Take a look at these pandemic pastimes
I've never spent as much time at home as I have in the last year. Of course, I'm not the only one. Over the past year or… Read more
News Brief: March updates from the Google News Initiative
Three years ago we created the Google News Initiative to build a stronger future for news. The upheaval of the last year… Read more
Privacy-first web advertising: a measurement update
In January, we shared how Google’s advertising teams have been evaluating the proposals in Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox, an… Read more
The U.S. and Europe should launch a trade and technology council
Two decades ago, countries saw global trade in technology goods and services as an on-ramp to the economy of the 21st ce… Read more
Expanding support for APAC Search Central Help Communities
As we’ve been continuously working to improve support for website owners in more language markets, we’re very excited to… Read more
Cloud Covered: What was new in March on Google Cloud
Spring brings new growth and possibilities, and with COVID-19 vaccinations underway, this spring feels even more hopeful… Read more
What creators should know about Google’s product reviews update
Google Search is always working to show the most useful and helpful information possible, through testing, experimenting… Read more
Ikumi Kobayashi on taking inclusion seriously
Welcome to the latest edition of “My Path to Google,” where we talk to Googlers, interns and alumni about how they got t… Read more
Announcing the 2021 Research Scholar Program Recipients
Posted by Negar Saei, Program Manager, University Relations In March 2020 we introduced the Research Scholar Program, an… Read more
Tools to help developers provide a positive user experience
Posted by Lisa Martinez, Head of Security & Privacy Business Development, Google Play and Andrew Ahn, Product Manager,… Read more
Seeking aspiring designers looking to Change The Game
Though women are playing mobile games at record numbers and make up 45% of gamers, they are heavily underrepresented in… Read more
Improved data filtering and comparison on Performance reports
This post describes a new way to filter data on the Search Console Performance reports: regular expressions, or regex. T… Read more
Google Developer Student Club 2021 Lead applications are open!
Posted by Erica Hanson, Global Program Manager, Google Developer Student Clubs Hey, student developers! If you’re passi… Read more
Experiment with AR and VR made for the web
Augmented and virtual reality are opening up the possibilities of how we interact with the world and information around… Read more
Video experiments boost creative performance on YouTube
Experimentation should be a critical part of any successful marketing strategy. Relying on proven results is how leading… Read more
Arts and culture activities for your health and wellbeing
Our collective health and wellbeing has taken center stage as the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic.… Read more
Advancing mobile app inventory quality with app reviews
To help create a clean and safe ads ecosystem for both developers and advertisers, we’re introducing a new app review pr… Read more
Local is now digital: Understanding the new local shopper
COVID-19 has fundamentally changed how consumers shop worldwide; they rely more on the Internet to research and discover… Read more
A closer look at the new Nest Hub’s design details
For the Nest Industrial Design team, details matter. Working on the new Nest Hub was no exception. When we approached th… Read more
Start Your Engines: Launch New Android Auto Apps to Production!
Posted by Eric Bahna, Product Manager In March, we published the Android for Cars App Library as part of Jetpack and mo… Read more
How we’re working with governments on climate goals
When it comes to sustainability, we have a responsibility to work together — across governments, businesses and communit… Read more
Stadia Savepoint: March updates
It’s time for another update to our Stadia Savepoint series, recapping the new games, features and changes for Stadia.In… Read more
The Query Builder Blog Series: Part 1 - Setting the Stage
An important part of our role in Developer Relations is gathering your feedback, as developers using our APIs, so that w… Read more
MAD Skills WorkManager : Wrap-Up
Posted by Caren Chang, Developer Relations Engineer In case you missed it, we’ve just finished a MAD Skills series on W… Read more
New advanced TV insights from Google Ad Manager
Advanced TV viewership, or the usage of digital technology to watch TV content, continues to accelerate with new direct-… Read more
An autistic Googler and his manager thrive through communication
To mark World Autism Awareness Day, we sat down with Tim Goldstein, who is autistic, and his prior manager, Patricia Li,… Read more
Maps tips for the adventurer, foodie and go-getter in you
Whether you’re hunting down the best hole-in-the wall restaurant on your block, planning a cross-country road trip that… Read more
Teaching and coding led one Googler to tech writing
Welcome to the latest edition of “My Path to Google,” where we talk to Googlers, interns and alumni about how they got t… Read more
Modernizing your Google App Engine applications
Posted by Wesley Chun, Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Next generation service Since its initial launch in 2008 as the… Read more
Quicksave: The latest from Google Play Pass
Google Play Pass helps you connect with awesome digital content: It’s your pass to hundreds of apps and games without ad… Read more
March 2021 update to Display & Video 360 API v1
Today we’re releasing an update to the Display & Video 360 API which includes the following features: A new method in th… Read more
Find the right Certified Publishing Partner for your monetization needs
Building a sustainable business from a website or app can take time away from the work publishers love the most, creatin… Read more
Announcing the New and Improved Interactive Query Builder
Today, we are releasing a new and improved version of the Google Ads Query Language (GAQL) interactive query builder. Th… Read more
#AndroidDevJourney spotlight - March edition
Posted by Luli Perkins, Developer Relations Program Manager For the March edition of #AndroidDevJourney, we’re highligh… Read more
Local students team up to help small businesses go online
Posted by Erica Hanson, Global Program Manager, Google Developer Student Clubs Recently young developers in Saudi Arabi… Read more
Constructing Transformers For Longer Sequences with Sparse Attention Methods
Posted by Avinava Dubey, Research Scientist, Google Research Natural language processing (NLP) models based on Transform… Read more
New for education sites: Practice problems and Math solver structured data
In this post, we provide details to help you implement structured data on your practice problems and math solver pages t… Read more
Recursive Classification: Replacing Rewards with Examples in RL
Posted by Benjamin Eysenbach, Student Researcher, Google Research A general goal of robotics research is to design syste… Read more
India’s Google Developer Groups meet up to ace their Google Cloud Certifications
Posted by Biswajeet Mallik, Program Manager, Google Developers India. Image from Cloud Community Days India Earlier thi… Read more
Sustainable Monetized Websites: A new video series
The new series Sustainable Monetized Websites is now available on the Google AdSense YouTube channel. If you create, man… Read more
Progress and Challenges in Long-Form Open-Domain Question Answering
Posted by Aurko Roy, Research Scientist, Google Research Open-domain long-form question answering (LFQA) is a fundamenta… Read more
High Performance Game Audio with Oboe
Posted by Dan Galpin We've added the Oboe C++ audio library to the Android Game SDK. Oboe's support of high-performance… Read more
Upcoming Change to the Enforcement of Temporary IDs with Product Partitions and Listing Groups
Beginning in May, 2021 we will enforce a requirement that temporary IDs be unique for all objects in newly created listi… Read more
Evolving Google Workspace Add-ons with Alternate Runtimes
Posted by Charles Maxson, Developer Advocate Google Workspace Add-ons offer developers a simplified, structured, and sa… Read more
Leveraging Machine Learning for Game Development
Posted by Ji Hun Kim and Richard Wu, Software Engineers, Stadia Over the years, online multiplayer games have exploded i… Read more
SharedArrayBuffer messaging clarifications
Some of you might have received an email from Google Search Console with the subject New requirements for SharedArrayBuf… Read more
AdFormat in Search Query Performance Report will start returning UNKNOWN starting 2021-05-12
On 2021-05-12 we will deprecate the AdFormat column in the Search Query Performance Report for AdWords API and Google A… Read more
Massively Parallel Graph Computation: From Theory to Practice
Posted by Jakub Łącki and Vahab Mirrokni, Research Scientists, Google Research Graphs are useful theoretical representat… Read more
Android 12 Developer Preview 2
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Last month we shared the first preview of Android 12, an early look at the next… Read more
Google People API now supports batch mutates and searches of Contacts
Posted by Ting Huang, Software Engineer Some time ago, we announced that the Google Contacts API was being deprecated i… Read more
Join the Women of AdSense summit
Google AdSense is proud to partner with so many inspiring and successful businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Afric… Read more
Android Dev Challenge Finale: Weather app
Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Developer Relations Engineer Let your creativity shine in the final week of the #AndroidDevC… Read more
New resources for video SEO
As global online video consumption continues to grow, Google aims to surface video content from diverse sources across t… Read more
Boosting developer success on Google Play
Posted by Sameer Samat, VP, Product Management Helping developers build sustainable businesses is a core part of Google… Read more
Contactless Sleep Sensing in Nest Hub
Posted by Michael Dixon, Software Engineer and Reena Singhal Lee, Product Manager, Google Health People often turn to te… Read more
Securing Google Publisher Tags with Content Security Policy
The Google Publisher Tag (GPT) now supports integrating with a Content-Security-Policy (CSP). Using a CSP, you can preci… Read more
How online payments work with Steve Klebe
Posted by Jose Ugia and Steve Klebe Steve Klebe forms partnerships that drive adoption of Google Pay. He's spent the la… Read more
LEAF: A Learnable Frontend for Audio Classification
Posted by Neil Zeghidour, Research Scientist, Google Research Developing machine learning (ML) models for audio understa… Read more
Creating custom Tiles on Wear OS by Google with the Jetpack Tiles library
Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Developer Relations Engineer We introduced Tiles in 2019, and since then, Tiles have become o… Read more
Sunset grace period for existing v2 users of the Content API for Shopping
As we’ve previously announced, we will stop supporting legacy v2.0 of the Content API for Shopping in favor of v2.1, whi… Read more
Policy changes and certification requirement updates for Smart Home Actions
Posted by Toni Klopfenstein, Developer Advocate As more developers onboard to the Smart Home Actions platform, we have… Read more
A New Lens on Understanding Generalization in Deep Learning
Hanie Sedghi, Google Research and Preetum Nakkiran, Harvard University Understanding generalization is one of the fundam… Read more
Android Dev Challenge: Week 3 - Speed round
Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Developer Relations Engineer On your marks...Get set… Wait a second! Save the date for the t… Read more
Increasing our engagement with the voice technology community
Posted by Leslie Garcia-Amaya, Global Product Partnerships Lead, Google Assistant Ashwin Karuhatty, Head of Global Prod… Read more
ML Kit is now in GA & Introducing Selfie Segmentation
Posted by Kenny Sulaimon, Product Manager, ML Kit Chengji Yan, Suril Shah, Buck Bourdon, Software Engineers, ML Kit, Sh… Read more
Accelerating Neural Networks on Mobile and Web with Sparse Inference
Posted by Artsiom Ablavatski and Marat Dukhan, Software Engineers, Google Research On-device inference of neural network… Read more
Celebrating International Women’s Day with 21 tech trailblazers
Posted by The Google Developers Team Today we are celebrating International Women’s Day by highlighting a series of 21… Read more
Eight women kicking butt and taking (domain) names
Posted by Christina Yeh, Google Registry Team Who do you think of when you hear the words sister, daughter, mother? How… Read more
PAIRED: A New Multi-agent Approach for Adversarial Environment Generation
Posted by Natasha Jaques, Google Research and Michael Dennis, UC Berkeley The effectiveness of any machine learning meth… Read more
An update on Android's audio latency
Posted by Don Turner - Android Developer Relations Engineer This article takes a look at what's changed in the Android… Read more
Google and Debian work together to make COVID-19 researchers’ lives easier
Posted by Joe Hicks, Yun Peng, Olek Wojnar Google and Debian work together to make COVID-19 researchers’ lives easier B… Read more
Sub-dollar pricing expansion in 20 markets
Posted by Neethi Thomas, Dafna Gal and Ashnil Dixit, Google Play At Google Play, we’re committed to giving Android deve… Read more
Announcing Flutter 2
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Android Dev Challenge: Week 2 - Countdown timer
Posted by Florina Muntenescu, Developer Relations Engineer 3...2...1… Time for another challenge! Welcome to the second… Read more
Google Play Console powers better strategic decisions with new engagement metrics and unique benchmarks
Posted by Tom Grinsted, Product Manager, Google Play Today in Google Play Console, we’ve launched a suite of new metric… Read more
Hear how digital businesses grew in our new podcast, PubCast
PubCast is a new podcast by Google that explores the stories of website creators and app developers who turned their pas… Read more
New validation for line items in Display & Video 360 API
Beginning in May 2021, the Display & Video 360 API will start enforcing new validation when creating or updating line it… Read more
Android Auto Apps Powered by Jetpack
Posted by Eric Bahna, Product Manager In January, we enabled the Google Play Store to accept open testing submissions o… Read more
#AndroidDevJourney spotlight - February edition
Luli Perkins, Developer Relations Program Manager Our second edition of #AndroidDevJourney is here! At the beginning of… Read more
Providing better product information for shoppers
To best help users find your content and products in Search, we recommend that you clearly identify products mentioned. Read more
Lyra: A New Very Low-Bitrate Codec for Speech Compression
Posted by Alejandro Luebs, Software Engineer and Jamieson Brettle, Product Manager, Chrome Connecting to others online v… Read more
Mainframe modernization antipatterns
Posted by Travis Webb This blog post describes common pitfalls and antipatterns to consider when migrating your mainfra… Read more
Low-Power Sleep Tracking on Android
Posted by Nick Grayson, Product Manager Android works best when it helps developers create apps that people love. That’… Read more
Students Learn Android App Development with Google Developer Student Clubs
Posted by Erica Hanson, Global Program Manager, Google Developer Student Clubs Google Developer Student Clubs, a progra… Read more
February 2021 update to Display & Video 360 API v1
Today we’re releasing an update to the Display & Video 360 API which includes the following features: A new insertion or… Read more
Announcing Jetpack Compose Beta!
Posted by Anna-Chiara Bellini, Product Manager, Nick Butcher, Developer Relations Today, we’re launching the beta relea… Read more
Android Dev Challenge: lift off with Jetpack Compose
Posted by The Jetpack Compose Team Jetpack Compose is Android’s modern toolkit for building native UI. It enables you t… Read more
Sunset date for deprecated DBM API services postponed to April 15, 2021
The sunset of deprecated services in the DoubleClick Bid Manager (DBM) API, originally scheduled for February 26, 2021,… Read more
The Technology Behind Cinematic Photos
Posted by Per Karlsson and Lucy Yu, Software Engineers, Google Research Looking at photos from the past can help people… Read more
Reorganizing Similar Bid Strategies
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Here's how to watch #TheAndroidShow in just under 24 hours
Posted by The Jetpack Compose Team In less than 24 hours, we're giving you a backstage pass to Jetpack Compose, Android… Read more
Announcing the 12 remarkable innovators selected for the upcoming Google for Startups Accelerator: Voice AI program
Posted by Jason Scott, Head of Startup Developer Ecosystem, USA & Saurabh Sharma, Head of Assistant Investments In Dece… Read more
MAD Skills Motion Layout: wrap-up
Posted by Chet Haase, Developer Relations Engineer We recently finished another series of MAD Skills videos - this time… Read more
Changes to Showcase Shopping ads
On April 5, 2021, support for Showcase Shopping ads will be removed from the AdWords API. Users will no longer be able t… Read more
New Association functionality added to Search Console
We're happy to announce that Search Console has a new and enhanced Association page. Any associations that were previous… Read more
Introducing Model Search: An Open Source Platform for Finding Optimal ML Models
Posted by Hanna Mazzawi, Research Engineer and Xavi Gonzalvo, Research Scientist, Google Research The success of a neura… Read more
Announcing v202102 of the Google Ad Manager API
We're happy to announce that v202102 of the Google Ad Manager API is available starting today. Upgrade to this version t… Read more
Mastering Atari with Discrete World Models
Posted by Danijar Hafner, Student Researcher, Google Research Deep reinforcement learning (RL) enables artificial agents… Read more
First preview of Android 12
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Every day, Android apps help billions of people work, play, communicate, and cr… Read more
Join us at Search Central Live
On February 24, we will host our first installment of our new event series called Search Central Live. Read more
These Black tech creators are changing the domain
Posted by Jermaine Robinson, Google Registry Team It’s been two years since the Google Registry team launched its #MyDom… Read more
Rearranging the Visual World
Posted by Andy Zeng and Pete Florence, Research Scientists, Robotics at Google Rearranging objects (such as organizing b… Read more
Join the Women of Publishing webinar series
With our third annual 2021 Women of Publishing Leadership Series, we're eager to accelerate the growth of women-led smal… Read more
3D Scene Understanding with TensorFlow 3D
Posted by Alireza Fathi, Research Scientist and Rui Huang, AI Resident, Google Research The growing ubiquity of 3D senso… Read more
Uncovering Unknown Unknowns in Machine Learning
Posted by Lora Aroyo and Praveen Paritosh, Research Scientists, Google Research The performance of machine learning (ML)… Read more
Quality to match with your user’s expectations
Posted by Hoi Lam, Android App Quality Since the launch of Android more than 10 years ago, the platform and the user’s… Read more
New Personalized Advertising Policies Enforcement in Google Ads API and AdWords API
Starting March 25, 2021, we are rolling out a change in the Google Ads API and AdWords API, to require advertisers who a… Read more
Announcing v6.1 of the Google Ads API
Today, we’re announcing the v6.1 release of the Google Ads API. To use some of the v6.1 features, you will need to upgra… Read more
Announcing Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) Alpha
Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang, Software Engineer and David Winer, Product Manager Today we are excited to announce the alp… Read more
Introducing Publisher Ads Audits for Lighthouse v1.4.1
Today, we're announcing the general release of Publisher Ads Audits for Lighthouse v1.4.1. The major highlights of this… Read more
Sunsetting Portofolio Enhanced CPC Bid Strategies
On March 22, 2021 we will begin to sunset portfolio (shared) Enhanced cost-per-click (ECPC) bid strategies. The followin… Read more
TracIn — A Simple Method to Estimate Training Data Influence
Posted by Frederick Liu and Garima Pruthi, Software Engineers, Google Research The quality of a machine learning (ML) mo… Read more
Changes to phrase match and broad match modifier
On February 4, 2021, we announced upcoming changes to phrase match and broad match modifier. To simplify the keyword por… Read more
Machine Learning for Computer Architecture
Posted by Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Research Scientist, Google Research One of the key contributors to recent machine learning… Read more
The Invoice Service of Google Ads API is out of beta
The InvoiceService is now available for all API users starting with version 6 of the Google Ads API. Earlier API version… Read more
Evaluating Design Trade-offs in Visual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Posted by Mohammad Babaeizadeh, Research Engineer and Dumitru Erhan, Research Scientist, Google Research Model-free rein… Read more
Disabling "lead" category mutates in AdWords API
On March 8, 2021 we're disabling mutates to the Lead category in the AdWords API. The Google Ads API ConversionActionCat… Read more
Search Console Discover report now includes Chrome data
Starting today, all your Discover traffic (including from Chrome) will be shown in the Performance report for Discover. Read more
Learning to Reason Over Tables from Less Data
Posted by Julian Eisenschlos, AI Resident, Google Research, Zürich The task of recognizing textual entailment, also know… Read more
January update to Display & Video 360 API v1
Today we’re releasing an update to the Display & Video 360 API which includes the following features: Support for retrie… Read more
Sunset of the Ad Manager API v202002
On Monday, March 1, 2021, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v202002 of the Ad Manager API will sunset. At tha… Read more
Improving Mobile App Accessibility with Icon Detection
Posted by Gilles Baechler and Srinivas Sunkara, Software Engineers, Google Research Voice Access enables users to contro… Read more
How we’re helping developers with differential privacy
Posted by Miguel Guevara, Product Manager, Privacy and Data Protection Office At Google, we believe that innovation and… Read more
Addressing Range Anxiety with Smart Electric Vehicle Routing
Posted by Kostas Kollias and Sreenivas Gollapudi, Research Scientists, Google Research Mapping algorithms used for navig… Read more
Join us for #30DaysOfFlutter
Posted by Nikita Gandhi (Community Manager, GDG India), Nilay Yener (Program Manager, Flutter DevRel) Happy New Year fo… Read more
Changes to Hotel Ads pricing buckets in the Google Ads API
On February 23rd, Google Ads API will be changing the way Hotel price buckets returns data by utilizing two new values i… Read more
Announcing new Real-time Bidding experiments
Google is launching experiments that are intended to provide bidders with an opportunity to test and provide collaborati… Read more
21 websites and apps to make your 2021 better
Posted by Christina Yeh, Google Registry Team Google Registry is always on the lookout for interesting websites that hav… Read more
Ad Policy Error Management is evolving in Google Ads API
Update (February 11, 2021): Added APP_AD and APP_ENGAGEMENT_AD to the list of ad types that are impacted by this change.… Read more
Community leaders upskill themselves and find new roles with Elevate by Google Developers
Posted by Kübra Zengin, GDG North America Regional Lead Image of participants in a recent Elevate workshop. The North A… Read more
Solve for the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals with Google technologies in this year’s Solution Challenge.
Posted by Erica Hanson, Global Program Manager, Google Developer Student Clubs Created by the United Nations in 2015 to… Read more
Introducing Google News performance report
Today we are launching Google News performance reporting to help news publishers better understand user behavior on Goog… Read more
Index Coverage Data Improvements
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Announcing New Smart Home App Discovery Features
Posted by Toni Klopfenstein, Developer Advocate When a user connects a smart device to the Google Assistant via the Hom… Read more
A Google for Startups Accelerator for startups using voice technology to better the world
Posted by Jason Scott, Head of Startup Developer Ecosystem, U.S., Google At Google, we have long understood that voice… Read more
Announcing gRPC Kotlin 1.0 for Android and Cloud
Posted by Louis Wasserman, Software Engineer and James Ward, Developer Advocate Kotlin is now the fourth most loved pro… Read more
A weird year in review
2020, what a year this was! We found new ways to work and collaborate, to learn and have fun, and also to stay safe. Read more
An update on the Structured Data Testing Tool
In July, we announced that the Rich Results Test is out of beta. In that blog post, we said that the Structured Data Tes… Read more
Updates to Search Console’s API
A few months ago we announced an API infrastructure upgrade to improve the performance of the Search Console API as dema… Read more
New and improved crawl stats for your site
To help website owners better understand how crawls their sites, we’re launching a brand new version of the in Search Co… Read more
We moved! Introducing the new home for the Google Webmasters blogs
Last week we changed our name to Google Search Central and published our new central site. As part of this site migratio… Read more
Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central
Merriam-Webster claims the first known use of the word webmaster was in 1993, years before Google even existed. However,… Read more
Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search
This past May, we announced that page experience signals would be included in Google Search ranking. These signals measu… Read more
PES@Home 2020: Google’s first virtual summit for Product Experts
More than ever, users are relying on Google products to do their jobs, educate their kids, and stay in touch with loved… Read more
Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages
The end of the year holiday season is a peak time for many merchants with special sales events such as Black Friday and… Read more
The Search Console Training lives on
In November 2019 we announced the Search Console Training YouTube series and started publishing videos regularly. The go… Read more
New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data
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A guide to common AdSense policy questions
AdSense program policies help ensure we preserve a healthy digital ecosystem for the benefit of all users, advertisers a… Read more
New open source robots.txt projects
Last year we released the robots.txt parser and matcher that we use in our production systems to the open source world.… Read more
Helping global publishers accelerate business growth
Since launching the Google News Initiative in 2018, we’ve worked with news organizations of all sizes as they’ve adapted… Read more
Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2
Quick summary: Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2. Read more
The new AdSense reporting is live
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Resources to help optimize your business
Online content and media consumption behaviors are continuously evolving. If you'd like to optimize your online business… Read more
Welcome to Google AdSense
Creating content your audience loves takes time, but making it profitable shouldn’t. That’s where Google AdSense comes i… Read more
Join the Women of Publishing webinar series
The 2020 Women of Publishing Leadership Series is now open for registration. This annual program is designed to facilita… Read more
Refining your website’s user experience in 3 steps
There are plenty of sites out there. Beyond producing great content, it’s vital to make yours stand out. How? One way is… Read more
Creating outstanding website content in 3 steps
Great content marketing not only drives new visitors to your site, but also entices previous visitors to come back. A co… Read more
Keep your audience engaged post holidays
Congrats on completing the marathon. What happens now? You might notice a drop in your RPMs and impressions. Don’t panic… Read more
Build your content during the holiday season
Holiday season is driven by users purchasing for themselves and for family’s gifts.Don’t worry, even if your content is… Read more
Start preparing for the holiday season now
Anticipation is key, start preparing now! The holiday shopping season starts in September with queries starting to incre… Read more
Your Google AdSense seasonal guide
This guide is here to help you learn about the importance of seasonality as well as provide you with tips on how to get… Read more
Introducing the new and improved Auto ads
This time last year, we committed to making AdSense more assistive and powerful. We're excited to announce a significant… Read more
AdSense now understands Marathi
Today, we’re excited to announce the addition of Marathi, a language spoken by over 80 millions people in Maharashtra, I… Read more
Simplifying our content policies for publishers
One of our top priorities is to sustain a healthy digital advertising ecosystem, one that works for everyone: users, adv… Read more
We’ve moved. Come visit us.
Over ten years ago, we wrote our first post on our Geo Developers blog, and today we’re sharing our new location for the… Read more
Falling Fruit helps urbanites forage for food using Google Maps Platform
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How Google Maps helps amateur and professional archaeologists ponder the mysteries of Stonehenge’s burial mounds
Posted by Simon Banton, “Hengemaster,” Stonehenge Barrow MapEditor’s note: Today’s post comes from Simon Banton: softwar… Read more
How WhyHunger uses Google Maps to connect people to grassroots community food sources
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Expanded support for Google public programs
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Reminder—set-up a Google Cloud Platform Console account
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Introducing Google Maps Platform
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The real world as your playground: Build real-world games with Google Maps APIs
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Updated basemap style for Google Maps APIs
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With Google Maps APIs, Toyota Europe keeps teen drivers safe and sound
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Removing Place Add, Delete & Radar Search features
Back in 2012, we launched the Place Add / Delete feature in the Google Places API to enable applications to instantly up… Read more
Get your users where they need to go on any platform with Google Maps URLs
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Google Maps and Particle partner to bring location-aware capabilities to IoT devices
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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
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Google Maps APIs sessions at Google Next ‘17
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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
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Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise
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Introducing insights in the Google My Business API
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Geolocation and Firebase for the Internet of Things
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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
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A sizzling open source release for the Australian Election site
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