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Introducing Picasa for Mac (at Macworld!) 
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Sometimes I find it hard to describe Picasa without sounding like a late-night infomercial for a multi-bladed thingamabob: "It's a photo organizer! A photo editor! A web-savvy photo sharing and management system in just one tiny package!"We try hard to avoid hyperbole around here, but it's true that Picasa software, working together with
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Google blogging in 2008
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 31 Dec. 2008
Every year right about now we round up our blogging activity across Google. Ready? Here goes.This is our 368th post of the year on the main Google blog, which is 23% more than in 2007. In addition to more posts, we are thrilled to know that we have many more readers now — 78% more, to be exact. The number of unique visitors jumped from 6,738,830 last year to more than 12 million (12,000,
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A grateful season
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Mon, 29 Dec. 2008
The holidays are a time for giving, and Googlers across the globe have found some creative ways to give back to their communities this season. From raising money and crafting greeting cards to building gingerbread houses and giving blood, Googlers from east to west have been busy spreading good cheer. We've highlighted just a few of these efforts here, and we're looking forward to many more opport
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Black Googlers Network: building community
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Fri, 19 Dec. 2008
We believe great ideas can come from anywhere and everyone. And we aspire to be an organization that reflects global diversity, because we know that a world's worth of perspectives, ideas and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We have more than a dozen employee-driven resource groups, from Gayglers to GWE (Google Women Engi
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Blog gadget 2.0
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Thu, 18 Dec. 2008
Back in September we introduced an iGoogle gadget that makes it possible to read recent posts from all of our corporate blogs, right on your dashboard. With the help of developer Ben Lisbakken, we're ready to roll out the
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Jean Bartik: the untold story of a remarkable ENIAC programmer
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 17 Dec. 2008
This guest post was written by Kathy Kleiman, who discovered the ENIAC Programmers 20 years ago and founded the ENIAC Programmers Project to record their stories and produce the first feature documentary about their work. More at www.eniacp
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Picasa 3 (and name tags) go global
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 17 Dec. 2008
A few months back, we announced some pretty big upgrades to Picasa and Picasa Web Albums for English-speaking users in the U.S. On the PC side, we rolled out a brand-new version of Picasa, with a
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Gingerbread architecture for all
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 16 Dec. 2008
(Cross-posted from the Google SketchUp Blog)Chilly weather, hot chocolate, holiday celebrations... I'm proud to kick off our sweetest SketchUp modeling challenge ever: the first annual Go
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Net neutrality and the benefits of caching
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Mon, 15 Dec. 2008
(Cross-posted from the Google Public Policy Blog)One of the first posts I wrote for this blog last summer
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@Twitter: Welcome to Google Friend Connect
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Mon, 15 Dec. 2008
We know many of you enjoy using Twitter to see what people are talking about and to let others know what you've been up to, whether it's sharing a YouTube video or checking in on your friend's tweets. To help you and your Twitter network stay connected no matter where you are on the web, we're excited to announce that
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Google Chrome (BETA)
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Thu, 11 Dec. 2008
Since we first released Google Chrome, the development team has been hard at work improving the stability and overall performance of the browser. In just 100 days, we have reached more than 10 million active users around the world (on all seven continents, no less) and released 14 updates to the product. We're excited
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Safety, education, and empowerment on YouTube
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Thu, 11 Dec. 2008
(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)We've always been committed to providing you the tools to have the best possible YouTube experience. Educating parents, teens, and families on how to stay safe on our site is a critical part of that commitment, so we can't think of a more appropriate place to i
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Creating change with your homepage
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 10 Dec. 2008
In the spirit of holiday giving, we've partnered with nonprofit organizations to create themes that showcase the change they are helping to create. With iGoogle Themes for Causes, you can show your support for the cause that inspires you most by adding that t
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The global Zeitgeist
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 10 Dec. 2008
Google's users are intrinsically curious. Why else would you search? And, since we at Google are pretty curious ourselves, we wondered which of our users' queries might be truly global and which may be unique to certain cultures. This is why, for the first time, our annual Year-End Zeitgeist features search data from more than 30
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Street View: A year in review, and what's new
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 09 Dec. 2008
With just 22 days left in the year, I can't help but think back to where Street View was at the beginning of 2008. At that time, we had imagery for 23 cities in the United States, and we had just released embeddable panoramas. Although Street View was still
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Search and find magazines on Google Book Search
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 09 Dec. 2008
The word "magazine" is derived from the Arabic word "makhazin," meaning storehouse. Since Daniel Defoe published the world's first English magazine back in 1704, millions of magazines catering to nearly every imaginable taste have been created and consumed, passed from person to person in cafes, barber shops, libraries, and homes around the world. If you're wondering what cars people drove in th
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Pirates vs. Ninjas: Who would win?
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Fri, 05 Dec. 2008
The rivalry has become a social phenomenon, from YouTube videos condemning pirates' accents to movies predicting the
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Google Friend Connect: now available
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Thu, 04 Dec. 2008
We're pleased to share that Google Friend Connect is now available in beta to any webmaster looking to add a "dash of social" to his or her site. This service lets webmasters add social features to their sites by simply copying and pasting a few snippets of code — no advanced coding or technical background required. We know that people want to be social on the web, and Friend Connect ma
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Google Friend Connect: now available
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Thu, 04 Dec. 2008
We're pleased to share that Google Friend Connect is now available in beta to any webmaster looking to add a "dash of social" to his or her site. This service lets webmasters add social features to their sites by simply copying and pasting a few snippets of code — no advanced coding or technical background required. We know that people want to be social on the web, and Friend Connect ma
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Helping healthcare providers become more efficient
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Thu, 04 Dec. 2008
Healthcare professionals have always focused on reducing costs while still increasing the quality of the care they provide to patients — and this kind of efficiency becomes even more important in challenging economic times.Fortunately, healthcare providers can turn to the web for a growing number of resources that help them achieve these goals. With our health initiatives and solutions f
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