While thousands of lucky fans will brave the crowds at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind. to fill the coveted seats at this Sunday's Super Bowl, many more in the U.S. will enjoy the game from home"in front of the TV, with mobile phones and tablets at the ready. As the New York Giants and New England Patriots prepare for kickoff, here are several ways to make the most of the big game with Google"wherever you're watching.

You might notice many of your favorite websites look different today. Wikipedia is down. WordPress is dark. We're censoring our homepage logo and asking you to petition Congress . So what's the big deal? Right now in Washington D.C., Congress is considering two bills that would censor the web and impose burdensome regulations on American businesses. They're known as the PROTECT IP Act )PIPA( in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act )SOPA( in the House.

In just over a month we will make some changes to our privacy policies and Google Terms of Service. This stuff matters, so we wanted to explain what's changing, why and what these changes mean for users. First, our privacy policies. Despite trimming our policies in 2010, we still have more than 70 )yes, you read right ' 70( privacy documents covering all of our different products. This approach is somewhat complicated.

As part of our ongoing commitment to entrepreneurship around the world, we recently took part in a worthy experiment crisscrossing India. Jagriti Yatra is an annual train journey that takes more than 400 of India's highly motivated youth )ages 20-26( on an 15-day trip to introduce them to India's challenges, and to the individuals and institutions that are developing unique solutions to those challenges.

It's that time of year again! The stockings are hung by the chimney with care and Google and NORAD are ready to answer the question of "where?" NORAD's tradition of tracking Santa on Christmas Eve started in 1955 , when a Sears and Roebuck ad promoting the Talk-to-Santa hotline inadvertently sent callers to CONAD )NORAD's predecessor( commander-in-chief's operations hotline.

Professor registration for the 2012 Google Online Marketing Challenge )GOMC( is now open. GOMC is a global online marketing competition open to professors and their students in any higher education institution. Professors sign up for the contest and then serve as guides and mentors to their student participants throughout the competition. Over the course of three weeks,

One hundred years into the future, when our great-grandkids look back to what was capturing the world's imagination on YouTube in 2011, what will they make of us? Will they still be delighted by babbling babies ? Will they still be "so excited" about the weekend ? And will they be any closer to understanding the mystery of the space-traveling toaster pastry cat ? Check out YouTube.

Last year, Santa got his very own Google Voice number , and people around the U.S. received a special personalized holiday phone call from Santa Claus. This year, Santa wants you to reach out to him )after all, reindeer are only so-so conversationalists(. If you or your family members have a special request for Santa, you can call him right from Gmail * and leave him a message at his Google Voice number: 855-34-SANTA.

Google has long worked hard to raise the issue of Internet freedom in Europe. So when the Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal took the initiative to host a meeting bringing together foreign ministers from more than 16 countries in the Netherlands, we wondered what could we do to support it. Our answer was to hook up with the Dutch NGO Free Press Unlimited and host one of our Big Tent events , which aim to bring together corporations, civil society and politicians.

From your favorite sports highlights and dance competitions to make-up tutorials , science experiments and great movies , there's a ton of great stuff on YouTube"over 3 billion views worth per day by last count. More and more, behind every great video is a great Channel, and with our announcement last month that more of them are coming to YouTube, we want to make it easier for you to find and keep tabs of what you want to watch. So, today we're introducing a new homepage,

The Google data center in Caldwell County, NC lies close to the birthplace of NASCAR and any visitor can tell"even our data center is decked out in NASCAR paraphernalia and pretty much everyone is a NASCAR fan. When we learned that many competitive drivers got their first start behind the wheel in soapbox cars ,

This summer we posted a video that takes a peek under the hood of search , sharing the methodology behind search ranking and evaluation. Through this methodology, we make roughly 500 improvements to search in a typical year. As we often discuss, that's a lot of change , and it can be hard to make sense of it all. Following up on our last video, we wanted to share with you a short history of the evolution of search,

The Chrome team elves have been busy packing a few goodies into Chromebooks in time for the upcoming holiday season. A simple, streamlined user interface From the moment you hit the power button and watch your Chromebook boot up in eight seconds flat, you'll notice that the operating system got a bit of a facelift. For example, the Chromebook now sports a fresh, clean login experience. We've also revamped the New Tab page to make it easier to manage your apps,

Last May at Google I/O, we launched Music Beta by Google with a clear ambition: to help people access their music collections easily from any device. Music Beta enabled you to upload your personal music collection )up to 20,000 songs( for free to the cloud so you could stream it anywhere, any time. Today, the beta service evolves into a broader platform: Google Music. Google Music is about discovering, purchasing, sharing and enjoying digital music in new,

We make roughly 500 changes to our search algorithm in a typical year. Our goal is to make search run so smoothly, you don't even notice the changes. That said, we like giving you insights into what we're doing behind the search results you see each day. Today on Inside Search, we've posted a recap of some of the algorithmic changes we've made over just the past couple weeks. These changes improve everything from translation, to snippets to autocomplete.

There's a universe of amazing daily deals out there, but it's hard to find them all in one place"and even harder to discover the ones that really matter to you. We're making improvements to Google Offers that help address this challenge. First, we're delivering more amazing deals from a bunch of new categories including outdoor adventure sports, luxury experiences, family-friendly events, classes and more.

Nearly 2.5 million Muslims will officially begin the annual Islamic ritual of the Hajj on November 5, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia . The Hajj represents one of the five pillars of Islam; it requires all Muslims around the world who are able-bodied and can afford it to perform the pilgrimage once in their lifetime. The Hajj is an ancient ritual, but now, through the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information's YouTube channel ,

)Cross-posted on the Google Code blog ( As digital designers, we often think about how to translate traditional media into a virtual space. Recently, we thought about the bookcase. What would it look like if it was designed to hold digital books? A digital interface needs to be familiar enough to be intuitive, while simultaneously taking advantage of the lack of constraints in a virtual space. In this case, we imagined something that looks like the shelves in your living room,

We're hearing from people at check-out counters throughout the country that paying with your phone is a little like magic. Just look at the ecstatic reaction on the faces of our friends who made their first Google Wallet purchases last Thursday. Today, our partners American Eagle Outfitters, The Container Store, Foot Locker, Guess, Jamba Juice, Macy's, OfficeMax and Toys"R"Us are rolling out an even better Google Wallet experience. For the first time ever in the U.S.,

We think Google+ should get better every time you use it. It's not enough to obsess over community feedback )which we do(; we also need to surprise and delight you with constant improvements )which we also try and do(. Today's no different, so we're rolling out four new features in four different areas. What's Hot on Google+: see what everyone's talking about Google+ users share and receive billions of items every day"on a wide range of topics,