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May flowered with new products, technologies and learning resources from Google Cloud. Here’s a recap of May’s most popu… Read more
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$50 million for HBCUs to address the diversity gap in tech
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Improve your content with Search Console Insights
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Deprecating Url Performance Report and Automatic Placements Performance Report in the AdWords API
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Call Ads Replace Call Only Ads in the Google Ads API
In the Google Ads API v8, Call Only Ads are replaced by Call Ads. You can still create Call Only Ads in the AdWords API… Read more
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Build sophisticated search features with AppSearch
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The Importance of A/B Testing in Robotics
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#IamaGDE: Josue Gutierrez
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FRILL: On-Device Speech Representations using TensorFlow-Lite
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Announcing v8 of the Google Ads API
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Android 12 Beta 2 Update
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Live Webinar: Migrating to the Google Ads API
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Important changes to Google Contact Policy for Merchant Center
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Machine Learning GDEs: Q1 2021 highlights, projects and achievements
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Android @ Google I/O: Recapping building across devices
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Search Console regex filters update and quick tips
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Announcing the Google Ads Query Language Query Validator
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Updating Default Reporting Versions in Google Ads Scripts
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#AndroidDevJourney spotlight - May edition
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Announcing v3.5 of the Campaign Manager 360 API
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Live Webinar: Error Handling, Retry, and Timeouts in Google Ads API
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Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning for Text-to-Image Generation
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May 2021 update to Display & Video 360 API v1
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Sunsetting the generic rich results search appearance on Search Console
A few years ago we created a generic rich results search appearance group in Search Console that included multiple rich… Read more
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KELM: Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Language Model Pre-training Corpora
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What's new with Android for Cars
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Partial product updates now available in v2.1 of the Content API for Shopping
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ALIGN: Scaling Up Visual and Vision-Language Representation Learning With Noisy Text Supervision
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Android Studio 4.2
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April 2021 update to Display & Video 360 API v1
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Upgrade to the Google Ads API from the AdWords API by April 27, 2022
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Sustainable Monetized Websites: A new video series
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Join the Women of AdSense summit
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Hear how digital businesses grew in our new podcast, PubCast
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New Association functionality added to Search Console
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Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2
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Google Maps and Particle partner to bring location-aware capabilities to IoT devices
Posted by Ken Nevarez, Solutions Architect for Google Maps APIsParticle and Google Maps make it easy for IoT devices to… Read more
Introducing structured menus in the Google My Business API
Every day, millions of people search on Google for places to eat and drink and many click to see the menu before making… Read more
A new issue tracker for Google Maps APIs
Posted by Kasia Derc-Fenske, Technical Solutions Engineer Manager, Google Cloud and Jesse Scherer, Technical Program Man… Read more
Google Maps APIs sessions at Google Next ‘17
Next 2017 is just a few days away and we’re looking forward to three days of insightful conversations, amazing technolog… Read more
Do you like the new look of the Maps APIs tutorials?
Until recently, our docs have focused on describing features rather than telling a story. We chatted to some developers… Read more
Styling and custom data for polylines and polygons in the Google Maps Android API
Polygons, polylines and ground overlays are useful tools to make your maps work for your users. Today we are rolling out… Read more
Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise
Editors Note: Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) launched on GitHub on March 23, 2017. You can also get more information on t… Read more
Introducing insights in the Google My Business API
Posted by Aditya Tendulkar, Product Manager, Google My BusinessToday we are introducing business location insights in th… Read more
Geolocation and Firebase for the Internet of Things
Posted by Ken Nevarez, Industry Solutions Lead at GoogleGPS is the workhorse of location based services, but there are u… Read more
Address Geocoding in the Google Maps APIs
Forward Geocoding is the process of converting addresses (like a street address) into geographic coordinates (latitude a… Read more
Smart scrolling comes to mobile web maps
If you’re building a website today, your users are more likely to view it on a mobile device than on a desktop or laptop… Read more
Key Improvements for Your Maps API Experience
Originally posted on the Google Developers blog.Posted by Israel Shalom, Product ManagerHere at Google, we’re serving mo… Read more
A sizzling open source release for the Australian Election site
One of the best parts of my job at Google is 20 percent time. While I was hired to help developers use Google’s APIs, I… Read more