Phone number porting is available starting today to all Google Voice users, according to the official Google blog. This will allow customers who pay ...

j_col writes "According to the official Google blog, Google has altered their PageRank algorithm to not give back linking points to bad reviews of websites belonging to online retailers, following the publication of a recent article in the New York ...

Google offered up more details of its upcoming Google TV

How many times have you created a new account at a website and seen a message that said: “Thank you for creating an account. To activate your new account, please access your email and click the verification URL provided.” Even ...

Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they’re legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand. So we’re simplifying and updating Google’s privacy policies. ...

It’s been 10 years since the first version of Google SketchUp was released, and there are more people modeling in SketchUp now that we ever could have imagined—over a million of you a week, in fact. That’s a pretty humbling ...

This is the latest post in our series on the future of display advertising. Today, director of product management Jonathan Bellack looks at our efforts to help online publishers generate more advertising revenue - Ed. For millions of online ...

(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog ) People tell us all that time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes ...

(Cross-posted from the Google Translate blog ) Today, you may have noticed a brighter looking Google Translate . We’re currently rolling out several changes globally to our look and feel that should make translating text, webpages and documents on ...

A couple months ago while visiting our London office, I noticed a really cool Google logo on the wall. It was a mosaic of photos of London that had been created by a product manager named Clay Bavor and a ...

What would a music experience designed specifically for the modern web look like? This is a question we've been playing around with for the last few months. Browsers and web technologies have advanced so rapidly in the last few years ...

This is one of a regular series of posts on search experience updates. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed. Searches come in many flavors, but it's our job to determine ...

Every day, there are more than a billion searches for information on Google. Have you ever wondered what those searches are about—or whether what you’re searching for also happens to be on the minds of millions of others across the ...

When we first introduced our real-time search features last December, we focused on bringing relevance to the freshest information on the web. Our goal was to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources, integrated right into your usual ...

Our sixth annual Summer of Code program has wrapped up and we want to highlight some of this year’s amazing participants and projects. Summer of Code offers students developers all over the world the chance to get paid to write ...

(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog ) Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their ...

About a week ago, we hosted more than 130 Google Scholarship recipients in our Beijing office. These outstanding undergraduates and graduate students in computer science and software engineering from more than 20 universities across China were the recipients of the ...

This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “ Google Apps highlights " and subscribe to the series. - Ed. Over the last few weeks, ...

This is part of our summer series of new Search Stories. Look for the label Search Stories and subscribe to the series. -Ed. Recently, a group of Google product managers challenged one another to run 100 miles over 30 ...

This is the third post in the “BizBlog Series,” which was formally its

This is part of a series of stories from people who have shared how Google has helped them in their lives. If you missed the rest of the stories this week, check them out—and if you have a Google ...

Pakistan has been struck by the worst flooding in its recorded history. The latest estimate of the number of people affected by the flood exceeds 14 million —more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 ...

This is part of a series of stories from people who have shared how Google has helped them in their lives. Check back tomorrow for the last post, and if you have a Google story, tell us about it ...

Cross-posted on our Public Policy Blog . Over the past few days there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding our announcement of a policy proposal on network neutrality we put together with Verizon. On balance, we believe this proposal ...

(cross-posted from the Google Mobile Blog ) Our mobile phones have become modern-day Swiss Army knives. An Android phone is a handheld computer, a music player, a notepad, a GPS navigation unit and more, all rolled into one sleek ...

This is part of a series of stories from people who have shared how Google has helped them in their lives. Check back the rest of this week for more, and if you have a Google story, tell us ...

It’s App Tuesday again , which means we’re excited to launch nine new apps in the Google Apps Marketplace . Like the other 150+ installable apps in the Marketplace, these apps help solve some of the toughest challenges that many ...

This is the first in a series of stories from people who have shared how Google has helped them in their lives. Check back the rest of this week for more. -Ed. We talk a lot about the products ...

Today, Eric Schmidt and Ivan Seidenberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon, will announce a joint proposal for an open Internet. We’ve been working with Verizon to find common ground on the issue of net neutrality for nearly a year—last October ...

We’re excited to announce we’ve acquired Slide , a social technology company with an extensive history of building new ways for people to connect with others across numerous platforms online. For Google, the web is about people, and we’re working ...

Last week, we held our sixth North American Computer Science Faculty Summit at our Mountain View headquarters. About 100 faculty members from universities around the world attended the summit, which focused on security, cloud computing and the social web. Included ...

This is the latest post in our series about Small Business and the real-life entrepreneurs who are using Google tools to fuel their success. Previous posts have illustrated the possibilities enabled by online resources like Google Places, Google Apps, ...

Ever wonder just how many different books there are in the world? After some intensive analysis, we've come up with a number. Standing on the shoulders of giants—libraries and cataloging organizations—and based on our computational resources and experience of organizing ...

We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives. Last year at Google I/O , when we launched our developer preview of Google Wave, a web app for ...

This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “ Google Apps highlights " and subscribe to the series. - Ed. Over the last couple of ...