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Reporting issues April 30 and May 1, 2019

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Developing Apps for Android Automotive OS

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Today we’re announcing the v1_2 release of the Google Ads API. With this version, you’ll continue pointing to v1 as…  Read more

Announcing the 6th Fine-Grained Visual Categorization Workshop

Posted by Christine Kaeser-Chen, Software Engineer and Serge Belongie, Visiting Faculty, Google AI In recent years, fine…  Read more

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Posted by the Google I/O Team We’re looking forward to seeing you at I/O! To help you prepare, we’re letting you kn…  Read more

Android Q Scoped Storage: Best Practices and Updates

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Evaluating the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations

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Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data

For many years we have been recommending the use of structured data on websites to enable a richer search experience. Wh…  Read more

Announcing Google Ads API Doctor

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SpecAugment: A New Data Augmentation Method for Automatic Speech Recognition

Posted by Daniel S. Park, AI Resident and William Chan, Research Scientist Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the proce…  Read more

Android Studio 3.4

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MorphNet: Towards Faster and Smaller Neural Networks

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Indie Games Accelerator - Applications open for class of 2019

Posted by Anuj Gulati, Developer Marketing Manager and Sami Kizilbash, Developer Relations Program Manager Last year we…  Read more

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Instant-loading AMP pages from your own domain

Today we are rolling out support in Google Search’s AMP web results (also known as “blue links”) to link to signed…  Read more

Check out the Google Assistant talks at I/O 2019

Posted by Mary Chen, Strategy Lead, Actions on Google This year at Google I/O, the Actions on Google team is sharing ne…  Read more

Take Your Best Selfie Automatically, with Photobooth on Pixel 3

Posted by Navid Shiee, Senior Software Engineer and Aseem Agarwala, Staff Research Scientist, Google AI Taking a good gr…  Read more

Improving the update process with your feedback

Posted by Sameer Samat, VP of Product Management, Android & Google Play Thank you for all the feedback about updates we…  Read more

Advance your career with the Google Africa Certifications Scholarships

Posted by William Florance, Global Head, Developer Training Programs Building upon our pledge to provide mobile develop…  Read more

Updates from Coral: A new compiler and much more

Posted by Vikram Tank (Product Manager), Coral Team Coral has been public for about a month now, and we’ve heard some…  Read more

Optimize your subscriptions with new insights in the Play Console

Posted by Daniel Schramm, Product Manager, Google Play Since launching on Google Play nearly 7 years ago, subscriptions…  Read more

Announcing the 2019 NYC Google Ad Manager API Workshop

We’re excited to announce another Google Ad Manager API Workshop in NYC on May 8, 2019. If you’re a regular user of…  Read more

Search Console reporting for your site's Discover performance data

Discover is a popular way for users to stay up-to-date on all their favorite topics, even when they’re not searching.…  Read more

A simpler experience for instant apps

Posted by Miguel Montemayor and Diana García Ríos As of Android Gradle plugin 3.4.0 (included in Android Studio 3.4),…  Read more

Empowering Women Techmakers Around the World Through Localization

Posted by Marisa Pareti, on behalf of Women Techmakers Women Techmakers creates visibility, community and resources for…  Read more

Sunset of the Ad Manager API v201805

On Friday, May 31, 2019, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v201805 of the Ad Manager API will be sunset. At t…  Read more

ML Kit expands into NLP with Language Identification and Smart Reply

Posted by Christiaan Prins and Max Gubin Today we are announcing the release of two new features to ML Kit: Language Id…  Read more

User experience improvements with page speed in mobile search

To help users find the answers to their questions faster, we included page speed as a ranking factor for mobile searches…  Read more

Capturing Special Video Moments with Google Photos

Posted by Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan and David Ross, Software Engineers Recording video of memorable moments to share w…  Read more

Android Q Beta 2 update

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering A few weeks ago we Introduced Android Q Beta, a first look at the next version o…  Read more

Python 2 Deprecation in Ads API Client Libraries

As the official End of Life date for Python 2 approaches, we will be ending support for Python 2 in both the AdWords/Goo…  Read more

Using Deep Learning to Improve Usability on Mobile Devices

Posted by Yang Li, Research Scientist, Google AI Tapping is the most commonly used gesture on mobile interfaces, and is…  Read more

Improving app performance with ART optimizing profiles in the cloud

Posted by Calin Juravle, Software Engineer In Android Pie we launched ART optimizing profiles in Play Cloud, a new opti…  Read more

AOSP Application Updates

Posted by Raman Tenneti, AOSP Software Engineer and Ally Sillins, AOSP Program Manager When we started the Android Open…  Read more

Announcing v1_1 of the Google Ads API

Today we’re announcing the v1_1 release of the Google Ads API. With this version, you’ll continue pointing to v1 as…  Read more

Changes to the Google Play Developer API

Posted by Vlad Radu, Product Manager and Nicholas Lativy, Software Engineer The Google Play Developer API allows you to…  Read more

Unifying Physics and Deep Learning with TossingBot

Posted by Andy Zeng, Student Researcher, Robotics at Google Though considerable progress has been made in enabling robot…  Read more

How to discover & suggest Google-selected canonical URLs for your pages

Sometimes a web page can be reached by using more than one URL. In such cases, Google tries to determine the best URL to…  Read more

Announcing v2.1 of the Content API for Shopping

Today we're announcing the release of v2.1 of the Content API for Shopping. This version has been available as an experi…  Read more

Simulated Policy Learning in Video Models

Posted by Łukasz Kaiser and Dumitru Erhan, Research Scientists, Google AI Deep reinforcement learning (RL) techniques c…  Read more

The latest Android App Bundle updates including the additional languages API

Posted by Wojtek Kaliciński, Developer Advocate, Android Last year, we launched Android App Bundles and Google Play's…  Read more

This year in Search Spam - Webspam report 2018

Google aims to provide the highest quality results for any search. As part of this, we take action to prevent what we ca…  Read more

Structured Data Files v4.2 now available in the DoubleClick Bid Manager API

Today we're announcing the general availability of Structured Data Files (SDF) v4.2 in the DoubleClick Bid Manager API.…  Read more

Update on the Google Groups Settings API

Posted by Zerzar Bukhari, Product Manager, G Suite In February 2019, we announced upcoming changes to the Google Groups…  Read more

Reducing the Need for Labeled Data in Generative Adversarial Networks

Posted by Mario Lučić, Research Scientist and Marvin Ritter, Software Engineer, Google AI Zürich Generative adversari…  Read more

Measuring the Limits of Data Parallel Training for Neural Networks

Posted by Chris Shallue, Senior Software Engineer and George Dahl, Senior Research Scientist, Google AIOver the past dec…  Read more

A Summary of the Google Flood Forecasting Meets Machine Learning Workshop

Posted by Sella Nevo, Senior Software Engineer and Rainier Aliment, Program Manager Recently, we hosted the Google Flood…  Read more

Registration open for Google Ads scripts 2019 workshops

Join us for informative talks and interactive codelabs at our 2019 Google Ads scripts workshops in Europe, Asia, and Aus…  Read more

This is the Future of Finance

Posted by Roy Glasberg, Head of Launchpad Launchpad's mission is to accelerate innovation and to help startups build wo…  Read more

Google Faculty Research Awards 2018

Posted by Maggie Johnson, VP, Education and Negar Saei, Program Manager, University Relations We just completed another…  Read more

Harnessing Organizational Knowledge for Machine Learning

Posted by Alex Ratner, Stanford University and Cassandra Xia, Google AI One of the biggest bottlenecks in developing mac…  Read more

An All-Neural On-Device Speech Recognizer

Posted by Johan Schalkwyk, Google Fellow, Speech TeamIn 2012, speech recognition research showed significant accuracy im…  Read more

Launchpad Accelerator announces startup selections in Africa, Brazil, and India

Posted by Roy Glasberg, Founder of Launchpad Accelerator For the past six years, Launchpad has connected startups from…  Read more

Introducing the Google Ads Query Builder tool

Today we are excited to announce that the Google Ads Query Builder tool is now available on the Google Ads API Developer…  Read more

Help Google Search know the best date for your web page

Sometimes, Google shows dates next to listings in its search results. In this post, we’ll answer some commonly-asked q…  Read more

Real-Time AR Self-Expression with Machine Learning

Posted by Artsiom Ablavatski and Ivan Grishchenko, Research Engineers, Google AI Augmented reality (AR) helps you do mor…  Read more

RNN-Based Handwriting Recognition in Gboard

Posted by Sandro Feuz and Pedro Gonnet, Senior Software Engineers, Handwriting Team In 2015 we launched Google Handwriti…  Read more

Introducing a new JavaScript SEO video series

We made a new video series on JavaScript SEO that benefits both web developers and SEOs. In the series we want to help m…  Read more

Exploring Neural Networks with Activation Atlases

Posted by Shan Carter, Software Engineer, Google AINeural networks have become the de facto standard for image-related t…  Read more

Introducing Coral: Our platform for development with local AI

Posted by Billy Rutledge (Director) and Vikram Tank (Product Mgr), Coral Team AI can be beneficial for everyone, especi…  Read more

Google Ads API Policy Notes

In our recent blog post we announced the launch of Google Ads API v1. Since the Google Ads API and AdWords API can both…  Read more

AdWords API v201806 sunset reminder

AdWords API v201806 will be sunset on April 2, 2019. After this date, all v201806 API requests will begin to fail. You h…  Read more

Upgrade to the new Google Ads API to get the latest services

Today we’re announcing the production-ready release of the Google Ads API. You should start using v1 in your productio…  Read more

Introducing GPipe, an Open Source Library for Efficiently Training Large-scale Neural Network Models

Posted by Yanping Huang, Software Engineer, Google AI Deep neural networks (DNNs) have advanced many machine learning ta…  Read more

Long-Range Robotic Navigation via Automated Reinforcement Learning

Aleksandra Faust, Senior Research Scientist and Anthony Francis, Senior Software Engineer, Robotics at GoogleIn the Unit…  Read more

.dev for all

Posted by Adam Seligman, VP, Developer Relations Last week we announced the new .dev top-level domain (TLD) was open fo…  Read more

A new space for Southeast Asian developers in Singapore

Posted by Sami Kizilbash, Developer Relations Program Manager Last November, Raymond Chan, a data scientist at Chope, a…  Read more

Announcing domain-wide data in Search Console

Google recommends verifying all versions of a website -- http, https, www, and non-www -- in order to get the most compr…  Read more

Launching Flutter 1.2 at Mobile World Congress

Posted by the Flutter team The Flutter team is coming to you live this week from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, th…  Read more

Build Actions for the next billion users

Posted by Brad Abrams, Group Product Manager, Actions on Google Before we look forward and discuss updates to Actions o…  Read more

Help customers discover your products on Google

People come to Google to discover new brands and products throughout their shopping journey. On Search and Google Images…  Read more

Change to the Google Ads API and the AdWords API Showcase Ads Clicks Reporting

Update (Feb 21, 2019): clarified wording of the Clicks impact. On February 27, 2019, the data returned in the Clicks met…  Read more

Changes to responsive ads in the AdWords API and Google Ads API

What's changing?Starting May 15, 2019, AdWords API and Google Ads API requests that attempt to create or modify a respon…  Read more

Upgrade Dynamic Search Ads in AdWords API and Google Ads API by March 6, 2019

Upgrade your AdWords API and Google Ads API ads to use ExpandedDynamicSearchAd (EXPANDED_DYNAMIC_SEARCH_AD) instead of D…  Read more

Announcing v201902 of the Google Ad Manager API

We're happy to announce that v201902 of the Google Ad Manager API is available starting today. The two main areas that a…  Read more

Policy resources available to you

We want to do everything we can to help our publishers succeed.Beyond providing the AdSense platform to monetize content…  Read more

Subscribe to our RSS feed to get blog posts via email

(If you want to continue getting email updates about our blog posts, read on. If you don't want email updates from this…  Read more

Announcing v3.3 of the DCM/DFA Reporting and Trafficking API

Today we're releasing v3.3 of the DCM/DFA Reporting and Trafficking API. Highlights of this release include:Site-level v…  Read more

Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs

In Search Console, the Performance report currently credits all page metrics to the exact URL that the user is referred…  Read more

Sunset of XML support in the Content API for Shopping

What's changing?Starting September 1, 2019, the Content API for Shopping will no longer support requests or responses wi…  Read more

Register now for the upcoming Google Ads API Workshops!

We're excited to announce that a new series of Google Ads API Workshops are coming this March and April! The technical s…  Read more

Update on issue reporting changes in the Content API for Shopping

In August, 2018, we announced that we would stop populating the dataQualityIssues field in Productstatus and Accountstat…  Read more

Dynamic Rendering with Rendertron

Many frontend frameworks rely on JavaScript to show content. This can mean Google might take some time to index your con…  Read more

Focusing on the new Search Console

Over the last year, the new Search Console has been growing and growing, with the goal of making it easier for site own…  Read more

Ways to succeed in Google News

With the New Year now underway, we'd like to offer some best practices and advice we hope will lead publishers to more s…  Read more

An update on the Google Webmaster Central blog comments

For every train there's a passenger, but it turns out comments are not our train.Over the years we read thousands of com…  Read more

[Infographic] Traffic tips

We're excited to share with you our infographic with important tips on how to boost and optimize your web site traffic.Y…  Read more

2018, celebrating our global Webmaster community

2018 has been a very important year for our webmaster support community. What has happened? There’s been a program reb…  Read more

Mobile-First indexing, structured data, images, and your site

It's been two years since we started working on mobile-first indexing - crawling the web with smartphone Googlebot, simi…  Read more

We’re excited about 2019, are you?

At Google AdSense we’re excited about 2019 and really hope you are too. Thank you for inspiring us every day. Have a g…  Read more

Best Practices for Policy Compliant Growth

As a publisher, there are many challenges you face. One area of interest for any publisher is how can you grow your user…  Read more

Why & how to secure your website with the HTTPS protocol

A few days ago, Fatih Ozkosemen and I led an episode of the AdSense On Air series. This program consists of monthly vide…  Read more

Introducing the Indexing API and structured data for livestreams

Over the past few years, it's become easier than ever to stream live videos online, from celebrity updates to special ev…  Read more

Help us improve our services and products

We’d like to personally invite you to share your thoughts with us so that we can keep improving your experience with u…  Read more

Rich Results expands for Question & Answer pages

People come to Google seeking information about all kinds of questions.Frequently, the information they're looking for i…  Read more

[VIDEO] User-generated content

Our new video takes a deeper dive into our User-generated content policy and describes how this policy helps to enable a…  Read more

[VIDEO] Copyright infringement policy

We're adding more video content resources for our publishers to help them better understand various policies.This week,…  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 t…  Read more

[VIDEO] Dangerous or derogatory content

We're adding more video content resources for our publishers to help them better understand various policies.This week,…  Read more

[VIDEO] Accidental clicks

We're adding more video content resources for our publishers to help them better understand various policies.This week,…  Read more

[VIDEO] Misrepresentative content

For the next few weeks we'll be releasing several videos, providing a more in depth look into various policy topics.This…  Read more

Continuing to strengthen the quality of Google AdSense

Over the last 15 years, AdSense has grown to support web publishers by connecting their audiences to advertisers, with t…  Read more

[Infographic] Get ready for the holiday season

During the holiday season advertisers have their busiest time of the year as users search for gifts and celebration idea…  Read more

Looking back, looking forward...

Earlier this year, Google AdSense celebrated 15 years of partnering with digital content creators like you. A lot has ch…  Read more

Lighthouse Auditing for Publishers

In February, we announced the launch of SEO auditing tools in Lighthouse Chrome Extension, which is now available in Goo…  Read more

Falling Fruit helps urbanites forage for food using Google Maps Platform

Posted by Ethan Welty, Co-founder, Falling FruitEditor’s note: Today’s post comes from Ethan Welty, Co-founder of Fa…  Read more

AdSense now understands Telugu

Today, we’re excited to announce the addition of Telugu, a language spoken by over 70 million in India and many other…  Read more

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:…  Read more

How WhyHunger uses Google Maps to connect people to grassroots community food sources

Posted by Alison Cohen, Senior Director of Programs, WhyHungerEditor's Note: Today’s blog is the first in a series of…  Read more

Expanded support for Google public programs

Posted by Amit Litsur, Product Manager, Google Maps PlatformGoogle is committed to supporting organizations with public…  Read more

Reminder—set-up a Google Cloud Platform Console account

Posted by the Google Maps Platform teamOn May 2, we announced changes including our new simplified Maps, Routes, and Pla…  Read more

Updated impressions metrics for AdSense

Reporting plays a key role in the AdSense experience. In fact, two-thirds of our partners consider it the most important…  Read more

Introducing Google Maps Platform

Posted by the Google Maps Platform teamIt’s been thirteen years since we opened up Google Maps to your creativity and…  Read more

Let’s talk about Policy! Partnership with Industry Associations, and Better Ads Standards

Thanks to your feedback around wanting more discussion of AdSense policies, we have created some new content on our AdSe…  Read more

Helping publishers recover lost revenue from ad blocking

Today, the majority of the internet is supported by digital advertising. But bad ad experiences—the ones that blare mu…  Read more

Protecting publishers: How Advertising Policies & Policy Enforcement Work

Online advertising helps to support the services we all enjoy and enables businesses to grow.  While the vast majority…  Read more

Let’s talk about Policy! Resources available for you to understand AdSense policies.

Thanks to your feedback around wanting us to be more transparent and clear in our policy communications, we will be tack…  Read more

"Let’s talk about Policy!" Video series

For the next few weeks we will be tackling a policy topic each week directly from our AdSense YouTube channel in a serie…  Read more

The real world as your playground: Build real-world games with Google Maps APIs

Posted by Clementine Jacoby, Product Manager, Google Maps APIsThe mobile gaming landscape is changing as more and more s…  Read more

Introducing AdSense Auto ads

Finding the time to create great content for your users is an essential part of growing your publishing business. Today…  Read more

Updated basemap style for Google Maps APIs

Posted by Rose Yao, Director Product, Google Maps APIsGoogle Maps APIs will soon be updated with a new look and feel to…  Read more

AdSense now supports Tamil

Continuing our commitment to support more languages and encourage content creation on the web, we’re excited to announ…  Read more

Let machine learning create your In-feed ads

Last year we launched AdSense Native ads, a new family of ads created to match the look and feel of your site. If your s…  Read more

Receiving your payment via EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer)

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) is our fastest, most secure, and environmentally friendly payment method. It is availabl…  Read more

With Google Maps APIs, Toyota Europe keeps teen drivers safe and sound

Posted by Christophe Hardy, Manager of Social Business at Toyota Motor EuropeEditor’s note: Today’s post is from Chr…  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

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

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

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

Introducing structured menus in the Google My Business API

Every day, millions of people search on Google for places to eat and drink and many click to see the menu before making…  Read more

A new issue tracker for Google Maps APIs

Posted by Kasia Derc-Fenske, Technical Solutions Engineer Manager, Google Cloud and Jesse Scherer, Technical Program Man…  Read more

Google Maps APIs sessions at Google Next ‘17

Next 2017 is just a few days away and we’re looking forward to three days of insightful conversations, amazing technol…  Read more

Do you like the new look of the Maps APIs tutorials?

Until recently, our docs have focused on describing features rather than telling a story. We chatted to some developers…  Read more

Styling and custom data for polylines and polygons in the Google Maps Android API

Polygons, polylines and ground overlays are useful tools to make your maps work for your users. Today we are rolling out…  Read more

Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise

Editors Note: Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) launched on GitHub on March 23, 2017. You can also get more information on t…  Read more

Introducing insights in the Google My Business API

Posted by Aditya Tendulkar, Product Manager, Google My BusinessToday we are introducing business location insights in th…  Read more

Geolocation and Firebase for the Internet of Things

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

Address Geocoding in the Google Maps APIs

Forward Geocoding is the process of converting addresses (like a street address) into geographic coordinates (latitude a…  Read more

Smart scrolling comes to mobile web maps

If you’re building a website today, your users are more likely to view it on a mobile device than on a desktop or lapt…  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…  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