We’re planning to build experimental ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States to make the Internet better and faster. Check out this short video to learn more, or visit http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi

http://google.com/games10 | Street View is now on the ski slopes! You can now see the venues for the games and the world’s first snowmobile Street View imagery on Google Maps.

Suze visits the Google campus to talk about making the most of your money.

Ever wondered what data Google’s search engine collects and why we retain search logs for certain periods of time? Our first ever Brussels Tech Talk on 28 January 2010 was about this and other questions on online privacy, given that it was Data Protection Day.

Dr Alma Whitten, Google’s engineering lead for privacy, addressed a full room of policy makers and other interested stakeholders. Alma demonstrated how we harness the power of data to “learn from the good guys, fight the bad guys, and invent the future”.

While the technology is complicated, the explanation is simple: log data enable our engineers to refine algorithms for the benefit of all search users. If clicking on the top results occurs for any given query, it signals that we are doing something right. If people are hitting ‘next page’ or typing in another query, we learn something is wrong. Every time a user searches on the web, you benefit from what Google has learned from millions of previous searches. However, rather than a solved problem, the search science is still in its infancy. By launching hundreds of innovations in search just during the last year, we’re constantly trying to improve search so you’ll hopefully find among the first results the website that contains the answer you were looking for in midst of more than a trillion unique URLs.

We aim to always balance innovative product development with a serious respect for users’ privacy. For us, this process starts with providing transparency and allowing users control. Alma explained the ways we’re working to provide our users with more transparency and choice: things like the Ads Preferences Manager, Google Dashboard, and Data Liberation Front. And she referred to the challenges engineers face to achieve transparency and control with respect to different categories of data such as logged-in vs. unauthenticated data.

P.S. The video’s sound quality could be better – we’re arranging for superior recording equipment for the next Brussels TechTalk.

The first step in an ongoing effort to make Google Search as social as the web itself, Google social search is an new feature that surfaces public web content from your friends and online contacts. It is currently available on google.com for all signed-in users.

At Google, we pursue ideas and products that often push the limits of existing technology. As a company that acts responsibly, we work hard to make sure any innovation is balanced with the appropriate level of privacy and security for our users. Our Privacy Principles help guide decisions we make at every level of our company, so we can help protect and empower our users while we fulfill our ongoing mission to organize the world’s information.

This video shows Google Voice for HTML5-enabled mobile browsers, like iPhone 3.0+ and Palm Web OS. Learn more and see all the mobile apps at http://m.google.com/voice

Check out what’s new in the new version of orkut and try it out at http://orkut.com

http://www.google.com/howgoogleworks | Our search technology shows you only the most relevant ads related to what you’re looking for. Here’s why you see what you see on the page.