way across the globe , reaching thousands of...

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Treasure Hunt - week 3

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Phillip Grasso, Manager, Engineering/Operations</span><br /><br />We're now entering the third week of Google's Treasure Hunt competition, a puzzle contest designed to test your knowledge of computer science, networking, and low-level UNIX trivia. Last week <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-treasure-hunt-update.html">we posted the second puzzle</a>. This week's puzzle is set to be released on Tuesday, May 27 at 10 a.m. PDT. We'll also be featuring our brand-new San Francisco office along with it.<br /><br />We'll be giving out a few prizes for the fastest contestants to complete each question. There will also be a grand prize for the contestant who correctly answers all four questions in the shortest cumulative time (time is defined as the time between the question's release and the submission of the correct answer). The previous puzzles will still be accessible off of the <a id="oinp9" href="http://treasurehunt.appspot.com/" target="_blank">main page</a>.<br /><br />The treasure is within reach, so grab yer shovels and keep on diggin', mateys!

Treasure Hunt - week 3

Posted by Phillip Grasso, Manager, Engineering/Operations We're now entering the third week of Google's Treasure Hunt competition, a...

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