Submitting your content to Google

We've talked a lot about our mission to organize the world's information and make it readily available to all, but we haven't spent as much time as we could helping others understand how they can participate in this endeavor. Last week we took two steps to address this: we updated the <a title="Submit Your Content page" href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/submit_content.html" id="y80r">Submit Your Content</a> site and we launched our <a title="a blog" href="http://contentcentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/submit-your-content.html" id="f:ef">Content Central blog</a>. The goal of both of these resources is to inform and help the many organizations that distribute various types of content via Google Web Search, Maps, Product Search, Book Search, YouTube, iGoogle and more.<br /><br />So whether you're a plumber, a map data provider, a local government, a major media company or a museum, we have a wealth of information available to help you reach your audience through Google. Comments are open on the blog -- we look forward to hearing from you.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Patrick Jabal, Director, Content Partnerships</span>

Submitting your content to Google

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The next Internet

<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next ten years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We asked ten of our top experts this very question, and during September (our 10th anniversary month) we are presenting <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20at%2010">their responses</a>. As computer scientist Alan Kay has famously observed, the best way to predict the future is to invent it, so we will be doing our best to make good on our experts' words every day. - Karen Wickre and Alan Eagle, series editors</span><br /><br />Historically, the Internet has been all about connectivity between computers and among people. The World Wide Web opened enormous opportunities and motivations for the injection of content into the Internet, and search engines, such as Google's, provided a way for people to find the right content for their interests. Of course, the Internet continues to develop: new devices will find their way onto the net and new ways to access it will evolve.<br /><br />In the next decade, around 70% of the human population will have fixed or mobile access to the Internet at increasingly high speeds, up to gigabits per second. We can reliably expect that mobile devices will become a major component of the Internet, as will appliances and sensors of all kinds. Many of the things on the Internet, whether mobile or fixed, will know where they are, both geographically and logically. As you enter a hotel room, your mobile will be told its precise location including room number. When you turn your laptop on, it will learn this information as well--either from the mobile or from the room itself. It will be normal for devices, when activated, to discover what other devices are in the neighborhood, so your mobile will discover that it has a high resolution display available in what was once called a television set. If you wish, your mobile will remember where you have been and will keep track of RFID-labeled objects such as your briefcase, car keys and glasses. "Where are my glasses?" you will ask. "You were last within RFID reach of them while in the living room," your mobile or laptop will say.<br /><br />The Internet will transform the video medium as well. From its largely programmed, scheduled and streamed delivery today, video will become an interactive medium in which the choice of content and advertising will be under consumer control. Product placement will become an opportunity for viewers to click on items of interest in the field of view to learn more about them including but not limited to commercial information. Hyperlinks will associate the racing scene in <i id="y48e">Star Wars I</i> with the chariot race in <i id="y48e0">Ben Hur</i>. Conventional videoconferencing will be augmented by remotely controlled robots with an ability to move around, focus cameras and microphones, and perhaps even directly interact with the local environment under user control.<br /><br />The Internet will also become more closely integrated with other parts of our daily lives, and it will change them accordingly. Power distribution grids, for example, will become a part of the Internet's information universe. We will be able to track and manage electrical power demand and our automobiles will participate in the generation as well as the consumption of electricity. By sharing information through the Internet about energy-consuming and energy-producing devices and systems, we will be able to make them more efficient.<br /><br />A box of washing machine soap will become part of a service as Internet-enabled washing machines are managed by Web-based services that can configure and activate your washing machine. Scientific measurements and experimental results will be blogged and automatically entered into common data archives to facilitate the distribution, sharing and reproduction of experimental results. One might even imagine that scientific instruments could generate their own data blogs.<br /><br />These are but a few examples of the way in which the Internet will continue to surround and serve us in the future. The flexibility we have seen in the Internet is a consequence of one simple observation: the Internet is essentially a software artifact. As we have learned in the past several decades, software is an endless frontier. There is no limit to what can be programmed. If we can imagine it, there's a good chance it can be programmed. The Internet of the future will be suffused with software, information, data archives, and populated with devices, appliances, and people who are interacting with and through this rich fabric.<br /><br />And Google will be there, helping to make sense of it all, helping to organize and make everything accessible and useful.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist</span>

The next Internet

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Facts about our deal with Yahoo!

Some people have questions about our advertising agreement with Yahoo! and there are some misconceptions about it. So today we are putting facts about the deal on <a href="http://www.yahoogooglefacts.com/">a new website</a> to provide more information on the agreement and why it is good for consumers, advertisers and publishers. We'll be updating the site regularly, so check back when you have additional questions.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog Team</span>

Facts about our deal with Yahoo!

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Adobe users get help with Google Site Search

"No man is an island," the old saying goes. The same could be said of software: in an always-online world, even traditional desktop applications can become richer, faster, and easier to use by connecting people to information and to each other, right within the apps themselves.<br /><br />That's one of the things we thought about this week when we launched the <a href="http://tryit.adobe.com/us/cs4/family/?sdid=DOPDS" target="_blank">Adobe Creative Suite 4</a>, and why it seemed natural to work with Google to help customers search and find the information online they need to fully take advantage of the rich features Creative Suite offers.<br /><br />Now for the first time, Creative Suite applications tap directly into the new <a href="http://community.adobe.com/help/about.html" id="tnqw" title="http://community.adobe.com/help/about.html">Adobe Community Help</a> powered by <a href="http://www.google.com/sitesearch" target="_blank">Google Site Search</a>. Site Search enables us to selectively index only the most relevant information from the highest-quality community sites online. Our <a href="http://community.adobe.com/help/main" target="_blank">Google Site Search index</a> includes content such as product help, TechNotes, Developer Connection articles, and Design Center tutorials, as well as the best online content from the Adobe<br />community.<br /><br />What's the upshot? We've plugged the whole community brain trust right into the Suite and used the power of Google Site Search to do it. Creative Suite 4 customers can find fast, relevant information from our online communities, without ever having to leave their desktop work environments, making design faster and more fun. And because we've built the Adobe Flash Platform into the whole Suite, other developers can take these concepts even farther. This is just the start of great online integration to come.<br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/communityhelp/" id="di6_" title="http://blogs.adobe.com/communityhelp/">Find out more</a> about how Adobe is connecting customers to Adobe Community Help online from within Creative Suite 4. <br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by John Nack, Senior Product Manager, Adobe</span>

Adobe users get help with Google Site Search

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Online safety tips from Google and AARP

Now more than ever before, older Americans are logging on and surfing the web to stay in touch with family and friends, read websites and blogs, share photos, watch videos, and run online businesses. Like all Internet users, they're sometimes faced with unsafe activity online, such as viruses and malware, and they're looking for resources to learn how to keep their information on the web safe, private, and under their control.<br /><br />So we teamed up with <a href="http://www.aarp.org/">AARP</a> to launch a new video series that provides AARP members with helpful, easy-to-understand tips on how to stay safe online. It includes pointers on how to set privacy controls in online photo-sharing sites, configure firewalls to protect your computer, select safe and secure passwords for your online accounts, shop safely online, and avoid phishing scams. You can find the videos on AARP's <a href="http://www.aarp.org/onlinesafety">online safety page</a>, as well as on our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/googleprivacy">Privacy Channel</a> on YouTube.<br /><br />Here's a look at the first video, Safe Starts:<br /><br /><object height="350" width="425"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cdO670FOmFM"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cdO670FOmFM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed> </object><br /><br />Our team gave a sneak peek of the videos from our booth at the annual AARP member event, <a href="http://www.aarp.org/aarp_benefits/natl_events/aarp_benefits/natl_events/dc/?type=party">Life@50+</a>, earlier this month. We received lots of great feedback from AARP members. Even the most computer-savvy members found the videos helpful, and most folks who stopped by were eager to share them with friends and family members who are just getting started online.<br /><br />Check out the rest of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E5469A21B9F9E466">online safety video series</a>. We hope the tips in these videos raise awareness among Internet users of all ages about how to stay safe online.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Update (12:06 p.m.): </span>Nancy LeaMonde, AARP's Executive VP of Social Impact, just <a href="http://blog.aarp.org/shaarpsession/2008/09/nancy_leamond_enjoy_life_onlin.html">posted</a> tips from the video series on AARP's blog.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Shuman Ghosemajumder, Business Product Manager for Trust and Safety</span>

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Project 10^100

<span style="font-size:100%;">If you could suggest a unique idea that would help as many people as possible, what would it be?</span><br /><br />It's a question worth considering. Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life. Yet at the same time so many people (in all walks of life) could use some help, in small ways and big. In the midst of this, new studies are reinforcing the timeless wisdom that beyond a basic level of material wealth, the only thing that seems to increase individual happiness is... helping other people. In other words, help helps everybody.<br /><br />But what would help, and what would be most helpful? We don't believe we have the answers, but we do believe the answers are out there. Maybe in a lab, or a company, or a university -- or maybe not. Maybe the answer that helps somebody is in your head, in something you've observed, some notion that you've been fiddling with, some small connection you've noticed, some old way of doing something that you've seen with new eyes.<br /><br />To mark our 10th birthday and celebrate the spirit of our users and the web, we're launching <a href="http://www.project10tothe100.com/">Project 10^100</a> (that's "ten to the hundredth") a call for ideas that could help as many people as possible, and a program to bring the best of those ideas to life. CNN will be covering this project, including profiles of ideas and the people who submit them from around the world. For a deeper look, follow along at <a href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/">Impact Your World</a>.<br /><br />Ideas are due by October 20, 2008. Get started <a href="http://www.project10tothe100.com/how_it_works.html">submitting</a> your own ideas, and come back on January 27th to vote on ideas from others. We hope you feel inspired enough to try. Good luck, and may the ones who help the most win.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Andy Berndt, Managing Director, Google Creative Lab</span>

Project 10^100

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This year's Faculty Summit

Recently we hosted more than 90 distinguished faculty members from roughly 60 North American universities to the Googleplex for the <a href="http://www.google.com/events/facultysummit2008/agenda.html">4th Annual North American Faculty Summit</a>.<br /><br />This annual event is both an opportunity for us to showcase our latest research and products, and a chance to deepen our relationship with the academic community. Faculty have the chance to network with colleagues and students-turned-Googlers, and to learn about opportunities for collaboration with Google.<br /><br />Some of this year's highlights:<br /><ul><li>Roundtables - small group discussions with senior engineers</li><li>API demos - introducing applications of our most popular APIs: Google Data, Open Social, Geo, and Android</li><li>A technical panel I hosted, "Computing at Scale: Challenges and Opportunities" - comprised of Googlers Rob Pike and Urs Hoelzle as well as Jeanette Wing, Assistant Director for Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation, and Ed Lazowska, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington</li><li>Visits from our CEO, Eric Schmidt, who dropped by the opening cocktail reception, plus founders Larry & Sergey, who mingled at the reception and conducted the closing Q&A</li></ul>You can watch videos of the talks on our <a href="http://research.google.com/university/relations/">University Relations website</a>.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of Research & Special Initiatives</span>

This year's Faculty Summit

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