Google Search has always been about finding the best results for you. Sometimes that means results from the public web, but sometimes it means your personal content or things shared with you by people you care about. These wonderful people and this rich personal content is currently missing from your...
Increasing transparency and choice with ads on search and Gmail
Our advertising system is designed to show the right ad to the right person at the right time. Because ads should be just as useful as any other information on the web, we try to make them as relevant as possible for you. Over the coming weeks, we’re making improvements to provide greater transparency...
Google News highlights unique content with Editors’ Picks
(Cross-posted on the Google News Blog)News organizations tell stories online in ways that bring together the best of traditional and digital journalism, whether that involves long-form investigative features, compelling photo slideshows or interactive maps and charts that add new levels of engagement...
Shareable Google News badges for your favorite topics
(Cross-posted on the Google News Blog)On Google News, the average reader of political news has read 20 articles about politics in the last six months. Where do you stand? Starting today, in the U.S. edition of Google News, you can see how voracious a news reader you are by earning Google News badges...
Hide sites to find more of what you want
Over the years we’ve experimented with a number of ways to help you personalize the results you find on Google, from SearchWiki to stars in search to location settings. Now there’s yet another way to find more of what you want on Google by blocking the sites you don’t want to see.You’ve probably had...
Improvements to Product Search for this holiday season
Every year retailers start the holiday shopping season earlier and earlier—and still I procrastinate until late December before getting started. This year I've already made my list and I’m ready to go.I usually get my holiday shopping done in two ways: online (e-commerce) and offline (“brick and mortar”...
Extra! Extra! Google News redesigned to be more customizable and shareable
There’s an old saying that all news is local. But all news is personal too—we connect with it in different ways depending on our interests, where we live, what we do and a lot of other factors. Today we’re revamping the Google News homepage with several changes designed to make the news that you see...
Blogger Template Designer now available to everyone
In March, we launched the Blogger Template Designer on Blogger in Draft, our experimental playground where you can try out the latest features Blogger has to offer. Today we’re excited to announce that the Blogger Template Designer has graduated from Blogger in Draft and is now available to everyone...
The art of a homepage
Last week, we announced a new feature that lets you add a favorite photo or image to the background of your Google.com homepage.To provide you with an extra bit of inspiration, we‘ve collaborated with several well-known artists, sculptors and photographers to create a gallery of background images you...
This week in search 6/6/10
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.We work hard to consistently develop new tools, features and algorithmic changes to help us better understand what you mean when you enter a query into the...
