Google releases source for Google I/O 2017 for Android
Posted by Shailen Tuli Today we're releasing the source code for the official Google I/O 2017 for Android app. This year… Read more
Turn around, bright eyes… and experience the total solar eclipse with Google
Move over, blue moon—there’s a more rare astronomical event in town. For the first time since 1979, a total eclipse… Read more
A new machine learning app for reporting on hate in America
Hate crimes in America have historically been difficult to track since there is very little official data collected. Wha… Read more
500 million devices now supported for Android Instant Apps
Posted by Jonathan Karmel Since our public launch at Google I/O this year, we've been hard at work expanding the number… Read more
Making Visible Watermarks More Effective
Posted by Tali Dekel and Michael Rubinstein, Research ScientistsWhether you are a photographer, a marketing manager, or… Read more
#teampixel, unique in every way.
There is no theme for this week’s #teampixel feature, instead, the common thread binding them together is that each ph… Read more
Android Instant Apps: Best practices for managing download size
Posted by Maru Ahues Bouza, Developer Relations Partner, Google Play Android Instant Apps provides rich, native experien… Read more
Meet the sixth graders who built a potable water dispenser
Schools in Latin America and around the world are searching for ways to take student impact beyond the classroom. In Mex… Read more
“Ok Google, tell me a joke”
What did one snowman say to the other?Do you smell carrots? It’s National Joke Day, and your cheesy, mostly funny Assi… Read more
Get on the same page: new Google Docs features power team collaboration
Getting people on the same page for a project can be tough. It requires managing a ton of opinions and suggestions. The… Read more
Introducing free calls with your Assistant on Google Home
Hi, hello, hey, howdy … no matter how you start a call, your Google Assistant is ready to help! You can already ask… Read more
Share your feedback about the AdWords API
Since the early days of the AdWords API, we've continually evolved the platform to help you more efficiently and creativ… Read more
Playdemic drives user engagement and revenue with live game operations on Google Play
Posted by Adriana Puchianu, Developer Marketing, Google Play Based in the UK, Playdemic is a free-to-play mobile games d… Read more
All your questions answered on Google Maps and Search
When deciding where to go and what to do, we often ask ourselves lots of questions before making a decision. Soon, you'l… Read more
There’s no place like home, in Google Earth
When you opened Google Earth for the very first time, where did you go? For most people there's a common destination: Ho… Read more
Meet the fifth grader turning water bottles into light bulbs to brighten communities
Schools in Latin America and around the world are searching for ways to take student impact beyond the classroom. In Mex… Read more
Achoo! Watch out for seasonal sniffles with pollen forecasts on Google
While most of you out there are enjoying the dog days of summer, some are bracing themselves for the fall allergy season… Read more
Announcing v201708 of the DFP API
Today we’re pleased to announce several additions and improvements to the DFP API with the release of v201708. Creativ… Read more
Around the Globe - Improved Operations for Girl Scouts Japan
For this segment of G4NP Around the Globe, we’re highlighting Girl Scouts of Japan: a nonprofit that supports more tha… Read more
Chillax, it’s National Relaxation Day!
Even though the calendar says it’s only Tuesday, we say it’s time to kick back and relax. After all, National Relaxa… Read more
Meet a teacher helping indigenous women in Mexico get online
Schools in Latin America and around the world are searching for ways to take student impact beyond the classroom. In Mex… Read more
Code Jam 2017 wraps up with the World Finals in Dublin
The results from this year's Code Jam, Google's largest and toughest programming competition, are in! The contest wrappe… Read more
Daydream brings you inside Vogue Supermodel Closets
Everyone has items of clothing that hold sentimental value. For Kendall Jenner, it could be that pair of boots that Kany… Read more
Hamilton App Takes the Stage
Posted by David DeRemer (from Posse) Whether it's opening night for a Broadway musical or launch day for your app, both… Read more
It must be nice to have Hamilton on your phone
HAMILTON fans got a treat last Friday when the team behind the broadway hit released … Wait for It … an app! Availab… Read more
Build a subscriptions business on Google Play with these new features and best practices
Posted by Tom Grinsted, Product Manager Subscriptions can be a sustainable source of revenue, allowing you to invest in… Read more
A Megamovie volunteer on snapping photos and contributing to science
On August 21—for the first time in 100 years—a total solar eclipse will cross the the United States.Last week we sha… Read more
Type less, talk more
Using your voice to dictate a message can be up to three times faster than typing. With this in mind, today we’re brin… Read more
Harness the Power of Machine Learning in Your Browser with Deeplearn.js
Posted by Nikhil Thorat and Daniel Smilkov, Software Engineers, Google Big Picture TeamMachine learning (ML) has become… Read more
Next-generation Dex Compiler Now in Preview
Posted by James Lau, Product Manager Android developers know that dex compilation is a key step in building an APK. This… Read more
Android Things Developer Preview 5
Posted by Wayne Piekarski, Developer Advocate for IoT Today, we're releasing Developer Preview 5 (DP5) of Android Things… Read more
Announcing v201708 of the AdWords API
Today we’re announcing the release of AdWords API v201708. Here are some of the highlights for key AdWords features: E… Read more
Accountstatuses now includes account-level issues in the Content API for Shopping
Starting today, calls to the Accountstatuses service return not only product-level issues, but also account-level issues… Read more
Helping publishers bust annoying ads
Cross posted from The KeywordAt some point, we’ve all been caught off guard by an annoying ad online—like a video au… Read more
TensorFlow Serving 1.0
Posted by Kiril Gorovoy, Software EngineerWe've come a long way since our initial open source release in February 2016 o… Read more
Your next growth market on Google Play: launch your title in Russia
Posted by Dmitri Martynov, Business Development, Google Play For many international developers Russia is considered to b… Read more
Google at ICML 2017
Posted by Christian Howard, Editor-in-Chief, Research CommunicationsMachine learning (ML) is a key strategic focus at Go… Read more
How we’re helping people find quality apps and games on Google Play
Posted by Andrew Ahn, Product Manager, Google Play People enjoy using apps and games which meet their performance and qu… Read more
Android Bug Swatting with Sanitizers
Posted by Dan Austin, Android Security team LLVM, the compiler infrastructure used to build Android, contains multiple c… Read more
Actions on Google is now available for British English
Posted by Brad Abrams, Product Manager Starting today, we're making all your apps built for the Google Assistant availab… Read more
The new Search Console: a sneak peek at two experimental features
Search Console was initially launched with just four reports more than a decade ago. Today, the product includes more th… Read more
Badges on Image Search help users find what they really want
When you want to bake cupcakes, but you don't know what kind, Image Search can help you make a decision. Finding an imag… Read more
Upcoming changes to standard placement tags in DCM
Beginning in August 2017, DoubleClick Campaign Manager (DCM) will no longer export standard tags for placements larger t… Read more
Announcing Nearby Connections 2.0: fully offline, high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
Posted by Ritesh Nayak M, Product Manager Imagine walking into a hotel room and having the temperature set just right,… Read more
Google at ACL 2017
Posted by Christian Howard, Editor-in-Chief, Research CommunicationsThis week, Vancouver, Canada hosts the 2017 Annual M… Read more
AdWords Scripts now integrated with Google Slides API
Today we’re excited to announce that the Google Slides API has been added as an Advanced API to AdWords scripts. Our A… Read more
Expressions in Virtual Reality
Posted by Avneesh Sud, Software Engineer, Machine PerceptionRecently Google Machine Perception researchers, in collabora… Read more
Update of adGroupType for ad groups containing only Dynamic Search Ad features
Following the validation rule changes in May 2017, we’re updating ad groups that contain only Dynamic Search Ad featur… Read more
What’s new for shortcuts and widgets in Android O
Posted by Gloria Liou, Associate Product Manager Intern Why use shortcuts and widgets? One of our favorite features in… Read more
Upcoming changes to DBM report access
Back in March, we launched the new Report Builder in DoubleClick Bid Manager (DBM). Over the coming months, we'll be mig… Read more
Get the updated Playbook app for news and tips to help you grow your business on Google Play
Posted by Dom Elliott, Developer Marketing, Google Play Get the latest Playbook app for developers to learn about featur… Read more
From Chrysaor to Lipizzan: Blocking a new targeted spyware family
Posted by Megan Ruthven Android Security, Ken Bodzak Threat Analysis Group, Neel Mehta Threat Analysis Group Android Sec… Read more
Apply to Google Developers Launchpad Studio for AI & ML focused startups
Posted by Roy Glasberg, Global Lead, Google Developers Launchpad The mission of Google Developers Launchpad is to enable… Read more
Android Testing Support Library 1.0 is here!
Posted by Michael Amygdalidis, Stephan Linzner and Nick Korostelev from the Mobile-Ninjas team at Google We're pleased t… Read more
So there I was, firing a megawatt plasma collider at work...
Posted by Ted Baltz, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Accelerated Science TeamWait, what? Why is Google interested… 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
Teaching Robots to Understand Semantic Concepts
Posted by Sergey Levine, Faculty Advisor and Pierre Sermanet, Research Scientist, Google Brain TeamMachine learning can… 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
Seccomp filter in Android O
Posted by Paul Lawrence, Android Security Engineer In Android-powered devices, the kernel does the heavy lifting to enf… Read more
An Update to Open Images - Now with Bounding-Boxes
Posted by Vittorio Ferrari, Research Scientist, Machine PerceptionLast year we introduced Open Images, a collaborative r… Read more
Motion Stills — Now on Android
Posted by Karthik Raveendran and Suril Shah, Software Engineers, Google ResearchLast year, we launched Motion Stills, an… Read more
New security protections to reduce risk from unverified apps
Originally posted by Naveen Agarwal, Identity team and Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G Suite on the G Suite… Read more
Shut the HAL Up
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Senior Software Engineer, Android Security Updates are essential for security, but they can… 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
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
The Google Brain Residency Program — One Year Later
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
Posted by Fergus Hurley, Product Manager, Google Play Poor app performance is something that many users have experienced… Read more
Register now for the AdWords scripts workshops!
We’re pleased to announce a new set of workshops for AdWords scripts in 2017. The workshops will be held at the follow… Read more
Sunset of DFP API v201608
On Thursday, August 31st, 2017, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v201608 of the DFP API will be sunset. At t… Read more
Introducing AdSense Native ads
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
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
Android Things Hackster Community
Posted by Dave Smith, Developer Advocate for IoT Android Things makes building connected embedded devices easy by provid… Read more
Modifying events with the Google Calendar API
Originally posted by Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G Suite, on the G Suite Developers Blog. You might be us… Read more
Introducing the AdWords API Success Stories hub
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
Experimenting with VR Ad formats at Area 120
Posted by Aayush Upadhyay and Neel Rao, Area 120At Area 120, Google's internal workshop for experimental ideas, we're wo… Read more
Android Things Console developer preview
Posted by Wayne Piekarski, Developer Advocate for IoT Today we are launching a preview of the Android Things Console. Th… Read more
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
Posted by Łukasz Kaiser, Senior Research Scientist, Google Brain Team and Aidan N. Gomez, Researcher, Department of Com… Read more
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
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
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
Introducing Team Drives for developers
Originally posted by Hodie Meyers, Product Manager, Google Drive, and Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G Suite… 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
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
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
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
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
The Machine Intelligence Behind Gboard
Posted by Françoise Beaufays, Principal Scientist, Speech and Keyboard Team and Michael Riley, Principal Scientist, Spe… 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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