Monthly Archives: December 2010

Last month during National Novel Writing Month I decided to write a 50,000 word novel. My novel started like this: My name is Russ. I’m a journalism student, and I didn’t expect to be in jail. They took me to … Continue reading →

Last week, I sent a note to my team with some of my favorite tips and apps for Nexus S, which features Android 2.3, Gingerbread. A lot of Googlers liked it, so we thought some of you might enjoy it … Continue reading →

It’s been a bit more than five years now that our Webmaster Help Forum has been up and running, helping webmasters around the world. Over the years, over tens of thousands of users have discussed various topics in well over … Continue reading →

Google New York started in a Starbucks on 86th Street with one person in 2000—a scrappy, highly-caffeinated sales “team.” After moving to a larger office in Times Square, in 2006 we relocated to our current home in Chelsea, at 111 … Continue reading →

A New Year’s resolution In the spirit of the holidays, here at Google we wanted to take the time to help out those who spend their days making our world a better place: non-profit organizations. A few weeks back, we … Continue reading →

This month’s 30 day challenge is to learn a word a day. Frankly, this month is sort of a “take it easy” month as I recover from last month’s challenge to write a novel and catch up on a bunch … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, we announced a number of updates to Chrome and Chrome OS. For me, these announcements were among the most important of my working life—demonstrating the real power of computer science to transform people’s lives. It’s extraordinary how very … Continue reading →

Just in time for the holidays the Webmaster Tools team has updated the “Search queries” and “Links to your site” features. Search queries with top pages: Throughout the past year we’ve made some significant changes to the search queries feature … Continue reading →

It’s that time again! Next week I’ll record some new webmaster videos. I created a Google Moderator page where you can post questions or suggestions and vote topics up and down. I won’t be able to answer every single question, … Continue reading →

Growing up, December was always a favorite month of mine. School would let out for two weeks, snowflakes would start falling and I’d write my letter to Santa to remind him that I’d been especially good that year (and ask … Continue reading →