The Google Machine Barrels Along Despite Record EU Fine

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Forget the Brake. Electric Cars Mean One Pedal Driving

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Alphabet (GOOG) reports big revenue gains but EU fine takes a bite from earnings and income

Aggregate paid clicks were up 52 percent but CPCs were down 23 percent. The post Alphabet (GOOG) reports big revenue gai…  Read more

Google confirms testing auto-play videos in the search results

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Jared Kushner's Senate Testimony May Forget Russia Meetings, But the FBI Would Remember

Anything the Russian ambassador says on the phone almost certainly gets caught on a FISA wiretap.  Read more

SearchCap: Sundar Pichai promotion, content hoarding & Quora’s ad platform

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RIP Microsoft Paint. Thanks for All the Hideous Doodles

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai joins Alphabet board

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A 'Locked' Smart Gun Can Be Fired With Just $15 Worth of Magnets

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ShieldFS Is a Clever New Tool That Shuts Down Ransomware Before It's Too Late

By sniffing out ransomware in real-time, ShieldFS might be the cure to the internet's latest security scourge.  Read more

We Know How 'Valerian' Got Made—But Not Why It Failed

Luc Besson's newest seems like a critical and commercial dud. But that's how his other movies started out too.  Read more

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The seventh season's second episode is a valuable reminder that this show will always love to mess with you.  Read more

Got amazing content but no leads? 5 ways to rethink your paid strategy

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Here’s what performance advertisers are saying about Quora’s new ad platform

Whether they've been on the platform for one month or seven, advertiser feedback is strikingly similar: We like the perf…  Read more

Great News! You Can Mute Gmail Threads

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Are you a content hoarder? Maybe it’s time for a blog cleanup

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What It’s Like Living in the Land of Natural Disasters

Indonesia is a gorgeous archipelago of 13,700 islands. And home to 289 natural disasters a year.  Read more

Surfboard Shaper Danny Hess Makes Truly Gorgeous Wooden Boards

Hang for ten inside the woodshop of San Francisco shaper Danny Hess.  Read more

'Insecure' Returns With a Secret Weapon: Agility

The show's second season acknowledges issues other shows might obsess over—but never gets bogged down.  Read more

Helix’s Bold Plan to Be Your One Stop Personal Genomics Shop

$80 and a spit sample gets you a spot on one of Helix’s sequencing machines and a chunk of its cloud storage for your…  Read more

Zero-G Blood and the Many Horrors of Space Surgery

Traumatic injury in space has a huge potential impact on a mission. And people barely know anything about how to deal wi…  Read more

Enhancing CSS Layout: From Floats To Flexbox To Grid

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7 Best Most Secure Password Managers Of 2017

“123456”, “qwerty”, “111111”, these are among the most common passwords of 2016. Why do people still use the…  Read more

Optimizing Sites for Featured Snippets with Q&A Content [Case Study]

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Who Ruled Comic-Con Cosplay in 2017? Wonder Woman, Obviously

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Ann Coulter’s Delta Snafu Brings Twitter Together In This Week’s News Recap

The commentator Ann Coulter's dust-up with Delta finally gave the internet a reason to rally behind an airline.  Read more

Einstein’s Little-Known Passion Project? A Refrigerator

Humanity might have saved itself a lot of trouble in the long run by investing in the Einstein-Szilard approach to cooli…  Read more

Turn Off Your Push Notifications. All of Them

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Decoding the Geometry of Viruses Could Lead to Better Vaccines

Mathematical insights into how RNA helps viruses pull together their protein shells could guide future studies of viral…  Read more

Comic-Con 2017: You Can Thank Joss Whedon For That Great New 'Justice League' Trailer

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Comic-Con 2017: Ending 'Game of Thrones' with a Musical Episode? We've Got Some Ideas

Brienne of Tarth wants it. Bran wants it. Even the Onion Knight wants it. Let's make this happen, people.  Read more

Ethereum Thefts Cost Investors Millions

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'Rick and Morty' Is Actually Righteous Science Fiction

Many of its episodes have stories smart enough to be published in sci-fi anthologies.  Read more

Antivirus for Android Has Terrible Track Record

A new study shows that 94 percent of Android antivirus failed to stop a comprehensive set of malware attacks.  Read more

SpaceX's Mars Plans Hit a Pothole. Up Next: the Moon?

SpaceX is rebooting its colonization plan, and may pivot to focus on a moon base that would aid that effort.  Read more

Fewer Comics at Comic-Con? Blame Comicononomics

The trials of the local comics shop have finally visited the con itself—and the people who are just looking for good c…  Read more

Letting Cyberattack Victims Hack Back Is a Very Unwise Idea

Opinion: Retaliating against hacks is the wrong way to prevent them.  Read more

Throwing Shade: 7 Polarized Sunglasses for Summer Fun

We tested a dozen pairs of polarized shades at various prices, from $10 to $360.  Read more

More Women Are Learning Computer Science! Now, About Those Jobs…

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SearchCap: YouTube redirects, Bing search ad growth & expanded text ads

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post…  Read more

After Windows 10 bump & Yahoo deal, Microsoft’s search revenue growth looks stagnant

Search ad revenues are growing, but the rate has been slowing. LinkedIn sessions were up more than 20 percent from the p…  Read more

How to navigate the somewhat rocky transition to expanded text ads

Still avoiding the switch to expanded text ads? Columnist Ted Ives has some advice to easing your way into Google's new…  Read more

Web Development Reading List #190: Images in Web Notifications and Angular Code Splitting

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MeridianThemes: An Uncommon WordPress Themes Shop For Creatives And Businesses

Finding a great theme is one of the most time-consuming tasks that you have to face when building a WordPress website. T…  Read more

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How to Start a Blog: a Step-by-step Guide

These days it seems like nearly everyone has a blog. Blogs can be a great way to document your hobbies or interests, kee…  Read more

Designing The Perfect Slider

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The Top 5 Things You Need to Know About Flat Design

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"SEO Is Always Changing"... Or Is It?: Debunking the Myth and Getting Back to Basics

Posted by bridget.randolphRecently I made the shift to freelancing full-time, and it’s led me to participate in a few…  Read more

Improving Your Website’s Mobile Design: Crucial Navigation Tips

It’s incredible to think that in the past ten years mobile devices have practically overpowered the general population…  Read more

Fighting Review Spam: The Complete Guide for the Local Enterprise

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Taming Advanced Color Palettes In Photoshop, Sketch And Affinity Designer

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20 Inspiring Examples of Pattern in Web Design + 40 Free Pattern Resources

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SEO for Copywriters: Tips on Measuring SEO Impact - Next Level

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Web Development Reading List #189: Sync Via Push API, RTL CSS, And The Disaster Factory

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SEO Best Practices for Canonical URLs + the Rel=Canonical Tag - Whiteboard Friday

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Introducing The Website Speed Test Image Analysis Tool

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Moz Transitions: Rand to Step Away from Operations and into Advisory Role in Early 2018

Posted by SarahBirdI have some big news to share with you. As many of you know, three and a half years ago, Rand began t…  Read more

How "Message Match" Can Lift Conversion Rates by 212.74% [Case Study]

Posted by bsmarketerGoogle offered to build a free mobile website for our past client. But rather than take them up on t…  Read more

How We Built An iOS App To Shoot A 3D Video (Case Study)

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The Best WordPress Themes for Bloggers & Small Business Owners

It can be really overwhelming trying to choose a WordPress theme for a new site when there are literally tens of thousan…  Read more

The Unspoken Reality of Net Neutrality

Posted by rjonesx.It's not very often that Moz as a company openly advocates for a particular political position. While…  Read more

Building Pattern Libraries With Shadow DOM In Markdown

    Some people hate writing documentation, and others just hate writing. I happen to love writing; otherwise, you wo…  Read more

A Basic Guide to Website Typography

It should come as no surprise that the core of any website, including yours, is its content. More specifically, the crux…  Read more

Things To Keep In Mind When Designing A Transportation Map

    For many people, a map of a transportation network is a given, an expected part of the system, something that jus…  Read more

A No-Nonsense Guide to Choosing a WordPress Theme

With over 10,000 WordPress themes currently available and more being published all the time, it’s no wonder that choos…  Read more

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In this post, I’ve gather 29 amazing and beautiful magazine covers. They all have something to bring to the table, fro…  Read more

Web Development Reading List #188: Real-World Accessibility, Flexbox Madness, And The Ephemerality Of Things We Build

    CSS is an amazing tool which we constantly use but we don't seem to honor it appropriately. Whenever I see the gr…  Read more

Challenge Yourself More Often By Creating Artwork Every Day

    Whether you're into good ol' drawing and painting, or quick editing in Photoshop or Illustrator, one thing's for…  Read more

Designing The Perfect Date And Time Picker

    What could be so difficult about designing a decent date picker? Basically, we just need an input field and an ic…  Read more

Free Business Icons For The Startup World (28 Icons, 5 Formats)

    What comes to your mind when you hear the word “business”? White collars, cubicle offices, and encrusted habi…  Read more

Apple’s WWDC 2017 Highlights For iOS Developers

    Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) has been running for 34 years, which is 6 years longer than The Sim…  Read more

Starry Summer Nights, Unexplored Worlds, And… Ice Cream! (July 2017 Wallpapers)

    July is almost here, and that means, well, new wallpapers. It’s been nine years already since we embarked on th…  Read more

Web Development Reading List #187: Webpack 3, Assisted Writing, And Automated Chrome Testing

    This week, we’ll explore some rather new concepts: What happens if we apply artificial intelligence to text sof…  Read more

How To Make Use Of Weekly Design Meetings

    How do you keep a team engaged? How do you make sure the team gets up to date with everything that’s being rele…  Read more

Left-Handed Brush Lettering: How To Get Started

    Lettering and calligraphy are quickly becoming desired skills in a designer's toolbox. Designers such as Marian B…  Read more

Designing The Perfect Accordion

    Design patterns. An almost mythical phrase that often inspires either awe or resentment. As designers, we tend to…  Read more

Free Icon Set: Happy 4th Of July 🇺🇸 (20 Icons, PNG, EPS, AI, SVG)

    Every once in a while, we publish freebies related to different occasions and themes. Today, we'd like to share a…  Read more

Uber Does Not Equal The Valley

The post Uber Does Not Equal The Valley appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Now that the other shoe has dropp…  Read more

Is Humanity Obsolete?

The post Is Humanity Obsolete? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. image Upon finishing Yuval Harari’s Homo…  Read more

The Internet Big Five Is Now The World’s Big Five

The post The Internet Big Five Is Now The World’s Big Five appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Back in Dece…  Read more

Dear Facebook…Please Give Me Agency Over The Feed

The post Dear Facebook…Please Give Me Agency Over The Feed appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. (cross poste…  Read more

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The post Ads. Grrr. appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. (Cross posted on Medium) I honestly didn’t want to…  Read more

Rank Checker Update

Recently rank checker started hanging on some search queries & the button on the SEO Toolbar which launched rank checker…  Read more

5 Excellent Tools Your UX and UI Design Tasks

Advertise here via BSAUI Design – UX Design: Tightly Coupled, But Not the Same User interface (UI), and user experienc…  Read more

Wix.com – A Free & Easy Website Builder

Advertise here via BSAThere are so many ways through which a business can start off their campaign in a newly designed c…  Read more

Introducing the New Installer for Be’s 250+ Awesome Pre-built Websites

Advertise here via BSAThe New Be Pre-Built Installer The old Be prebuilt-website installer got the job done, but it wasn…  Read more

Please, Let’s Not Go There Again

The post Please, Let’s Not Go There Again appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Here’s a top-of-my-head run…  Read more

Pick Up the Phone and Call.

The post Pick Up the Phone and Call. appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. (cross posted from NewCo Shift) Peop…  Read more

Bad Policy Makes Us Sick. Business Must Lead Us Back.

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Legally Binding Online Signatures for Free with EverSign

Advertise here via BSAEversign is a cloud-based productivity tool that allows you securely sign, approve and deliver doc…  Read more

It’s Time For Facebook to Start Making Media

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DMOZ Shut Down

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Advertise here via BSAWithout a lot of effort on your part, there are several things you can do to increase your product…  Read more

Streetlayer – Free Address Validation & Autocomplete API

Advertise here via BSAObtaining international addresses from clients and customers just got a whole lot easier. Streetla…  Read more

The Best Design to Code Services for You in 2017

Advertise here via BSAGiven a choice, web designers prefer to focus on the aesthetics of web design. What they produce d…  Read more

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Advertise here via BSAEveryday, startups and enterprises alike find themselves asking the question: Should we build a mo…  Read more

New gTLDs are Like Used Cars

There may be a couple exceptions which prove the rule, but new TLDs are generally an awful investment for everyone excep…  Read more

Treat Yourself to the Best Tools and Platforms for Your 2017 Projects

Advertise here via BSAThere are so many website builders on the market, that separating the good ones from the not quite…  Read more

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Advertise here via BSAIf you’re still using a .com domain name and your old Gmail address, you’re missing an opportu…  Read more

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Disappearing Clicks

When Compete.com launched with credits-based pricing well over a decade ago I felt like a kid in a candy store using the…  Read more

Google & Facebook Squeezing Out Partners

Sections Just Make Great Content... Search Engine Engineering Fear Ignore The Eye Candy, It's Poisoned Below The Fold =…  Read more

Penguin 4.0 Update

On Friday Google's Gary Illyes announced Penguin 4.0 was now live. Key points highlighted in their post are: Penguin is…  Read more

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Google recently made it much harder to receive accurate keyword data from the AdWords keyword tool. They have not only…  Read more

How I Learned to Start Loving Social Media's Darkside

I'm baaaaaaack. Organic Listings What a fun past couple years it has been in the digital marketing landscape; we've seen…  Read more

Facebook's Panda Update

So far this year publishers have lost 52% their Facebook distribution due to: increased ad load (another record quarter…  Read more

Brands Beat Generics

When markets are new they are unproven, thus they often have limited investment targeting them. That in turn means it ca…  Read more

Neofeudal Web Publishing Best Practices Guide

At the abstract level, if many people believe in something then it will grow. The opposite is also true. And in a limitl…  Read more

Reinventing SEO

Back in the Day... If you are new to SEO it is hard to appreciate how easy SEO was say 6 to 8 years ago. Almost everythi…  Read more

Google Rethinking Payday Loans & Doorway Pages?

Nov 12, 2013 WSJ: Google Ventures Backs LendUp to Rethink Payday Loans Google Ventures Partner Blake Byers joined LendUp…  Read more

The (Hollow) Soul of Technology

The Daily Obituary As far as being an investable business goes, news is horrible. And it is getting worse by the day. Lo…  Read more

Time to Retire From SEO

Since we are now at the point that some search results don't have *ANY* organic search results, it is hard to see much p…  Read more

Google's Big Brand Shakedown

Inorganic SERPs A few weeks back Google introduced literally organic-free search results on mobile devices in the travel…  Read more

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Sharing is caring! Please share :) Embed code is here. The below image has a somewhat small font size on it. You can see…  Read more

The 4 Fundamental Steps of Conversion Optimization

Once upon a time, I was sitting in my office looking over data for one our new clients and reviewing the conversion pro…  Read more

Restoring Firefox Extensions After The Firefox 43 Update

Update: Our extensions are now signed, so you should be able to download the most recent version of them & use them with…  Read more

Publisher Blocking: How the Web Was Lost

Streaming Apps Google recently announced app streaming, where they can showcase & deep link into apps in the search resu…  Read more

Ad Network Ménage à Trois: Bing, Yahoo!, Google

Yahoo! Tests Google Again Back in July we noticed Yahoo! was testing Google-powered search results. From that post... Wh…  Read more

Virtual Real Estate Virtually Disappears

Back in 2009 Google executives were scared of not being able to retain talent with stock options after Google's stock pr…  Read more

Yahoo! Search Testing Google Search Results

Search PandaMonium A couple days ago Microsoft announced a deal with AOL to have AOL sell Microsoft display ads & for Bi…  Read more

Web Design Resources for Non-Designers

Most of you are too busy monitoring Google's latest algorithm updates, examining web analytics, and building links and c…  Read more

But First, A Word From Our Sponsors...

Yesterday Google shared they see greater mobile than desktop search volumes in 10 countries including Japan and the Unit…  Read more

Google Mobilepocalypse Update

A day after the alleged major update, I thought it would make sense to highlight where we are at in the cycle. Yesterday…  Read more

Consensus Bias

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Designing for Privacy

Information is a commodity. Corporations are passing around consumer behavioral profiles like brokers with stocks, and t…  Read more

Google Mobile Search Result Highlights

Google recently added highlights at the bottom of various sections of their mobile search results. The highlights appea…  Read more

Responsive Design for Mobile SEO

Why Is Mobile So Important? If you look just at your revenue numbers as a publisher, it is easy to believe mobile is of…  Read more

Developer Preview 4 now available, official Android O coming soon!

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering As we put the finishing touches on the Android O platform, today we're rolling o…  Read more

Experience Tunisia’s rich culture with Street View Imagery

My Street View journey took me to Tunisia, home to beautiful sun soaked beaches, ancient Roman ruins, and Islamic monume…  Read more

Chatting with the National Spelling Bee champ on her success and what’s next

Last month, Ananya Vinay clinched the National Spelling Bee with the word “marocain.” (I’m guessing she has never…  Read more

Teaching Robots to Understand Semantic Concepts

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The High Five: Live every week like you’ll discover a dinosaur fossil

This week a human races a shark, and a dinosaur was discovered a million years after it walked the Earth. It’s a whol…  Read more

Google at CVPR 2017

Posted by Christian Howard, Editor-in-Chief, Research CommunicationsFrom July 21-26, Honolulu, Hawaii hosts the 2017 Con…  Read more

Your swimming-with-the-sharks Assistant

We’re gonna need a bigger boat.I don’t know about you, but we’ve been hearing a lot about sharks this week. So gra…  Read more

Seccomp filter in Android O

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An Update to Open Images - Now with Bounding-Boxes

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With vacation mode in full swing, #teampixel members are steadily trekking into the far corners of the globe. This week�…  Read more

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Businesses of all types are accelerating their transition to the cloud, and for many, desktop infrastructure and applica…  Read more

Daydream Labs: Teaching Skills in VR

You can read every recipe, but to really learn how to cook, you need time in the kitchen. Wouldn't it be great if you co…  Read more

Motion Stills — Now on Android

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Applications now open for the Google Policy Fellowship in Europe and Africa

Are you an undergraduate, graduate or law student interested in internet and technology policy? Do you want to get invol…  Read more

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Editor’s note:  Starting today, you can now explore the International Space Station in Street View in Google Maps. Th…  Read more

New security protections to reduce risk from unverified apps

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Find great apps and games on Google Play with the Editors' Choice update

Summer road trips are always a great way to unplug and enjoy time with friends and family. But how do you go about choos…  Read more

Adventures abound: Explore Google Expeditions on your own

Google Expeditions makes it possible for teachers to take their classrooms on virtual reality field trips to amazing pla…  Read more

Feed your need to know

As the late, great Dr Seuss once said, “there is no one alive who is you-er than you.” At Google, we know this state…  Read more

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Editor’s note: Tilt Brush lets you paint in 3D space with virtual reality. Earlier this year, we launched the Artist i…  Read more

A new look for our Transparency Report

In 2010, we launched the government requests tool, a new way to publicly document government requests for user data and…  Read more

Google introduces Hire, a new recruiting app that integrates with G Suite

It’s no secret that attracting top talent is a key driver of business success. But whether you’re looking to recruit…  Read more

Facets: An Open Source Visualization Tool for Machine Learning Training Data

Posted by James Wexler, Senior Software Engineer, Google Big Picture Team(Cross-posted on the Google Open Source Blog)Ge…  Read more

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In South Sudan, Somalia, northeastern Nigeria and Yemen this spring, families hopefully watched the horizon for rain clo…  Read more

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As part of our series of interviews with entrepreneurs across Asia Pacific who use the internet to grow, we spoke with N…  Read more

Google Developer Days are coming to Europe

Posted by Jason Titus, Vice President, Developer Product GroupI'm happy to share that we opened registrations for the Eu…  Read more

Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs

Posted by Hui Fang, Software Engineer, Machine PerceptionMachine learning (ML) excels in many areas with well defined go…  Read more

Identifying Intrusive Mobile Apps using Peer Group Analysis

Posted by Martin Pelikan, Giles Hogben, and Ulfar Erlingsson of Google's Security and Privacy team Mobile apps entertain…  Read more

Changes in retrieving product data from Merchant Center via Content API

Starting today, we are deprecating the use of the Products.get and Products.list methods for retrieving all product attr…  Read more

Building Your Own Neural Machine Translation System in TensorFlow

Posted by Thang Luong, Research Scientist, and Eugene Brevdo, Staff Software Engineer, Google Brain TeamMachine translat…  Read more

Revisiting the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

Posted by Abhinav Gupta, Faculty Advisor, Machine PerceptionThere has been remarkable success in the field of computer v…  Read more

Clarification around Pop-Unders

At Google, we value users, advertisers and publishers equally. We have policies in place that define where Google ads sh…  Read more

Calling all indie developers in the US & Canada: sign up for the Google Play Indie Games Festival in San Francisco

Posted by Jamil Moledina, Games Strategic Lead, Google Play Calling all indie developers with fun and creative mobile ga…  Read more

Simpler mediation with AdMob and DFP

Over the past few months, a couple new projects designed to streamline AdMob and DFP mediation have launched: mediation…  Read more

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Posted by Luke Metz, Research Associate and Yun Liu, Software Engineer, 2016 Google Brain Resident Alumni“Coming from…  Read more

Android vitals: Increase engagement and installs through improved app performance

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On Thursday, August 31st, 2017, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v201608 of the DFP API will be sunset. At t…  Read more

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Today we’re introducing the new AdSense Native ads -- a suite of ad formats designed to match the look and feel of you…  Read more

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Back in 2012, we launched the Place Add / Delete feature in the Google Places API to enable applications to instantly up…  Read more

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Posted by Dave Smith, Developer Advocate for IoT Android Things makes building connected embedded devices easy by provid…  Read more

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Originally posted by Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G Suite, on the G Suite Developers Blog. You might be us…  Read more

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Over the years, many developers have let us know they'd like to see more real-world AdWords API examples to help them dr…  Read more

AdSense now understands Urdu

Today, we’re excited to announce the addition of Urdu, a language spoken by millions in Pakistan, India and many other…  Read more

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Posted by Aayush Upadhyay and Neel Rao, Area 120At Area 120, Google's internal workshop for experimental ideas, we're wo…  Read more

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New Custom Playback APIs for IMA HTML5 and Mobile Safari

Starting with iOS 10, Safari on iPhone and iPod supports inline video playback. This opens up some new rendering options…  Read more

What’s new in WebView security

Posted by Xiaowen Xin and Renu Chaudhary, Android Security Team The processing of external and untrusted content is ofte…  Read more

MultiModel: Multi-Task Machine Learning Across Domains

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Ending support for Android Market on Android 2.1 and lower

Posted by Maximilian Ruppaner, Software Engineer on Google Play On June 30, 2017, Google will be ending support for the…  Read more

Brotli Compression in Google Display Ads

Posted by Michael Burns, Software Engineer, Publisher Tagging & Ads Latency TeamOur goal is to help publishers monetize…  Read more

Connect to job seekers with Google Search

July 20, 2017 update: Starting today, impressions and clicks stats for job listing pages and job details pages are avail…  Read more

Accelerating Deep Learning Research with the Tensor2Tensor Library

Posted by Łukasz Kaiser, Senior Research Scientist, Google Brain TeamDeep Learning (DL) has enabled the rapid advanceme…  Read more

Semantic Time support now available on the Awareness APIs

Posted by Ritesh Nayak M, Product Manager Last year at I/O we launched the Awareness API, a simple yet powerful API that…  Read more

Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API

Posted by Jonathan Huang, Research Scientist and Vivek Rathod, Software Engineer(Cross-posted on the Google Open Source…  Read more

Android Things Developer Preview 4.1

Posted by Wayne Piekarski, Developer Advocate for IoT Today, we're releasing a new Developer Preview 4.1 (DP4.1) of Andr…  Read more

New VPAID Sample for the IMA HTML5 SDK

To help developers integrate with the IMA SDK, we're always looking for ways to provide both basic and advanced examples…  Read more

MobileNets: Open-Source Models for Efficient On-Device Vision

Posted by Andrew G. Howard, Senior Software Engineer and Menglong Zhu, Software Engineer(Cross-posted on the Google Open…  Read more

Reduce friction with the new Location APIs

Posted by Aaron Stacy, Software Engineer, Google Play services The 11.0.0 release of the Google Play services SDK includ…  Read more

Recognizing Android Excellence on Google Play

Posted by Kacey Fahey, Developer Marketing, Google Play Every day developers around the world are hard at work creating…  Read more

Introducing Team Drives for developers

Originally posted by Hodie Meyers, Product Manager, Google Drive, and Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G Suite…  Read more

Money made easily with the new Google Play Billing Library

Posted by Neto Marin, Developer Advocate Many developers want to make money through their apps, but it's not always easy…  Read more

Introducing Blockly 1.0 for Android and iOS

Posted by Erik Pasternak and the Kids Coding TeamOver the past five years, developers have created hundreds of projects…  Read more

Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API

Posted by Wei Liu, Product Manager When we launched reCAPTCHA ten years ago, we had a simple goal: enable users to visit…  Read more

Android O APIs are final, get your apps ready!

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Three weeks ago at Google I/O, we announced the second developer preview of Andr…  Read more

Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API

When we launched reCAPTCHA ten years ago, we had a simple goal: enable users to visit the sites they love without worryi…  Read more

Improvements to the DFP Python Library

We've recently released some improvements to the DFP Python Libraryalongside support for v201705. Our goal was to reduce…  Read more

AMP Compression Update

Posted by Zachary Nado, Software EngineerRecently we announcedthe addition of Brotli compression to the Google AMP Cache…  Read more

Google Play’s policy on incentivized ratings, reviews, and installs

Posted by Kazushi Nagayama, Ninja Spamologist and Bryan Woodward, Policy Specialist Ensuring Google Play remains truste…  Read more

More AdWords structured snippet header translations!

We’ve enhanced structured snippets to now have even more header translations, increasing from 12 to all AdWords langua…  Read more

Better Snippets for your Users

Before buying a book, people like to get a snapshot of how they’re about to spend a few hours reading. They'll take a…  Read more

Building a better web for everyone

Cross-posted from The Keyword The vast majority of online content creators fund their work with advertising. That means…  Read more

AdWords API v201607 sunset reminder

AdWords API v201607 will be sunset on June 27th, 2017, after which all v201607 API requests will begin to fail. This ver…  Read more

2017 Android Security Rewards

Posted by Mayank Jain and Scott Roberts of the Android Security team Two years ago, we launched the Android Security Rew…  Read more

Automating website claims using the Content API for Shopping

Starting today, you can use the Accounts.claimwebsite method to claim the configured website for Merchant Center account…  Read more

Announcing v201705 of the AdWords API

Today we're announcing the release of AdWords API v201705. Here are the highlights: Campaign groups and performance targ…  Read more

Empowering a new generation of localization professionals

Posted by The Google Localization Team When her grandmother turned 80, Christina Hayek — Arabic Language Manager at Go…  Read more

Introducing page-level enforcements and a new Policy center

As a publisher you face many challenges. One of the broadest and most encompassing of these is growing your user base wh…  Read more

What's new from Firebase at Google I/O 2017

Originally posted on the Firebase Blog by Francis Ma, Firebase Group Product ManagerIt's been an exciting year! Last May…  Read more

Meet 5 Android developers working to improve lives around the world

Posted by Maxim Mai, Apps Partnerships, Google Play Last Thursday at Google I/O 2017, we announced the winners of this…  Read more

Validation rules for the new dynamic ad group type in Search campaigns

Update: Clarified AdGroupType values introduced in v201705.Update 06/22/2017: Clarified information in last paragraph. S…  Read more

AdSense Beginner’s Frequently Asked Questions

What is AdSense?In short, AdSense is a free, simple way to make money by placing ads on your site.Google’s ad network…  Read more

A reminder about links in large-scale article campaigns

Lately we've seen an increase in spammy links contained in articles referred to as contributor posts, guest posts, partn…  Read more

Welcome to your New Home on Android TV

Posted by Paul Saxman, Android Devices and Media Developer Relations Lead Android TV brings rich app experiences and ent…  Read more

The Machine Intelligence Behind Gboard

Posted by Françoise Beaufays, Principal Scientist, Speech and Keyboard Team and Michael Riley, Principal Scientist, Spe…  Read more

Request a professional app translation from the Google Play Console and reach new users

Posted by Rahim Nathwani, Product Manager, Google Play Localizing your app or game is an important step in allowing you…  Read more

Introducing Ads Data Hub: Next generation insights and reporting

Mobile has fundamentally changed how we live our lives. With our devices never more than an arm’s length away, people…  Read more

Announcing the Women Techmakers Udacity Scholarship

Posted by Amy Schapiro and the Women Techmakers team The community of women in tech is growing in numbers and influence,…  Read more

Get your users where they need to go on any platform with Google Maps URLs

Last week at Google I/O we announced Google Maps URLs, a new way for developers to link directly to Google Maps from any…  Read more

Group Messaging in Android Auto

Posted by David Nelloms, Software Engineer Communicating with a group of people is a common use case for many messaging…  Read more

Announcing v201705 of the DFP API

Today we’re pleased to announce the v201705 release of the DFP API. This release updates the ReportService to be at pa…  Read more

Announcing the fourth class of Launchpad Accelerator featuring new countries!

Posted by Roy Glasberg, Global Lead, Launchpad Program & Accelerator We're back at it again and excited to welcome an in…  Read more

Google I/O: New Ways to Put Users at the Center of Your Apps and Payments

Cross posted from Inside AdMobPosted by Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior Vice President, Ads and CommerceI/O is a magical time…  Read more

Make more money with subscriptions on Google Play

Posted by George Audi, Tom Grinsted and Larry Yang, Google Play The subscription business model is one of the best ways…  Read more

The Modern Mobile Web: State of the Union

Cross posted from the Chromium BlogPosted by Rahul Roy-chowdhury, VP Product Management, ChromeWhat a difference a year…  Read more

Android Wear: New complications tools and watch friendly UI library

Posted by Hoi Lam, Lead Developer Advocate, Android Wear Android Wear 2.0 gives users more informative watch faces and p…  Read more

Google I/O 2017: Empowering developers to build the best experiences across platforms

By Jason Titus, Vice President, Developer Product GroupIt's great to be in our backyard again for Google I/O to connect…  Read more

From Actions on Google to the SDK, the Google Assistant is getting better for developers

Posted by Brad Abrams, Product Manager for the Google AssistantFive months ago, we announcedan early version of the Acti…  Read more

Google I/O: New Ways to Put Users at the Center of Your Apps and Payments

I/O is a magical time at Google. Every year, thousands of developers gather in Google's backyard to share new product i…  Read more

Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud

Posted by Zak Stone, Product Manager for TensorFlowResearchers require enormous computational resources to train the mac…  Read more

Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud

Posted by Zak Stone, Product Manager for TensorFlowResearchers require enormous computational resources to train the mac…  Read more

Efficient Smart Reply, now for Gmail

Posted by Brian Strope, Research Scientist, and Ray Kurzweil, Engineering Director, Google ResearchLast year we launched…  Read more

Using Machine Learning to Explore Neural Network Architecture

Posted by Quoc Le & Barret Zoph, Research Scientists, Google Brain teamAt Google, we have successfully applied deep lear…  Read more

Google Maps and Particle partner to bring location-aware capabilities to IoT devices

Posted by Ken Nevarez, Solutions Architect for Google Maps APIs Particle and Google Maps make it easy for IoT devices to…  Read more

Coarse Discourse: A Dataset for Understanding Online Discussions

Posted by Praveen Paritosh, Senior Research Scientist, Ka Wong, Senior Data ScientistEvery day, participants of online c…  Read more

Get ready for Google I/O 2017

Posted by Mónica Bagagem, Product Marketing ManagerWe’re excited to be hosting Google I/O 2017 next week at the Shore…  Read more

Build beautiful apps and websites with modular, customizable UI components

Posted by Adrian Secord and Omer Ziv, Material DesignMaterial Components lets you build easily for Android, iOS, and the…  Read more

Updating developer identity guidelines and registration processes to protect users

Posted by Naveen Agarwal, Identity TeamLast week, we took immediate action to protect users from a phishing attack that…  Read more

Neural Network-Generated Illustrations in Allo

Posted by Jennifer Daniel, Expressions Creative Director, Allo Taking, sharing, and viewing selfies has become a daily h…  Read more

TensorFlow Benchmarks and a New High-Performance Guide

Posted by Josh Gordon on behalf of the TensorFlow teamWe recently published a collection of performance benchmarks that…  Read more

AdWords - Improvements for Enhanced CPC

Update: this change will go live in June 2017. In June 2017, AdWords will begin gradually altering the specifics of the…  Read more

Introducing “Ad balance” - focus on your best-performing ads

May 8, 2017 Update: We've heard your feedback on the empty spaces resulting from an unfilled ad unit. Over the next few…  Read more

Announcing v2.8 of the DCM/DFA Reporting and Trafficking API

Today we're releasing v2.8 of the DCM/DFA Reporting and Trafficking API. Highlights of this release include: Support for…  Read more

Google I/O 2017 on your mobile devices

Posted by Mónica Bagagem, Product Marketing ManagerI/O is just a couple of weeks away… 9 days to be exact! As we get…  Read more

AIY Projects: Do-it-yourself AI for Makers

Posted by Billy Rutledge, Director of AIY ProjectsOur teams are continually inspired by how Makers use Google technology…  Read more

Support for new extension types in AdWords scripts

We're excited to announce support for additional extension types in AdWords scripts starting today. The newly supported…  Read more

Updating Google Maps with Deep Learning and Street View

Posted by Julian Ibarz, Staff Software Engineer, Google Brain Team and Sujoy Banerjee, Product Manager, Ground Truth Tea…  Read more

AdSense 101: Building your brand

8 minutes to readNow that you’ve got your account setup, and you’re writing winning content, it’s time to build a…  Read more

Upcoming QPS limits on calls to the Content API for Shopping

Starting on May 15, 2017, we will enforce new queries-per-second (QPS) limits on calls to the Content API for Shopping.…  Read more

More advertising options for the mobile web

At Google, our policy teams are constantly looking for ways to improve the experience for everyone in the mobile digital…  Read more

Start planning your Google I/O 2017 schedule!

Posted by Christopher Katsaros, Product Marketing ManagerWhether you're joining us in person or remotely, we're looking…  Read more

Introducing the Google Assistant SDK

Posted by Chris Ramsdale, Product ManagerWhen we first announced the Google Assistant, we talked about helping users get…  Read more

Help Google Publishing Solutions improve its services and products

We’d like to personally invite you to share your thoughts with us in this 10-15 minutes survey so that we can keep imp…  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

AdSense 101: Create and share winning content

6 minute readContent is everything we consume online. Users arrive on a site to be educated, entertained, inspired, or c…  Read more

Experimental Nighttime Photography with Nexus and Pixel

Posted by Florian Kainz, Software Engineer, Google DaydreamOn a full moon night last year I carried a professional DSLR…  Read more

Research at Google and ICLR 2017

Posted by Ian Goodfellow, Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain Team This week, Toulon, France hosts the 5th Internatio…  Read more

PhotoScan: Taking Glare-Free Pictures of Pictures

Posted by Ce Liu, Michael Rubinstein, Mike Krainin and Bill Freeman, Research ScientistsYesterday, we released an update…  Read more

Support for BudgetOrders and UserLists in AdWords Scripts

We are excited to announce support for two new features in AdWords Scripts: BudgetOrdersand UserLists. BudgetOrders: We…  Read more

AdSense best practice: Set yourself up for success

7 minutes to read In part two of our series for new publishers to turn their #PassionIntoProfit, we’ll cover three ste…  Read more

How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2016

With 2017 well underway, we wanted to take a moment and share some of the insights we gathered in 2016 in our fight agai…  Read more

Teaching Machines to Draw

Posted by David Ha, Google Brain ResidentAbstract visual communication is a key part of how people convey ideas to one a…  Read more

Introducing tf-seq2seq: An Open Source Sequence-to-Sequence Framework in TensorFlow

Posted by Anna Goldie and Denny Britz, Research Software Engineer and Google Brain Resident, Google Brain Team(Crosspost…  Read more

Similar items: Rich products feature on Google Image Search

Image Search recently launched “Similar items” on mobile web and the Android Search app. The “Similar items” fea…  Read more

Playing streaming ads with the IMA SDK for Android

With the advent of video players that support streaming media formats such as HLS and DASH, publishers can now easily su…  Read more

Sunset of DFP API v201605

On Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v201605 of the DFP API will be sunset. At that…  Read more

Reminder to PHP users - upgrade to the new Ads PHP library!

Hello PHP developers! In December 2016, we announced the stable release of the new ads PHP library and the deprecation o…  Read more

Introducing the Mobile Sites certification, for web developers

Posted by Chris Hohorst, Head of Mobile Sites Transformation via Google Developers Blog. Mobile now accounts for over ha…  Read more

AdSense 101: What you need to know

From all around the world, over 2,000,000 small and large publishers use AdSense to earn money through advertising. Befo…  Read more

Updates to the Google Safe Browsing’s Site Status Tool

(Cross-posted from the Google Security Blog) Google Safe Browsing gives users tools to help protect themselves from web-…  Read more

Global Spotlight: Event-driven engagement strategies for Vietnam

We’re back with another AdSense Global Spotlight to help you succeed as a publisher in Vietnam. The big takeaway here…  Read more

Manage the risks associated with user comments

As a publisher, you can drive discussion and increase reader engagement by using user comments. At their best, comments…  Read more

Global Spotlight: Capitalizing on Vietnam’s digital opportunity

This week the AdSense Global Spotlight shifts its focus to Vietnam, home to nearly 90 million people and one of southeas…  Read more

Help our team help you

We always hear from publishers that you’re looking for actionable tips and best practices for growing your site. Our t…  Read more

Announcing the Winners of the Certified Publishing Partner 2016 Summer Challenge

Certified Publishing Partners are trained experts on AdSense, DoubleClick for Publishers, and DoubleClick Ad Exchange wh…  Read more

#NoHacked: A year in review

We hope your year started out safe and secure!We wanted to share with you a summary of our 2016 work as we continue our…  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 technol…  Read more

The inside scoop on native advertising: What is it, why does it matter and do you need it?

The final part of the #SuccessStack looks at the hot topic of native advertising. You’ll learn what it is, why it’s…  Read more

Understanding account suspensions due to invalid traffic

In today's post, we'll be discussing AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic.We have found that there are two…  Read more

How to address 'insufficient content' disapprovals on your AdSense application

Today, we'd like to demystify one of the most common reasons why AdSense applications get disapproved: the site has insu…  Read more

Closing down for a day

Note: This post is specific to Google's organic web-search. For Google's other services, please check with the appropria…  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

Discover the next generation of programmatic advertising technology

Forget what you think you know about programmatic advertising, these tools are game changers. For the ninth part of the…  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

More control over the ads you serve on your site(s)

We’ve heard the feedback that publishers like you have shared about wanting more ways to control the ads showing on yo…  Read more

5 steps to improve Page Speed and boost page performance

The eighth installment of the #SuccessStack takes a second look at page speed, specifically tips you can implement that…  Read more

Increasing viewability could boost earnings from video ads

For the seventh installment of the #SuccessStack, we’ll explore the topic of viewability for video ads and take a look…  Read more

Introducing the Mobile-Friendly Test API

With so many users on mobile devices, having a mobile-friendly web is important to us all. The Mobile-Friendly Test is a…  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

Protect your site from user generated spam

As a website owner, you might have come across some auto-generated content in comments sections or forum threads. When s…  Read more

What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot

Recently, we've heard a number of definitions for crawl budget, however we don't have a single term that would describe…  Read more

Introducing insights in the Google My Business API

Posted by Aditya Tendulkar, Product Manager, Google My Business Today we are introducing business location insights in t…  Read more

Geolocation and Firebase for the Internet of Things

Posted by Ken Nevarez, Industry Solutions Lead at Google GPS is the workhorse of location based services, but there are…  Read more

Enhancing property sets to cover more reports in Search Console

Since initially announcing property sets earlier this year, one of the most popular requests has been to expand this fun…  Read more

An update on Google's feature-phone crawling & indexing

Limited mobile devices, feature-phones, require a special form of markup or a transcoder for web content. Most websites…  Read more

Saying goodbye to Content Keywords

In the early days - back when Search Console was still called Webmaster Tools - the content keywords feature was the onl…  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

Rich Cards expands to more verticals

At Google I/O in May, we launched Rich Cards for Movies and Recipes, creating a new way for site owners to present previ…  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 lapt…  Read more

Building Indexable Progressive Web Apps

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are taking advantage of new technologies to bring the best of mobile sites and native applic…  Read more

Mobile-first Indexing

Today, most people are searching on Google using a mobile device. However, our ranking systems still typically look at t…  Read more

Here’s to more HTTPS on the web!

Cross-posted from the Google Security Blog. Security has always been critical to the web, but challenges involved in si…  Read more

Using AMP? Try our new webpage tester

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a great way to make content on your website accessible in an extremely fast way. To he…  Read more

Key Improvements for Your Maps API Experience

Originally posted on the Google Developers blog. Posted by Israel Shalom, Product Manager Here at Google, we’re servin…  Read more

Webmaster Forums Top AMP Questions

It has been busy here at Google Webmaster Central over the last few weeks, covering a lot of details about Accelerated…  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,…  Read more

Penguin is now part of our core algorithm

Google's algorithms rely on more than 200 unique signals or clues that make it possible to surface what you might be loo…  Read more

Custom map styling with the Google Maps APIs on Android and iOS

Your app, your map style. For iOS and Android. Cross-platform custom map styling is here—change the color palette of…  Read more

8 tips to AMPlify your clients

Here is our list of the top 8 things to consider when helping your clients AMPlify their websites (and staying ahead of…  Read more

How to best evaluate issues with your Accelerated Mobile Pages

As you #AMPlify your site with Accelerated Mobile Pages, it’s important to keep an eye periodically on the validation…  Read more

How can Google Search Console help you AMPlify your site?

If you have recently implemented Accelerated Mobile Pages on your site, it’s a great time to check which of your AMP…  Read more

Making the most of the Google Maps Web Service APIs

When it comes to app development, there can be a disconnect between the robust app we intended to build and the code we…  Read more

New JavaScript Street View renderer brings rendering improvements and better mobile support

Street View is one of Google Maps’ most loved features, providing users with a way to explore and experience the world…  Read more

Keep users focused on what's important with the latest Google Maps Android API

Released today, the latest version of the Google Maps Android API includes more developer requested features: you can no…  Read more

Google Places API for iOS & Google Maps SDK for iOS are now in separate CocoaPods

In today’s release, the Google Places API for iOS 2.0 and the Google Maps SDK for iOS 2.0 are now in separate CocoaPod…  Read more

I/O session: Location and Proximity Superpowers: Eddystone + Google Beacon Platform

Bluetooth beacons mark important places and objects in a way that your phone understands. Last year, we introduced the G…  Read more

Announcing marker clustering in the Google Maps SDK for iOS Utility Library

Today we’ve added marker clustering to the Google Maps SDK for iOS Utility Library! This much-requested feature is now…  Read more

I/O session live: Building geo services that scale

Posted by Laurence Moroney, Developer Advocate at Google While at Google I/O, l had the opportunity to present the sess…  Read more

Behind the Australian Elections Map: Mapping democracy in real-time

It's elections time in Australia! With 94% of eligible Australians registered to vote, there will be close to 15 million…  Read more

Marker zIndex and more come to the Google Maps Android API

Released today, the latest version of the Google Maps Android API includes several popular developer requested features…  Read more