How Google Splash was made

Google Halloween Doodle 2011

A fun time-lapse video of the Google doodle team & friends carving giant pumpkins in the Halloween spirit. Shot on location at Google's Headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Music by Slavic Soul Party! Composed by Matt Moran.

Google Developer Stories

The Dead Sea Scrolls Online

The Dead Sea Scrolls are now online; a project of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, powered by Google technology.

How to use GIMP program to make a Google like colorful text logo

Google Data Center Efficiency Summit 2011

San Francisco pride 2010: Google!

The biggest group in the whole parade

Official Google Blog: An update on China

Official Google Blog: An update on China

Ever since we launched Google.cn, our search engine for mainland Chinese users, we have done our best to increase access to information while abiding by Chinese law. This has not always been an easy balance to strike, especially since our January announcement that we were no longer willing to censor results on Google.cn.

We currently automatically redirect everyone using Google.cn to Google.com.hk, our Hong Kong search engine. This redirect, which offers unfiltered search in simplified Chinese, has been working well for our users and for Google. However, it’s clear from conversations we have had with Chinese government officials that they find the redirect unacceptable—and that if we continue redirecting users our Internet Content Provider license will not be renewed (it’s up for renewal on June 30). Without an ICP license, we can’t operate a commercial website like Google.cn—so Google would effectively go dark in China.

That’s a prospect dreaded by many of our Chinese users, who have been vocal about their desire to keep Google.cn alive. We have therefore been looking at possible alternatives, and instead of automatically redirecting all our users, we have started taking a small percentage of them to a landing page on Google.cn that links to Google.com.hk—where users can conduct web search or continue to use Google.cn services like music and text translate, which we can provide locally without filtering. This approach ensures we stay true to our commitment not to censor our results on Google.cn and gives users access to all of our services from one page.

Over the next few days we’ll end the redirect entirely, taking all our Chinese users to our new landing page—and today we re-submitted our ICP license renewal application based on this approach.

As a company we aspire to make information available to users everywhere, including China. It’s why we have worked so hard to keep Google.cn alive, as well as to continue our research and development work in China. This new approach is consistent with our commitment not to self censor and, we believe, with local law. We are therefore hopeful that our license will be renewed on this basis so we can continue to offer our Chinese users services via Google.cn.

Posted by David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer

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 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

A new approach to China, Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk

Announced 3/22/2010:

Google stopped censoring their search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where Google are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via Google's servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk.

Source: Official Google Blog: A new approach to China: an update

Highlights from Google I/O 2009

A quick snapshot of Google I/O 2009.

Learn more about I/O at:
http://code.google.com/io

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http://www.twitter.com/goog...

Google Code Jam 2009

Google Code Jam is a coding competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time. The contest is all-inclusive: Google Code Jam lets you program in the coding language and development environment of your choice.

Google Code Jam starts in September, when you will compete in online rounds against contestants from around the world. From the ranks of those contestants will be chosen the 25 best, who will travel to Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. There, on Friday, November 13, they will compete for ACRush's title of Code Jam Champion.

Google CEO Resigns from Apple

Google CEO Eric Schmidt stepped down from Apple's board of directors, marking the end of their buddy-buddy relationship. What does this mean for the two companies?
http://www.newsy.com

Life at the Googleplex

A look at life at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA.

Google container data center tour

First presented at the Google Efficient Data Centers Summit, hosted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA on April 1, 2009.

For more information about the event or Google's data center efficiency efforts, please visit: http://www.google.com/corporate/green...

Googleplex

The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google, Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, near San Jose. The name Googleplex is a play on words, being a portmanteau of Google and complex, and a reference to googolplex, the name given to the large number 10^googol.



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