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Code Jam, Google's longest-running programming competition, is returning for its sixteenth year. We’re offering another season of challenging algorithmic problems (including some that are interactive) for our global community. Whether you're a seasoned contestant or brand new to the coding competition space, here are three reasons why you shouldn't miss Code Jam 2019: Solve intriguing and fun problems. Every year, the Code Jam engineering team and a dedicated group of Google contributors spend thousands of combined hours creating, testing and publishing some of the toughest problem sets in the world. Despite the complexity of these problems, we hear from contestants that they enjoy the playful nature of Code Jam problem statements. (Who wouldn't want to help a group of raucous mathematicians with their party acoustics ?) One of our more recent and unusual problems, Name-Preserving Network , required contestants to evaluate a scrambled network (of their own design) ...

Google for Nonprofits started as a conversation about a volunteer program in an elevator in our New York office in 2010. Today, Google for Nonprofits has connected more than 200,000 nonprofits around the globe with Google products to help them run their organizations. We believe that technology can do good in the world, which is why we offer eligible organizations access to a suite of Google products at no cost. Here’s a look at what each of the Google for Nonprofits products has to offer: Bring teams together with G Suite for Nonprofits G Suite is a set of integrated apps, including Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Drive and Hangouts Meet. It helps organizations with productivity, collaboration, and security—with G Suite, teammates can work from anywhere, on any device and focus their time on making an impact. If your nonprofit works across different locations, you can use G Suite to organize online video conferences on Hangouts, create group chats, work together simultaneously on the sam...

March Madness is in full swing. Did your team advance to the Sweet 16? As the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament goes into its final rounds, you can listen in to all of the action for free with the Google Assistant.    Just ask any smart speaker or Smart Display, like Google Home, “Hey Google, play NCAA March Madness on Westwood One.” You'll immediately get a live audio stream of the games from the largest audio broadcast network in America—plus analysis from Westwood One’s basketball experts, including Hall of Famer John Thompson and four-time NBA champion Will Perdue.  You can also use the Assistant to find out when the next game is or check on the latest scores. Simply say “Hey Google…” “When's the next March Madness game?” “When's the next University of Kentuckgy game?” [substitute other teams] “What's the latest March Madness news?”  The Road to the Final Four is on Westwood One… and now, on Google Assistant too! by via The Keyw...

Editor’s note: The Google News Initiative is marking its first anniversary with a look at the collaborations and work that has taken place over the last year, as well as what’s planned for the coming year. One of the key programs we’re launching today is the GNI Local Experiments Project. The goal of the program will be testing new approaches in local business models to help the industry as a whole learn what works and what doesn’t. The first effort to emerge is with McClatchy and their Compass Experiment. The following post is by their President and CEO Craig Forman . At this important time for local news, McClatchy is expanding its partnership with Google to explore and experiment with new sustainable business models for authoritative news and essential information to communities. Today, we’re introducing The Compass Experiment , which will provide local news coverage to three small to mid-sized U.S. communities that don’t have access to significant local sources of news and i...

The news industry has a serious challenge ahead: building a successful, sustainable business model for high quality journalism in the digital age. Looking at ways to help this industry-wide transition to digital, last year we launched the Google News Initiative , along with a $300 million commitment to help journalism thrive. Google has also supported 662 European news organizations with funds to support innovative ideas in the last three years. Those projects addressed some of the industry’s most pressing issues—everything from new business models to new methods of fact-checking. Building on this experience, we’re announcing a new program: the GNI Innovation Challenges . $30 million, two years, five regions of the world To kickstart innovation globally, we will allocate $30 million over the next two years to launch up to five regional editions of the Challenges program, covering the North America, Middle East and Africa, Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific regions. Publishers...

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With managed Google Play, organizations can build a customized and secure mobile application storefront for their teams, featuring public and private applications. Organizations’ employees can take advantage of the familiarity of a mobile app store to browse and download company-approved apps. As with any enterprise-grade platform, it’s critical that the managed Google Play Store operates with the highest standards of privacy and security. Managed Google Play has been awarded three important industry designations that are marks of meeting the strict requirements for information security management practices. Granted by the International Organization for Standardization , achieving ISO 27001 certification demonstrates that a company meets stringent privacy and security standards when operating an Information Security Management System (ISMS). Additionally, managed Google Play received SOC 2 and 3 reports, which are benchmarks of strict data management and privacy controls. These de...

Editor’s note: As part of the Google News Initiative, we work with news publishing partners across the world on efforts to help the industry thrive in the digital age. In partnership with FTI Consulting and the Local Media Association (LMA), today we’re launching the GNI Subscriptions Lab for eight publishers in the U.S. and Canada to help them transform their approach to digital subscriptions. A similar effort will launch in Latin America next month. The following post is by the LMA’s President, Nancy Lane.  While the largest national news publishers have put digital subscriptions at the center of their business transformation, we’ve yet to see a clear template for publications’ success at the metro and local levels. Finding a growth path forward for subscriptions is critical to the very survival of hundreds of newspapers in markets large and small. One local publisher told me that his organization’s existence is being threatened like never before, and that seeing his community...

Do you lock your doors when you're not home or when you’re sleeping at night? Your home protects everything and everyone that lies within it—whether that’s your family, pets or belongings—and a door is the most direct way for a criminal to access your home. Locking your door is the simplest thing you can do to keep safe. Similarly, when you’re browsing the web, there’s one key thing that helps keep you and your information safe and “locked” up. HTTPS is a certificate that works just like the lock on your front door at home. By “locking” your connection to a website, it helps prevent interception or alteration of content on the site you’re visiting. We want every website to have a lock on it. That’s why Google Registry created safe.page : so you can understand the most direct steps you can take to keep yourself and others safe while browsing the internet. Visit safe.page to learn how to read a URL (to avoid phishing attacks) and the importance of a secure connection (especial...

For nearly a decade, we’ve been in discussions with the European Commission about the way some of our products work. Throughout this process, we’ve always agreed on one thing一that healthy, thriving markets are in everyone’s interest. A key characteristic of open and competitive markets一and of Google’s products一is constant change. Every year, we make thousands of changes to our products, spurred by feedback from our partners and our users. Over the last few years, we’ve also made changes一to Google Shopping; to our mobile apps licenses; and to AdSense for Search一in direct response to formal concerns raised by the European Commission.   Since then, we’ve been listening carefully to the feedback we’re getting, both from the European Commission, and from others. As a result, over the next few months, we’ll be making further updates to our products in Europe. Since 2017, when we adapted Google Shopping to comply with the Commission’s order, we’ve made a number of changes to respond ...

When shopping online, today’s consumers want seamless, convenient, and genuinely enjoyable experiences. They expect retailers to understand what they want, with advertising that puts the right products in front of them at just the right moments. So, how exactly are retailers making it all happen — especially with the modern path to purchase spanning across so many different devices, formats, and channels?    Leading retailers are accelerating their businesses by using integrated technology and data to help them connect with shoppers at each step of their journey. With platforms that provide advanced insights, retailers are collaborating with brands on innovative ad formats and placements that drive action by delivering a frictionless experience across their sites and apps. In our new guide, Transforming shopping experiences on your eCommerce platform , we show you how Ad Manager can help you deliver unique experiences at every stage of the shopping journey, and increase pr...

Growing up in Costa Rica, I was always passionate about creating things and solving puzzles. That’s what drove me to computer science. I saw it as an opportunity to explore my interests and open doors to new possibilities. It's that love and passion that eventually helped me get to Google, and to the United States, where I now live. Computer science requires students to learn how to think in a totally new way. Getting into that mindset can be really hard for anyone, but it can be even tougher if you’re learning key phrases, concepts, and acronyms in an environment that feels different from your everyday life. That’s why I’m proud to share that Google.org is making a $5 million grant to UnidosUS , the YWCA and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation . The grant will bring computer science (CS) education to over one million Latino students and their families by 2022 with computer science curricula, including CS First , Google’s coding curriculum for elementary and middle school student...

We recently returned from Mobile World Congress, where many of our hardware partners showcased their latest devices and how Android is shaping the future of mobility . When we launched  the Android Enterprise Recommended program, our goal was to provide the mobile ecosystem with powerful and versatile solutions, validated for enterprise use. The first validated knowledge-worker devices debuted just over a year ago, and since then the program has expanded to rugged devices, enterprise mobility management solutions and most recently, managed service providers . Today, we’re sharing highlights about how our partners are embracing Android Enterprise Recommended for how it provides choice, cost savings, and empowers companies to choose devices with confidence. Embracing device choice SAP, a leader in enterprise application software, wanted to give its teams greater device choice and embrace the latest Android Enterprise management features. The company was looking for a solution to...

Whether you’re a teacher, accountant, engineer or farmer, the digital economy is transforming the workplace as we know it. According to a study by the European Commission , 90 percent of workplaces in the European Union today require employees to have basic digital skills. And Europeans are beginning to learn these skills on their own in their spare time. This is exactly what Nik Kiene, Malte Schülein and Lennart Hartrumpf, three students from Flensburg, a city in northern Germany, did last summer. While most students spent the holidays hanging out or traveling with friends and family, the trio went back to school. They had a vision to create a web-based startup together. “ShareSpace,” a sharing economy platform, would help users rent out rarely used goods, like sporting or technical equipment. While they’d been developing the startup idea for months, the three friends lacked the skills needed to turn their vision into reality. That’s when 19-year-old Lennart found out about Google...

Whether you’re a teacher, accountant, engineer or farmer, the digital economy is transforming the workplace as we know it. According to a study by the European Commission , 90 percent of workplaces in the European Union today require employees to have basic digital skills. And Europeans are beginning to learn these skills on their own in their spare time. This is exactly what Nik Kiene, Malte Schülein and Lennart Hartrumpf, three students from Flensburg, a city in northern Germany, did last summer. While most students spent the holidays hanging out or traveling with friends and family, the trio went back to school. They had a vision to create a web-based startup together. “ShareSpace,” a sharing economy platform, would help users rent out rarely used goods, like sporting or technical equipment. While they’d been developing the startup idea for months, the three friends lacked the skills needed to turn their vision into reality. That’s when 19-year-old Lennart found out about Google...

Did you know that searches for "best” have increased by 80% in the last two years? For example, in recent third-party research, we saw that some people spend over 50 days searching for the “best chocolate” before making a decision. Google Marketing Live is happening on May 14th— register now to discover how to take action on new consumer insights like these and learn about the latest digital marketing products from Google. For the first time, we'll also be live streaming 8+ hours of additional content from the event. Engage directly with product managers through live Q&A, learn new best practices, and get an inside look at how our latest products are developed. by via The Keyword

February is a time for chocolate and candy hearts, but you know what's really sweet? Less email spam and apps that work faster. Those are just two of our updates from Google Cloud last month. Read on for what was new and popular last month on the Google Cloud blog . Gmail: now with even less spam. Gmail already blocks 99.9 percent of spam email for users, and a new application of our machine learning framework TensorFlow is now helping to block 100 million more spam messages every day. TensorFlow does this by detecting new types of spam messages by identifying potentially suspicious patterns in large data sets more efficiently than humans can. So this use of machine learning means it’s easier to stop new types of spam, which are constantly emerging.   You can move to and from the cloud with a hybrid platform. Working in the cloud means that businesses won’t run their back-end computers (known as servers) at their own location anymore, but will instead use a cloud provid...

From controlling all your devices from a single dashboard to helping you prepare a new recipe for dinner, there are a lot of ways you can use Smart Displays with the Google Assistant to get things done around the house. But let’s face it: having to repeat “Hey Google” every time you use the Assistant on Smart Displays can be cumbersome. Starting today, we're adding support for Continued Conversation on Smart Displays, an optional setting that lets you have a natural back-and-forth conversation with the Google Assistant. After you initially trigger the Assistant with a request, the Assistant will stay active for long enough to respond to follow up questions so you don't have to say “Hey Google” as often. You can turn on this feature in the Google Assistant app by going to Settings → Preferences → Continued Conversation and hitting the toggle. Continued Conversations is currently available in english (US) across all Smart Displays, including the Google Home Hub , Lenovo Smart...

Each year, the global games community gets together in San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference (GDC), a major industry event for developers, publishers, and business professionals working in games to learn, get inspiration, and make new connections to grow their business.  This year at GDC, our Google AdMob and Google Ads team have several sessions and activities lined up to share the latest product innovations and best practices, all geared toward helping you grow and scale your mobile games business through user acquisition and monetization. To help you navigate all the content and plan your agenda more easily, here’s a preview of the major speaking sessions and activities that we have planned for you. Talks Monday, March 18 Google Mobile Developer Day: 3 tips to help your mobile games business succeed  Time and location: 12:10 - 12:25 PM at Moscone West (room #2020) Speaker: Duke Dukellis, Director, Product Management, Mobile App Advertising, Google S...

From Phoenix to Atlanta, it’s been great to see many of you using our new Google Assistant feature built on Duplex technology to quickly book restaurant reservations over the phone. Thanks to your feedback, we’re beginning to make this feature available to more people across the United States. Now, you can use it on all Pixel phones in 43 U.S. states . All it takes is a few seconds to tell your Assistant where you'd like to go. Just ask the Assistant on your phone, “Book a table for four people at [restaurant name] tomorrow night.” The Assistant will then call the restaurant to see if it can accommodate your request. Once your reservation is successfully made, you’ll receive a notification on your phone, an email update and a calendar invite so you don’t forget.   For restaurants that already use an online booking service that partners with Google, the Assistant will work directly with Reserve with Google  to confirm the reservation. Business owners can read more ab...

This past weekend marked Open Data Day , an annual celebration of making data freely available to everyone. Communities around the world organized events , and we’re taking a moment here at Google to share our own perspective on the importance of open data. More accessible data can meaningfully help people and organizations, and we’re doing our part by opening datasets, providing access to APIs and aggregated product data, and developing tools to make data more accessible and useful. Responsibly opening datasets Sharing datasets is increasingly important as more people adopt machine learning through open frameworks like TensorFlow. We’ve released over 50 open datasets for other developers and researchers to use. These include YouTube 8M , a corpus of annotated videos used externally for video understanding; the HDR+ Burst Photography dataset , which helps others experiment with the technology that powers Pixel features like Portrait Mode ; and Open Images , along with the Open Ima...

As Black History Month comes to a close and we look toward International Women’s Day, people are searching for “ Black girl magic ” more than ever before. Searches hit an all-time high in February of this year. To me, “Black girl magic” is an empowering phrase that celebrates the achievements, beauty and irrepressibility of Black women and girls. The phrase is appropriate for moments both big and small, and ignites the internal spark that motivates both personal and professional achievements. As black women, it’s rare to see our own, varied images reflected back to us in media and pop culture. But this film celebrates women—past and present, famous and unknown—who have broken down barriers in many fields and industries. It reminds me that whether you’re getting your diploma, winning your 23rd grand slam, or simply putting one foot in front of the other, you’re making magic. To learn more about magic created by women all over the world, visit g.co/IWD . by via The Keyword

Editor’s note: The following information was provided to employees in January and we’re sharing more broadly now. Compensation should be based on what you do, not who you are. Every year, each employee’s compensation is modeled algorithmically, based on work-related inputs like the market rate for their job, their location, level and performance rating. If managers then want to apply discretion to adjust an employee’s modeled compensation, they must provide a clear rationale. To make sure that the modeled amounts, and any changes made by managers, are equitable across gender and racial lines, we conduct an annual pay equity analysis that covers all job groups that meet minimum n-count thresholds for statistical analysis. If we find any statistically significant discrepancies in any job groups, we make upwards adjustments across the group to eliminate the discrepancy.  You can read more about our methodology here (we’ve run pay equity analyses every year since 2012). In 2018, ...

Editor’s Note: This Friday, March 8 is International Women’s Day. We’re commemorating the day early by hearing from Natasha Case, Founder & CEO Of Coolhaus from Los Angeles, California. She’s sharing her story of how her business idea grew from one Google Search to a product that’s sold in thousands of stores across the U.S. Check out the stories of other women around the world who have built #MoreThanABusiness here . Ice cream has always been a lifelong passion of mine, and when I went to architecture school, I thought I could use food to make architecture more fun. I knew I was onto something when my friends were devouring my crazy ice cream concoctions—ginger cookies and chocolate wasabi ice cream, anyone? My partner, Freya Estreller, and I decided to do a Google search ("hipster ice cream truck") to see if anything like my ice cream experiments was already out there. Nothing popped up. After we did that search, we saw an opportunity to take a leap of faith and tur...

We support updating copyright rules for this digital age, recognize the value of content that creators and rights holders produce and care deeply about journalism . We all share a belief in the social value of knowledge and content, and when publishers and creators succeed, we succeed.   European lawmakers recently agreed on a final text of a new copyright directive. Many voices, including consumer associations , creators , small publishers , academics and startups have shared their concerns about the outcome. Having studied the final text, we agree that the directive would not help, but rather hold back, Europe’s creative and digital economy. Let’s start with the positive. The latest text improves the version adopted by the European Parliament in September 2018. Take Article 13. Platforms making a good-faith effort to help rights holders identify and protect works should not face liability for every piece of content a user uploads, especially when neither the rights-hol...

We support updating copyright rules for this digital age, recognize the value of content that creators and rights holders produce and care deeply about journalism . We all share a belief in the social value of knowledge and content, and when publishers and creators succeed, we succeed.   European lawmakers recently agreed on a final text of a new copyright directive. Many voices, including consumer associations , creators , small publishers , academics and startups have shared their concerns about the outcome. Having studied the final text, we agree that the directive would not help, but rather hold back, Europe’s creative and digital economy. Let’s start with the positive. The latest text improves the version adopted by the European Parliament in September 2018. Take Article 13. Platforms making a good-faith effort to help rights holders identify and protect works should not face liability for every piece of content a user uploads, especially when neither the rights-hol...

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Last year, we brought more devices to Google Fi, and now there’s a new phone designed for Fi on board: the budget-friendly, moto g7. With the moto g7 you can easily capture high quality portraits and even low light snapshots on a two cameras with 12 megapixels, and view your photos on a 6.2” display. If you see something that piques your curiosity—whether it’s a dish on the menu or an unfamiliar landmark—you can even use your camera to search what you see with Google Lens. When it’s time to get things done, the moto g7 has you covered. Thanks to a fast processor and plenty of memory for multitasking with 4 GB of RAM, you can quickly and easily take care of everyday tasks, whether you’re checking your email or taking a break to stream the latest episode of your favorite TV show. A long lasting battery and quick TurboPower™ charging ensure your moto g7 is ready to go whenever you need it. Finally, as a phone designed for Fi, the moto g7 unlocks access to all Google Fi features, ...