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Saving electricity one data center at a time 
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 01 Oct. 2008
Hundreds of millions of users access our services through the web, and this traffic requires lots of computers. We strive to offer great Internet services while taking our energy use very seriously. That's why, nearly a decade ago, we started work to optimize the energy efficiency of our servers and later set out to build the most environmentally sustainable data centers possible. We now believe t
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Your YouTube video: Hot or Not?
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
YouTube Insight has helped millions of you learn more about your YouTube videos and figure out when, where, and why your videos are popular. But what if you could learn not just which of your videos are hot on the site, but which specific parts of those videos are hotter than others? What if you could know exactl
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The ONE News YouTube Election Debate in New Zealand
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
Over the course of the long U.S. Presidential election campaign, millions of people have checked out the candidates' YouTube Channels on our You Choose '08 platform, and communicated directly with all those running for President. Thousands more submitted questions for candidates in the CNN/YouTube debates, participated in our
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Ten years and counting
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Sat, 27 Sep. 2008
The Google doodle tradition started a long time ago (in summer 1999, in fact) when Larry and Sergey put a stick figure on the homepage to signify that they were out of the office at
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Submitting your content to Google
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
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 Submit Your Content
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Online safety tips from Google and AARP
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
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, pri
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Project 10^100
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
If you could suggest a unique idea that would help as many people as possible, what would it be?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
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This year's Faculty Summit
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
Recently we hosted more than 90 distinguished faculty members from roughly 60 North American universities to the Googleplex for the 4th Annual North American Faculty Summit.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 aca
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The first Android-powered phone
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
Today, T-Mobile announced the world's first Android-powered phone. This marks an important milestone in the young history of Android. It was less than a year ago, on November 5, that the Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies,
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NYC transit directions have arrived
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
Today I'm happy to report we've taken a giant step in bringing public transit information to Google Maps. We've just added comprehensive transit info for the entire New York metro region, encompassing subway, commuter rail, bus and ferry services from the Metropolitan Transit Agency (MTA), the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Transit and the City of New York. That means this i
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Book Search spreads its wings with new partnerships and tools
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Mon, 22 Sep. 2008
You probably know that you can use Google Book Search to search the full text of books -- and that, thanks to universal search, you can find many of these books doing a regular Google search as well.Today, we're announcing a new set of partnerships and tools to bring even more books to the people who are looking for them. We've partnered with booksel
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Changes in Phoenix
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Fri, 19 Sep. 2008
At Google, engineering is everything - no great engineers, no life enhancing products, no happy users. So we've spent a lot of time structuring our engineering operations to make the most of the exceptional talent that's available across America - developing local centers that give engineers the autonomy and opportunity to be truly innovative. These principles have served us well as we've grown,
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Google Maps for mobile now with Street View and walking directions
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 17 Sep. 2008
Today we added new features to Google Maps for Mobile that will help you see a location, find out what people are saying about it, and learn how to get there on foot -- all from the convenience of your phone. Street View imagery, walking directions and business reviews are now available for BlackBerry and many Java-enabled phones.
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Partnering with GE on clean energy
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 17 Sep. 2008
Today we announced that we're joining forces (PDF file) with GE to use technology, information and corporate resources to drive the changes necessary to empower consumers with better energy choices. We will focus on improving power generatio
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Let's hear it for Google scholarship winners
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 16 Sep. 2008
Across the world, the participation of women and minorities in computer science is at an all-time low. According to studies conducted by the National Science Foundation, the annual graduation rate for women in computer science is just 22%, just 6.5% for Hispanic students, 4.8% for African American students, and under 1% for American Indian students. As part of our global effort to increase diversi
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Google Audio Indexing now on Google Labs
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 16 Sep. 2008
Nearly two months ago, we introduced the Google Elections Video Search gadget on iGoogle, a tool that transcribes and indexes the spoken content on YouTube's
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Follow your favorite blogs
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Thu, 11 Sep. 2008
Some people dream of being a rock star, while others just want a few discerning souls to become avid rea
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At the Republican Convention: Politics in the cloud and on the ground
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 09 Sep. 2008
After Hurricane Gustav blew through and Americans started searching for Sarah Palin, the Google and YouTube teams got down to business at the Republican Convention.A large part of Google's work with the convention lived in t
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Introducing the winners of the Android Developer Challenge I
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Fri, 29 Aug. 2008
Less than a year ago, we announced the Android Developer Challenge, a two-part contest for developers to design engaging, innovative mobile applications for Android to the tune of $10 million total in award
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Model your campus in Mexico using SketchUp
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
Back in February we told you about the 2008 Model Your Campus Competition, a call for students to submit 3D models of their college campuses created with Google SketchUp. We got submissions from
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