Monthly Archives: April 2011

Security checks are nobody’s cup of tea. We’ve never seen people go through airport baggage checks for fun. But while security measures are often necessary, that doesn’t mean they have to be painful. In that spirit, we’ve implemented several major … Continue reading →

For webmasters with self-hosted WordPress blogs, there’s now a Webmaster Tools site verification plugin for WordPress that completely automates our verification process! You can install it directly from the “Install Plugins” control panel built into your WordPress blog, or you … Continue reading →

Last week we sent an email to Google Video users letting them know we would be ending playbacks of Google Videos on April 29 and providing instructions on how to download videos currently hosted on the platform. Since then we’ve … Continue reading →

Steven Levy just wrote a new book about Google called In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives. It succeeds the most on the “how Google thinks” part–if you want to understand how Google thinks, get an … Continue reading →

From the presidential inauguration to the World Series to gorgeous cityscapes, for the past few years the GigaPan team at Carnegie Mellon University has been making it possible to explore breathtaking panoramic photos from around the world. GigaPan pioneered the … Continue reading →

I wanted to mention that Google’s search quality team is hiring. We work on everything from synonyms and spell correction to core ranking, UI changes, evaluation, and yes–even webspam. The sorts of people that do really well in Google tend … Continue reading →

Today we’re bringing the speed of Google Instant to the latest version of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. We’re also introducing a fresh, clean look that personalizes Toolbar with the tools you use most. Toolbar Instant If you’ve used Instant … Continue reading →

Over a month ago we introduced an algorithmic improvement designed to help people find more high-quality sites in search. Since then we’ve gotten a lot of positive responses about the change: searchers are finding better results, and many great publishers … Continue reading →

Exactly one year ago, we launched a new version of the Google updates document editor, created from the ground up to take advantage of the latest capabilities in modern web browsers like Chrome. In particular, we baked in a way … Continue reading →

We recently hosted our second site clinic, this time at TechHub in London, UK. Like last year, here’s our summary of the topics that came up. •    Title tags and meta description tags are easy ways to improve your site’s … Continue reading →