Our 54 Doodle for Google winners show their strength
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Raise the visibility of your Web Stories
Publishers and creators of all sizes are adopting Web Stories to create compelling narrative experiences for readers. As… Read more
No mountain? No problem: This Googler DIYed a rock wall
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Helping protect people from financial fraud in the U.K.
Over the last few years, people in the U.K. have been targeted by increasingly sophisticated scammers on and offline. Ac… Read more
Crisscrossed Captions: Semantic Similarity for Images and Text
Posted by Zarana Parekh, Software Engineer and Jason Baldridge, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research The past decad… Read more
New safety section in Google Play will give transparency into how apps use data
Posted by Suzanne Frey, VP, Product, Android Security and Privacy We work closely with developers to keep Google Play a… Read more
News Brief: April Updates from the Google News Initiative
Last month, we heard from industry experts who are thinking through new ways to support and engage with hyperlocal news.… Read more
When it comes to mental health, what are we searching for?
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Three steps for turning a video into a Web Story
If you run a website, YouTube channel or blog, chances are you’ve produced a video for it. And you can easily reuse that… Read more
Plan a perfect weekend with new Google Assistant features
Moms everywhere can likely agree that this year (and then some) has had us working overtime. As a mom of two who's worki… Read more
A simpler and safer future — without passwords
You may not realize it, but passwords are the single biggest threat to your online security – they’re easy to steal, the… Read more
A hybrid approach to work
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Woolaroo: a new tool for exploring indigenous languages
“Our dictionary doesn’t have a word for shoe” my Uncle Allan Lena said, so when kids ask him what to call it in Yugambeh… Read more
Introducing FELIX: Flexible Text Editing Through Tagging and Insertion
Posted by Jonathan Mallinson and Aliaksei Severyn, Research Scientists, Google Research Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) m… Read more
Blast off into Entertainment Space on your Android tablet
Tablets are the perfect device to stay entertained, whether you’re watching a movie from your bed, playing games on your… Read more
Why creating inclusive classrooms matters
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Do Wide and Deep Networks Learn the Same Things?
Posted by Thao Nguyen, AI Resident, Google Research A common practice to improve a neural network’s performance and tail… Read more
Android Studio 4.2
Posted by Jamal Eason, Product Manager, Android We are excited to announce that Android Studio 4.2 is now available to… Read more
New Dashboard in Google Developer Profiles
Posted by Chris Demeke, Product Manager; Amani Newton, Technical Writer The last time you signed into your Google Devel… Read more
Feed-based Extensions Sunset in Google Ads APIs
Google Ads has recently introduced Asset-based extensions. This new paradigm reduces the complexity of managing extensio… Read more
Celebrating Asian Pacific American art and cultures
While the Asian and Pacific Islander communities have always faced forms of discrimination and xenophobia, the recent in… Read more
Honoring Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at Google
My parents fled China by boat in the 1940s during the Communist Revolution, ultimately landing in New Jersey, where I gr… Read more
From overcoming burnout to finding new opportunities
As a first-generation Vietnamese American raised by a single mother and a first-generation college graduate entering the… Read more
Google at ICLR 2021
Posted by Jaqui Herman, Research Specialist and Tim Herrmann, Program Manager The 9th International Conference on Learni… Read more
Championing women’s sports with the WNBA and ESPN
When I think back to all of the time I have spent watching sports, a few memorable moments rise to the top. Lisa Leslie’… Read more
Sunset of the Ad Manager API v202005
On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v202005 of the Ad Manager API will sunset. At tha… Read more
Stadia Savepoint: April updates
It’s time for another update to our Stadia Savepoint series, recapping the new games, features and updates on Stadia.In… Read more
Updated Google Pay button increases click-through rates
Posted by Soc Sieng, Developer Advocate, Google Pay An improved Google Pay button works wonders for click-through rates… Read more
AdWords API and Scripts: Deprecation of Automatic Placements in the Placement Performance Report
Starting June 10, 2021, the Placement Performance Report for the AdWords API and Google Ads scripts will exclude automat… Read more
The Query Builder Blog Series: Part 5 - Determining Field Selectability
This blog series follows the journey of building the new and improved Interactive Google Ads Query Builder tool. Part 4… Read more
Escucha las historias de los educadores en esta Semana de Apreciación del Profesor
Nota: En honor a la Semana de Apreciación al Profesor, la Profesora Nacional del Año 2020 Tabatha Rosproy nos comparte… Read more
Hear educators' stories this Teacher Appreciation Week
Editor’s note: In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, 2020 National Teacher of the Year Tabatha Rosproy is sharing her… Read more
Reminder to migrate to the AdMob API
Starting on October 12, 2021, developers will no longer be able to retrieve AdMob data from the AdSense Management API v… Read more
Tips and shortcuts for a more productive spring
Posted by Bruno Panara, Google Registry Team In my previous life as a startup entrepreneur, I found that life was more… Read more
Google Ads API v4 and v5 sunset reminder
The Google Ads API v4 and v5 will sunset on June 23, 2021. After this date, all v4 and v5 API requests will begin to fai… Read more
Flexible, Scalable, Differentiable Simulation of Recommender Systems with RecSim NG
Posted by Martin Mladenov, Research Scientist and Chih-wei Hsu, Software Engineer, Google Research Recommender systems a… Read more
April 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: New fields in the… Read more
Updated guidance to improve your app quality and discovery on Google Play
Posted by Bert de Weerd and Tingmui Li, Google Play When Google Play launched in 2008, it was easy for developers to ge… Read more
Everything Assistant at I/O
Posted by Mike Bifulco We’re excited to host the first ever virtual Google I/O Conference this year, from May 18-20, 20… Read more
Upgrade to the Google Ads API from the AdWords API by April 27, 2022
If you are a developer currently using the AdWords API, you need to upgrade to the Google Ads API by April 27, 2022. On… Read more
How we fought Search spam on Google in 2020
Every day, we discover 40 billion spammy pages! This post explains how we used innovation, AI, and more in 2020 to keep… Read more
Announcing v7 of the Google Ads API
Today, we’re announcing the v7 release of the Google Ads API. To use the v7 features, you will need to upgrade your clie… Read more
Model-Based RL for Decentralized Multi-agent Navigation
Posted by Rose E. Wang, Student Researcher and Aleksandra Faust, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research As robots bec… Read more
Holistic Video Scene Understanding with ViP-DeepLab
Posted by Siyuan Qiao, Student Researcher and Liang-Chieh Chen, Research Scientist, Google Research People are able to r… Read more
Recommended strategies and best practices for designing and developing games and stories on Google Assistant
Posted by Wally Brill and Jessica Dene Earley-Cha Since we launched Interactive Canvas, and especially in the last year… Read more
The Query Builder Blog Series: Part 4 - Creating the Resource Service
This blog series follows the journey of building the new and improved Interactive Google Ads Query Builder tool. Part 3… Read more
#AndroidDevJourney spotlight - April edition
Posted by Luli Perkins, Developer Relations Program Manager We’re wrapping up the April edition of #AndroidDevJourney b… Read more
HDR+ with Bracketing on Pixel Phones
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Google Developer Student Clubs in India build Android Apps with Kotlin
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Google Developer Group Spotlight: A conversation with Cloud Architect, Ilias Papachristos
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Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
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Celebrating Earth Day with our inaugural Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change cohort
Posted by Jason Scott, Head of Startup Developer Ecosystem, USA | Nick Zakrasek, Global Product Lead, Sustainability To… Read more
Adding New Resource Types to ChangeStatus in Google Ads API
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MaX-DeepLab: Dual-Path Transformers for End-to-End Panoptic Segmentation
Posted by Huiyu Wang, Student Researcher and Liang-Chieh Chen, Research Scientist, Google Research Panoptic segmentation… Read more
Android 12 Developer Preview 3
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Inviting educators to the Google Developers India Faculty Summit on 23rd April, 2021
Posted by Harsh Dattani, Community Manager University professors have a large impact by educating the next generation o… Read more
Reminder: Using v2.0 of the Content API for Shopping with new accounts ends on April 30, 2021
In March, we announced that beginning April 30, 2021 we will no longer allow new merchant accounts onto v2.0 of the Cont… Read more
Android GPU Compute Going Forward
Posted by Dan Galpin, Developer Advocate We introduced RenderScript in Android 3.0 as a way for applications to run com… Read more
Announcing v2 of the AdSense Management API
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Multi-Task Robotic Reinforcement Learning at Scale
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The Query Builder Blog Series: Part 3 - Creating a Resource Schema
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More time, tools, and details on the page experience update
Last November we announced that the page experience ranking change will go live on Google Search this year, in what we’r… Read more
A New Standard for Mobile App Security
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Presenting the iGibson Challenge on Interactive and Social Navigation
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SignAll SDK: Sign language interface using MediaPipe is now available for developers
A guest post by the Engineering team at SignAll | Twitter handle | MediaPipe team Please note that the information, uses… Read more
Upcoming changes to FeedBurner
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The Query Builder Blog Series: Part 2 - Designing a Resource Schema
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Customize the KPIs on your Google Play Console dashboard
Posted by Tom Grinsted, Product Manager, Google Play Google Play Console metrics can help you understand your app’s per… Read more
Announcing the Sustainable Monetized Websites video series
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Monster Mash: A Sketch-Based Tool for Casual 3D Modeling and Animation
Posted by Cassidy Curtis, Visual Designer and David Salesin, Principal Scientist, Google Research 3D computer animation… 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
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
Announcing the 2021 Research Scholar Program Recipients
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Tools to help developers provide a safer content experience
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Improved data filtering and comparison on Performance reports
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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
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
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
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
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
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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
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Google People API now supports batch mutates and searches of Contacts
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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
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Boosting developer success on Google Play
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Contactless Sleep Sensing in Nest Hub
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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
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LEAF: A Learnable Frontend for Audio Classification
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Creating custom Tiles on Wear OS by Google with the Jetpack Tiles library
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Sunset grace period for existing v2 users of the Content API for Shopping
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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
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Android Dev Challenge: Week 3 - Speed round
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Increasing our engagement with the voice technology community
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ML Kit is now in GA & Introducing Selfie Segmentation
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Accelerating Neural Networks on Mobile and Web with Sparse Inference
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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
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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
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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
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Announcing Flutter 2
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Android Dev Challenge: Week 2 - Countdown timer
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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
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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
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#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
Mainframe modernization antipatterns
Posted by Travis Webb This blog post describes common pitfalls and antipatterns to consider when migrating your mainfra… 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
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
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
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
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
Join the Women of Publishing webinar series
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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
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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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
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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
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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
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Introducing the new and improved Auto ads
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AdSense now understands Marathi
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Simplifying our content policies for publishers
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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