We launched Google Apps for Your Domain at the end of August, and since then we’ve been getting great feedback from people all over. Organizations from Thailand, Argentina, and even our neighbors in Palo Alto have set up private-label Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and spiffy customizable start pages for their custom domains. We think [...]
Ever since the latest version of the Google Toolbar for IE came out, Firefox users have been asking when they’ll see the same new features in their favorite browser. Well, we’ve been hard at work on a new version of the Toolbar for Firefox — Google Toolbar 3 Beta — that lets you access your [...]
In the information age, currency of information has high value. As someone who cannot see, I find having to skim many different news sites to stay caught up even more difficult than the average web user. As in most things, off-loading some of this work to the machine is the answer, and what better machine [...]
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[Matt Cutts]
If you’ve never read my blog before, welcome. I’m the head of the webspam team at Google. And I have a blog for days just like this.
Okay, first off you should go read this post. It’s entitled “Me Against Google” and the author is unhappy that talkorigins.org was nowhere to be found in Google [...]
Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses:
Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it’ll still get to your inbox. It’s called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here’s how it works: say your address is [...]
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Google announced today that they have completed the previously announced acquisition of YouTube.
The final price included $15 million in cash, 3,217,560 shares of Google Class A Common Stock, along with an additional 442,210 shares of restricted stock and warrants. The number of shares was determined by dividing the acquisition price, $1.65 billion, by an average [...]
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Official Google Blog: Gmail mobile client is live
The new Gmail for mobile client launching today began life as a challenge: What if we could develop a Gmail application for cell phones that was as powerful and as easy to use as the desktop version? What if it ran on hundreds of different mobile devices [...]
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Q: What do zippers, baby oil, brassieres and trampolines have in common?
A: No, the answer isn’t that they’re all part of the setup for a highly inappropriate joke. In fact, the above list (along with thermos, cellophane, escalator, elevator, dry ice and many more) are all words that fell victim to those products’ very success [...]
Eureka! Your own search engine has landed!
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could easily build a search engine on your blog or website tailored to the topics and areas you know and love the most? You’re not alone if you’d like that — we’ve heard from partners large and small, and users across the web [...]
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I was asked what The Fray sounded like by someone on line in a conversation. So I quickly did a Google search for the group to find that Google now allows for searching music by Artist, Album and by Song. They don’t link to actual music, but they do provide some good links [...]
