Fresher related search suggestions

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, Search and Adam Westall, Software Engineer</span><br /><br />When you search on Google, we often offer you "related" search suggestions to help you find what you're looking for more quickly. We identify related search queries by evaluating data from multiple sources. Our algorithms try to ensure that we offer suggestions when they are most likely to help users. These algorithms also determine how many related search queries to display, and their location on the search results page. Therefore, you won't see related search suggestions for every query, and while they are usually shown below the search results, the algorithm sometimes causes them to display above the search results.<br /><br />Further, we have teams that help evaluate the quality of these related search suggestions, and the enhancements to the user experience. We're constantly running experiments in order to get data that will help improve the user experience.<br /><br />Recently, we improved our algorithms to process <span style="font-style: italic;">new</span> information faster, and the result is quite tangible -- you should now see <span style="font-style: italic;">fresher</span> suggestions for queries on current topics of interest.<br /><br />Because information on the web is constantly changing, we think this improvement will help you find relevant information faster. To give this a test drive, try searching for <a title="iphone" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone" id="cb5y">iphone</a>. You should see related queries around the brand new 3G iPhone announced earlier this week.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkv1G2J4WfkXXVAV_zGHqUznL3j_2TOLGmovYNOc7DqG8qMtGFEBrOVNWTL1o_5uc4WOuOJ_7BvOVm5hyaXyBzaMrLY9ERrgUrJ3GmFkYxGGt98G7FJT5scRI0D0ws8zfOETRQlsadfSxf/s1600-h/iPhone.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211078184863758018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkv1G2J4WfkXXVAV_zGHqUznL3j_2TOLGmovYNOc7DqG8qMtGFEBrOVNWTL1o_5uc4WOuOJ_7BvOVm5hyaXyBzaMrLY9ERrgUrJ3GmFkYxGGt98G7FJT5scRI0D0ws8zfOETRQlsadfSxf/s400/iPhone.png" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a>If you search for <a title="tomatoes" href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tomatoes&btnG=Search" id="mbmx">tomatoes</a>, you'll see suggestions around the recent salmonella outbreak.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPnTLbl-lxRoh1eeJIzvr6A9dua99zH0idgWJhJjSaL7Xpd4nDREwOFUWe9hqxYUz0opZkYb4BN_3zIFvrDqnEtOthqQgyIstci3iTN73ePbeBIghyphenhyphenwmbCOUrI_NG1tJNMpdj2KvLVBR1X/s1600-h/tomatoes.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211081124771779346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPnTLbl-lxRoh1eeJIzvr6A9dua99zH0idgWJhJjSaL7Xpd4nDREwOFUWe9hqxYUz0opZkYb4BN_3zIFvrDqnEtOthqQgyIstci3iTN73ePbeBIghyphenhyphenwmbCOUrI_NG1tJNMpdj2KvLVBR1X/s400/tomatoes.png" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a>If you search for <a title="us open" href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=us+open&btnG=Search" id="ip78">us open</a>, you'll get a direct lead to the ongoing U.S. Open golf tournament.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq68KYgj7jg2OhqNPV-Cu-pZ9pLUo3QogQYDa35kvz0-7xm_1JK-KQZhoNHbWe91Ix6HE-rxnaf1m564NCyFpFXP7P7FpmZ52N1-Zod2fcJu5pk9qTokKoXjCOocXaMjeAB0BV1LaHMkJV/s1600-h/Golf.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211081619191757906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq68KYgj7jg2OhqNPV-Cu-pZ9pLUo3QogQYDa35kvz0-7xm_1JK-KQZhoNHbWe91Ix6HE-rxnaf1m564NCyFpFXP7P7FpmZ52N1-Zod2fcJu5pk9qTokKoXjCOocXaMjeAB0BV1LaHMkJV/s400/Golf.png" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a>If you're interested in <a title="kung fu" href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kung+fu&btnG=Search" id="jv0c">kung fu</a>, you will be told of the new Kung Fu Panda movie!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJ0yW6BF1hRQUGlgMxeHiYdmAiDD7NqFS_EJdCbHji1zC-CUAesO_G2HoBW0aJePsfdxK7Eas9_GgoSm8zwmlkxWIYwu5-YNhIj-HAU2Exq-Bul4Jx3uxbvvb26WesysYyJSrHrDTxdIA/s1600-h/kung+fu.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211083183819722114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJ0yW6BF1hRQUGlgMxeHiYdmAiDD7NqFS_EJdCbHji1zC-CUAesO_G2HoBW0aJePsfdxK7Eas9_GgoSm8zwmlkxWIYwu5-YNhIj-HAU2Exq-Bul4Jx3uxbvvb26WesysYyJSrHrDTxdIA/s400/kung+fu.png" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br />The query <a title="big brown" href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=big+brown&btnG=Search" id="zwf4">big brown</a> suggests queries around the mystifying performance of the horse at the Belmont stakes.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxQkRNdQ885uSAd72b0QwyUa9dN1Br9GcictJVnKwMwxi11PdGlwbQA3FFGRXF5uAE3N6fqbispSOjbiEymeaOYwgpyQo2RncCpp35WcYkp6prUNiZ10sEtNMl-vMSnz0lf8Xf3uuRFpQr/s1600-h/big+brown.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211082142117007778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxQkRNdQ885uSAd72b0QwyUa9dN1Br9GcictJVnKwMwxi11PdGlwbQA3FFGRXF5uAE3N6fqbispSOjbiEymeaOYwgpyQo2RncCpp35WcYkp6prUNiZ10sEtNMl-vMSnz0lf8Xf3uuRFpQr/s400/big+brown.png" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br />Try other queries that are relevant to current events you're interested in. You'll know when you trigger fresh suggestions!<span id="c3hj0" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span> Some of these search suggestions are very timely, but could have a short shelf life as new information on a topic is processed, and other related queries may be considered more relevant. The examples in this post could "expire" soon as this feature is very dynamic, so we've included screenshots. Note that you will not see related searches if you enable <a title="strict SafeSearch filtering" href="http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=preferences&hl=en" id="e:be">strict SafeSearch</a> filtering. We've currently launched this in the U.S. for English queries, and are working on enabling this for other languages as well.<br /><br />As always, we'd be <a href="http://www.google.com/quality_form?q=&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=yIN" id="qvh5" title="interested to know what you think">interested to know what you think</a>.

Fresher related search suggestions

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A new flavor of Google Trends

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Heej Hwang, Google Trends team</span><br /><br />The latest version of <a title="Google Trends" href="http://www.google.com/trends" id="np-q">Google Trends</a> is now live! If you've used it in the past, you know that Google Trends can be used to see how popular certain search terms are across geographic regions, cities, and languages. With our latest update, you can now see numbers on the graph download to a spreadsheet. (Note: Both these functions are available after you've signed in to your <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/Login" id="t7:_">Google Account</a>.)<br /><br />Let's walk through an example of how these nifty new features come into play. With the hot summer months rapidly approaching in many parts of the world, many of us turn to the frosty treat of ice cream to cool off. But have you ever wondered which flavor people search for more frequently: vanilla or chocolate?<br /><br />First, let's take a look at the searches for vanilla ice cream and chocolate ice cream separately. Here's what vanilla looks like on its own:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzA1iXv0jWTDmPwaDiEnGZ3IiFVlRPNpO3IC6DhVuXhjY7nflw1aOn-3ttdYLtDPcTr9U_LY6dIdZBijTDxp9Q5N2pWoh2dFUf4NSOoT_dm-Qpk4qA__2h1yWQM6OuVCmQncdoAWII4Zb/s1600-h/Trends_vanilla.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210336708738705570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzA1iXv0jWTDmPwaDiEnGZ3IiFVlRPNpO3IC6DhVuXhjY7nflw1aOn-3ttdYLtDPcTr9U_LY6dIdZBijTDxp9Q5N2pWoh2dFUf4NSOoT_dm-Qpk4qA__2h1yWQM6OuVCmQncdoAWII4Zb/s320/Trends_vanilla.gif" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /></div><br />You'll notice a number at the top of the graph as well as on the y-axis of the graph itself. These numbers don't refer to exact search-volume figures. Instead, in the same way that a map might “scale” to a certain size, Google Trends scales the first term you've entered so that its average search volume is 1.00 in the chosen time period. So in the example above, 1.00 is the average search volume of vanilla ice cream from 2004 to present. We can then see a spike in mid-2006 which crosses the 3.00 line, indicating that search traffic is approximately 3 times the average for all years. Read more about <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#7">how we scale </a> the data.<br /><br />Here's what chocolate looks like on its own:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDSaZD0uinbNgXIfEDOuGUUDfmo6vJAvFMF4Ng8k7Rxbw23FGggxcIy_jdSbgRR0CSiryi3y46rktEyeF-x-lcCaD_jh3LUJfSPAmhqL2Rl66nleTym39BzWH6udbPR22pij7HyQLB2byV/s1600-h/Trends_chocolate.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210336884832364722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDSaZD0uinbNgXIfEDOuGUUDfmo6vJAvFMF4Ng8k7Rxbw23FGggxcIy_jdSbgRR0CSiryi3y46rktEyeF-x-lcCaD_jh3LUJfSPAmhqL2Rl66nleTym39BzWH6udbPR22pij7HyQLB2byV/s320/Trends_chocolate.gif" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /></div><br />Let's look at how vanilla compares with chocolate. Keep in mind that when you compare multiple terms, they'll all be scaled relative to the first term you've entered.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ-TnFOUUtbNn_13hl3Q8II6toM2Z13uO0w9kgePQt5GfeiiVnG9M8BqIfDJ6DHDBcMoPXPZ1iI9y2oQLJKDIhwCSf00GGKDWyioTVM4_WmmAzkiw52A3ZETuCgMxo2ApsKOwevDPEUk6X/s1600-h/Trends_combo.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210337043746154690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ-TnFOUUtbNn_13hl3Q8II6toM2Z13uO0w9kgePQt5GfeiiVnG9M8BqIfDJ6DHDBcMoPXPZ1iI9y2oQLJKDIhwCSf00GGKDWyioTVM4_WmmAzkiw52A3ZETuCgMxo2ApsKOwevDPEUk6X/s320/Trends_combo.gif" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /></div>As the numbers on the top of the graph indicate, vanilla ice cream has about 30 percent less search traffic than chocolate ice cream (and it's no surprise that both flavors are more popular during the summer months!) You can also see that the data has been ranked by vanilla, because it was the first search term we entered. However, you can use the drop-down menu beneath the graph to change the ranking to chocolate instead.<br /><br />Google Trends is not only a fun tool; it also offers some practical uses as well. Suppose you own an ice cream shop and don't know which flavors to serve, or suppose you're responsible for stocking supermarkets across the country; Trends can help you explore the popularity and seasonality of your products. To conduct your own, more detailed analyses, you can now easily export Trends data to a .csv file (a common format to import/export data), which can be opened in most spreadsheet applications. When you use the export function, you'll also have the choice of using either relative scaling (what we've shown here) or fixed scaling (scaled to a specific time range).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLRs7rRFAoiGtZMzvltb4jzxTsXhlzn6qcUKmd8gldyLZmH4RCU1zbhz6JV9oEFksL-WIxFyZi_cI7xqZBjvMPQAybl2trLkH8UL1puvHz9U8liZOeB4RHUPQ8umi0VG6N1N4yfO28rOoh/s1600-h/Trends_savefile.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210337438883145938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLRs7rRFAoiGtZMzvltb4jzxTsXhlzn6qcUKmd8gldyLZmH4RCU1zbhz6JV9oEFksL-WIxFyZi_cI7xqZBjvMPQAybl2trLkH8UL1puvHz9U8liZOeB4RHUPQ8umi0VG6N1N4yfO28rOoh/s320/Trends_savefile.gif" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /></div><br />We hope you enjoy this new flavor of Google Trends. And of course, we want to know: which flavor of ice cream do you like best?

A new flavor of Google Trends

Posted by Heej Hwang, Google Trends team The latest version of Google Trends is now live! If you've used it in the past, you know that ...

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New third parties for the Google content network

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Rajas Moonka, Senior Business Product Manager</span><br /><br />About a month ago, we <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/opening-our-content-network-to-third.html">announced</a> that we certified a number of third-party ad servers, rich media ad agencies, and research firms to serve and track display ads on the Google content network. Today, we're adding Atlas and Tumri to our list of <a href="https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=94149">certified third parties</a>.<br /><br />Atlas and Tumri customers can now save time by managing their Google content network campaigns and their other online campaigns through the same application. They can take advantage of more efficient planning, management, and measurement around their ad buy.<br /><br /><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/opening-our-content-network-to-third.html">Learn more</a> about third-party ad tags on the Google content network.

New third parties for the Google content network

Posted by Rajas Moonka, Senior Business Product Manager About a month ago, we announced that we certified a number of third-party ad server...

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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience, and Micheal Lopez, Web Designer</span><br /><br />You may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Some people have wondered why we changed our favicon -- after all, we hadn't in 8.5 years(!). The reason is that we wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices. So the new favicon is one of those, but we've also developed a group of logo-based icons that all hang together as a unified set. Here's the full set:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-f4r7ujC8ZMszjECZ3oSW9OFP3Qr8o6cArjnSAnqyiRLqHGtt8jDYzHI97HoBAeTZjvAQUds5xO22O-DBxf-sGxn5c-byLc2xsF9VIcSl_Z3qhTBpGD226FSLuxMCrg8-zod-gjKR1LKE/s1600-h/favicon_family.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208917079739346658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-f4r7ujC8ZMszjECZ3oSW9OFP3Qr8o6cArjnSAnqyiRLqHGtt8jDYzHI97HoBAeTZjvAQUds5xO22O-DBxf-sGxn5c-byLc2xsF9VIcSl_Z3qhTBpGD226FSLuxMCrg8-zod-gjKR1LKE/s400/favicon_family.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /><br />The design process we went through was rigorous and interesting, so we thought we would share more of it here. We tried in total more than 300 permutations. It was much harder than we thought at first. We wanted something distinctive and noticeable, so we aimed toward transparency or semi-transparency, so the image would have a more distinctive noticeable shape than just a block. We wanted something that embraced the colorfulness of the logo, yet wouldn't date itself. Since we don't really have a symbol that means Google, we felt it best to work with the logo and letters within it. Our design team tried literally hundreds of approaches. You can see some of our explorations here.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdXnp3PaJqkPY5Z_gfxkBUtDxsQtnR5XlZNMUrim5OnWA769w3t-US3ot8N4pH4xBbQas7HGcQPEnCX2NrX_isTJ-j4aA4EWHf8mFJi6M6GrEWbee_ANBsiV6QfKfKVatnulrHnMz8ba3E/s1600-h/favicon_iterations.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208917506280602722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdXnp3PaJqkPY5Z_gfxkBUtDxsQtnR5XlZNMUrim5OnWA769w3t-US3ot8N4pH4xBbQas7HGcQPEnCX2NrX_isTJ-j4aA4EWHf8mFJi6M6GrEWbee_ANBsiV6QfKfKVatnulrHnMz8ba3E/s400/favicon_iterations.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br />By no means is the one you're seeing our favicon final; it was a first step to a more<br />unified set of icons. However, we really value feedback from users and want to hear your ideas that we may have missed. If you have your own notions about the Google favicon, <a href="http://www.google.com/faviconideas/">please send them to us</a>. We'll do our best to work them in, and maybe your idea will be the one that people see billions of times per day.

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Opening our doors in Lenoir

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Kendra Intihar, Administrative Assistant, Google Lenoir</span><br /><br />Whether you're shopping for shoes, planning a trip or watching a funny video, you probably don't think much about where that website you're on actually "lives." Though they seem just to exist in some "cloud" out there in "cyberspace," all websites are actually hosted on computers, similar to the one you have at home or work. But millions of websites processing terabytes of data every day -- all of those shopping and video queries -- require much more than a single machine, and they need to be housed somewhere. While some webmasters may run their website off of a small server in their basement, more commonly websites are run off of a stack of computers (a server rack), which lives in a warehouse-type building called a data center. Almost any company that stores or processes information either owns data centers or leases space in them, including banks, insurers, airlines and of course, technology companies. To process the millions of searches, emails, documents and more that come across our servers every day, and to keep all of our services both fast and reliable for our users, we require significant computing power, and have invested heavily in servers and data centers across the world.<br /><br />On May 21st, an official ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the opening of our newest data center in <a title="Lenoir, North Carolina" href="http://www.ci.lenoir.nc.us/" id="yi9t">Lenoir, North Carolina</a>. The Lenoir facility has set a precedent for Google community involvement: hundreds of our closest friends -- the citizens of Caldwell County -- came on site for what we called a "Googley BBQ." Along with pulled pork from the locally-acclaimed <a id="hi69" title="Hannah's BBQ" href="http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Overview.aspx?RefID=449">Hannah's</a>, attractions included Google-colored snow cones, cotton candy, a local cover band, Google demo stations, a "Meet-a-Googler" tent, and a kiddie area with face painting, stickers, crafts, and (of course) a bouncy house in Google colors.<br /><br />Lenoir sits in the heart of <a id="nt-b" title="Caldwell County, North Carolina" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=caldwell+county,+nc&layer=c&ie=UTF8&z=10&iwloc=addr">Caldwell County</a>, which is known for its spectacular views of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, its close-knit communities, and its hard-working citizens, and is along the famous "20 miles of furniture" on N.C. highway 321. Though many furniture industry jobs in the area have been lost in recent years, now technology companies are moving to the region, and a focus on technology education is helping to usher Caldwell into the 21st century.<br /><br />Several speakers at the ribbon-cutting, including the Mayor of Lenoir, David Barlow; County Commissioner Herb Greene; and the Governor of North Carolina, Mike Easley, voiced this sentiment, each hopeful that other technology companies will consider Google's presence and set up shop as well. What's not to love about an area with a beautiful landscape, a home-town feel, and such a wonderful and welcoming community? Yeah, we couldn't find anything either.<br /><br />Lenoir Googlers are still floating on at least cloud seven or eight about playing host at our new site. We couldn't have done it without the local firefighters, police, Chamber of Commerce and government representatives who went out of their way to make sure everyone had fun that day -- helped, of course, by the hundreds of folks who joined us in celebrating. But what's more, we are excited that we will soon be bringing this newest data center online, as another step to ensure that our services remain lightning fast and nearly 100% reliable, no matter where on the planet you may be.<br /><br />Here's a photo album from the day:<br /><br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fgoogpics1%2Falbumid%2F5208215491613664289%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="267" width="400"></embed>

Opening our doors in Lenoir

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Get your transit schedules and directions with Google Maps for mobile

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Ryan Pollock, Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />What with everyone thinking about ways to save on gas and avoid driving, one obvious tactic is to take public transportation. With that (and the environment) in mind, we continue to work with public transportation agencies to get bus and train schedules, and integrate this information into Google Maps. We just launched transit directions in<a href="http://www.google.com/gmm" target="_blank"> Google Maps for mobile</a> so that you can get transit directions while you're out and about in more than 50 cities worldwide. Right now transit directions are available on the latest Google Maps for mobile release on BlackBerry and many Java-based phones. We'll be adding support for other phones shortly.<br /><br />To see how it works, <a href="http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/06/get-bus-and-train-directions-on-go-with.html" target="_blank">read more</a> on the Google Mobile Blog, and watch this demo:<br /><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZAUunR91VzI&hl=en"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZAUunR91VzI&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>

Get your transit schedules and directions with Google Maps for mobile

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Explore Walt Disney World® Resort in 3D

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Jay Rasulo, Chairman, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts</span><br /><br />Last May, Eric Schmidt and I met to talk about The Walt Disney Company’s focus on technology. We started to explore innovative ways we could work together to bring one of the world’s most magical destinations to Google Earth’s millions of users… and how our guests could be a mouse-click away from visiting the place where dreams come true.<br /><br />The result is <span id="wmwm15" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span id="wmwm35" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><a title="Walt Disney World® Resort in 3D" href="http://www.disneyworld.com/3dParks" id="w.0s"><i id="f.0q">Walt Disney World</i><span id="lalv" style="font-size:78%;"><sup id="lalv0">®</sup></span> Resort in 3D</a></span></span>, an interactive, virtual <span style="font-style: italic;">Walt Disney World</span> completely recreated on Google Earth. This revolutionary project features 3D models of our four Orlando theme parks and more than 20 of Disney’s Resort hotels. Incredible in scope -- containing over 1,500 3D models -- <span style="font-style: italic;">Walt Disney World Resort</span> in 3D is the most detailed 3D rendering undertaken on Google Earth to date.<br /><br />From the summit of <span style="font-style: italic;">Space Mountain</span>® to the watery confines of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Pirates of the Caribbean</span>®, we invite you to explore the <span style="font-style: italic;">Walt Disney World Resort</span> in Google Earth. It’s the next best thing to being there.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi0caA7p_y5TaBKDu9uXqnwDNwZ3ftx_CDsZg5fNPNVODtgrEYhC7nZif3-M_SkRBiDpwcWi9IEUcNq1FnXsqeOMoan3frV_Ldp01-EL3WHYjCTbMIdtn2Fc6fC4jge1S6HW-UdXDIiI8d/s1600-h/disney-blog-1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208384882953951122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi0caA7p_y5TaBKDu9uXqnwDNwZ3ftx_CDsZg5fNPNVODtgrEYhC7nZif3-M_SkRBiDpwcWi9IEUcNq1FnXsqeOMoan3frV_Ldp01-EL3WHYjCTbMIdtn2Fc6fC4jge1S6HW-UdXDIiI8d/s400/disney-blog-1.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a>

Explore Walt Disney World® Resort in 3D

Posted by Jay Rasulo, Chairman, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Last May, Eric Schmidt and I met to talk about The Walt Disney Company’s focus...

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