What do students want to tell the next president?

Two weeks ago, I spent a day with Dr. Ellen Shelton and her 11th grade Advanced Placement English students at Tupelo High School in Tupelo, Mississippi. Ellen's students are participating in <span style="font-style: italic;">Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future</span>, an online writing and publishing project sponsored by Google and the <a href="http://www.nwp.org/">National Writing Project</a>.<br /><br />During the U.S. presidential campaign season, thousands of middle and high school students (ages 13-18) are writing persuasive letters and essays to the presidential candidates about the issues and concerns that they'd like the next president to address. Teachers are using Google Docs to incorporate online editing, peer review, and revisions, and students are publishing their letters online for their peers, parents, and the public to read.<br /><br />At Tupelo High, Ellen's students told me that they were writing about issues such as <a href="http://www.letters2president.org/issues/health%20care">health care</a>, <a href="http://www.letters2president.org/issues/Education">education</a>, <a href="http://www.letters2president.org/issues/economy">the economy</a>, and <a href="http://www.letters2president.org/issues/gas%20prices">the price of gas</a>. I was impressed not only by the variety of issues they were covering, but also by how they were able to describe how these issues affect their lives as well as their family and friends. Although most of Ellen's students will be too young to vote on Nov. 4, it is heartening to know that they were making a difference by voicing their thoughts through their writing.<br /><br />So far, 962 students from 46 schools have published letters on our <a href="http://www.letters2president.org/">project website</a>, and during the next few weeks, there will be thousands more. You can also find out what issues matter to <a href="http://www.letters2president.org/classes/1648-ellen-shelton">Ellen's students</a> and students from other parts of the U.S.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnIFUq5CY2i-8BXpKosa3xDV8ViKp-8iSfhFrnXXp7o9DRudn0Z8oX7xpLvtxV_RZi_kQgNxGrnHUwNht8829Wp4azOs7XC3nQf3GO_cRRJ4wcJMyBvK1tkhYUovvtHwp-8OtUirbkjyjH/s1600-h/google+shelton+039.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260079090671975186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnIFUq5CY2i-8BXpKosa3xDV8ViKp-8iSfhFrnXXp7o9DRudn0Z8oX7xpLvtxV_RZi_kQgNxGrnHUwNht8829Wp4azOs7XC3nQf3GO_cRRJ4wcJMyBvK1tkhYUovvtHwp-8OtUirbkjyjH/s400/google+shelton+039.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Photo credit: Will White, Tupelo Hi-Times</span><br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Andrew Chang, Google Docs Marketing Manager</span>

What do students want to tell the next president?

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Greater access to voting information

At Google, we pride ourselves on helping people find things on the Internet. And every four years in America, <a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=where+to+vote%2C+register+to+vote&ctab=0&geo=US&geor=all&date=all&sort=0">Google Trends</a> shows that people are searching to find voting information, like how to register and where to vote.<br /><br />It's hard to believe that in 2008, information so important to U.S. citizens and the democratic process isn't well organized on the web. To solve this problem, we've released our <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/mapplets/elections/2008/us-voter-info/us-voter-info.xml">US Voter Info site</a>, an effort to simplify and centralize voting locations and registration information.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDvixn5_6AlwyDhP_r1qQvMqt2AN0J6zc168iJ06aaN9kVxhfipFBgpyJLzhpfdkEOMHAotSzUWWq9y6KBARtIAXkEYLjUp5uBOxDJm3wZwYFR44LKa8paNIYd318LDrTUfiwdCvg_hVs/s1600-h/Picture+1.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259763315481558002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDvixn5_6AlwyDhP_r1qQvMqt2AN0J6zc168iJ06aaN9kVxhfipFBgpyJLzhpfdkEOMHAotSzUWWq9y6KBARtIAXkEYLjUp5uBOxDJm3wZwYFR44LKa8paNIYd318LDrTUfiwdCvg_hVs/s320/Picture+1.png" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br />We developed the site in the hope that it will increase voter participation. We were helped by a number of partners, including many state and local election officials, the <a href="http://www.lwv.org/Election2008/index.html">League of Women Voters</a>, the <a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/">Pew Charitable Trusts</a>, and others involved in the <a href="http://votinginformationproject.org/">Voting Information Project</a>.<br /><br />Are you registered to vote? What's the best way to obtain an absentee ballot? When people visit the site, answers to these questions appear. And anyone with a website can provide the same information. The <a href="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&url=http://election-maps-2008.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/poll411-gadget.xml">US Voter Info gadget</a> places a simple search box that expands to show a full set of voter information when someone enters an address.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKcvRbywFfBbWIOhOrh9mzDWl-cv30A8-rdFJ969p7SxTR9AvXuFqGUpCKl8ZhxqVZbFlGmoNuHLSAtPxZzAoziSXae_XZ8vpp_zo7S8a4ffEOTnPelBISO6jiRP6N-4nn7bXMJUzVbORA/s1600-h/Picture+26.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259347117131769698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKcvRbywFfBbWIOhOrh9mzDWl-cv30A8-rdFJ969p7SxTR9AvXuFqGUpCKl8ZhxqVZbFlGmoNuHLSAtPxZzAoziSXae_XZ8vpp_zo7S8a4ffEOTnPelBISO6jiRP6N-4nn7bXMJUzVbORA/s400/Picture+26.png" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br />We are also offering a simpler way to find out <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/mapplets/elections/2008/us-voter-info/us-voter-info.xml">where to vote</a>. By entering a home address, citizens across the country will be able to find their polling place for election day.<br /><br />To encourage political participation, we've opened up this data to third-party sites and developers through an API developed by Dan Berlin, one of our open-source engineers. We're excited to share this data, and hope that others will find it useful in encouraging citizens to vote.<br /><br />Organizing information is our mission. We do that every day with web content, and we want to do the same thing with information to inform and empower voters and to help them get to the polls this election season.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by JL Needham, Public Sector Content Partnerships, and Abe Murray, Product Manager</span>

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Google Treasure Hunt winners abound

The time has come to announce the conclusion of the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-treasure-hunt-update.html">2008 Google Treasure Hunt</a> competition. More than 100,000 people worldwide tackled the puzzles we designed, and we received correct answers from more than 30 countries and five different continents.<br /><br />Congratulations to our grand prize winner, Sophia Dichomides, whose speed and skill won her a MacBook Air. And we'd also like to extend a hearty congratulations to all of the other master treasure hunters who braved the high seas and shifting time zones to solve all four puzzles the fastest, as well as to the hundreds of winners who received Google Treasure Hunt T-shirts. Thanks to everyone who participated. Be sure to keep your spyglass on the horizon for future contests.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Grand Prize (MacBook Air winner)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Sophia Dichomides (Australia)</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">First Mates (iPod Touch winners)</span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Alok Ladsariya (India)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">David Bidorff (France)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Vincent Zanotti (France)</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Second Mates (iPod Nano winners)</span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Alex North (Australia)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Alicja Krajnik (Poland)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Artur Makutunowicz (Poland)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Benoit Boissinot (France)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">David Poblador (Spain)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Dmitry Kim (Russia)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Graham Dennis (Australia)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Gregorio Guidi (Italy)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Jared Brothers (USA)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Jérémy Selier (France)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Kartikaya Gupta (Canada)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Lucas Bergman (USA)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Manuel Freire (Spain)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Mariano Faraco (Argentina)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Matthew Imhoff (Australia)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Nathan Kitchen (USA)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Nelson Castillo (Colombia)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Paul Cowan (Australia)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Perry Lorier (New Zealand)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Qiang Fu (Australia)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Tanaeem Moosa (Bangladesh)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Xuân Baldauf (Germany)</span><br /></li></ul><span class="byline-author">Posted by Phillip Grasso, Manager, Engineering/Operations</span>

Google Treasure Hunt winners abound

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Is your house haunted by high energy prices?

Halloween is nearly upon us; the days are getting shorter and Google is gearing up for one of our favorite holidays. But as the temperature drops, the price you pay each month to power your home might start to make your blood run cold. Fear not! We've created a handy <a href="http://www.google.com/hauntedhouse08/index.html">energy saving calculator</a> to help you see how simple steps can help you save money for treats -- and ward off scary carbon emissions. We've also put together a <a href="http://www.google.com/hauntedhouse08/tips.html">webpage full of tricks</a> to help you save energy -- and money. (For inspiration for this idea, we want to thank the U.S. Department of Energy.)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZYtf-kxKQOX-nQt0pjkGeQzE6NPrsqlqvT2IG2XEmxKi5nblAtAWPiCYiq6qTJnwBG1Ia2I2KE94OcXyrWN1RFP9wE4K6NK4sDM81NdXmH01BkIxhHDXfuCaNEXpGUrnF3fuEP1UgdxW8/s1600-h/treepumpkin.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259640287363844722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZYtf-kxKQOX-nQt0pjkGeQzE6NPrsqlqvT2IG2XEmxKi5nblAtAWPiCYiq6qTJnwBG1Ia2I2KE94OcXyrWN1RFP9wE4K6NK4sDM81NdXmH01BkIxhHDXfuCaNEXpGUrnF3fuEP1UgdxW8/s320/treepumpkin.gif" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a>It's the perfect time of year to talk about efficiency since many of the energy-wasters in our homes are named after the ghouls of Halloween. Our living rooms may be infested with "vampire" electronics that suck power even when turned off. And open chimney flues let the "ghosts" of winter steal our heat (not to mention the "monster" furnace that lives in the basement). By taking small steps to ward off these ghouls of inefficiency, you can save cold, hard cash. By <a href="http://hearth.com/econtent/index.php/wiki/Seal_Fireplace_Damper/">one estimate</a>, if the 80% of Americans who leave their fireplace flue open all winter all simply closed the damper, we could save over $6 billion a year. That's a lot of candy corn!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by David Bercovich, Project Manager, and Dan Reicher, Director Climate Change & Energy Initiatives, Google.org</span>

Is your house haunted by high energy prices?

Halloween is nearly upon us; the days are getting shorter and Google is gearing up for one of our favorite holidays. But as the temperature ...

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A Googlicious time

For a lot of us who work here, there's one thing that defines the culture more than anything else: the food. We have a passion for every edible item offered, from the ubiquitous organic fruit to the rotisserie leg of lamb with smoked shallot marmalade, mahi-mahi with coconut milk & lime in banana leaf, or the oysters with cilantro mignonette (and yes, the meals are free). But we're also accustomed to having our amazing culinary team do the work while we try to deploy our ingenuity in front of computers (and in devising new ways to work off the extra weight).<br /><br />So last week some Googlers decided to see if the creativity that they bring to their jobs could be applied to other arenas. Charlie's Patio on our Mountain View campus was the site of the first-ever Google (Free) Bake Sale. More than 30 teams used the cafe kitchens and worked with our chefs to create delectables in five categories: cookies, cupcakes, confections, dessert bars, and pies. Everyone who stopped by was given 5 marbles to vote for their favorites.<br /><br />What did we discover? Most Googlers prefer <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/googgman/GoogleFreeBakeSale2008#5257918691310136594" target="_blank">a hands-on approach</a> to their endeavors. Some put their efforts into looking the part, whether that meant dressing as <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/googgman/GoogleFreeBakeSale2008#5257918552167987842" target="_blank">the bakers</a> or as <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/googgman/GoogleFreeBakeSale2008#5257918934641030818" target="_blank">the food</a>, while others chose to focus on the <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/googgman/GoogleFreeBakeSale2008#5257920795711410610" target="_blank">presentation</a> of their creation. Pastry designs ran the gamut from <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/googgman/GoogleFreeBakeSale2008#5257920079594422658" target="_blank">the elemental</a> to the <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/googgman/GoogleFreeBakeSale2008#5257921190092036066" target="_blank">slightly fishy</a>, from the <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/googgman/GoogleFreeBakeSale2008#5257920169347105410" target="_blank">basic</a> to the <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/googgman/GoogleFreeBakeSale2008#5257920993257595570" target="_blank">elaborate</a>. It can never be said that Googlers don't eat our own <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/googgman/GoogleFreeBakeSale2008#5257919813714378322" target="_blank">dogfood</a>. At the very least, the people who attended the event left with a smile on their faces and enough ingested sugar to turn their blood to cola.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhftr6QB6IniM6C79q6tr-ZmQazq7aQJtFbn4ziKYVeofn_5j85_J5fedXxUnLwNSGoo8qPh3qHPmBmiIWpvzF8ocJUe5imA-GxXYhP5h3qdfXE7PAo_oWFZiRRP6OqkSuLTM-WFPOfuzBL/s1600-h/desserts_googlicious.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258953975367941090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhftr6QB6IniM6C79q6tr-ZmQazq7aQJtFbn4ziKYVeofn_5j85_J5fedXxUnLwNSGoo8qPh3qHPmBmiIWpvzF8ocJUe5imA-GxXYhP5h3qdfXE7PAo_oWFZiRRP6OqkSuLTM-WFPOfuzBL/s320/desserts_googlicious.gif" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a>More importantly we learned that, even in a skittish economy, it's possible to find ways to keep morale high -- and nothing does it as well as chocolate. With a little creativity, some motivation, and a culture that embraces fun (and food!) as a necessary component of our work, inspiration will flow, and spirits (and blood-sugar levels) will run high. One proof point: <span><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/googgman/GoogleFreeBakeSale2008#5257920741789306178" target="_blank">Recession-Proof Brownies</a></span>.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Ben Bayer, Master of Space and Time, Google Research</span>

A Googlicious time

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Give your gadgets some space

This week we launched a set of new features to all <a href="http://www.google.com/ig">iGoogle</a> users in the U.S. These features were designed to make it more powerful and bring more information to the homepage.<br /><br />At the heart of this release is a feature we call "canvas view," which gives you the option to maximize your gadgets into full-screen mode. To use the Gmail gadget as an example, previously, you could only get a quick snippet of your Gmail messages on iGoogle. Now you can maximize Gmail to fully read and reply to your messages.<br /><br />Comics. Games. Feeds. Photos. All of these get better when you give them some space. And to give you fast, one-click access to maximize your gadgets, we've introduced a new left-navigation model. This is a good way to navigate to these new, richer applications, and it makes space for more features you'll see in the coming months.<br /><br />We invite you to <a href="http://www.google.com/help/ig/tour">take a tour</a> of all the new features, and hope you'll give us a chance to show you why we're excited about the evolution of iGoogle.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Jessica Ewing, Group Product Manager, iGoogle</span>

Give your gadgets some space

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High-powered search for Arabic-speaking engineers

When I first started working at Google in 2006 I was amazed to see that the fabled <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/googles-20-percent-time-in-action.html" id="yrod" title="20% time">20% time</a> really existed, and that it was up to me to decide how to use it. Being of Egyptian descent and having lived in Canada and the U.S., I became increasingly interested in Google's international work. Based on my interests and background, I helped assemble a team of Arabic-speaking engineers and we began to spend 20% of our time on developing Arabic-language products. Over time this has become a more formal effort, so I'm really happy to tell you that today we're stepping up our commitment to users in the Middle East by hiring full-time engineers familiar with the Arabic language and its engineering challenges.<br /><br />The reality is that in many countries across Middle East and North Africa (MENA) there is only single-digit Internet penetration rate. On the other hand, there are over 330 million Arabic speakers worldwide, many of them hungry for the information, interactivity, and opportunities that the Internet can provide. As more Arabic speaking people come online -- the vast majority via mobile phones -- our team wants to help provide effective and useful products in their native language. For example, despite the fact that there are millions of Arabic speakers worldwide, only approximately 1% of all of the content online is in Arabic. We want to build tools to make content creation even easier for our Arabic-speaking users, encouraging them to connect, share and interact with each other, and with other users around the world.<br /><br />This isn't easy. Creating an Arabic-language product is actually significantly harder than for most other languages. As mentioned in a previous post about our <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/hitting-40-languages.html" id="eycd" title="40 language initiative">40 language initiative</a>, Arabic is written from right to left. An Arabic speaker searching for [Ramadan TV series schedule 2008] (a very popular query during Ramadan) would type [مواعيد مسلسلات رمضان 2008]. Part of the query will be <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/searching-rght-to-left.html" id="qr.221" target="_blank" title="written in one direction">written from right to left in Arabic</a> while the numbers will be written left to right. Sometimes the right-to-left difference can mean having to change the entire layout of a page, as with Gmail.<br /><br />As you can see, just delivering products in Arabic is challenging, but we also believe the differences mean that the capabilities of the products can be different. There are a large number of new, innovative features and products that need to be created to properly serve the Arabic markets, many of which have fundamental computer science challenges.<br /><br />Intrigued? Google is looking for the best Arabic engineer minds to join the first dedicated team focused on tackling these engineering challenges. Our goal is to put together a top-notch Arabic engineering team. I am passionate about building an exceptional global team of engineers whose job it will be to design and develop innovative products and features that meet the needs of our Arabic speaking users. I was initially attracted to this challenge because I knew that my work at Google could easily have an impact on tens of millions of people around the world. It especially excites me that for a language that has been underserved to date, we'll be making product innovations that can have a material effect on the future of the region.<br /><br />Google has been formally recognized in <a href="http://www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/best/list-uk.htm">the UK</a> and in <a href="http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0801/gallery.bestcos_top50.fortune/index.html">the U.S.</a> and publicized worldwide for our unique work environment. The first question I always get from people after they find out I work here is, "Is what we've heard about Google really true?" The short answer: Yes. Two of our offices have slides, and one actually has a firepole between floors. We have numerous gourmet cafes that are free. We have massage therapists available in many locations. And the list goes on. It is truly a fun and rewarding place to work. But what I think what is most exceptional about Google is that we bring our own unique culture to every country we open an office in, and blend it with the uniqueness of the local culture.<br /><br />Interested in joining our effort? Well if you've heard anything about our interview process, you probably know that simply put, it's tough, but for good reason. When I interviewed two years ago I went through many intense interviews. You're expected to be well versed in areas such as coding, data structures, algorithms, designing large scale systems and, depending on the role, you might be asked leadership questions. Having a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science definitely helped, but it was still grueling. The interview process was less about what I had memorized from the past (fact-based questions) but instead included questions that showed my ability to apply what I had learned to problem sets that I had never encountered before. I came out of the interview with a deep respect for this style because Google hires the best of the best, and it shows in the rigor of the hiring process.<br /><br />Are you a great engineer familiar with Arabic speaking skills? We're looking for engineers with the regional knowledge and Arabic language expertise to make Google products more relevant to this important population and to build new products for the global market. If you're interested, please visit <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=intl.html&jobslc=addlocationsemea" id="yo_d" title="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=intl.html&jobslc=addlocationsemea">our job center</a> and apply for one of the open positions. You could be a part of a team that will positively affect the lives of millions of Arabic users around the world.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3NqKwQsrkNrQznPXEOOZC-6qxsYl1EfsxrSeGDJ5OSmktp0cXto2TSe5YuWFeO77Jhn9W416mdB2akvVN60JjvwufDJHgwQlk8Qc_v3h9bL1L28_BTp2lwfOrcsGvULYkygmTV2neckdC/s1600-h/Arab-engineers.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257186178036495970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3NqKwQsrkNrQznPXEOOZC-6qxsYl1EfsxrSeGDJ5OSmktp0cXto2TSe5YuWFeO77Jhn9W416mdB2akvVN60JjvwufDJHgwQlk8Qc_v3h9bL1L28_BTp2lwfOrcsGvULYkygmTV2neckdC/s320/Arab-engineers.JPG" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Some of our engineers working on Arabic products (L to R): </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Mohamed Elfeky, </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Adel Youssef, </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Amgad Zeitoun, </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ahmad Hamzawi.</span></span><br /></div><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Ahmad Hamzawi, Engineering Manager, MENA</span>

High-powered search for Arabic-speaking engineers

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