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Surfacing forum posts in search results

Today, we introduced a new search feature that makes it easier for you to find forum posts or discussions related to what you're searching for. This new addition to Google search results applies to sites that tend to have a large number of posts on a specific topic. When several different discussions on a site are relevant to your query, we indent them under the primary result and include the date of each post. So for instance, if you search for [<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=getting+from+rome+to+florence&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a">getting from rome to florence</a>] you will see, below the third result, a list of relevant discussions on various ways to get between these cities. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJOxl3eqY0Nx68H4S8yuwL6ImiY3oba9s80tLmuKNh1A4qH2JORzush7rrrABv2VEhcNNECA_NF5iqu6kyN_3NZKxdtQqJm7AWko6fl-D2GD9HPkCF7lnhkW4puvZv1vCvyYUaT5vcG5fN/s1600-h/search1.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387449568174270866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJOxl3eqY0Nx68H4S8yuwL6ImiY3oba9s80tLmuKNh1A4qH2JORzush7rrrABv2VEhcNNECA_NF5iqu6kyN_3NZKxdtQqJm7AWko6fl-D2GD9HPkCF7lnhkW4puvZv1vCvyYUaT5vcG5fN/s400/search1.png" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 118px;" /></a> It's always nice to know what others are saying about the best ways to get around (by boat or train) and how recent those comments are — especially if it's your first time traveling to Italy. We hope this feature gives you a deeper view into the relevant content available on sites throughout the web — even when that content spans multiple pages or discussions. At the same time, the main search results are diverse as always — so if you can't pinpoint a useful comment there's a list of relevant sites there to help. Posted by Johanna Wright, Director of Product Management and Devin Mullins, Software Engineer

Surfacing forum posts in search results

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Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally

How long would it take to translate all the world's web content into 50 languages? Even if all of the translators in the world worked around the clock, with the current growth rate of content being created online and the sheer amount of data on the web, it would take hundreds of years to make even a small dent. Today, we're happy to announce a new <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_tools">website translator gadget</a> powered by Google Translate that enables you to make your site's content available in 51 languages. Now, when people visit your page, if their language (as determined by their browser settings) is different than the language of your page, they'll be prompted to automatically translate the page into their own language. If the visitor's language is the same as the language of your page, no translation banner will appear. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA6NbLCcTEaDZ9_JYnlIsONYSJcSv3WSUY9aCQYv8SN-lTMEIiet-FN_OSFMow_r55e8wJsoSRsyzWdRTQXNB0LCo6_rz759qV_PPvrzPgQB0uoMnxSR84dkSgAMWrJjYRF2eB-Mi0uA_a/s1600-h/t1.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387372684702551298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA6NbLCcTEaDZ9_JYnlIsONYSJcSv3WSUY9aCQYv8SN-lTMEIiet-FN_OSFMow_r55e8wJsoSRsyzWdRTQXNB0LCo6_rz759qV_PPvrzPgQB0uoMnxSR84dkSgAMWrJjYRF2eB-Mi0uA_a/s400/t1.png" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 144px;" /></a> After clicking the Translate button, the automatic translations are shown directly on your page. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQCHqiVuuBC4cDhsF_Ze6hUWIUsq42y6YNU5X8AVJ8GPFA0tvRhTSFe1A0DLU4zCCN5B0AdFbJ7MYK2nzuP1Q8IIe0xPK0CAVFU55wjpcqkV6dmxGhL6_YjSHi_3wUFwnQof0l11b9a8Iz/s1600-h/t2.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387372690304581426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQCHqiVuuBC4cDhsF_Ze6hUWIUsq42y6YNU5X8AVJ8GPFA0tvRhTSFe1A0DLU4zCCN5B0AdFbJ7MYK2nzuP1Q8IIe0xPK0CAVFU55wjpcqkV6dmxGhL6_YjSHi_3wUFwnQof0l11b9a8Iz/s400/t2.png" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 144px;" /></a> It's easy to install — all you have to do is cut and paste a short snippet into your webpage to increase the global reach of your blog or website. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZWXck9PAMBArNcDV-xO1ODla1Pj8dx-em8t-_HLWv1L5_UhqNMKp58uClQ8YLzlB7jMrZQ6VjOHH8XrP97yEDjvpA6v4r7A7JlaMxvzavBch-P1S4o_fTIX00wrYv6IzdNvLlX8YxqWr0/s1600-h/t3.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387372699114096914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZWXck9PAMBArNcDV-xO1ODla1Pj8dx-em8t-_HLWv1L5_UhqNMKp58uClQ8YLzlB7jMrZQ6VjOHH8XrP97yEDjvpA6v4r7A7JlaMxvzavBch-P1S4o_fTIX00wrYv6IzdNvLlX8YxqWr0/s400/t3.png" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 244px;" /></a> Automatic translation is convenient and helps people get a quick gist of the page. However, it's not a perfect substitute for the art of professional translation. Today happens to be International Translation Day, and we'd like to take the opportunity to celebrate the contributions of translators all over the world. These translators play an essential role in enabling global communication, and with the rapid growth and ease of access to digital content, the need for them is greater than ever. We hope that professional translators, along with translation tools such as <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/translating-worlds-information-with.html">Google Translator Toolkit</a> and this <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_tools">Translate gadget</a>, will continue to help make the world's content more accessible to everyone. Posted by Jeff Chin, Product Manager

Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally

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Intermune Executive Convicted of Fraud

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/business/30drug.html">From today's New York Times </a>comes word of an unusual legal case, <blockquote> In a verdict that could strike fear into pharmaceutical industry executive suites, the former head of a drug company was convicted of wire fraud Tuesday for issuing what federal prosecutors called a misleading press release that contributed to off-label sales of his company’s drug. But the executive, W. Scott Harkonen, the former chief executive of InterMune, was acquitted by the federal jury in San Francisco of a related charge of off-label marketing itself, known as 'misbranding,' the Justice Department said. The case was unusual because off-label marketing cases are often settled with the company paying a fine. It is rare for prosecutors to press charges against individual executives. 'Today’s verdict demonstrates that pharmaceutical executives will not be able to hide behind a corporate shield when they promote drugs using false or fraudulent information,' Thomas P. Doyle, a special agent in the Food and Drug Administration’s office of criminal investigations, said in a statement Tuesday. InterMune’s drug, Actimmune, was approved for two rare genetic conditions. But the main sales of the drug, which peaked at $141million in 2003, came from an unapproved use: treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring of the lungs that can be fatal. InterMune conducted a large clinical trial testing Actimmune as a treatment for the lung disease. The drug did not achieve the goal of the trial, which was to improve lung function compared with a placebo. But InterMune found that if only the patients in the trial with mild or moderate disease were considered, those who got the drug lived longer than those who received the placebo. The company highlighted the 'survival benefit' in a news release, issued in August 2002. [Editor's note - if the primary study outcome was improvement of lung function, and the only 'positive' result was improvement of survival in one sub-group, that result may have been due to chance alone, due to multiple statistical comparisons. If one does analyses on multiple sub-groups and for multiple endpoints, the likelihood of finding a 'significant' result increases with the number of such analyses done.] Prosecutors said the news release was part of a scheme to induce off-label sales of Actimmune, also known as interferon gamma, which costs about $50,000 a year. [The company's attorney] Mr. Topel said interpretation of the clinical trial results was a matter of debate. 'One position in a scientific dispute has been criminalized — quite an astonishing thing,' Mr. Topel said in an interview. Wire fraud carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Dr. Harkonen, who remains free on bail, has not been sentenced. A medical doctor by training, he was chief executive of InterMune from February 1998 until June 2003. InterMune agreed to pay about $37 million in 2006 to settle charges related to Actimmune marketing. The company, based in Brisbane, Calif., also entered into a five-year corporate integrity agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services. In 2007, a second big trial of Actimmune found that the drug did not prolong lives of patients with pulmonary fibrosis. Sales of the drug have dwindled year by year. [Editor's note - this suggests again that the result in the sub-group from the first trial might have been a false positive due to multiple comparisons.]</blockquote> This case is unusual because it involved the prosecution of an individual who appeared to be responsible for the allegedly unlawful conduct. In most cases of unethical or unlawful conduct alleged on the part of health care organizations, at most it is the organization itself that has paid the penalty, usually in the form of a fine, sometimes accompanied by a corporate integrity agreement or deferred prosecution agreement. (See relevant posts <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/search/label/legal%20settlements">here</a>.) We have argued that such penalties applied to corporations do little to deter bad behavior. A fine can just be a cost of doing business. The cost of the fine may diffuse across the whole organization. For public for-profit corporations, the fine may finally be paid by stockholders (through lower dividends or lower stock appreciation), employees as a group (through lower pay), and customers, clients, or patients (through higher prices). So the penalty may ultimately be spread over a large number of people, hardly any of which were actually responsible for the bad behavior. The few people responsible, who could include people who implemented, directed, or approved the behavior, usually have suffered no consequences. So what is to deter such people from again behaving badly? So this case seems to be a step forward. One may argue whether off-label marketing should be illegal, but it currently is illegal. Corporate leaders who do not like this law ought to strive to change it, not violate it. If the law is to be upheld, when someone within a corporation implements, directs or approved illegal off-label marketing, then that person should suffer the consequences.

Intermune Executive Convicted of Fraud

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Surf's up Wednesday: Google Wave update

Starting Wednesday, September 30 we'll be sending out more than 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave to: <ul><li>Developers who have been active in the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/wave/">developer preview</a> we started back in June</li><li>The first users who signed up and offered to give feedback on <a href="http://wave.google.com/">wave.google.com</a></li><li>Select business and university customers of <a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html#utm_campaign=wave-ext-pre&utm_source=en-na-us-googleblog-wave-ext-pre&utm_medium=blog">Google Apps</a></li></ul>We'll ask some of these early users to nominate people they know also to receive early invitations — Google Wave is a lot more useful if your friends, family and colleagues have it too. This, of course, will just be the beginning. If all goes well we will soon be inviting many more to try out Google Wave. Some of you have asked what we mean by preview. This just means that Google Wave isn't quite ready for prime time. Not yet, anyway. Since <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ">first unveiling</a> the project back in May, we've focused almost exclusively on scalability, stability, speed and usability. Yet, you will still experience the occasional downtime, a crash every now and then, part of the system being a bit sluggish and some of the user interface being, well, quirky. There are also still key features of Google Wave that we have yet to fully implement. For example, you can't yet remove a participant from a wave or define groups of users, draft mode is still missing and you can't configure the permissions of users on a wave. We'll be rolling out these and other features as soon as they are ready — over the next few months. Despite all this, we believe you will find that Google Wave has the potential for making you more productive when communicating and collaborating. Even when you're just having fun! We use it ourselves everyday for everything from planning pub crawls to sharing photos, managing release processes and debating features to writing design documents. In fact, we collaborated on this very blog post with several colleagues in Google Wave. Speaking of ways you could potentially use Google Wave, we're intrigued by the many detailed ones people have taken the time to describe. To mention just a few: journalist Andy Ihnatko on <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/business/1606282,ihnatko-google-wave-060309.article">producing his Chicago Sun-Times column</a>, filmmaker Jonathan Poritsky on <a href="http://www.candlerblog.com/2009/06/05/google-wave-for-filmmakers-a-concept/">streamlining the movie-making process</a>, scientist Cameron Neylon on <a href="http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2009/06/08/google-wave-in-research-the-slightly-more-sober-view-part-i-papers/">academic papers</a> and <a href="http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2009/06/08/google-wave-in-research-part-ii-the-lab-record/">lab work</a>, Alexander Dreiling and his SAP research team on <a href="http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/15618%3Fpage%3Dlast%26x-order%3Ddate">collaborative business process modelling</a>, and ZDNet's Dion Hincliffe on a <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=400">host of enterprise use cases</a>. The Wave team's most fun day since May? We invited a group of students to come spend a day with us at Google's Sydney office. Among other things, we asked them to collaboratively write stories in Google Wave about an imaginary trip around the world. They had a ball! As did we...  <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2FOgogster%2Falbumid%2F5386680766808884449%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCMK8n7WI5cKRkQE%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> Finally, a big shoutout to the thousands of developers who have patiently taken part in our ongoing <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/wave/">developer preview</a>. It has been great fun to see the <a href="http://wave.google.com/help/wave/extensions.html">cool extensions already built or being planned</a> and incredibly instructive to get their help planning the future of our APIs. To get a taste for what some of these creative developers have been working on, and to learn more about the ways we hope to make it even easier for developers to build new extensions, check out this post on our <a href="http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-happened-in-wave-sandbox.html">developer blog</a>. Happy waving! Posted by Lars Rasmussen, Engineering Manager & Stephanie Hannon, Group Product Manager

Surf's up Wednesday: Google Wave update

Starting Wednesday, September 30 we'll be sending out more than 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave to: Developers who have been ...

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The Kelo Case Redux: Pfizer's "Nice Place" Ends Up Covered with Weeds

Four years ago we posted (<a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/07/kelo-case-pfizer-and-conflicts-of.html">here</a>, <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/10/pfizers-fingerprints-on-kelo-case.html">here</a> and <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/09/kelo-revisited-conflicts-of-interest.html">here</a>) about the controversial US Supreme Court decision in the Kelo case. Most discussion of the case at the time focused on individual property rights vs the power of the government to promote economic development, but the case had an important health care angle. Briefly, the case centered on the taking of private property, including a house owned by Susette Kelo, by a not-for-profit organization, the New London (Connecticut) Development Corporation (NLDC) given the power of eminent domain by the New London city government. While the ostensible rationale for the taking was economic development, the action appeared to have been at the behest of Pfizer Inc, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, which had built a research and development facility in the city, and wanted a suitably upscale and sanitized environment for its workers. As we <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/07/kelo-case-pfizer-and-conflicts-of.html">previously posted</a>, the NLDC's leadership had multiple conflicts of interest that involved ties to Pfizer. One board member was a Pfizer vice-president. The board president was married to another Pfizer vice-president. Pfizer wanted the part of New London that included Kelo's house made more attractive to complement its new research facility. The husband of the NLDC president had said, "Pfizer wants a nice place to operate. We don't want to be surrounded by tenements." Kelo's and other property owners' protest of the taking went all the way to the US Supreme Court. As we posted <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/07/kelo-case-pfizer-and-conflicts-of.html">here</a>, the Court decided against the property owners by a 5-4 vote. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority that the city's "determination that the area was sufficiently distressed to justify a program of economic rejuvenation is entitled to our deference. The city has carefully formulated an economic development plan that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including - but by no means limited to - jobs and increased revenues." This majority opinion is important, because the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution provides "nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation." Many had interpreted this provision to mean that eminent domain could only be used to take property for public use, e.g., to build a road or a public school, but not for private purposes, like building upscale waterfront developments. The Associated Press just <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jV-KB6t5TnnZ4pF71h4oAiviGOSgD9AUJS5O0">published</a> an ironic follow-up. <blockquote>Weeds, glass, bricks, pieces of pipe and shingle splinters have replaced the knot of aging homes at the site of the nation's most notorious eminent domain project. There are a few signs of life: Feral cats glare at visitors from a miniature jungle of Queen Anne's lace, thistle and goldenrod. Gulls swoop between the lot's towering trees and the adjacent sewage treatment plant. But what of the promised building boom that was supposed to come wrapped and ribboned with up to 3,169 new jobs and $1.2 million a year in tax revenues? They are noticeably missing. </blockquote> What happened? <blockquote>New London the city's prized economic development plan has fallen apart as the economy crumbled. The Corcoran Jennison Cos., a Boston-based developer, had originally locked in exclusive rights to develop nearly the entire northern half of the Fort Trumbull peninsula. But those rights expired in June 2008, despite multiple extensions, because the firm was unable to secure financing, according to President Marty Jones. </blockquote> So that was the result of the economic development plan the Supreme Court majority termed "carefully formulated." The lesson seems to be that when government makes policy to favor individual corporations, the results are bad policy and little public benefit. Government leaders often seem willing to favor specific health care organizations, rationalizing their actions in terms of economic development or promoting health and health care. Doing so may benefit the corporations involved, but rarely individual or public health. Although US local and national government officials have have increasingly practiced such corporate socialism, they have neglected their regulatory roles. Instead of picking winners and losers, government would do better to act like a combination of an honest policeman on the beat, deterring and punishing dishonest behavior, and in impartial referee, trying to make sure everyone is playing the game honestly. But no doubt government officials used to mingling with the corporate superclass would not be comfortable in the roles of honest cop or impartial referee.

The Kelo Case Redux: Pfizer's "Nice Place" Ends Up Covered with Weeds

Four years ago we posted ( here , here and here ) about the controversial US Supreme Court decision in the Kelo case. Most discussion of t...

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Keep up with the latest trends using Google Search

Today, we're launching a new web search feature that will help you stay in touch with the latest trends on the web. You might already be familiar with <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends">Hot Trends</a>, which lists the fastest rising searches on the web at any given hour. Now, when you search Google.com and your query matches one of the top 100 fastest-rising search terms, we'll show you a graph at the bottom of page, with more information — like how popular the query is, how fast it's rising over time, and other useful data. Below is a picture of what you'd find today if you searched for [<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=reina+capodici">reina capodici</a>], who just wed American Idol star Justin Guarini. Or try another example: [<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=gotthard+base+tunnel">gotthard base tunnel</a>], which is set to become the longest tunnel in the world. (But make sure you search for these examples today — nothing stays hot for long.) <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuS2faZA9w_xr08G9LYjkRRn5wXdrjflM5TkQIcjNYMKGe3RGC5mHfnhiW141HC6K9HyGlvVibklPCCe1Klk9wOMDkR7JrU7fL5yzD5pRZ_Riggy7nOa1NAh9G8BGusr3o_aKngynSFDQ2/s1600-h/dczchqb_44gm4wtkgz_b.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386654552957847554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuS2faZA9w_xr08G9LYjkRRn5wXdrjflM5TkQIcjNYMKGe3RGC5mHfnhiW141HC6K9HyGlvVibklPCCe1Klk9wOMDkR7JrU7fL5yzD5pRZ_Riggy7nOa1NAh9G8BGusr3o_aKngynSFDQ2/s400/dczchqb_44gm4wtkgz_b.png" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 95px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> <div>To coincide with this change, we've also reduced the number of trends listed on the Google Hot Trends homepage to 40 from 100. This feature, however, will show up for any query that matches the top 100. We hope this change will make for a simpler user experience, and help you focus better on the top, most interesting content. This new feature is available in the U.S. and Japan. We hope it will help you keep up with everything there's to know about the latest trends online. No more being out of the loop at your office watercooler! Posted by Aaron Wise, Associate Product Manager and Hiroshi Kuraoka, Product Manager </div>

Keep up with the latest trends using Google Search

Today, we're launching a new web search feature that will help you stay in touch with the latest trends on the web. You might already be...

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Back to school with Google Docs

As interns on the <a href="http://docs.google.com/">Google Docs</a> team this past summer, we were excited to be able to work on making Google Docs that much more useful for students like us. We've now added a bunch of back to school features which should help our fellow students make the transition from summer to school that much easier — and we hope they'll be useful to you non-students as well! We created an equation editor so you can easily complete problem sets online or write papers that include equations. If you're taking math, you can now take notes in class or answer questions using Google Docs. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji_4tIJnVHQAIM-GzzuBz09kVBrj3o7UH80t0fWUMiUqYiAC4mH0grSIFVaWxtNIriccNnxL9-T3vqFFXVkLgTNAgephrbMHnZPZRjOI8YJZYmULP6yGdxXpEqQUXLQPynNz97Nfh460u0/s1600-h/dcfknv9p_86ftfp26fj_b.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386583460730458354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji_4tIJnVHQAIM-GzzuBz09kVBrj3o7UH80t0fWUMiUqYiAC4mH0grSIFVaWxtNIriccNnxL9-T3vqFFXVkLgTNAgephrbMHnZPZRjOI8YJZYmULP6yGdxXpEqQUXLQPynNz97Nfh460u0/s400/dcfknv9p_86ftfp26fj_b.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" /></a> <div>In the same vein, we also added superscripts and subscripts — perfect for expressing chemical compounds or algebraic expressions: <iframe src="http://docs.google.com/present/embed?id=d7qpvbb_48cd8cr6d4" frameborder="0" width="410" height="342"></iframe> For language enthusiasts, we integrated <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/08/translate-documents-sharing-across.html">translation features</a> into Google Docs. You can translate either a single word or an entire document — handy for making sure you're on the right track when writing those foreign language essays. For those of you conducting surveys, we added a "Go to page based on answer" option in Google forms, making it easy to show participants only those questions that are relevant to them. <div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi97u6kMz8a9dQzmhUKJFeXjJc2E9eWHmWKfGmuamOKTFTpDlxaiMMw-FX83zdi6AJ_NW6eHCAdAHxDHOtCW0a3Kq8ocH-mwINWk8kZJUF_ZIo1AfK-_OjrmaPIqQjLgdA5k0r8FTKmQ9wp/s1600-h/dcfknv9p_85srpm76gx_b.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386583473535480386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi97u6kMz8a9dQzmhUKJFeXjJc2E9eWHmWKfGmuamOKTFTpDlxaiMMw-FX83zdi6AJ_NW6eHCAdAHxDHOtCW0a3Kq8ocH-mwINWk8kZJUF_ZIo1AfK-_OjrmaPIqQjLgdA5k0r8FTKmQ9wp/s400/dcfknv9p_85srpm76gx_b.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 289px;" /></a> </div><div>We also came up with a few features for humanities buffs. To make outlining term papers more customizable, we made it easy to select different bulleting styles for lists by adding an option to the format menu. And when that paper is written and ready to turn in, you now have the option to print footnotes as endnotes for a cleaner-looking paper. We hope these new features make collaboration in Google Docs even more convenient, whether you're editing group presentations from across campus or collecting survey data from friends. In fact, we've created this video to show how collaboration can even help you out with your "extracurricular" activities: <object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/A7y7NafWXeM&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/A7y7NafWXeM&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object> Posted by Rita Chen and Stephanie Vezich, Google Docs Summer Interns</div></div>

Back to school with Google Docs

As interns on the Google Docs team this past summer, we were excited to be able to work on making Google Docs that much more useful for stu...

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