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As World Cup fans stayed glued to the TV, people in the U.S. geared up for a holiday and commemorated the life of an icon in music. Here’s a look at a few of the trending searches this week, with data from the  Google News Lab. Get outta town 4th of July is coming up in the U.S., and people are skipping town. According to Google Flights data, several of the top trending destinations for 4th of July travel are outside the United States: Moscow, Russia; Ponta Delgada, Portugal; New Orleans, Louisiana; Cartagena, Colombia; and Lisbon, Portugal are at the top of the list. For people who are traveling by car instead of airplane,  Google Maps data  can tell you the best time to hit the road (and when the traffic will peak), according to your city. A Justice retires Upon Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s surprise retirement announcement, people searched to find out why Justice Kennedy was retiring, as well as for his letter to the President sharing the news. The ...

If you’ve deployed Chrome Browser or Chrome OS in your business, you probably know that we update the platform roughly every six weeks with new features. To help you understand what these new features and enhancements mean for enterprises, we’ll be publishing regular updates to coincide with the latest Chrome Enterprise beta releases. To kick things off, here are just a few of the new features available in Chrome Enterprise 68 . Alert users when they visit unencrypted sites. Security on the web is more important than ever, and we want to do our part to keep businesses and users protected. As we announced in February , Chrome Browser will start to alert users that HTTP sites are “not secure” beginning with Chrome 68. You’ll start to see these alerts in your browser this month, so you may want to consider giving your users a heads up. If you have internal or third-party apps that are still in the process of migrating to HTTPS, and you want to avoid displaying a warning to users, ...

Editor’s note: To celebrate the hard work, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of app makers around the world, this week, and over the coming months, we’ll celebrate our Android community by featuring founders, product managers, designers and developers from around the world. We’ll showcase their passions and also hear about what they do when they step away from their computers. Meet our next app maker, Manel Alcaide, a Spanish acrobat, co-founder and CEO of Visualfy . And check out more #IMakeApps stories on g.co/play/imakeapps . Manel started performing aerial acrobatics in 2008. He has also hosted integration workshops for deaf and hearing children, bringing them together through circus techniques. His passion for making the world more accessible led him to co-found Visualfy, an app for deaf people that translates sounds into visual and sensory alerts. We caught up with Manel in the small Spanish town of Benissanó, where he runs his tech startup: When and why did yo...

A few weeks ago when I was in Cleveland, Ohio, I met Jesse Mason and Helen Qin. They’re the proud owners of Mason’s Creamery, a thriving sweets shop. Just a few years ago, they were struggling to turn their ice cream cart into a permanent storefront business. After a long search, they found an old retail space in the Ohio City neighborhood and used online tutorials to learn how to refab the building. They helped draw foot traffic with a website and advertising. Today, their business is booming and people from all over the city come to try their cutting-edge ice cream. (I tried some—really good!) Jesse and Helen aren’t techies or coders, but they were able to use the internet to help them achieve their version of the American dream. We hear stories like Jesse and Helen's across the country, which is why we’re fundamentally optimistic about new technology tools. They put knowledge at your fingertips, make daily life more efficient, and drive economic growth. In 2016 six percent of...

Earlier this week we announced the new Google Marketing Platform , which brings together DoubleClick Digital Marketing and the Google Analytics 360 Suite into a single solution to plan, buy, measure and optimize customer experiences across channels and devices. But we all know having great technology is only part of the solution. You also need people with the expertise and knowledge to fully take advantage of everything the technology enables. It’s not unlike relying on Sherpas to help guide you from basecamp to the summit. You may be able to make the ascent on your own, but engaging a team of experts with a track record of success greatly improves your chances of making the summit. That’s why we’re excited to announce Google Marketing Platform Partners , a new program designed to ensure you have access to all the resources you need to get the most value from Google Marketing Platform. A robust ecosystem of skilled practitioners and companies More than just a replacement for ...

If you’ve ever asked Google Home, “Ok Google, do you speak Spanish?” and didn’t quite get what you wanted, we have exciting news for you. Starting today, the Assistant on Google Home can help you get more done in Spanish, whether that’s enjoying music, managing your day, or and controlling smart devices around the house. Getting a little help at home in Spanish is simple, just tap Menu in the Google Home app, select Preferences in the Settings menu and then select Español. From there, you’ll be ready to: Ask about your day with “Ok Google, ¿cómo será mi día?” and get a full rundown of what’s on your schedule for the day.  Get to know more about the World Cup by asking “Ok Google, ¿cuándo juega México?” or cheer for your team with “Ok Google, dame un cántico de fútbol”. Listen to your top songs just by saying “Ok Google, reproducir mi lista de reproducción para hacer ejercicio” and start enjoying the hits.  Turn down the temperature with your voice by asking “Ok Google,...

In 2015, we started the Growth Engine effort in Europe (which became Grow with Google last year) to help people get the right skills to find a job, advance their careers or grow their businesses. So far, we’ve helped 725,000 Europeans and we're committed to help 1 million more by 2020. As part of this initiative, we offer a wide range of free courses through Google Digital Workshop , offering personalized learning plans on both Google and non-Google platforms. Digital marketing is one of our most popular courses, and for those who take the course, we’ve created a Digital Workshop Certificate (accredited by IAB Europe ) to demonstrate your digital marketing proficiency to potential employers and recruiters. More than 300,000 people have earned their certification to date: Sylwia from Poland, who after honing her digital skills through Google Digital Workshop , was promoted to a new position, and Darko , CEO of Slovenian e-commerce platform Ceneje.si, who after completing the tr...

Almost 40 percent of all undergraduates in the United States are educated at community colleges, and I’m proud to be one of them. I got my start at Ozarks Technical Community College in Springfield, MO where I received my associate degree and went on to a career in IT support at Google. Today, I’m a Senior Systems Administrator, helping to keep Google’s internal infrastructure up and running. While I enjoy fixing things—a pastime of mine since I received my first hand-me-down Commodore 64 at the age of eight–teaching is my passion. So last year, I jumped at the opportunity to help develop the Google IT Support Professional Certificate .  This Grow with Google program teaches people the skills they need for an entry-level job in IT support in about eight months. Since its launch in January, almost 40,000 people have enrolled in the program, and Google has funded over 10,000 scholarships to support veterans, refugees, and low-income learners. Starting this fall, we’re bringin...

One feature of Files Go is sharing files with people nearby without needing any internet. Today, we’re releasing a major upgrade to this feature—here’s what you can expect: Easier to find and use : Nearby sharing is now available in its own dedicated tab called “Share.” This tab has a simplified and smoother interface, and it works on any Android phone from the latest Google Pixel back to Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Faster connections : Thanks to improved connection techniques, the average time it takes to connect two phones is now just five seconds. Faster transfers : Files Go picks the fastest method of sending files available on your phone, such as 5GHz Wi-Fi Direct, so you get the highest transfer speeds possible. Users have seen speeds up to 490 Mbps—that’s four times faster than before, or 100 original quality photos sent in less than five seconds. More secure : Files Go helps you verify that you are connecting to the right person and encrypts all your transfers for additi...

Investigative journalists depend on a number of digital techniques in their work—from analyzing data on a shared spreadsheet, to identifying the original source of a photograph or picking through the minutes of a public meeting on a local website. As part of the Google News Initiative ’s efforts to support high-quality journalism, we want to enable journalists to discover how digital tools can help them delve deeper or get to the facts more quickly. That’s why we’re working with the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) to provide a new program, called “ Access to Tools .” Over the coming months a team of expert trainers will provide up to 20 free workshops across the U.K., each designed to help newsroom and freelance journalists sharpen their digital newsgathering and research skills. The practical workshops will feature technology from a range of providers and include real-life examples, including how individual journalists have traced original sources. We’ll also support the...

Whether they’re outwitting opponents in the latest mobile game, exploring massively multiplayer online worlds, or navigating 3D spaces in VR, players want to be connected—to new stories and experiences, to their favorite game creators, and to their fellow gamers. But it can be challenging to build connected games. Developers find they need to spend valuable time and resources managing infrastructure when they should be doing what they are most passionate about—building great games. We want to help. Today, we’re announcing a strategic alliance with Unity, a leading real-time 3D game and content creation platform, to simplify game development. Working together, we’re building a suite of managed services and tools for creating connected games, the first of which will focus on real-time multiplayer experiences. As part of this, Google Cloud will be the default cloud provider for developers building connected games with Unity, helping them to easily build and scale their games...

Be Internet Awesome helps kids be safe, confident explorers of the online world. Today, we’re launching a number of enhancements to the program, including curriculum expansions , updates to the Interland game, and interactive slide presentations to bring program lessons to life, created in partnership with Pear Deck. We’re also excited to make these important lessons accessible to more families by expanding the Be Internet Awesome program into Spanish as Sé genial en Internet . We’ve invited Araceli Gomez, a STEM educator at South Gate Middle School in Los Angeles, CA, to talk about why these resources are so important for her community. My career in education began in 1997 at Tweedy Elementary School, in the city of South Gate, CA, where the population is 99 percent Latino. The best part of being an educator in the same city for over 20 years is the relationships I’ve built with families and students in the community. When former students stop by to simply say hello or to share t...

Editor’s note: To celebrate the hard work, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of app makers around the world, this week, and over the coming months, we’ll celebrate our Android community by featuring founders, product managers, designers and developers from around the world. We’ll showcase their passions and also hear about what they do when they step away from their computers. Check out more #IMakeApps stories on g.co/play/imakeapps . Faith Ringgold, an 88-year old artist and creator of Quiltuduko has been a pioneering figure in American art for six decades. She is a painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, author, educator and activist. She’s had exhibits in museums and galleries around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In her 80s she came up with the idea for Quiltuduko, an art making game inspired by the Japanese number game, Sudoku. The rules are simple, the game can be a chal...

In 2016, Mark and John Cronin started a company with a unique mission: spreading happiness through socks. It was inspired by John's love for colorful socks, or what he calls his “crazy socks.” John has Down syndrome, and when he graduated high school, he wanted to go into business with his dad. And so, John’s Crazy Socks was born. Like many retail businesses, selling socks is a seasonal business. So to expand their customer base year-round, John and Mark turned to advertising online. Since then, the company has soared. They now ship more than 1,500 orders a day to 44 countries and employ 35 people, 16 of whom have different capabilities. The company donates 5 percent of their earnings to the Special Olympics and supports a variety of other charity partners.   Watch the video to learn more about how John and Mark are spreading happiness through socks, and check out google.com/retail to learn how retail businesses can grow with the help of Google. by via The Keyword

It’s the middle of the middle month of a choppy year and I’m thinking about how we stay steady. I’m thinking about ballasts , the heavy things—weighty, substantive—employed in ships to lend balance. My ballast is my family, and I’m lucky enough to have a few. There’s the family of my blood, those mad geniuses who share my last name; the family of my friends, wild spirits exploring the limits of what’s possible; and, last but not least, the family I walked into when I came to Google. This Pride, Google and Google’s LGBTQ+ community are celebrating families big and small, chosen or inherited, as part of #ThisIsFamily . We encourage you to post on social media about the people who make up your family (no matter how you define it) and to donate to nonprofits like PFLAG, It Gets Better and GLAAD . Google.org has pledged to match up to $100,000 in total in donations to these three organizations during the month of June. That’s not the only way we’re celebrating Pride. In typical Google f...

With more than 300 policies available to IT admins, we’re constantly expanding Chrome’s support for enterprises. Here’s a round-up of policies—some old, some new—designed to help IT admins make their organizations more secure and productive. 1. Enforce policies through forced sign-in. Administrators can decide if they want to set many of their policies at a device level, or manage them by user. But if a user isn’t signed into their Google account, IT is unable to enforce some user-based policies in their organization. Especially handy for organizations that use G Suite, the Forced Sign-In policy requires users to sign in to their Google account before they can use their browser. This helps you better enforce policies that you want to manage at the user level, for example enabling or disabling password manager or managing outdated plugins. This policy has been available since January 2018 for Windows and since April 2018 for Mac. 2. Make sure your users are running the latest...

We've seen people across Africa do amazing things with the internet and technology—for themselves, their communities and the world. Over the past 10 years in which Google has had offices in Africa, we've been excited to be a part of that transformation. Ultimately 10 million Africans will benefit from our digital skills training program with 2 million people having already completed the course, and we’re supporting 100,000 developers and over 60 tech startups through our Launchpad Accelerator Africa . We’re also adapting our products to make it easy for people to discover the best of the internet, even on low-RAM smartphones or unstable network connections. In recent years we've also witnessed an increasing interest in machine learning research across the continent.  Events like Data Science Africa 2017 in Tanzania, the 2017 Deep Learning Indaba event in South Africa, and follow-on IndabaX events in 2018 in multiple countries have shown an exciting and continuing gro...

This piece originally appeared in Adweek . Like every CMO, I spend much of my day in creative reviews. That means I am on the receiving end of a lot of beautiful images. But over the years, too many have been filled with perfect young hipsters, in beautiful houses, living in cool cities. Our products are for everyone, but our images were not telling that story. We had a problem. So we started a journey to make sure that everyone can see themselves reflected in our creative work. We definitely do not have all the answers. But I want to share what we have learned—sometimes the hard way. 1. The makeup of your team matters The first step is increasing diversity on the creative teams. As of this year, less than 6 percent of the advertising industry is Black, a figure that has been on the decline since 2010. There is no shortcut here. It takes time to seek out diverse talent. Everyone knows this. But in the rush to fill an open role it can be all too easy to fall back to the usual sus...

Recently we launched Android Enterprise Recommended , which gives customers confidence to select, deploy and manage devices that meet elevated enterprise requirements . The program empowers organizations to  choose the right devices for their organization, knowing they will receive regular security updates and at least one major operating system update, work with zero-touch enrollment, and be available unlocked. We started with devices from seven OEMs—including Sony, Huawei, LG, Motorola, BlackBerry, Nokia and Google. We’re now expanding the program with new devices and OEM partners : The Huawei M5 8.4 and 10.8 are the first tablets validated as Android Enterprise Recommended. Two new OEMs have joined the program: Sharp, with the AQUOS SH 10-K, and Sonim with the XP8. Existing Android Enterprise Recommended partners have added more devices as well: Sony’s Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact; Motorola’s Moto G6, Moto G6 Plus and Z3 Play; Huawei’s P20 and P20 Pro; BlackBerry’s Ke...

It was always Valentina Bagala’s dream to open a dance studio. She took dance classes as a child in Chile, and throughout high school and college. After graduating from the University of Florida, she worked in human resources but felt like something was missing without dance in her life. So in 2013, she and her husband, Rafael Savino, decided to take a leap of faith. They quit their jobs, maxed out their credit cards, and became first-time business owners of a dance studio in Doral, FL—Ascendance Studio. Doral has a large Spanish-speaking community, so to get the word out Valentina and Rafael realized they needed to advertise online in Spanish. One month after creating Google ads in Spanish, they had 45 new students learning everything from ballet to flamenco. And today, they have around 200 students, a bigger studio, and employ nine instructors. Most importantly, Valentina is doing what she loves most and spreading the love of dance to her community. Watch the video above to lea...

To support ongoing relief efforts in Puerto Rico, Google is now matching donations up to $2 million to the Hispanic Federation and Mercy Corps. We asked ”Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda to share his thoughts on why this is important. Read his story below, and donate now at g.co/supportPR . Puerto Rico is 35 by 100 miles—an archipelago with a main island and two adjacent island-municipalities, Culebra and Vieques. But this tiny paradise has made an outsized impression on the world stage...artists…musicians…major league shortstops…and five Miss Universes. A territory of the United States since 1898, Puerto Ricans, by birth, are U.S. citizens. Right now, there are more Puerto Ricans in the continental United States (over 4.5 million) than on the island, 3.3 million. It’s not surprising that when the island is in trouble, the diaspora says, “presente.”  Puerto Rico is my second home. It’s where my parents were born. My mom lived there until she was a toddler, and my dad grew u...

A lot has happened at Google Cloud in the past couple of years. We’ve announced hundreds of new product features, improved our geographic footprint, forged new partnerships, received lots of certifications, and of course, welcomed a lot of new customers. One of the less talked-about moves came two years ago, when we formed the Office of the CTO, or OCTO, a team made up of senior Google technology experts and former enterprise CTOs. But—at least from my admittedly biased vantage point—it’s been one of the most significant. Before OCTO, if a prospective customer wanted to know how our technology could translate into business value, we had lots of interesting information, but it was very product-centric, and the customer had to synthesize it into practical next steps themselves. And customers aren’t just curious about specific Google Cloud products—they also want to understand how we fit with the rest of Alphabet. For example, an aerospace company wants to hear about Cloud, but also P...

Since announcing our partnership with SAP over a year ago, we’ve done everything from dramatically expanding our certifications to accelerating our co-development efforts with SAP. But integrating Google Cloud with the best of SAP’s enterprise applications is only part of the story. Another development in our partnership with SAP we’re excited about is the range of co-innovation projects we’re working on to help our customers address their biggest business challenges. Fashion retailer Tory Burch has told us they’re particularly excited about what our partnership with SAP has to offer: “To support a thriving online presence and more than 150 retail stores around the world, our IT team works closely with industry-leading partners to address our technology needs,” says Serge Minassian, Vice President of Infrastructure and Shared Services, Tory Burch. Working with SAP and Google Cloud on our global applications and systems infrastructure allows us to serve our customers in excitin...

If you’ve been dreaming of pool floats, warm sandy beaches and balmy days, you’re in luck—the long-awaited summer months are finally here. And for many of us, summer means one thing—a chance to get away for some much needed rest and relaxation. For vacation inspiration, we’ve used historical Google Maps data to identify examples of the top mobile searches for places to visit in the U.S. this season. Read on for tips to make sure your trip is smooth sailing from start to finish. Seek the great outdoors Taking a hike, setting up camp or stargazing under the open sky at national parks can be a great way to unplug from the world and reconnect with nature. Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon top our list as the most popular U.S. parks to visit this time of year. Tap into your inner history buff School’s out but there’s no reason that the learning needs to stop. Whether your wanderlust takes you to Mount Rushmore or the Hollywood Sign, our list of trending historical lan...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is from Derek Georg, Chief Systems Officer for Corridor Mobile Medical Services (CMMS), which provides mobile imaging and lab services to more than 300 medical facilities, such as nursing homes and clinics, in Texas and Oklahoma. CMMS chose Google Chrome Enterprise , Chromebooks , and G Suite to bring work data and applications to the cloud and to improve employee productivity. We think of CMMS as a family, even though there’s about 280 of us now. When Steve Nelson, our CEO, started the company, it really was a small family using vans to bring X-rays, ultrasounds, and lab tests to patients who might be unable to visit a medical facility. When we launched, we described the business as “compassionate, caring, with cutting-edge technology.” That’s especially true today: We’ve upgraded to the newest digital imaging equipment, and when we added lab tests like blood work to our services, the business expanded fast. We’re now serving more than 300 medical fac...