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Enhanced search in Google Earth 6.2

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:11:31 +0000

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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Lao-tzu once said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” In Google Earth, that single step is often searching for the name of the place you want to go. The search field is the gateway to all of the amazing places you might visit, and for the recent release of Google Earth 6.2, we worked hard to make it even more powerful and easy to use.

As a result, searching for a location in Google Earth 6.2 is a bit different: we’ve streamlined the look and feel of the search interface, removing tabs and consolidating all the search fields together into one (just like Google Search). We’ve also added features that Google Earth previously didn’t have, like transit directions and search layers. And we’ve made sure that underneath these shiny new features, you still have access to the power and flexibility of KML.

If you live in one of

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From snowflakes to surfactants: meet the YouTube Space Lab regional winners

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:06:41 +0000

From snowflakes to surfactants: meet the YouTube Space Lab regional winners

2/22/2012
2:41 PM

At the end of January, we invited you to choose your favorite YouTube Space Lab experiment ideas from sixty finalist teams, and today we have our winners! More than 100,000 of you cast your votes that combined with the scores from our panel of judges to decide the regional winners for the final stage of the competition.

Here at Google India, we’re particularly happy to announce that the Asia Pacific regional winner in the 17-18 category is Sachin Kukke from Bangalore. His experiment focuses on the thermal conductivity of ferrofluids (aka liquid magnets).

Find out the other winners below, and of course, you can meet them all on the Space Lab Channel.

14 – 16 year old regional winning teams:

Asia Pacific region: Is space too cold for life to exist? by Patrick Zeng Derek Chan from New Zealand
Europe, Middle East and Africa region: Could weightless liquids
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Scheduled Release track features update 2/21/12

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:03:10 +0000

The following features are now available to domains following the Scheduled Release track:
- Sites: New interface when uploading images and attachments

The following features are intended for release to these domains on Feb 28:
- No new features to announce

Release track:
Scheduled*

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

*Scheduled Release track: Domains with ‘Scheduled Release’ option enabled in the administrator control panel. Learn more

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Street View on Google Maps comes to Russia

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:04:02 +0000

Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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Welcome to Russia! You can now virtually travel through the world’s largest country to the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg using Google Maps Street View.

Take an online stroll around famous Red Square and Moscow Kremlin, or go to outskirts of Moscow to wander around the beautiful Tsaritsino or Kuskovo parks. You can also visit the former site of the palace in Kolomenskoye, once considered the 8th World Wonder.

St. Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia and northernmost megapolis in the world, was once a country capital, and the history of this young city started with The Peter and Paul Fortress. Today, the entire historical center of St. Petersburg is a UNESCO Heritage Site that you can enjoy via Street View.

Within St. Petersburg, you can see the great palaces and parks that Russian emperors and nobles built, with Peterhof being its crown jewel. In fact, whole southern shore on

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Encourage Students To Get Involved With Doodle 4 Google

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:03:59 +0000

Encourage Students To Get Involved With Doodle 4 Google

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 | 4:16 PM

You are probably familiar with Google’s decorated logos, or “doodles.” But did you know that for the last five years Google has invited students across the US to submit their own doodles for a chance to be featured on the Google homepage? The Doodle 4 Google contest encourages students to use their imagination and artistic talents to redesign Google’s logo for millions to see. The doodling theme for 2012 is “If I could travel in time, I’d visit….” and we can’t wait to see the great drawings kids come up with! For some inspiration, click here to meet last year’s winner, Matteo Lopez.

In addition to seeing his or her art on the Google homepage on May 18, 2012, the Doodle 4 Google 2012 National Winner will also receive a $30,000 college scholarship and a $50,000 technology grant for their full-time school. 50

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Introducing DFA API v1.17

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:01:47 +0000

The newest version of the DFA API is now available: v1.17. This release includes a variety of bug fixes, many of which resolve issues that you reported on our forum. It also pares down a few outdated and unused operations.

Bug Fix Highlights

Some of the bugs tackled in this release include:

Placement end date validation has been fixed. [Reported on our forum]
The activeFilter field of AdSearchCritera is no longer ignored. [Reported on our forum]
Attempting to save an incorrect DefaultAd now gives a more descriptive error message. [Reported on our forum]
The expectedUrl field of SpotlightActivity is now required. Passing in a null value used to result in a default URL of “http://”. It now results in an invalid URL error.

Deprecation and Sunset of v1.15

With this new release, our friend v1.15–the version from two releases ago–is now deprecated. As previously announced, we will continue to support it until March 3rd, 2012 at which time it will be entirely removed from service.

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Specific recommendations for individual ad units

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:02:49 +0000

Specific recommendations for individual ad units

Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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Optimization

We recently posted about personalized optimization tips you can receive via email or directly in your AdSense account. Today we’d like to introduce another form of optimization tips that we’ll be rolling out over the next several weeks. These recommendations will show you how to make changes to your AdSense for Content ad unit type or format setting directly in your account in order to earn more.

To generate these new types of notifications, we use our technology to simulate the ad auction for a specific ad unit using different ad type and/or ad format settings. If our simulation

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What’s new in DoubleClick for Publishers

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:01:58 +0000

We’re always adding new features to DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP). The list below contains some highlights. For a complete list, please visit the DFP or DFP Small Business Help Centers.

Available in DFP and DFP Small Business:

Alerts: Preventing delivery issues before they happen can be a time consuming and manual process. To make this process easier for publishers, and to help ensure you know when something happens that involves one of your orders or line items, such as if a line item is not meeting its delivery goal, we’re excited to introduce account alerts to help bring this information to your attention so you can quickly resolve the issue. Read more.
Dimension reporting filters: To help you generate precisely the data you’re looking for, we’ve introduced the ability to filter your reports by advertiser, order, line item, and line item type directly within the reporting interface.
Platform reporting filters: If you deliver campaigns across multiple platforms (web/mobile), you can now easily segment your reports by platform type
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"Cold, Cold Heart"

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:01:48 +0000

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Fab Friday: It’s all about the UI…jQuery UI

admin — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:58:58 +0000

It’s Friday again, and it’s time for another Fab Friday post on Google Geo Developers! This week, we’ve got something for the jQuery developers out there. There’s a jQuery UI module for the Google Maps API. This enables you to quickly integrate the Maps API into your jQuery applications. They give some great examples using Street View, Geolocation, and adding data from microformats and RDFa.

In an upcoming event, I’ll be speaking at GIS in Action in Portland Oregon March 14th and 15th, anyone there please come and say hi.

Posted by Mano Marks, Maps Developer Relations team

Edu Blogs

Enhanced search in Google Earth 6.2

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
at
7:00 AM

From snowflakes to surfactants: meet the YouTube Space Lab regional winners

From snowflakes to surfactants: meet the YouTube Space Lab regional winners

Scheduled Release track features update 2/21/12

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Street View on Google Maps comes to Russia

Tuesday, February 21, 2012
at
3:22 PM

Encourage Students To Get Involved With Doodle 4 Google

Encourage Students To Get Involved With Doodle 4 Google

Introducing DFA API v1.17

Bug Fix Highlights

Deprecation and Sunset of v1.15

Specific recommendations for individual ad units

Specific recommendations for individual ad units

What’s new in DoubleClick for Publishers

"Cold, Cold Heart"

Related External Links

Fab Friday: It’s all about the UI…jQuery UI

Related External Links

Edu Blogs

Enhanced search in Google Earth 6.2

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 7:00 AM

From snowflakes to surfactants: meet the YouTube Space Lab regional winners

From snowflakes to surfactants: meet the YouTube Space Lab regional winners

Scheduled Release track features update 2/21/12

Related External Links

Street View on Google Maps comes to Russia

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 3:22 PM

Encourage Students To Get Involved With Doodle 4 Google

Encourage Students To Get Involved With Doodle 4 Google

Introducing DFA API v1.17

Bug Fix Highlights

Deprecation and Sunset of v1.15

Specific recommendations for individual ad units

Specific recommendations for individual ad units

What’s new in DoubleClick for Publishers

"Cold, Cold Heart"

Related External Links

Fab Friday: It’s all about the UI…jQuery UI

Related External Links

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