Author Archives: Ethan

As you’ve probably noticed, we’re just changing things up here on the Product Ideas team, and going for a new approach. Some of our series are closing down temporarily, and we’re going to focus on short-term PI series to collect your feedback for… Continue reading →

The Google Places team has been hard at work crafting some great video responses to your submissions to Product Ideas for Google Places. You can visit their YouTube channel for all videos, or take a look below. Product Ideas for Google Places is now cl… Continue reading →

The Local Business Center has been renamed to Google Places to better connect people who use Place pages with the tools that enable business owners to manage their presence on Google. With this launch, we want to collect your feedback and feature reque… Continue reading →

Our first round Product Ideas for Google Buzz was a great success. We received a lot of feedback, and the team has already made improvements on collapsing comments and better inbox controls. More improvements are in the works, and we’d like to know mor… Continue reading →

The Google Buzz team has been working hard to listen to your feedback from the Product Ideas for Google Buzz page and other sources on the web. One of the largest pieces of feedback we’ve received is that buzz in your inbox can get noisy. The Gmail and… Continue reading →

Recently we debuted an Ideas Page for YouTube where users from around the globe could contribute with ideas and feedback to make YouTube better. It was a success, receiving almost 3,000 ideas and more than 300,000 votes. We even launched a few features… Continue reading →

We recently launched Google Buzz, and it’s clear that many of our users are interested in sharing feedback for the product. We’re excited to hear your feedback and feature requests, so today we launched Product Ideas for Google Buzz. There, you can sha… Continue reading →

Now that Product Ideas for YouTube has closed, we wanted to update you. Mia from the YouTube team has posted an excellent recap on the YouTube blog, including answers to your ideas about HTML5 and a cleaner video page. For more information, take a look… Continue reading →