Permanent Google PAC-MAN

It's very successful the 30th anniversary PAC-MAN doodle. Due to popular demand, Google make the game permanently available at www.google.com/pacman.

Keeping up-to-date on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

It is estimated that at least 6 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon explosion a month ago. Cleanup efforts are underway, but the oil has spread extensively around the Gulf and along the southern U.S. coastline. Oil has begun washing up on the beaches of Louisiana and the delicate wetlands along the Mississippi River, and can spread to Florida and throughout the Gulf as weather conditions change. This sequence of images, coming from NASA’s MODIS satellites, illustrates the movement and growth of the oil slick over the past few weeks:


You can view this and other MODIS imagery in Google Earth by downloading this KML. You can also view additional imagery and find other resources and news at our oil spill crisis response page.

Source: Official Google Blog: Keeping up-to-date on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.

Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet. Watch an overview video below, sign up for updates, and learn more about how to develop for Google TV.

Google Storage for Developers

Google are introducing Google Storage for Developers to a limited number of developers at this time. During the preview, each developer will receive up to 100GB of data storage and 300GB monthly bandwidth at no charge. To learn more and sign up for the waiting list, please visit the website.

Google Storage for Developers is a RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure. The service combines the performance and scalability of Google's cloud with advanced security and sharing capabilities. Highlights include:

Fast, scalable, highly available object store

• All data replicated to multiple U.S. data centers
• Read-your-writes data consistency
• Objects of hundreds of gigabytes in size per request with range-get support
• Domain-scoped bucket namespace

Easy, flexible authentication and sharing

• Key- or email-based authentication
• Authenticated downloads from a web browser
• Individual- and group-level access controls

Source: Google Code Blog: Google Storage for Developers: A Preview

Today Google Logo: 170th Birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Doodle produced with San Francisco Ballet

Google UK Logo on 6 May 2010

Google Virtual Keyboard element

With the AJAX Language API for Virtual Keyboard, you can enable the onscreen keyboard on any textfield or textarea in your webpage. This will help your website users to type in any language using their familiar keyboard layouts.

What is a virtual keyboard? A virtual keyboard is used to translate the input from one keyboard layout to another.

• It allows users to type their own languages on foreign keyboards, when they're traveling abroad, or living in a country where their language is not official, and the like.
• For disabled users that cannot use a physical keyboard, onscreen keyboard provides an alternative way to type by mouse clicking.
• Another major use for an on-screen keyboard is for bi- or multi-lingual users, who continually need to switch between different character sets and/or alphabets.

Adding a virtual keyboard to your site just got easier with the Google Virtual Keyboard element. After choosing a keyboard layout, copy and paste the HTML into your page and voila, a virtual keyboard will be able to enter characters into any text input or text area on your page.