Monthly Archives: January 2011
Google Science Fair seeks budding Einstein’s and Curies
Are you a student who loves science? Do you have a good idea for an experiment that you’d like to share with the world? In 1996, two young computer science students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had a hypothesis that … Continue reading
Custom Search integrated into Go Daddy websites
Go Daddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar and top web hosting provider, has made it easy for website owners to integrate Google Custom Search into their websites through its WebSite Tonight product. Website tonight is a do-it-yourself service that … Continue reading
Video Sitemaps & mRSS vs. Facebook Share & RDFa
What are the benefits of submitting feeds like Video Sitemaps and mRSS vs. the benefits of Facebook Share and RDFa? Is one better than the other? Let’s start the discussion. Functionality of feeds vs. on-page markup Google accepts information from … Continue reading
Google Apps highlights – 1/7/2011
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subscribe to the series. – Ed. It’s a new year, and we have new … Continue reading
Sending Video Sitemaps Q&A holiday cheer
To the fabulous, savvy audience that attended our Video Sitemap webinar several months ago, please accept our re-gift: a summary of your questions from the Video Sitemaps Q&A! To those who were unable to attend the webinar, please enjoy our … Continue reading
My predictions for 2009
Everybody is throwing out predictions for 2011, so I thought I’d do something different. Here are some of my predictions for 2009. Wha wha wha?? That’s right: 2009. As 2008 drew to a close, I jotted down some predictions, but … Continue reading
30 day challenge: learn 30 new words
For the record, here’s the words I ended up learning this month: ana: the collection of memorable sayings, writings, or other information of an interesting person. brumous: misty, foggy capax: legally competent daggle: to soil by dragging in the mud … Continue reading
Improving our help content: stocking stuffers in our Help Center
We provide lots of information for webmasters across many different channels — you can stay up to date with the latest features here on our blog, browse articles in our Help Center, have discussions in our forums (in 17 languages!), … Continue reading
Google blogging in 2010
On the last day of 2010, it’s time for us to reflect on the past year of Google blogging. This year, we published 454 posts (including this one) on the Official Google Blog—7 percent more than 2009. Those posts had … Continue reading




