Google Friends Newsletter - June 2011

Hello Google Friends. We hope you enjoy this month's update on our
newest products and services.

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Voice Search on Desktop

You can now speak your web searches instead of typing them by clicking
on the microphone icon on the right side of the search box. This can
be particularly useful for hard-to-spell searches like [spaghetti with
bolognese sauce] or complex searches like [translate to spanish where
can I buy a hamburger]. Voice Search is currently available for Chrome
users in U.S. English only.
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/voicesearch.html

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Search by Image

You now have the option of searching with a photo instead of words at
images.google.com. Click the camera icon in the search box and upload
a photo from your computer or paste the URL of an image from the web.
You can also drag and drop pictures from websites or your computer
into the search box. You'll get relevant results about your image as
well as similar images or the same image in different sizes or
resolutions.
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html

New Mobile Search features

Discovering places nearby just got easier with new shortcuts for
commonly searched local categories, like restaurants, coffee shops and
bars on the Google mobile homepage. You can also now add suggested
phrases to the search box and "build" longer, more complex searches
piece by piece. These features are available on www.google.com from
the mobile browser for Android (2.2+) and iOS (4.0+) devices.
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-new-features-to-mobile_14.html

My Places on Google Maps

Keeping track of all the locations you care about and memorizing which
places you starred or rated isn't easy. To help, we released the new
My Places tab on Google Maps, which helps you quickly view and
interact with your saved maps, starred locations and rated businesses.
The My Places tab replaces the My Maps tab in the Google Maps toolbar.
http://maps.google.com/maps/myplaces

Inside Search

We recently launched Inside Search, a one-stop shop for all search-
related features, tips and tricks. Whether you're a beginner to web
search or a search master, you'll find all the search shortcuts you
need under the Features section of the site. You can also use the
under-the-hood section to get a look at the technology behind Google
Search. There are interactive diagrams with information on how far
every query has to travel to get an answer back to you, how often we
run experiments (we ran over 6000 in 2010 alone), how much time has
gone into developing the algorithm and more.
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/

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So much for a sleepy summer—this June we made several big
announcements. We added the +1 button to websites so you can recommend
content all across the web. We broke all previous Doodle records with
our playable guitar doodle in honor of Les Paul. Chromebooks went on
sale to the public and we announced a series of design improvements
across all our products, including Google Search, Google Maps and
Gmail, taking place over the next few months. Finally, we launched
Google+, a project that brings the nuance and richness of real-life
sharing to the web. Currently, Google+ is in an invitation-only field
trial but we hope when you're invite arrives, you'll choose to join
the project.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/1-button-for-websites-recommend-content.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/doodle-for-instrumental-inventor.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/evolving-google-design-and-experience.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html

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Google Friends Newsletter - May 2011

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newest products and services.

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Customize your background on Gmail

You can now set the background in Gmail to a photo from your computer
or Picasa Web Albums. To get started with your own personalized theme,
go to the Themes tab in Gmail settings and choose "Create your own
theme."
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/custom-background-image-themes.html

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More movies on YouTube

More than 3,000 full-length feature films from major Hollywood studios
are now available on YouTube. Watch one of the hundreds of free movies
available, or rent blockbuster new releases like The King's Speech,
The Green Hornet or Despicable Me. Many movie pages feature YouTube
Movie Extras: free behind-the-scenes videos, cast interviews,
parodies, clips and remixes from YouTube's community of content
creators.
http://www.youtube.com/movies

Music Beta by Google

With Music Beta, you can upload your personal music collection to a
single library, even if it's scattered across multiple computers. You
can listen from the web or any enabled device with the Music app from
Android Market. Playlists are automatically kept in sync, and you
don't have to worry about cables, file transfers or running out of
storage space. The songs you've recently played will automatically be
available offline and you can also select the specific albums, artists
and playlists you want to have available when you're not connected.
With Instant Mix, you can automatically build new playlists of songs
from your collection. Music Beta is currently available by invitation
in the U.S.
http://music.google.com/

Chromebooks

Chromebooks are a new type of computer based on the Chrome OS
(operating system). There's no software or desktop—everything is done
within the browser. Chromebooks launch in seconds, are resistant to
viruses and require no maintenance. The first Chromebooks from our
partners, Samsung and Acer, will be available online June 15th in the
U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, and Spain.
http://www.google.com/chromebook/

Google Advisor

Google Advisor helps you quickly find relevant financial products from
many providers and compare them side-by-side. Enter information about
what you're looking for in a mortgage, credit card, CD, checking or
savings account and receive a list of offers that match your criteria,
along with rates and contact information. Google Advisor is currently
available in the U.S.
https://www.google.com/advisor/home

New features for Google News

With expandable stories in Google News, you can easily browse the
moment's top stories, and access diverse perspectives. Each story box
is collapsed down to one headline, except for the top story. When a
headline grabs your attention, click to expand and view related videos
and photos as well as related articles marked according to genre, like
"Opinion" or "In Depth."
http://news.google.com

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May was a month for doing good and giving recognition. We held a
Google Map Maker event at the World Bank to help accurately map the
future Republic of South Sudan, and with the Newseum, launched a
YouTube channel to honor journalists who have lost their lives
covering war zones and conflict areas. We awarded 65 young women with
Google Anita Borg Memorial scholarships and crowned seven-year old
Matteo Lopez from South San Francisco, Calif., the U.S. 2011 Doodle 4
Google winner. Finally, our own distinguished engineer Ken Thompson
was awarded the prestigious Japan Prize at a ceremony at our
headquarters.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/using-power-of-mapping-to-support-south.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/remembering-fallen-journalists-on-video.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/60-young-women-recognized-as-google.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/and-2011-us-doodle-4-google-winner-is.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/japan-prize-honors-googler-ken-thompson.html

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Google Friends Newsletter - April 2011

Greetings to our Google Friends. We hope you enjoy this month's update
on our products and services.

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Google Map Maker

If you're in the U.S., you can now add your expert local knowledge to
Google Maps with Google Map Maker for the United States. For example,
you can get started by adding the outline of the soccer field at your
local park, or marking that a local two-way street recently changed to
a one-way thoroughfare. Each edit in Map Maker is reviewed, and after
approval, will appear in Google Maps within minutes. Using Map Maker,
people have built out and edited the maps for 183 countries and
regions around the world; now you can ensure the places you care about
in the U.S. are richly represented on the map.
http://www.google.com/help/mapmaker

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Google Toolbar 7

The speed of Google Instant is now available in the latest version of
Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer 8 and 9. Once you enable Instant
under "Toolbar Options," you'll see search predictions and results
appear as you type in the Toolbar search box. The new Toolbar is also
cleaner looking and more personalized, showing you only the tools you
use the most. And it's one of the fastest add-ons you can use in
Internet Explorer, so it won't slow down your browser. If you're
already using Toolbar, you'll be automatically updated to the new
version over the next few weeks.
http://www.google.com/toolbar

A Google a Day

A Google a Day is a new daily puzzle that can be solved using your
creativity and clever search skills on Google. Questions will be
posted every day at agoogleaday.com and printed on weekdays above the
New York Times crossword puzzle. To check your answers—or if you're
stumped—you can choose to look at each puzzle's answer, along with the
search tips and features used to find it.
http://www.agoogleaday.com

Google Offers

Google Offers helps you discover the best of your city at 50% off or
more. If you're in Portland, New York City or the San Francisco Bay
Area, you can sign up now to start receiving offers when we launch in
these cities soon. You can also submit your information to get news on
when Offers is coming to your area.
https://www.google.com/offers

Pagination and better printing for documents

Google Docs now features pagination—the ability to see your document
broken up into pages. That means other Docs features work better, too:
headers now show up at the top of each page, manual page breaks move
text onto a new page and footnotes appear at the bottom of the pages
themselves. Thanks to pagination, we also made document printing a
whole lot better in Chrome: you can print directly from the browser's
"File" menu, and what you see in your browser is exactly what you'll
get on paper.
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/pagination-comes-to-google-docs.html

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With Earth Day and U.S. Arbor Day both falling in the month of April,
we focused a lot on green efforts this month. We signed a power
purchase agreement with a wind energy facility in Oklahoma (which
we'll be applying to our Mayes County, Okla. data center) and invested
about $100 million in the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Oregon,
anticipated to be the largest wind farm in the world. We also invested
$168 million in a solar energy power plant in the Mojave Desert in
California and partnered with the Save the Redwoods League in an
effort to protect some of the country's oldest forests. Finally, on
Earth Day, we celebrated with a special animated Google doodle.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/green

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Google Friends Newsletter - March 2011

Greetings to our Google Friends. We hope you enjoy this month's update
on our products and services.

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Hide sites to find more of what you want

If you're signed in to Google, now you can block a specific website
from appearing in your future search results. When you click a result
and then return to the search results page, you'll find a new link
under that result that reads "Block all example.com results." Once
you've blocked a domain, you won't see it in your future search
results. You can always see your blocked sites and unblock sites by
visiting your Search Settings or clicking on the "Manage blocked
sites" link that appears when you block a domain.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-more-of-what-you.html

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Introducing the +1 button

+1's are a new, quick way in Google search to say "This is something
you should check out." Click the +1 button to publicly give something
your stamp of approval, helping your friends and contacts find the
best stuff when they search. +1's can also help you out by showing you
the right recommendations on the topics you're interested in, right
when you want them—in your search results. +1's are slowing rolling
out alongside search results and ads in English on Google.com, but in
the future they'll appear in many more places (including other Google
products and sites across the web). You can try the +1 button by
opting in at: http://www.google.com/experimental
http://www.google.com/+1/button/

Google Maps Navigation routes you around traffic

Google Maps Navigation (Beta) will now automatically route you around
traffic. To use it, just start Navigation like you normally would,
either from the Navigation app or from within Google Maps. Our routing
algorithms will apply our knowledge of current and historical traffic
to select the fastest possible route. That means that Navigation will
automatically guide you along the best route given the current traffic
conditions.
http://www.google.com/navigation/

Instant Previews for mobile

Similar to the desktop version, Instant Previews for mobile displays
search results in the form of webpage snapshots, so you can visually
compare results without having to go back and forth between websites
and search results. To use Instant Previews on your mobile device, go
to www.google.com and tap on the magnifying glass next to any search
result. You can quickly scroll across previews by swiping with your
finger and when you find one you like, tap on the preview to go
straight to the page.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/instant-previews-now-available-on.html

Discussions in Google Docs

Comments in Google Docs now facilitate rapid and seamless discussions.
Each comment has a timestamp and profile picture, so you can see who
made a comment and when. You can also resolve comments, rather than
deleting them, so you have a record of what's been said. Plus,
comments are now integrated with email to make it even faster to
communicate—you'll get updates from a given discussion in your inbox,
and you can reply to the email to make a comment in the doc.
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/03/introducing-discussions-in-google-docs.html

College basketball resources

We created a special page for the NCAA College Basketball
Championships, which culminate this week with the Final Four. You can
watch 3D videos of the 14 arenas (including Reliant Stadium in
Houston, Texas which is hosting the finals), explore the 68 college
campuses in Street View and click through to watch the actual games on
NCAA® March Madness on Demand®. You can also read Google News articles
on the games, download basketball apps from the Chrome Web Store and
play an interactive basketball game.
http://www.google.com/collegebasketball2011

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011

Earlier in March, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011—101 musicians
from 33 countries, chosen by YouTube users—converged on Sydney for a
week-long festival of musical collaboration and participation. The
culmination of the festival, a Grand Finale concert was streamed live
on YouTube from Sydney Opera House. If you missed the livestream, you
can still watch the finale on YouTube, as well as video from the
multimedia projections on the interior Concert Hall and the exterior
sails of the iconic Sydney Opera House.
http://www.youtube.com/user/symphony

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Google Friends Newsletter - February 2011

Greetings to our Google Friends. We hope you enjoy this month's update
on our products and services.

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Block sites from Google's search results

This early, experimental Chrome extension lets you block sites from
your web search results. Once you block a site, you won't see results
from that domain again in your results (you can always revoke a
blocked site at the bottom of the results page). The extension also
sends blocked site information to Google, and we will study the
resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal
for our search results. If you're a tech-savvy Chrome user, download
and try the Personal Blocklist extension today.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-block-sites-from.html
Download the extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef

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Update to Google Social Search

Now when signed in to your Google account, you'll see results and
shared links from people you're connected to on Twitter, Flickr,
Blogger, and other publicly available sites—blended through the search
results page. The names and profile photos of the people who shared
or published this information will appear underneath the results. In
addition, you now have more control over how you connect your accounts—
either publicly or privately. As always, you'll only get social search
results when you choose to log in to your Google Account.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/update-to-google-social-search.html

Recipe View

Click on the "Recipes" link in the left-hand panel on the search
results page to narrow your search results to show only recipes, along
with helpful information like ratings, ingredients and pictures. You
can search for specific recipes like [chocolate chip cookies], or more
open-ended topics—like ingredients, holidays or favorite chefs. You
can also use the tools on the left-hand side of the page to filter
recipe search results based on your ideal ingredients, cook time and
calorie count, so it's easier to choose the right recipe for you.
http://www.google.com/landing/recipes/

Google Wedding Planning

Find wedding-specific templates in Google Sites, Google Docs and
Picnik, as well as tips and tricks for using these and other Google
products for wedding planning. From wedding websites to save-the-date
cards, these tools simplify wedding planning and save you time. We're
also hosting a wedding sweepstakes: enter for a chance to win $25,000
towards your dream wedding (find the Official Rules below). Wedding
planner Michelle Rago and her team will advise the winning couple on
location, flowers, food and other design elements to create a day that
is uniquely their own.
http:/google.com/weddings
http://www.google.com/weddings/rules.html

Footage of protests in the Middle East on YouTube

Thousands of videos of the protests in Egypt, Libya and other
countries around the Middle East have been uploaded to YouTube over
the past weeks and months, giving people access to raw footage shot by
citizens on the ground. People around the world can access these
videos by visiting CitizenTube, YouTube's news and politics channel.
Working with news curation group Storyful, we've also curated videos
from the protest movements in Bahrain, Iran, Yemen, Algeria, Morrocco,
Iraq and Oman.
http://www.youtube.com/citizentube

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Get an inside look at Googlers working on inventive, creative projects
in our new blog series focusing on entrepreneurs at Google. So far,
we've written about how one and a half engineers developed and
launched one of our most successful mobile advertising features in
just a few months, and featured the voice technology team, whose work
has resulted in products and features like YouTube transcriptions,
Voice Search and speech-to-speech translation. Subscribe to the series
for ongoing updates. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/entrepreneurs%20at%20Google

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Google Friends Newsletter - January 2011

Greetings to our Google Friends. We hope you enjoy this month's update
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Port your existing number to Google Voice

Google Voice helps you manage your communications by giving you more
control over your phones and voicemail, but until this week, you had
to get a new Google phone number in order use all of Google Voice's
features. With Number Porting, existing Google Voice users can now use
their mobile numbers as their Google Voice numbers. This means you can
now use all of Google Voice's features, like ringing multiple phones
at once, without having to change your number. To get started with
Number Porting, log in to your Google Voice account, visit the
Settings page and click on "Change / Port" next to your Google Voice
number. Be sure to read our blog post for more info about Number
Porting.
http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/port-your-existing-mobile-number-to.html
http://www.google.com/voice

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Google Places with Hotpot App for the iPhone

Our local recommendation engine for Google Places, powered by you and
your friends, is now available for the iPhone. The Places with Hotpot
app makes it easy to rate places on the go and help you find places
near you, plus it personalizes your search results to give you the
best places for you. The more you rate, the more you're sharing about
your tastes and the more we can give you personally tailored
recommendations. Find the Google Places app with Hotpot by searching
for Google Places in the App Store.
http://hotpot.blogspot.com/2011/01/now-available-google-places-with-hotpot.html

Doodle 4 Google: 2011

The 2011 Doodle 4 Google contest is now open for K-12 students in the
U.S. to redesign Google's logo around the theme "What I'd like to do
someday...". The winning student, chosen by Google employees and a
panel of guest judges, will have their design displayed on Google.com
for millions to see, and take home a $15,000 scholarship and a $25,000
technology grant for his or her school or after-school program. We'll
also choose 40 regional finalists, whose artwork will be featured in a
special exhibition in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American
Art. This year, the contest is open to parents to register their
school-age children directly, and we're working with the Boys & Girls
Clubs of America and Girls Scouts of the USA so kids in those
organizations can participate too. Educators at public, private and
home schools can also register their students.
http://www.google.com/doodle4google

Updated Google Translate Android app and Conversation Mode

The Google Translate Android app now features better dropdown boxes to
help select the languages you want to translate from and into, an
improved input box, and cleaner icons and layout. You can also try out
Conversation Mode, a new, experimental interface in alpha within
Google Translate that's optimized to allow you to communicate fluidly
with a nearby person in another language. Conversation Mode is only
available for English and Spanish at the moment. To use it, press the
microphone for your language in the app and start speaking. Google
Translate will translate your speech and read the translation out
loud. Your conversation partner can then respond in their language,
and you'll hear the translation spoken back to you.
http://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-look-for-google-translate-for.html

New YouTube homepage

We gave a preview of a redesigned YouTube homepage in late 2010, and
now all logged-in users will see the new version when they visit
YouTube. The new homepage is designed to answer the question "What
should I watch today?" so there's more focus on videos that matter to
you—including subscriptions, friends' sharing and recommendations. You
can also filter your homepage to show only the latest uploads from
your subscriptions and get quick access to the inbox when you have new
messages or comments. If you've already watched a video, it will be
grayed out on your homepage—and you can remove any video with a simple
click.
http://www.youtube.com

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We've partnered with Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem-based center for
remembering the Holocaust's victims and survivors, to bring more than
130,000 images from their collections online, in full resolution. You
can find the images on Yad Vashem's collections site or by searching
the web; we transcribed the text from many of the images with optical
character recognition to make them more findable across the Internet.
Add a personal story to a photo or document on Yad Vashem's site by
clicking on the "share your thoughts" section.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/photos.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/explore-yad-vashems-holocaust-archives.html

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Google Friends Newsletter - December 2010

Greetings to our Google Friends. We hope you enjoy this month's update
on our products and services.

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Google Maps 5.0 for Android

With Google Maps for mobile 5.0 you can explore maps in 3D—tilt,
rotate and try "compass mode" to see new perspectives that can help
you navigate around. Maps are now more reliable when you're offline,
and we've added offline rerouting in Google Maps Navigation (beta). To
get the latest version, search for "Google Maps" in Android Market and
update. Note that not all new features will be available for all
phones. Read our blog post for more information.
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/next-generation-of-mobile-maps.html

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Google eBooks

In the Google eBookstore, you can now find more than 3 million ebook
titles including hundreds of thousands of ebooks for sale in many
categories, from popular bestsellers to your favorite classics. Since
your Google eBooks are stored in the cloud, you can access your
personal library anywhere you go and pick up where you left off using
just about any device you choose to read with. Google eBooks is
available in the U.S. and is compatible with Android (2.1 or later),
iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (iOS 3.0 or later), the web and many
supported eReaders.
http://books.google.com/ebooks

Nexus S and Gingerbread

The Nexus S is the new Android phone from Google that runs the latest
version of the Android platform, Gingerbread (Android 2.3). Nexus S
provides unlocked, unfiltered access to the best Google mobile
services and the latest Android releases and updates. Gingerbread
includes popular Android features like multi-tasking and Wi-Fi
hotspot, plus new features like a refreshed user interface, an
improved keyboard and near field communication (NFC) support. Nexus S
can be purchased either with or without a T-Mobile service plan online
and in-store from all Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores in the U.S.
http://www.google.com/nexus

Zeitgeist 2010

We've gathered the most popular and fastest rising search queries from
the year in the 2010 Google Zeitgeist, so you can relive the joys,
sorrows and big moments through searches from around the world. The
2010 Zeitgeist features interactive HTML5 data visualizations for the
top queries and events from around the world, so it's easy for you to
interact with, explore and obsess over search data. Zeitgeist data is
available for 56 countries.
http://www.google.com/zeitgeist2010

Chrome Web Store

The Chrome Web Store is an online marketplace where you can discover
thousands of apps, extensions and themes for Google Chrome. Once
you're in the store, you can search or browse through different
categories. Every item in the store has its own page, where you can
read and contribute reviews and ratings. If you use multiple
computers, synchronize your apps, extensions and theme across all your
computers with browser sync.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore

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MISCELLANY

It's now easier to find and get updates from Google through whatever
channel you like best, whether it's a blog, Twitter account, Facebook
page or YouTube video. We've updated our blog and Twitter directories,
and added new directories for Google's official Facebook pages and
YouTube channels. You can filter by category, language or region so
you can easily find exactly what you're looking for. Find all these
directories in the U.S. Press Center.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press

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