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(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)Governments, heads of state, and leaders from around the world are on YouTube, including the Pope, the Royal Family, and Queen Rania and presidents from the United States to France, South Korea to Estonia⋯⋯

At Google, we're committed to giving you the information you want — regardless of the form in which it might appear.Text is often useful, but sometimes videos and pictures are a more effective way to receive information. ⋯⋯

This holiday season, whether you're shopping for a new sweater for Fido, a Lego set for young builders, or that fancy camera you've been eyeing all year, Google Product Searchcan help you find what you're looking for at a great price⋯⋯

Can you spot the difference between these two sample display ads? Of course you can⋯⋯

This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series⋯⋯

This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label "Google Apps highlights" and subscribe to the series⋯⋯

Introducing gourmet themes and gadgets for iGoogle. Prepare for the holidays with food and recipe tools for your homepage.

We're both huge foodies, and we always love spending time in the kitchen with friends and family, especially around the holidays. Particularly during this season, many of us turn to Google when searching for recipes⋯⋯

Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation⋯⋯

When I first started at Google, Craig Nevill-Manning, engineering director here in New York, said to me: "The Google homepage doesn't belong to us⋯⋯

(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)Every day, people with video cameras are changing the ways we get our news. We see it during elections. We see it during earthquakes, fires and other natural disasters. We see it on our freeways, in our schools and in our public spaces⋯⋯

As many of us recall from our civics lessons in school, the United States is a common law country. That means when judges issue opinions in legal cases, they often establish precedents that will guide the rulings of other judges in similar cases and jurisdictions⋯⋯

Google usually shows a green web address, or URL, at the bottom of each search result to let you know where you're headed. Today we're rolling out an improvement that replaces the URL in some search results with a hierarchy showing the precise location of the page on the website⋯⋯

I'm pleased to announce we just added a stocked gallery of site templates in Google Sites⋯⋯