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Posted by Naren Manappa, Software
Engineer, and Melchi Sundararaj, Member of Technical
Team

We have come a long way from our

href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/now-you-can-blog-in-hindi.html"
id="kb.v" >first Indic transliteration release to our current
support for transliteration in 5 languages — Hindi, Kannada,
Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu — for a broader set of Google
products. We are also happy to release our very first

href="http://www.google.com/translate_t?langpair=en|hi"
id="v92_" >English to Hindi translation service. Read on to
understand how you can use these services to create, communicate
and search in your language, and more.

Type in your language easily on our

href="http://www.google.co.in/transliterate/indic" id="vsjs" >Indic
Transliteration Labs page.

Add the href="http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=www.google.com/ig/modules/indic_transliteration.xml" >
transliteration gadget to your iGoogle page.

onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"
href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Ap14FtNN91w/SCCXrnJfLoI/AAAAAAAAA5g/Q53oFoz7y9s/s1600-h/Indic1.gif" >
alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197320745484496514"
border="0" />

Express your views and create more content: href="http://www.blogger.com/indic/hi" id="oy3z" >Blogger.

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href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Ap14FtNN91w/SCCZ0HJfLpI/AAAAAAAAA5o/Irch2xs-SL0/s1600-h/Indic2.gif" >
alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197323090536640146"
border="0" />

Scrap your friends in your language: href="http://www.orkut.com/scrapbook.aspx"
id="q4ef" >orkut.

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href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Ap14FtNN91w/SCCaIHJfLqI/AAAAAAAAA5w/9H4lxvM2JhQ/s1600-h/Indic3.gif" >
alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197323434134023842"
border="0" />

Find information: href="http://www.google.co.in/hi" id="m0nc" >Google Suggest in
your language.

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href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Ap14FtNN91w/SCCaenJfLrI/AAAAAAAAA54/ISqt3BB4gho/s1600-h/Indic4.gif" >
alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197323820681080498"
border="0" />

You can now also try out our brand
new href="http://www.google.com/translate_t?langpair=en|hi"
id="js74" >English to Hindi translation service, and the href="http://www.google.com/translate_s"
id="wcru" >translated search feature that lets
you query in Hindi, obtain search results for the translated
query in English, and then see the Hindi translations of these
results.

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border="0" />

For more information on all of
these, read href="http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080505_googletranslate_hindi.html"
id="ytl0" >our press release.

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Tags: , engineer, Manappa, Melchi, Naren, Posted, software, Sundararaj

Posted by Ben Lee, Software Engineer,
and Jack Menzel, Product Manager

Have you ever forgotten the exact address of a site that you wanted
to visit? Not a problem - just type the name of the site into the
Google search box and hopefully it appears at the top of the search
results page.

We call this "teleporting", and we're pleased that we
have been able to minimize the need to remember an alphabet soup of
.coms, .nets, and .orgs out of everyone's lives. However, one
of the trends we noticed while studying teleporting was that there
were lots of searchers who would type the name of a specific
website as if they wanted to teleport, but would then immediately
issue another more a refined search within this site.

For example, if someone is looking for official information about
the id="ftnz" >Hubble Space Telescope on the NASA website, one might
first search for [NASA] and then [NASA Hubble Telescope], like
this:

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href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Ap14FtNN91w/R883J65W4II/AAAAAAAAA20/CxvglcYMwDQ/s1600-h/search_subset.gif" >
alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174415140440170626"
border="0" />

Through href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/this-is-test-this-is-only-test.html"
id="g-73" >experimentation, we found that presenting users with
a search box as part of the result increases their likelihood of
finding the exact page they are looking for. So over the past few
days we have been testing, and today we have fully rolled out, a
search box that appears within some of the search results
themselves. This feature will now occur when we detect a high
probability that a user wants more refined search results within a
specific site. Like the rest of our snippets, the sites that
display the site search box are chosen algorithmically based on
metrics that measure how useful the search box is to users.

We hope that you will make use of the site search box in order to
get the information you're looking for as quickly and easily as
possible.

Tags: , Ben, engineer, Jack, Lee, Menzel, Posted, software

Posted by Eric Mauskopf, Sales
Engineer, YouTube Partnerships

It's no secret that YouTube has embraced user generated video
since its inception. Armed with a video camera and an Internet
connection, anyone is able to contribute. We're seeing more and
more videogames starting to incorporate user generated content into
the gaming experience — so we often ask ourselves, why not
similarly empower gamers to share their experiences with each
other?

Enter Spore, the much
anticipated game from Electronic Arts and Maxis, which lets players
create their own alien creatures, import their creations into the
game world, and upload video of their creatures' moves directly
to YouTube from within the game. Additionally, all of the YouTube
community can enjoy: Spore's own href="http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=57960" >
YouTube Channel, which will showcase the most popular videos of
creatures fans and gamers create.

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border="0" />

The creature creator is core to the Spore game experience, and
seamlessly integrates with YouTube. It will be released within the
commercial game and as a standalone free download for PCs prior to
the game’s launch. We anticipate that millions of creatures will be
created, many of which will be cropping up on YouTube.

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border="0" />

Spore’s integration with
YouTube was made possible using the latest release of the href="http://code.google.com/apis/youtube" >YouTube Data API,
which is now publicly available and open to all developers.
Here's a glimpse of what you can create:

Tags: , engineer, Eric, Mauskopf, PartnershipsIts, Posted, Sales, Youtube

Posted by Andrew Schwerin, Software
Engineer

As an engineer in Seattle, I can't wait for summer to arrive.
This year, I'm not just looking forward to the beautiful
weather, but also the href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/seattle-conference-on-scalability-2008.html"
id="xbg0" >Seattle
Scalability Conference. It takes place on Saturday, June
14th.

Conference planning is underway, and the deadline for our call for
papers is this Friday, April 11th! If you have an interesting
approach for building and maintaining scalable systems, this is the
perfect gathering to share it. Send a 500-word abstract of your
30-minute presentation to scalabilityconf at google.com — and plan
on enjoying the long-awaited Seattle sunshine with me this
June.

Here are some of the topics that interest me (but I'm open to
more ideas):

Scalable algorithms:

Parallelization techniques (fully automatic or
programmer-assisted)

Algorithms that are robust in the face of system failures
(flaky hardware, OS bugs, network failures)

Scalable systems:

Managing large, evolving data stores

Languages and tools for organizing high-throughput data
processing systems

Handling partial failure (automatic failure
detection/diagnosis/repair)

We'll be posting more information for conference attendees
soon.

href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/blogspot/MKuf?a=tK60kOG" >

Tags: , Andrew, engineer, EngineerAs, Posted, Schwerin, Seattle, software

Posted by Jonas Klink, Software
Engineer, Accessibility

Last week Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20071212_toolbar.html" >
launched version 5 as a public beta. This version introduces a
number of exciting features, such as making your Toolbar settings
available from any computer that you log into with your Google
Account, improved suggestions for broken links, as well as
important changes that make Toolbar more accessible for assistive
technology users.

This release adds support for Windows Accessibility APIs (used by
screen readers, etc.) and enables keyboard navigation and access.
From inside a browser with Toolbar installed, the global shortcut
Alt G places your cursor in the Google Toolbar search box. If
you're using a screen reader, you'll hear "Google
Toolbar Search". Pressing the Tab key brings keyboard focus to
the button placed immediately after the search box, and right and
left arrow keys move focus between buttons. More information on
keyboard access is documented in the href="http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/search.py?query=accessibility&Action.Search=Search&ctx=en:searchbox" >
Toolbar Help Center (query 'accessibility').

Version 5 comes as a part of our ongoing efforts to enhance
accessibility in our client-side and web applications, which is a
matter I hardly need to mention is very important. Personally, I
see my work that went into the Toolbar as an important step
forward, as the product reaches a very large number of users and
enables everyone to gain quick access to a multitude of useful
features, through a unified UI. Adding keyboard navigation and
other features that enhance the ease of access to these features
benefit everyone.

We look forward to making further improvements to accessibility
(including the installation process) in future releases. You can
download the new Google Toolbar at href="http://toolbar.google.com/T5" >http://toolbar.google.com/T5.

Tags: , AccessibilityLast, engineer, Jonas, Klink, Posted, software, week

Posted by Jonas Klink, Software
Engineer, Accessibility

Last week Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20071212_toolbar.html" >
launched version 5 as a public beta. This version introduces a
number of exciting features, such as making your Toolbar settings
available from any computer that you log into with your Google
Account, improved suggestions for broken links, as well as
important changes that make Toolbar more accessible for assistive
technology users.

This release adds support for Windows Accessibility APIs (used by
screen readers, etc.) and enables keyboard navigation and access.
From inside a browser with Toolbar installed, the global shortcut
Alt G places your cursor in the Google Toolbar search box. If
you're using a screen reader, you'll hear "Google
Toolbar Search". Pressing the Tab key brings keyboard focus to
the button placed immediately after the search box, and right and
left arrow keys move focus between buttons. More information on
keyboard access is documented in the href="http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/search.py?query=accessibility&Action.Search=Search&ctx=en:searchbox" >
Toolbar Help Center (query 'accessibility').

Version 5 comes as a part of our ongoing efforts to enhance
accessibility in our client-side and web applications, which is a
matter I hardly need to mention is very important. Personally, I
see my work that went into the Toolbar as an important step
forward, as the product reaches a very large number of users and
enables everyone to gain quick access to a multitude of useful
features, through a unified UI. Adding keyboard navigation and
other features that enhance the ease of access to these features
benefit everyone.

We look forward to making further improvements to accessibility
(including the installation process) in future releases. You can
download the new Google Toolbar at href="http://toolbar.google.com/T5" >http://toolbar.google.com/T5.

Tags: , AccessibilityLast, engineer, Jonas, Klink, Posted, software, week

Posted by Gretta Cook, Software
Engineer, Google Seattle

In late 2004, Google opened an engineering office

href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=720 4th Avenue, Kirkland, WA&sll=47.67842,-122.195236&sspn=0.001994,0.004951&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=47.678522,-122.195649&spn=0.00942,0.021651&z=16&iwloc=addr"
id="sux:" >near Seattle, and my son Elliott was born. I had
heard great things from my friends who worked for the company down
in California, and I was eager to join their ranks in this new
local office. But the timing was all wrong: I wanted to spend a few
years at home with my new baby.

Elliott and I had lots of fun. We went to the park and the library
together. We read nursery rhymes and played peek-a-boo. We baked
muffins and did finger painting. We did not, however, debate the
relative merits of our favorite cache replacement policies, or
write and debug multithreaded C code. So by the time Elliott was
ready to start preschool and I was ready to go back to work, I had
to ask: Would I still be able to pass a Google interview, or had I
forgotten all of my technical skills?

If I wanted to land the job, I had to get serious: I needed to
brush up on my data structures and algorithms, my coding, not to
mention general interview skills. For the next few months, I hired
a babysitter to come and watch Elliott one afternoon a week. I
split that time between studying my college computer science
textbooks and participating in online coding contests. The coding
contests were particularly valuable because they forced me to work
through the design and coding stages quickly, just like in an
interview. The details of the standard Java and C libraries came
back to me as I scrambled to get my contest code to run before time
was up. I even asked friends to do mock interviews with me so I
could get used to writing code on a whiteboard again.

In the end, all of this paid off. My day of interviews went really
well, and I got the job!

The Seattle-area office and Elliott turned three recently;
they're both thriving. I feel very fortunate to have the two of
them in my life. And I'd encourage anyone — including new moms
– who is interested in href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/" id="mq-x" >a job at
Google to go for it.

Tags: , Cook, engineer, google, Gretta, Posted, SeattleIn, software

Posted by Vikaram Gupta, Software
Engineer, Google Apps

Today, it becomes a lot easier for organizations and schools to
start using Google Apps email services without leaving any of their
valuable email data behind. Our new self-service mail migration
tools enables administrators using the Premier and Education
Editions to easily copy existing mail from an IMAP server over to
Google Apps. Now businesses and schools can spend less time
worrying about "maintaining infrastructure" and focus
more on the things that matter most to them — like href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/customers.html#biz" >
healthcare or href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/customers.html#edu" >
educating students.

One of the first organizations to test this out, Central Piedmont
Community College, replaced its old email system for 30,000 users
in just 3 weeks. And that process came down to 3 million emails
flying from their server over to ours in just 24 hours — more than
2,000 emails per minute, all without missing a beat.

Once you're part of the Google Apps family, you can be sure
there are more exciting things to come. In the past month alone, we
added href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/new.html" >five
new improvements to make it even easier for organizations to
share information and work together.

Tags: , AppsToday, engineer, google, Gupta, Posted, software, Vikaram

Posted by Miguel García, Software
Engineer, Zürich Engineering Office

Google's href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/faq_translation.html#whatis" >
automatic translation is handy for getting translations of
complete sentences, paragraphs, and documents. But when you need to
translate a single word, a bilingual dictionary can be very useful
because it gives you translations for the many possible meanings a
word might have. With that in mind, we've added href="http://translate.google.com/translate_dict?hl=en" >dictionary
translations to Google
Translate. Now, for example, if you want to know how to say
"play" in Spanish, you can href="http://translate.google.com/translate_dict?q=play&sa=N&hl=en&langpair=en|es" >
use our dictionary translation and learn that depending on the
context it can be "jugar", "tocar", or
"obra", among others.

Tags: , engineer, Engineering, Garc, Miguel, Posted, rich, software

Posted by Ryan Aquino, Software QA
Engineer Lead, Picasa Web Albums

As someone who tests Google products daily, I know that the
simplest solution is often the one that works best. In the case of
online storage, whether it's a picture, a video or an email,
you should just, well, be able to store it without having to worry
about whether you've got enough space in each particular
product. That's why the Picasa team is pleased to tell you that
in a few hours we'll be rolling out extra storage that you can
purchase to use across several Google products (today, Picasa Web
Albums and Gmail; soon, other applications like Google Docs &
Spreadsheets). That will help make storage really useful, like
letting you upload lots of full resolution images to Picasa Web
Albums.

When you reach the limit of free storage (i.e., 1GB for Picasa Web
Albums, 2.8GB for Gmail), consider this your overflow solution.
Plans start at $20/year for 6GB (yes, $5 cheaper than before), with
larger plans ranging up to 250GB. If only testing everything were
this easy. We'll update this post as soon as we're ready to
take your order.

Update:
And we're live! To buy more storage, href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageStorage"

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Tags: , Aquino, engineer, Lead, Posted, QA, Ryan, software