Posted by Lorenzo Colitti, Network Engineer, and Erik Kline, IPv6 Evangelist
We care a lot about the health of the Internet. Recently, we’ve become increasingly concerned that IPv4 addresses — the numbers that computers use to connect to the Internet — are running out. Current projections place IPv4 address space exhaustion somewhere in late 2011, and […]

Posted by Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior VP, Product Management
This week Israel observed Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, a holiday inaugurated in 1959 to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. This is an especially important day to Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem-based center for remembering the Holocaust’s victims and survivors. I was fortunate to tour Yad […]

Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience

Did you notice the chrome tulips on Google’s homepage today? They are part of a special Google doodle done by renowned artist Jeff Koons. And that isn’t the only art appearing anew on Google today. As part of our iGoogle Artists project, we […]

Posted by Sue Factor, Writer, User Experience Group
Late in 2007, our User Experience (UX) group—which does user interface design, visual design, user research, web development, and user interface writing—set out to articulate the principles that ought to guide Google designs worldwide. What are the fundamentals that all Google designers and researchers accept? Which approaches to […]

Posted by Anne Meyer, Chief of Education Design, CAST
According to UNESCO, one in five adults is illiterate, with the majority living in the developing world—where access to books, libraries, and education is often limited. But the barrier to literacy isn’t simply a question of access, nor is it limited to the developing world. It’s a […]

Posted by Michael Weiss-Malik, KML Product Manager
HTML has completely transformed our world. Through the web, a previously inconceivable amount of information is now just a few keystrokes and mouse clicks away. What makes this possible is the fact that web browsers, web servers, and many other pieces of Internet infrastructure all speak the same language. […]

Posted by Sir Richard Branson, President and Founder of Virgin Group
In my life, I’ve had a lot of exciting adventures and launched a lot of ambitious business ventures. I’m delighted today to announce Virgle, Inc., a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google which qualifies on both counts.
Virgle’s goal is simple: the establishment of […]

Posted by Janani Ravi, Software Engineer
Our team has a real affinity for free-spirited types, and so we spend a lot of time thinking up ways to make Google Docs friendlier even to people on the go. If you’re one of those, you already know how you can access your Google Docs from anywhere, […]

Posted by Tracy Chan, Product Manager, YouTube
I remember the first time a video I posted to YouTube cracked 100 views. I wasn’t so much surprised as curious: Who were these people? How did they find this video? Where did they come from?
Today we’re taking our first step towards answering these questions with YouTube Insight, a […]

Posted by Zaheda Bhorat, Open Source Programs Manager
Today, the world is celebrating the first-ever Document Freedom Day. More than 200 teams in 60 countries are spending today raising awareness about document freedom by hosting speakers, events, and literally raising the DFD flag. Through such activities, these teams are committed to spreading the word about the […]