Image detail from stereograph of woman viewing a stereograph: "The stereograph as an educator - Underwood patent extension cabinet in a home library." (1901)
- Jingle all the way to Santa's Village (Google Blog)
- Artists in grades K-12 can submit their artwork to Google through December 7th and it might be featured as a Google Doodle (Google)
Google+
- New! Google+ update: Pin a post to the top of a Collection in the new Google+
- Update Fixes and improvements in the updated iOS Google+ app (LukeWroblewski)
- Tip Hack to Search Communities from the New Google+ (John Skeats)
- Tip Why create Google+ Collections? Each Collection is a mini social media channel (Robert Wallis)
Google My Business
- Tip Tools and hacks to emulate Google Search Location since that setting was removed from Google Search (Local Search Forum)
- Tip What determines the ranking of Local businesses in the search results? Relevance, distance, prominence and search history (Joy Hawkins)
- Tip: Google Reviews - One URL To Rule Them All (Get Five Stars)
- Tip Map Registrations in not affiliated with Google My Business (Tim Capper)
- Tip Use Google Photos to help show your business or brand in the best light (Google Small Business)
Google and your Photos
- New! New in Google Photos! View and explore photo spheres on your desktop computer (Google Photos)
- New! Take VR photos with the new Cardboard Camera app for Android (Google Blog)
- Article 5 Things to know about the Nexus 5X and 6P camera (Nexus)
- Tip Use Google Photos to help show your business or brand in the best light (Google Small Business)
YouTube and Video Creators
- New! YouTube Space Mumbai opened today - if you are a YouTube Creator in the area, sign up for orientation and upcoming events and workshops (YouTube Creator Blog)
- Tip YouTube Creators: Get more features for your channel (YouTube Help Channel)
- Tip Adobe Premiere Clip: free video editor comes to Android (The Next Web)
Live Broadcasting
- Facebook to let everyone live stream (The Verge)
- Looking for an alternative to Google+ Events for your next Hangout on Air? Michael Daniels hosted a discussion using Business Hangouts . (Watch on YouTube) (Michael Daniels)
Hangouts
- Update: Hangouts 6.1 for iOS: reply from notifications, group names in notifications, contact names in Google Voice notifications (Apple App Store)
- Tip Hangouts on desktop: the Chrome Hangouts app lets you send messages and make video & phone calls directly from your computer's desktop
Android and Nexus
- Article 5 Things to know about the Nexus 5X and 6P camera (Nexus)
- New! New emoji (and a system update) coming to Nexus next week (Hiroshi Lockheimer)
- New (or not) Google Has Published The Phone And Contacts Apps On The Play Store (Android Police - later the apps were pulled from the Play Store)
AdSense, Blogger and Webmasters
- New! Drag and drop images into your Blogger blog post drafts
- Tip AdSense Publishers: The five reports to start with to analyze your account performance for AdSense for Content (Inside AdSense blog)
- Tip Check out a Q&A session that Andrey, last week's team spotllight, held with 3 SEO industry leaders on topics such as the future of search, mobile spam and structured data →https://youtu.be/pKOwiIYsnis?t=1m56s (Google Webmasters)
- New! The Facebook Page Plugin now includes Events and Messenger for your business or brand's website (Facebook)
Search and more
- Easily bookmark and organize Google image search results on your mobile device (Google Search blog)
- Chrome data saver for Android detects low bandwidth and loads sites without images first (Chrome)
- Google Handwriting input lets you write with your finger rather than type - now with support for 87 languages, 23 scripts, and emoji! (Research at Google)
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links
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