When shoppers search for the best deals online, they want to know the full cost of an item — including the cost of shipping. In fact, we’ve seen that unexpected shipping costs are a common reason for users abandoning theirRead more…
Fighting Bad Advertising Practices on the Web — 2014 Year in Review
Online advertising helps fund content and businesses on the web, from small family-owned shops to large publishers. While online advertising helps the web to work for all of us, this ecosystem can also attract bad actors that aim to misuseRead more…
Google RISE Awards support girls and minorities in tech—from Australia to Mexico
(Cross-posted on the Google for EDU Blog) When Aboriginals from the Torres Strait Island need support, they turn to their daughters. No, really. In a culture whose history goes back 50,000 years, 70 young girls are using technology to giveRead more…
Shooting stars and puppy ads: How the world watched the big game
From a “super brawl” to a giant lion, yesterday’s big game was filled with many notable moments. That’s true on YouTube and Google too—people watched more game-day ads and teaser videos on YouTube than ever before, YouTube hosted its first-everRead more…
Through the Google lens: Search trends January 23-29
Between a spookily resilient cat, and a new bunch of ghostbusters, there was a lot of (paranormal) activity in search this week: “It’s a great day for a ball game…”People across the country are gearing up for this weekend’s SuperRead more…
A look inside how you’re using Inbox
Posted by Gill Ward, Senior Quantitative UX Researcher A little over three months ago, we introduced something new called Inbox, and it’s been exhilarating to see how people have embraced the experience. In fact, we’ve received over 100,000 pieces ofRead more…
A look inside how you’re using Inbox
Posted by Gill Ward, Senior Quantitative UX Researcher A little over three months ago, we introduced something new called Inbox, and it’s been exhilarating to see how people have embraced the experience. In fact, we’ve received over 100,000 pieces ofRead more…
Crawling and indexing of locale-adaptive pages
Webmaster level: advanced Locale-adaptive pages change their content to reflect the user’s language or perceived geographic location. Since, by default, Googlebot requests pages without setting an Accept-Language HTTP request header and uses IP addresses that appear to be located inRead more…
Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham
It’s been nearly five years since we offered to build a fiber-optic network in one U.S. city as an experiment — and were met with overwhelming enthusiasm. Now, Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, Provo and Austin, and we’veRead more…
Through the Google lens: Search trends January 16-22
Here’s a side of search trends to go along with your Friday. Read on to find out what got people talking–and searching–this week. Deflate-gate and other scandalsSuper Bowl drama is already here, and it’s not even February 1. After theRead more…