Happy 27th birthday to Google! 🎂 🎉 To celebrate, today we've gone retro and taken our homepage back to 1998 with the original Google logo:

🚀 Announcing the Google AI Futures Fund! 🚀 We're investing in and collaborating with startups building the future of AI. Get early access to GoogleDeepMind's latest models like Gemini, Veo & Imagen, expert collaboration, Google Cloud credits & potential equity.

Sign up for Google Marketing Live #GML2025, streaming live from Dublin on May 22! Join us virtually to explore how Google AI & the latest ads innovations for Google & YouTube can help businesses to grow faster. Expect insights, demos, & live Q&A with our experts. Register: goo.gle/GML-EMEA-register

Our #AIEssentialsBootcamp is designed to help you understand, explore and integrate AI into your work, exploring topics such as: 💻 Maximising productivity with AI tools ⚙️ Discovering the art of prompt engineering 👥 Using AI responsibly Apply now: mediatrust.org/youth-progra...

Brilliant programme with @mediatrust.bsky.social supported by Google.org to support AI skills - apply here:

✨ AI could boost the UK economy by a massive £400Bn by 2030 - but half of that growth depends on helping UK workers to make good use of AI, according to Google UK's AI Works research.

AI Mode in Google Search uses a custom version of Gemini to issue related searches. This "query fan-out" technique finds real-time info from the web, our Knowledge Graph & more. This provides a greater breadth & depth of info than a traditional Google search. Learn more: blog.google/products/sea...

In March the Sidemen sold out @wembleystadium.bsky.social to 90,000 people with their amazing charity football match 👏 Find out what they've learnt about marketing in the digital age. 👇

Happy 20th birthday today to YouTube! 📈 46 million UK adults now watch YouTube every month. 1️⃣ If UK viewers could only watch one service for an entire year, the number one platform they chose was YouTube. 🇬🇧 YouTube's creator ecosystem contributes £2bn to UK GDP. What are you watching on YouTube?

✨ This is cool. Gemini Live with camera and screensharing is now live. Find out more: blog.google/products/gem...

The beautiful cover of my new novel THE ART OF A LIE 💚🍍🍦 Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers.bsky.social: 'A breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl . . . This book has it all. Masterful' PREORDER here: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/laur... More info below & more exciting news to follow soon...

My brilliant bridge partner has written another superb book - find out more:

Google Santa Tracker 2024 is live! 🎄🎅🛷 Check out Santa’s magical progress around the world as he brings gifts and spreads joy. santatracker.google.com

Sunday fun - design a chess piece using GenAI. ♟️ Just say what you’d like in your design and Google’s most advanced GenAI image generation model, Imagen 3, will create it. ✨ Check out GenChess: labs.google/genchess

Find the most popular links being shared by the accounts you follow on Bluesky:

this new site is flippin awesome, sort of a spiritual successor to Nuzzle you can connect your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and then it compiles popular links and shows you who is sharing them https://sill.social

A great starter pack of marketing, commerce and measurement accounts:

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Bluesky searches still growing fast, Google Trends data shows: trends.google.com/trends/explo...

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

They should have called this site AFC Twitter

Made another highly specific apology card.

Bluesky now the number one free app on the Google Play store chart:

Significant growth in Google searches for Bluesky in recent days, according to Google Trends: trends.google.com/trends/explo...

Latest: We’ve just launched the Gemini app on iPhone, for any iOS users here on Bluesky. All powered by Google AI: - Gemini Live for free-flowing conversational AI - Generate images with Imagen - Get the most out of Google’s personal AI assistant Here’s the deets: blog.google/products/gem...

Significant growth in searches for Bluesky in the UK in recent days, according to Google Trends: trends.google.com/trends/explo...

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