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Test drive new McLaren Formula 1 themes in your Chrome browser

We’re more than halfway through a thrilling Formula 1 season, and McLaren is locked in a tight battle in the 2022 World Constructors Championship . Earlier this year, we partnered with the McLaren F1 Team to distribute Chrome browser and almost 500 Android devices – including phones, tablets and earbuds – across their entire racing organization to help streamline communications on race day. When McLaren debuted Chrome-inspired wheel covers , fans around the world told us they wanted more. Starting at this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, you’ll find more Chrome branding featured on their engine covers as part of our ongoing partnership. You can now personalize your Chrome browser with exclusive themes inspired by the McLaren F1 Team. The eight new themes feature McLaren’s papaya car, and race day images from some of your favorite circuits. Image of a Chrome browser window with the McLaren F1 car, showcasing the Chrome logo on its engine cover. Image of a Chrome brow...

Bite-size skills training for Brits short on time

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Digital skills are a key part of many jobs and are crucial for helping small businesses grow. But with the hustle of daily life, many of us struggle to find the time to learn valuable new skills that could help with landing a new job, earning more money or growing a business. That’s why we’ve asked for advice from four people who’ve done this before: presenter and former footballer Ian Wright , entrepreneur and Dragon’s Den investor Steven Bartlett , finance professional turned YouTuber Patricia Bright , and founder of notonthehighstreet.co.uk Holly Tucker . Based on their experiences with switching careers or starting a business by learning a new skill, they’ve helped us create Skills to Go , a free, bitesize digital skills training programme. You can complete the short training sessions, which range from five to 20 minutes, as and when you have time — while commuting, over a coffee break or in between appointments. Our Skills to Go site suggests relevant topics — inclu...

How a second chance led Paula to Google

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Welcome to the latest edition of “My Path to Google,” where we talk to Googlers, interns, apprentices and alumni about how they got to Google, what their roles are like and even some tips on how to prepare for interviews. Today’s post is all about Paula Martinez, a Google Cloud Marketing Manager based in Argentina. How would you describe your role? As a Partner Marketing Manager, my main responsibility is to design marketing campaigns for Google Cloud products and solutions with our regional technological and reseller partners. What does your typical workday look like? I try to start my day without any meetings so I can get organized, create my to-do list and tackle the most pressing tasks. I work a lot with our sales teams and partners to plan and execute marketing initiatives that fit market strategies. Part of my day is focused on measuring and analyzing those campaigns and, with the help of my team, creating action plans based on the results. I'm the only one on my team...

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Celebrating the success of 47 European news innovators

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We're announcing today the 47 recipients from 21 countries of the first Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge for Europe . Innovation Challenges, which we’ve previously run in other regions of the world, provide funding to help news organizations develop new paths to business sustainability. This Innovation Challenge was open to publishers with smaller newsrooms that produce original journalism, and whose projects focus on creating a more sustainable and diverse news ecosystem. The recipients will be working on issues ranging from fact-checking to artificial intelligence. Success: The team at Hromadske Radio will promote online audio consumption among Ukrainian audiences. With 605 applicants from 38 countries, we were impressed by the diversity and the quality of the proposed projects. There were creative solutions to common business challenges, including news organizations engaging with more diverse audiences, and providing greater transparency into how po...

Search outside the box: How we're making Search more natural and intuitive

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For over two decades, we've dedicated ourselves to our mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We started with text search, but over time, we've continued to create more natural and intuitive ways to find information — you can now search what you see with your camera, or ask a question aloud with your voice. At Search On today, we showed how advancements in artificial intelligence are enabling us to transform our information products yet again. We're going far beyond the search box to create search experiences that work more like our minds, and that are as multidimensional as we are as people. We envision a world in which you’ll be able to find exactly what you’re looking for by combining images, sounds, text and speech, just like people do naturally. You’ll be able to ask questions, with fewer words — or even none at all — and we’ll still understand exactly what you mean. And you’ll be able to explore information orga...

Search On 2022: Search and explore information in new ways

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At Search On today, we shared how we’re getting closer to making search experiences that reflect how we as people make sense of the world, thanks to advancements in machine learning. With a deeper understanding of information in its many forms — from language, to images, to things in the real world — we’re able to unlock entirely new ways to help people gather and explore information. We're advancing visual search to be far more natural than ever before, and we're helping people navigate information more intuitively. Here's a closer look. Helping you search outside the box With Lens, you can search the world around you with your camera or an image. (People now use it to answer more than 8 billion questions every month!) Earlier this year, we made visual search even more natural with the introduction of multisearch , a major milestone in how you can search for information. With multisearch, you can take a picture or use a screenshot and then add text to it — similar...

An #IamRemarkable facilitator on the power of self-promotion

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Editor's note: This article discusses a person who had suicidal thoughts. If you or someone you know needs help, use Find a Helpline to access local emotional support resources. What do you gain from being a facilitator? Helping people gives me a lot of positive energy. For example, I’ve run workshops with refugees whose lives began changing for the better, and women who’ve lived through wars. You can’t beat the feeling of helping people. I love it, and don’t even mind running a workshop with people in New Zealand at 3 a.m., which I did during their lockdown. What kinds of issues do you deal with as a facilitator? Sometimes in a workshop, when people have to read what they’ve written, they start crying, shaking, can’t read or can’t turn on the camera. You have to be sensitive and reassure them. I’ve had times where everybody was crying — for example, when we heard the story of a trans woman from Iran. But emotion connects people, too. Hearing others' li...

Recovery, community and healing on the job at Google

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Just shy of a year ago, I can still vividly remember scanning The Keyword and coming across the headline, “How my recovery community helps keep me sober.” Fresh out of grad school, I had been working at Google for just three months and I had been in recovery for almost three years. It was the first time in my life I wasn’t using drugs and alcohol to cope with the stresses and insecurities of work. Before I found recovery, I thought I owed my academic and professional successes to substance abuse. I drank and used drugs “to relax,” make friends and numb the chronic depression that immobilized me otherwise. Frankly, I didn’t know if I was cut out for Google on my own. Read Article How my recovery community helps keep me sober Google software engineer Nick shares his struggles with alcohol and drugs and how his recovery community helps him maintain sobriety. Read Article Finding hope through community When I opened that link and read about Google’s Recover T...

Supporting the EU and securing the digital space

Citizens, companies and governments across the European Union agree that everyone should be free to live their lives and use technology without fear that their information will be stolen or held ransom by cybercriminals or other malicious actors. But with each passing week, cyber threats are growing more costly and more aggressive, undermining the trust essential to a vibrant, inclusive digital society. This is a moment that calls for international leadership, which is why it’s notable that the European Commission has featured security at the center of its vision for digital transformation. Today, Google is publishing a set of recommendations and white paper supporting the Commission’s efforts, and we commit to extending our full capabilities to help secure Europe’s “digital decade”. The need We applaud the European Commission’s effort to meet this moment, and believe that companies should step up to do their part as well. The stakes have never been clearer. Even before Russia...

Helping publishers grow their digital business

Before joining Google, Alejandra Brambila worked at Reuters helping publishers across Latin America integrate the news agency’s reporting into their publications. Working with newsrooms across the region, she saw first-hand the challenges they faced in building a sustainable news business. Now she applies that insight as a member of Google’s Latin America news partnerships team, working closely with publishers to help them grow and scale their digital operations. We talked to her about the importance of balance and why everything starts with the audience. What did you do before you came to Google? I worked with a large news agency that has a subscription service publishers use to supplement their coverage. They have reporters all over the world, so it’s really helpful for publishers who might not have global correspondents. In my time there I worked closely with all kinds of publishers, from very traditional outlets to newer digital natives and startups. What’s your role now? I w...

Work Diary: a Google Assistant marketer in San Francisco

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In our new Work Diary series, we show you what a day on the job is really like for Googlers with all sorts of roles and interests around the world. In this installment you'll hear from Seonah, who works on privacy and trust marketing for Google Assistant. Follow along with her day below, and be sure to watch her video diary , too. Name: Seonah Iverson Location: San Francisco Time at Google: 1 year Job title: Google Assistant Privacy & Trust Product Marketing Lead What that role actually does: I help make Google Assistant more trusted and safe for the people who use our products. What’s your favorite part of a typical work day? When I get the chance to hear from real users during research calls - it always inspires me to keep pushing our product to be the best that it can be. 7:15 a.m. → “Hey Google, good morning” Yes, you guessed it, Google Assistant wakes me up with some alternative R&B playing from my Nest Hub Max Smart Display. I think the first words ou...

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News Showcase is launching in Spain

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I have very fond memories of me as a young girl sitting at the kitchen table with my father, reading the morning newspaper and filling out the crossword puzzle together. The tradition continues to this day; when I visit him at home, we have breakfast together and lively conversations about the day’s news. I’ve always valued quality journalism and firmly believe that it is key to a functioning democracy. People look to the news to make sense of their world and become more informed citizens. This can mean everything from breaking news to analysis of how trends and decisions may impact local communities. At Google, we’re dedicated to supporting the reporters and publishers who work tirelessly to deliver essential news. This support includes programs like the Google News Initiative (GNI), our effort to help news organizations and journalists thrive in a digital age, and also our news products like Subscribe with Google or Ad Manager. As a result, each month, Google sends more than 24 ...

Continuing to support Ukrainians in challenging times

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In February 2022, Vira taught Ukrainian language and literature at a local school and lived with her family in Kyiv. When the war started, Vira and her family had to leave their home in search of safety - first elsewhere in Ukraine, and then in Spain. Vira’s story is not unique - more than 7 million displaced people have left Ukraine since February 2022, according to the UNHCR. Throughout the war, we’ve been committed to doing all we can to help. Through Google.org and our employees, we have committed over $40 million in cash donations, plus $5 million of in-kind support for humanitarian relief efforts, and three Google.org Fellowships. Across all our platforms, our teams have been working around the clock to support those affected, provide trustworthy information and promote cybersecurity. Helping global refugees access critical information faster For a person who has fled their home, access to information can be as important as water, food, medicine or shelter. It can save lives...