Helping journalists deepen their digital skills on their own time
It’s become increasingly important for journalists to deepen their digital skills for reporting, but finding dedicated… Read more
Harry Potter casts his spell on Google Earth
Twenty years ago today, Harry Potter began his journey from a closet on Privet Drive to the castle at Hogwarts School of… Read more
Updates from ISTE: new tools to empower our future explorers and digital citizens
Editor's note: This week our Google for Education team will be joining thousands of educators at the annual ISTE confere… Read more
The High Five: sun’s out, man buns out
Winter and summer. George and Amal. Barbie and Ken. These classic duos were among the top searches from this week.Changi… Read more
Libraries across the U.S. are Ready to Code
Editor’s Note: Alan Inouye leads public policy for the American Library Association, and today he tells us about a new… Read more
As G Suite gains traction in the enterprise, G Suite’s Gmail and consumer Gmail to more closely align
Google’s G Suite business is gaining enormous traction among enterprise users. G Suite usage has more than doubled in… Read more
Celebrating businesses giving back this Ramadan
In the heart of Istanbul, where I was born and raised, is the Hagia Sophia, a breathtakingly beautiful monument with a s… 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
The world as you see it with VR180
Virtual reality helps creators bring their audiences to new, amazing, and even impossible-to-visit places. As a viewer,… Read more
Start off your summer with #teampixel
Need a fresh perspective? It’s all yours, courtesy of #teampixel. From a Buddhist monastery in Russia to a picturesque… Read more
Digital security and due process: A new legal framework for the cloud era
Editor’s note: This is an abbreviated version of a speech Kent delivered today at The Heritage Foundation in Washingto… Read more
Namaste from your Google Assistant
Ommmmmm, it's International Yoga Day. While your Assistant might not be able to do an Eagle Pose, it can help you relax,… Read more
Celebrating 10 years of GoogleServe
Every June, we celebrate GoogleServe—a month-long campaign to empower Googlers to volunteer in their communities. Goog… Read more
The SAP-Google data custodian partnership
In March of this year, SAP and Google partnered to advance innovation, agility and global reach for enterprises adopting… 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
Call it even with Project Fi’s group repay
More than 75% of adults share their wireless plans with at least one other person.1 And while it’s nice to share a pl… Read more
How The New York Times used Google Sheets API to report congressional votes
There’s a common phrase among reporters: “The news never sleeps.” This is why many news outlets rely on cloud-base… 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
How to use BeyondCorp to ditch your VPN, improve security and go to the cloud
The BeyondCorp security engineering team at Google just announced their fourth research paper: Migrating to BeyondCorp:… Read more
Standing with refugees and nonprofits that serve them on World Refugee Day
The Syrian civil war has created the biggest humanitarian crisis in our lifetime. More than 5 million people have been f… Read more
Connect to job seekers with Google Search
At Google I/O this year, we announced Google for Jobs, a new company-wide initiative focused on helping both job seekers… Read more
Connecting more Americans with jobs
Whether you’re a student looking for a part-time job, an electrician seeking work closer to home, or a teacher moving… 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
Track projects with G Suite and Asana
Technology has transformed the way businesses operate—your teams likely do not look like they did 10 years ago. Now, c… Read more
Semantic Time support now available on the Awareness APIs
Posted by Ritesh Nayak M, Product Manager Last year at I/O we launched the Awareness API, a simple yet powerful API that… Read more
Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
Posted by Jonathan Huang, Research Scientist and Vivek Rathod, Software Engineer(Cross-posted on the Google Open Source… Read more
Android Things Developer Preview 4.1
Posted by Wayne Piekarski, Developer Advocate for IoT Today, we're releasing a new Developer Preview 4.1 (DP4.1) of Andr… Read more
New VPAID Sample for the IMA HTML5 SDK
To help developers integrate with the IMA SDK, we're always looking for ways to provide both basic and advanced examples… Read more
Reduce friction with the new Location APIs
Posted by Aaron Stacy, Software Engineer, Google Play services The 11.0.0 release of the Google Play services SDK includ… Read more
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
Recognizing Android Excellence on Google Play
Posted by Kacey Fahey, Developer Marketing, Google Play Every day developers around the world are hard at work creating… Read more
Introducing Team Drives for developers
Originally posted by Hodie Meyers, Product Manager, Google Drive, and Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G Suite… Read more
Money made easily with the new Google Play Billing Library
Posted by Neto Marin, Developer Advocate Many developers want to make money through their apps, but it's not always easy… Read more
Introducing Blockly 1.0 for Android and iOS
Posted by Erik Pasternak and the Kids Coding TeamOver the past five years, developers have created hundreds of projects… Read more
Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API
Posted by Wei Liu, Product Manager When we launched reCAPTCHA ten years ago, we had a simple goal: enable users to visit… Read more
Android O APIs are final, get your apps ready!
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Three weeks ago at Google I/O, we announced the second developer preview of Andr… Read more
Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API
When we launched reCAPTCHA ten years ago, we had a simple goal: enable users to visit the sites they love without worryi… Read more
Improvements to the DFP Python Library
We've recently released some improvements to the DFP Python Libraryalongside support for v201705. Our goal was to reduce… Read more
AMP Compression Update
Posted by Zachary Nado, Software EngineerRecently we announcedthe addition of Brotli compression to the Google AMP Cache… Read more
Google Play’s policy on incentivized ratings, reviews, and installs
Posted by Kazushi Nagayama, Ninja Spamologist and Bryan Woodward, Policy Specialist Ensuring Google Play remains truste… Read more
More AdWords structured snippet header translations!
We’ve enhanced structured snippets to now have even more header translations, increasing from 12 to all AdWords langua… Read more
Better Snippets for your Users
Before buying a book, people like to get a snapshot of how they’re about to spend a few hours reading. They'll take a… Read more
Building a better web for everyone
Cross-posted from The Keyword The vast majority of online content creators fund their work with advertising. That means… Read more
AdWords API v201607 sunset reminder
AdWords API v201607 will be sunset on June 27th, 2017, after which all v201607 API requests will begin to fail. This ver… Read more
2017 Android Security Rewards
Posted by Mayank Jain and Scott Roberts of the Android Security team Two years ago, we launched the Android Security Rew… Read more
Automating website claims using the Content API for Shopping
Starting today, you can use the Accounts.claimwebsite method to claim the configured website for Merchant Center account… Read more
Announcing v201705 of the AdWords API
Today we're announcing the release of AdWords API v201705. Here are the highlights: Campaign groups and performance targ… Read more
Empowering a new generation of localization professionals
Posted by The Google Localization Team When her grandmother turned 80, Christina Hayek — Arabic Language Manager at Go… Read more
Introducing page-level enforcements and a new Policy center
As a publisher you face many challenges. One of the broadest and most encompassing of these is growing your user base wh… Read more
What's new from Firebase at Google I/O 2017
Originally posted on the Firebase Blog by Francis Ma, Firebase Group Product ManagerIt's been an exciting year! Last May… Read more
Meet 5 Android developers working to improve lives around the world
Posted by Maxim Mai, Apps Partnerships, Google Play Last Thursday at Google I/O 2017, we announced the winners of this… Read more
Validation rules for the new dynamic ad group type in Search campaigns
Update: Clarified AdGroupType values introduced in v201705.Update 06/22/2017: Clarified information in last paragraph. S… Read more
AdSense Beginner’s Frequently Asked Questions
What is AdSense?In short, AdSense is a free, simple way to make money by placing ads on your site.Google’s ad network… Read more
A reminder about links in large-scale article campaigns
Lately we've seen an increase in spammy links contained in articles referred to as contributor posts, guest posts, partn… Read more
Welcome to your New Home on Android TV
Posted by Paul Saxman, Android Devices and Media Developer Relations Lead Android TV brings rich app experiences and ent… Read more
The Machine Intelligence Behind Gboard
Posted by Françoise Beaufays, Principal Scientist, Speech and Keyboard Team and Michael Riley, Principal Scientist, Spe… Read more
Request a professional app translation from the Google Play Console and reach new users
Posted by Rahim Nathwani, Product Manager, Google Play Localizing your app or game is an important step in allowing you… Read more
Introducing Ads Data Hub: Next generation insights and reporting
Mobile has fundamentally changed how we live our lives. With our devices never more than an arm’s length away, people… Read more
Announcing the Women Techmakers Udacity Scholarship
Posted by Amy Schapiro and the Women Techmakers team The community of women in tech is growing in numbers and influence,… Read more
Get your users where they need to go on any platform with Google Maps URLs
Last week at Google I/O we announced Google Maps URLs, a new way for developers to link directly to Google Maps from any… Read more
Group Messaging in Android Auto
Posted by David Nelloms, Software Engineer Communicating with a group of people is a common use case for many messaging… Read more
Announcing v201705 of the DFP API
Today we’re pleased to announce the v201705 release of the DFP API. This release updates the ReportService to be at pa… Read more
Announcing the fourth class of Launchpad Accelerator featuring new countries!
Posted by Roy Glasberg, Global Lead, Launchpad Program & Accelerator We're back at it again and excited to welcome an in… Read more
Google I/O: New Ways to Put Users at the Center of Your Apps and Payments
Cross posted from Inside AdMobPosted by Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior Vice President, Ads and CommerceI/O is a magical time… Read more
Make more money with subscriptions on Google Play
Posted by George Audi, Tom Grinsted and Larry Yang, Google Play The subscription business model is one of the best ways… Read more
The Modern Mobile Web: State of the Union
Cross posted from the Chromium BlogPosted by Rahul Roy-chowdhury, VP Product Management, ChromeWhat a difference a year… Read more
Android Wear: New complications tools and watch friendly UI library
Posted by Hoi Lam, Lead Developer Advocate, Android Wear Android Wear 2.0 gives users more informative watch faces and p… Read more
What’s next for Google payment and loyalty experiences
Posted by Pali Bhat, VP of Payment Products Thousands of apps and millions of stores accept Android Pay, a simpler and m… Read more
Android and Architecture
The Android operating system provides a strong foundation for building apps that run well on a wide range of devices an… 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
Google I/O 2017: Empowering developers to build the best experiences across platforms
By Jason Titus, Vice President, Developer Product Group It's great to be in our backyard again for Google I/O to connec… Read more
Android Announces Support for Kotlin
By Mike Cleron, Director, Android Platform Today the Android team is excited to announce that we are officially adding… Read more
Android Studio 3.0 Canary 1
By Jamal Eason, Product Manager, Android Just in time for Google I/O 2017, we're providing a sneak peak of Android Stud… Read more
Android Instant Apps is open to all developers. Start building today!
Posted by: Jonathan Karmel, Product Manager Earlier this year, we began testing Android Instant Apps, a new way to run A… 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
I/O 2017: Everything new in the Google Play Console
Posted by Vineet Buch, Director of Product Management, Google Play Apps & Games Read this in العَرَبِيَّة… 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
What’s New in Android: O Developer Preview 2 & More
Posted by: Dave Burke, VP of Engineering With billions of Android devices around the world, Android has surpassed our wi… 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
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
Efficient Smart Reply, now for Gmail
Posted by Brian Strope, Research Scientist, and Ray Kurzweil, Engineering Director, Google ResearchLast year we launched… Read more
Google Maps and Particle partner to bring location-aware capabilities to IoT devices
Posted by Ken Nevarez, Solutions Architect for Google Maps APIs Particle and Google Maps make it easy for IoT devices to… Read more
Coarse Discourse: A Dataset for Understanding Online Discussions
Posted by Praveen Paritosh, Senior Research Scientist, Ka Wong, Senior Data ScientistEvery day, participants of online c… Read more
Get ready for Google I/O 2017
Posted by Mónica Bagagem, Product Marketing ManagerWe’re excited to be hosting Google I/O 2017 next week at the Shore… Read more
Build beautiful apps and websites with modular, customizable UI components
Posted by Adrian Secord and Omer Ziv, Material DesignMaterial Components lets you build easily for Android, iOS, and the… Read more
Updating developer identity guidelines and registration processes to protect users
Posted by Naveen Agarwal, Identity TeamLast week, we took immediate action to protect users from a phishing attack that… Read more
Neural Network-Generated Illustrations in Allo
Posted by Jennifer Daniel, Expressions Creative Director, Allo Taking, sharing, and viewing selfies has become a daily h… Read more
TensorFlow Benchmarks and a New High-Performance Guide
Posted by Josh Gordon on behalf of the TensorFlow teamWe recently published a collection of performance benchmarks that… Read more
AdWords - Improvements for Enhanced CPC
Update: this change will go live in June 2017. In June 2017, AdWords will begin gradually altering the specifics of the… Read more
Introducing “Ad balance” - focus on your best-performing ads
May 8, 2017 Update: We've heard your feedback on the empty spaces resulting from an unfilled ad unit. Over the next few… Read more
Announcing v2.8 of the DCM/DFA Reporting and Trafficking API
Today we're releasing v2.8 of the DCM/DFA Reporting and Trafficking API. Highlights of this release include: Support for… Read more
Google I/O 2017 on your mobile devices
Posted by Mónica Bagagem, Product Marketing ManagerI/O is just a couple of weeks away… 9 days to be exact! As we get… Read more
AIY Projects: Do-it-yourself AI for Makers
Posted by Billy Rutledge, Director of AIY ProjectsOur teams are continually inspired by how Makers use Google technology… Read more
Support for new extension types in AdWords scripts
We're excited to announce support for additional extension types in AdWords scripts starting today. The newly supported… Read more
Updating Google Maps with Deep Learning and Street View
Posted by Julian Ibarz, Staff Software Engineer, Google Brain Team and Sujoy Banerjee, Product Manager, Ground Truth Tea… Read more
AdSense 101: Building your brand
8 minutes to readNow that you’ve got your account setup, and you’re writing winning content, it’s time to build a… Read more
Upcoming QPS limits on calls to the Content API for Shopping
Starting on May 15, 2017, we will enforce new queries-per-second (QPS) limits on calls to the Content API for Shopping.… Read more
More advertising options for the mobile web
At Google, our policy teams are constantly looking for ways to improve the experience for everyone in the mobile digital… Read more
Start planning your Google I/O 2017 schedule!
Posted by Christopher Katsaros, Product Marketing ManagerWhether you're joining us in person or remotely, we're looking… Read more
Introducing the Google Assistant SDK
Posted by Chris Ramsdale, Product ManagerWhen we first announced the Google Assistant, we talked about helping users get… Read more
Help Google Publishing Solutions improve its services and products
We’d like to personally invite you to share your thoughts with us in this 10-15 minutes survey so that we can keep imp… Read more
Introducing structured menus in the Google My Business API
Every day, millions of people search on Google for places to eat and drink and many click to see the menu before making… Read more
AdSense 101: Create and share winning content
6 minute readContent is everything we consume online. Users arrive on a site to be educated, entertained, inspired, or c… Read more
Experimental Nighttime Photography with Nexus and Pixel
Posted by Florian Kainz, Software Engineer, Google DaydreamOn a full moon night last year I carried a professional DSLR… Read more
Research at Google and ICLR 2017
Posted by Ian Goodfellow, Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain Team This week, Toulon, France hosts the 5th Internatio… Read more
Using field masks with update requests to Google APIs
Originally posted on the G Suite Developers BlogPosted by Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G SuiteWe recently… Read more
PhotoScan: Taking Glare-Free Pictures of Pictures
Posted by Ce Liu, Michael Rubinstein, Mike Krainin and Bill Freeman, Research ScientistsYesterday, we released an update… Read more
Support for BudgetOrders and UserLists in AdWords Scripts
We are excited to announce support for two new features in AdWords Scripts: BudgetOrdersand UserLists. BudgetOrders: We… Read more
AdSense best practice: Set yourself up for success
7 minutes to read In part two of our series for new publishers to turn their #PassionIntoProfit, we’ll cover three ste… Read more
How we fought webspam - Webspam Report 2016
With 2017 well underway, we wanted to take a moment and share some of the insights we gathered in 2016 in our fight agai… Read more
Teaching Machines to Draw
Posted by David Ha, Google Brain ResidentAbstract visual communication is a key part of how people convey ideas to one a… Read more
Introducing tf-seq2seq: An Open Source Sequence-to-Sequence Framework in TensorFlow
Posted by Anna Goldie and Denny Britz, Research Software Engineer and Google Brain Resident, Google Brain Team(Crosspost… Read more
Announcing the 2017 Google PhD Fellows for North America, Europe and the Middle East
Posted by Michael Rennaker, Program ManagerGoogle created the PhD Fellowship program in 2009 to recognize and support ou… 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
Predicting Properties of Molecules with Machine Learning
Posted by George Dahl, Research Scientist, Google Brain TeamRecently there have been many exciting applications of machi… Read more
Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data
Posted by Brendan McMahan and Daniel Ramage, Research ScientistsStandard machine learning approaches require centralizin… Read more
Playing streaming ads with the IMA SDK for Android
With the advent of video players that support streaming media formats such as HLS and DASH, publishers can now easily su… Read more
Expand your color palette with new tools for Material Design
Posted By: Rachel Been, Creative Lead, Material Design The Material Design Guidelines are a living documentation of visu… Read more
Keeping fake listings off Google Maps
Posted by Doug Grundman, Maps Anti-Abuse, and Kurt Thomas, Security & Anti-Abuse Research(Crossposted on the Google Secu… Read more
Sunset of DFP API v201605
On Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v201605 of the DFP API will be sunset. At that… Read more
Santa Tracker, open-sourced and delivered
Posted by Sam Thorogood, Developer Programs EngineerSanta Tracker is a holiday tradition here at Google. Every year, you… Read more
Reminder to PHP users - upgrade to the new Ads PHP library!
Hello PHP developers! In December 2016, we announced the stable release of the new ads PHP library and the deprecation o… Read more
Using field masks with Google APIs for partial response
Originally posted on the G Suite Developers Blog by Wesley Chun, Developer Advocate, G SuiteWhen you write applications… Read more
And the award goes to...
Posted by Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Research, and WWW 2017 Technical Program Co-Chair… Read more
Introducing the Mobile Sites certification, for web developers
Posted by Chris Hohorst, Head of Mobile Sites Transformation via Google Developers Blog. Mobile now accounts for over ha… Read more
Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads
Posted by Vahab Mirrokni, Principal Scientist, Morteza Zadimoghaddam, Research Scientist, NYC Algorithms TeamRunning a l… Read more
Introducing RateLimiter extension in AdWords API Java Client Library
When making any AdWords API call, you should always remember to handle the possibility of a rate limit error properly. D… Read more
Announcing AudioSet: A Dataset for Audio Event Research
Posted by Dan Ellis, Research Scientist, Sound Understanding TeamSystems able to recognize sounds familiar to human list… 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
Register now for the April 2017 Display Ads API Workshops
We're pleased to announce that we'll be holding a series of Display Ads API Workshops in April 2017. These workshops ar… Read more
Support for v201702 reports in AdWords scripts
We have added support for AdWords API v201702 reports in AdWords scripts. The major changes in this release are: New con… Read more
In case you missed the AdWords API Workshops... videos are on YouTube
Are you tired of reading? Do you prefer to learn by watching? Then the latest series of AdWords API Workshop videos is f… 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
Read-only access for BudgetOrderService in AdWords API
Starting this week BudgetOrderService get requests are available for all users, regardless of API version. Previously, u… 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
Adding Sound Effect Information to YouTube Captions
Posted by Sourish Chaudhuri, Software Engineer, Sound UnderstandingThe effect of audio on our perception of the world ca… 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
Google Mobile Ads Unity Plugin v3.3.0
We recently launched v3.3.0 of the Google Mobile Ads Unity Plugin with support for ad position offsets and Unity 5.6 com… Read more
Distill: Supporting Clarity in Machine Learning
Posted by Shan Carter, Software Engineer and Chris Olah, Research Scientist, Google Brain TeamScience isn't just about d… Read more
#NoHacked: A year in review
We hope your year started out safe and secure!We wanted to share with you a summary of our 2016 work as we continue our… Read more
A new issue tracker for Google Maps APIs
Posted by Kasia Derc-Fenske, Technical Solutions Engineer Manager, Google Cloud and Jesse Scherer, Technical Program Man… Read more
Google Maps APIs sessions at Google Next ‘17
Next 2017 is just a few days away and we’re looking forward to three days of insightful conversations, amazing technol… Read more
The inside scoop on native advertising: What is it, why does it matter and do you need it?
The final part of the #SuccessStack looks at the hot topic of native advertising. You’ll learn what it is, why it’s… Read more
Understanding account suspensions due to invalid traffic
In today's post, we'll be discussing AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic.We have found that there are two… Read more
How to address 'insufficient content' disapprovals on your AdSense application
Today, we'd like to demystify one of the most common reasons why AdSense applications get disapproved: the site has insu… Read more
Closing down for a day
Note: This post is specific to Google's organic web-search. For Google's other services, please check with the appropria… Read more
Do you like the new look of the Maps APIs tutorials?
Until recently, our docs have focused on describing features rather than telling a story. We chatted to some developers… Read more
Discover the next generation of programmatic advertising technology
Forget what you think you know about programmatic advertising, these tools are game changers. For the ninth part of the… Read more
Styling and custom data for polylines and polygons in the Google Maps Android API
Polygons, polylines and ground overlays are useful tools to make your maps work for your users. Today we are rolling out… Read more
More control over the ads you serve on your site(s)
We’ve heard the feedback that publishers like you have shared about wanting more ways to control the ads showing on yo… Read more
5 steps to improve Page Speed and boost page performance
The eighth installment of the #SuccessStack takes a second look at page speed, specifically tips you can implement that… Read more
Increasing viewability could boost earnings from video ads
For the seventh installment of the #SuccessStack, we’ll explore the topic of viewability for video ads and take a look… Read more
Introducing the Mobile-Friendly Test API
With so many users on mobile devices, having a mobile-friendly web is important to us all. The Mobile-Friendly Test is a… Read more
The ultimate mobile page speed infographic
In the next edition of the #SuccessStack series, we look at page speed, a metric that became even more important in 2016… 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
Discover why leading publishers and marketers are using Programmatic Direct
In the next article in our #SuccessStack series, we look at a tool used by leading publishers and marketers that offers… Read more
How we fought bad ads, sites and scammers in 2016
Cross-posted from The Keyword A free and open web is a vital resource for people and businesses around the world. And a… Read more
What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot
Recently, we've heard a number of definitions for crawl budget, however we don't have a single term that would describe… Read more
Introducing insights in the Google My Business API
Posted by Aditya Tendulkar, Product Manager, Google My Business Today we are introducing business location insights in t… Read more
Geolocation and Firebase for the Internet of Things
Posted by Ken Nevarez, Industry Solutions Lead at Google GPS is the workhorse of location based services, but there are… Read more
Enhancing property sets to cover more reports in Search Console
Since initially announcing property sets earlier this year, one of the most popular requests has been to expand this fun… Read more
An update on Google's feature-phone crawling & indexing
Limited mobile devices, feature-phones, require a special form of markup or a transcoder for web content. Most websites… Read more
Saying goodbye to Content Keywords
In the early days - back when Search Console was still called Webmaster Tools - the content keywords feature was the onl… Read more
Address Geocoding in the Google Maps APIs
Forward Geocoding is the process of converting addresses (like a street address) into geographic coordinates (latitude a… Read more
Rich Cards expands to more verticals
At Google I/O in May, we launched Rich Cards for Movies and Recipes, creating a new way for site owners to present previ… Read more
Smart scrolling comes to mobile web maps
If you’re building a website today, your users are more likely to view it on a mobile device than on a desktop or lapt… Read more
Building Indexable Progressive Web Apps
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are taking advantage of new technologies to bring the best of mobile sites and native applic… Read more
Mobile-first Indexing
Today, most people are searching on Google using a mobile device. However, our ranking systems still typically look at t… Read more
Here’s to more HTTPS on the web!
Cross-posted from the Google Security Blog. Security has always been critical to the web, but challenges involved in si… Read more
Using AMP? Try our new webpage tester
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a great way to make content on your website accessible in an extremely fast way. To he… Read more
Key Improvements for Your Maps API Experience
Originally posted on the Google Developers blog. Posted by Israel Shalom, Product Manager Here at Google, we’re servin… Read more
Webmaster Forums Top AMP Questions
It has been busy here at Google Webmaster Central over the last few weeks, covering a lot of details about Accelerated… Read more
A sizzling open source release for the Australian Election site
One of the best parts of my job at Google is 20 percent time. While I was hired to help developers use Google’s APIs,… Read more
Penguin is now part of our core algorithm
Google's algorithms rely on more than 200 unique signals or clues that make it possible to surface what you might be loo… Read more
Custom map styling with the Google Maps APIs on Android and iOS
Your app, your map style. For iOS and Android. Cross-platform custom map styling is here—change the color palette of… Read more
8 tips to AMPlify your clients
Here is our list of the top 8 things to consider when helping your clients AMPlify their websites (and staying ahead of… Read more
How to best evaluate issues with your Accelerated Mobile Pages
As you #AMPlify your site with Accelerated Mobile Pages, it’s important to keep an eye periodically on the validation… Read more
How can Google Search Console help you AMPlify your site?
If you have recently implemented Accelerated Mobile Pages on your site, it’s a great time to check which of your AMP… Read more
Making the most of the Google Maps Web Service APIs
When it comes to app development, there can be a disconnect between the robust app we intended to build and the code we… Read more
New JavaScript Street View renderer brings rendering improvements and better mobile support
Street View is one of Google Maps’ most loved features, providing users with a way to explore and experience the world… Read more
Keep users focused on what's important with the latest Google Maps Android API
Released today, the latest version of the Google Maps Android API includes more developer requested features: you can no… Read more
Google Places API for iOS & Google Maps SDK for iOS are now in separate CocoaPods
In today’s release, the Google Places API for iOS 2.0 and the Google Maps SDK for iOS 2.0 are now in separate CocoaPod… Read more
I/O session: Location and Proximity Superpowers: Eddystone + Google Beacon Platform
Bluetooth beacons mark important places and objects in a way that your phone understands. Last year, we introduced the G… Read more
Announcing marker clustering in the Google Maps SDK for iOS Utility Library
Today we’ve added marker clustering to the Google Maps SDK for iOS Utility Library! This much-requested feature is now… Read more
I/O session live: Building geo services that scale
Posted by Laurence Moroney, Developer Advocate at Google While at Google I/O, l had the opportunity to present the sess… Read more
Behind the Australian Elections Map: Mapping democracy in real-time
It's elections time in Australia! With 94% of eligible Australians registered to vote, there will be close to 15 million… Read more
Marker zIndex and more come to the Google Maps Android API
Released today, the latest version of the Google Maps Android API includes several popular developer requested features… Read more
Building for Scale: Updates to Google Maps APIs Standard Plan
Eleven years after a developer first reverse-engineered a Google Map, there are more than three million location-informe… Read more