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Are you an enthusiastic Google user?
Keep up-to-date with the monthly Google Friends Newsletter. Messages include important announcements of new features and other information.
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Changing the way you get your Google news
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Greetings to our Google Friends,
It’s hard to believe, but this monthly missive is now 13 years old. We
hope you’ve enjoyed reading it over time, and wanted you to know that
we are retiring it in its current form.
As you may know, the Google Friends Newsletter was created by Larry
Page in April 1998, when Google was still on Stanford servers. In the... more »
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Google Friends Newsletter - June 2011
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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... more »
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Google Friends Newsletter - May 2011
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Hello Google Friends. We hope you enjoy this month’s update on our
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,... more »
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Google Friends Newsletter - April 2011
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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... more »
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Google Friends Newsletter - March 2011
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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... more »
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Google Friends Newsletter - February 2011
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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... more »
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Google Friends Newsletter - January 2011
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Greetings to our Google Friends. We hope you enjoy this month’s update
on our products and services.
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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... more »
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Google Friends Newsletter - December 2010
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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... more »
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Google Friends Newsletter - November 2010
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Greetings to our Google Friends. We hope you enjoy this month’s update
on our products and services.
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Edit Google Docs on your mobile browser
Now you can edit your Google Docs on the go from your mobile device.
To get started, go to docs.google.com in your mobile browser and... more »
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Google Friends Newsletter - October 2010
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Greetings to our Google Friends. We hope you enjoy this month’s update
on our products and services.
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Flu vaccine finder
Just in time for flu season, we’re again collaborating with the U.S.
Department for Health and Human Services (HHS), their flu.gov
collaborators and the American Lung Association to help you easily... more »
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