Google News From Around the Globe
• A new Google Toolbar with pop-up blocker
• Google AdSense makes publishing pay
• Q&A with Krishna Bharat about Google News
• New languages, new countries, new Google users
• Google Japan welcomes new president – Irasshaimase!
• The latest worldwide search trends
Telling Tales of Google
• Two Google users with amazing stories of search success
• An eye-opening Google AdWords account
Search Tip of the Month
• Search within a specific site, country or language
Searching for a Good Time
• Puzzling results
• The dazzling illustrated logos of Dennis Hwang
• Want some fun on the job? Work at Google.
Dear Google Friends:
Search here, search there, search everywhere. No matter where you
are, we're working to bring Google to you. This edition of the
Google Friends newsletter takes a closer look at the ways we're
keeping Google close at hand – from improving the Google Toolbar to
making Google News available in more languages and countries.
Thanks for your continued support, wherever you may be.
The Google Team
Google News From Around the Globe
A new Google Toolbar with pop-up blocker
Google has just released a beta version of its next generation Google
Toolbar – a free browser tool that enables users to search with
Google no matter where they are on the Internet. New features in this
latest version of the Google Toolbar include:
- Pop-up blocker: Turn off distracting pop-up ads from
web pages you visit and let through only those pop-ups
you want to see
- AutoFill: Complete web forms quickly and easily with
information that's saved securely on your own computer
- BlogThis: Link to your favorite web pages from your own
online web journal, created with free software from Blogger.com.
To download this new version of the Google Toolbar, go to:
http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php
Google AdSense makes publishing pay
Publishers have long dreamed that their content would draw both
readers and advertisers. Now at least part of that dream is coming
true. Google now offers Google AdSense, which enables publishers to
earn money by serving highly relevant Google AdWords on their site.
Google AdSense makes it easy for websites of all sizes to generate
revenue from their content, with almost no setup or maintenance
required.
To see if your site is eligible to participate, visit:
https://www.google.com/adsense/
Q&A with Krishna Bharat about Google News
Google News extracts articles from more than 4,500 sources worldwide,
then automatically clusters them into groups by subject matter.
Krishna Bharat, the Google Senior Research Scientist who conceived of
the idea, answers your questions about the history and future of
Google News.
http://www.google.com/googlefriends/morejul03.html#qa
New languages, new countries, new Google users
With the launch of google.com.pk (Pakistan) and google.lu
(Luxembourg), Google is now available on 76 country domains – and the
list keeps growing.
To see all of the Google country domains, visit:
http://www.google.com/language_tools
You can also use Google in any of 88 languages from Esperanto to
Icelandic. If we don't speak your preferred tongue (Inuktitut?
Lingala? Hausa?), perhaps you could help us out. We're looking for
volunteers to work on translating the Google interface. Interested?
Sign up and we'll tell you how to get started.
http://services.google.com/tcbin/tc.py?cmd=status
Google Japan welcomes new president – Irasshaimase!
Norio Murakami recently was named president of Google's Tokyo office.
Murakami-san will lead Google's business in Japan including web
search and online-advertising services. Murakami-san is former
President and CEO of Nortel Networks Japan.
Google Japan, based in Tokyo, is one of Google's 18 locations
worldwide. Other offices include the Mountain View headquarters,
Detroit, Toronto, NY, LA, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston,
London, Hamburg, Paris, Milan, and Sydney.
The latest worldwide search trends
It's summer, and people worldwide are gearing up for much-needed
vacations. Ever wonder what they search for to get there? In Canada
the top 5 (in order) are: "Air Canada," "Cuba," "via rail," "Jetsgo"
and "beach." Sightsee search trends around the rest of the world with
Google Zeitgeist.
http://www.google.com/zeitgeist
Telling Tales of Google
Two Google users with amazing stories of search success
Google users are sharing people, especially when it comes to
explaining how Google has changed their lives. Here are two of the
many wonderful anecdotes we've received in recent weeks.
Lesley's brother left the UK and disappeared for six years. Her first
ever Google search found him listed as part of a 10-pin bowling
league in Brazil.
Abigail's daughter had a rare genetic condition her doctors had never
seen. Using Google, she helped them diagnose the illness and get
treatment, not just for her daughter, but for another patient with
the same syndrome.
Read these stories and those of other Google users at:
http://www.google.com/press/testimonials.html
To submit your own Google story, visit:
http://www.google.com/contact/success.html
An eye-opening Google AdWords account
Postoptics, an online contact-lens supplier in the UK, uses Google AdWords to generate 35
percent of its traffic and 58 percent of its orders. Read what
they have to say at:
http://www.google.com/googlefriends/morejul03.html#aw
To learn more about how Google AdWords can help your business, visit:
http://adwords.google.com
Search Tip of the Month
Search within a specific site, country or language
Sometimes you want to search more than 3 billion pages. Sometimes you
don't. If you're interested in limiting your search – say, for
example, looking only at web pages from a particular website or pages
in a particular language or from a specific country – Google offers
an easy way to do that.
To search only within the pages of a specific website, use the "site:"
command. For example, "admission site:brown.edu" finds admission
information on the Brown University site.
For language or country restricts, use Google's Language Tools page:
http://www.google.com/language_tools
To restrict by a selected content area (e.g. Apple, Linux, Microsoft)
use our Advanced Search page:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Searching for a Good Time
Puzzling results
The 2003 Google U.S. Puzzle Championship engaged more than 700
participants from around the U.S. in an online contest of raw
brainpower. The four top scoring puzzlers will go on to compete in
the 12th World Puzzle Championship in the Netherlands this fall. To
meet America's most logical thinkers, visit:
http://www.google.com/googlefriends/morejul03.html#puzzling
The dazzling illustrated logos of Dennis Hwang
Google's own assistant webmaster Dennis Hwang has attained a small
slice of immortality as the creator of our Google home page logo
illustrations. Now you can own your own Hwang work and display it
proudly across your chest. The Google Store carries 4 t-shirts with a
range of Dennis' logos, from a DNA spiral to matching Valentine
hearts.
https://www.googlestore.com/
Want some fun on the job? Work at Google.
Can work be fun? It is at Google, where a typical day's challenges
include everything from writing code to roller hockey. Google is
hiring for positions worldwide in many departments. Check out our
jobs page and see if anything tickles your fancy.
http://www.google.com/jobs/
Thanks for your continued interest in the goings on at Google. We
encourage you to pass this newsletter on to anyone you know who might
share that interest. And as always, we welcome your questions and
comments on anything Google related. You can find helpful hints and
our contact information online at:
http://www.google.com/help/index.html
The Google Team
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