When we were developing Google Sidewiki, we knew that we wanted to make a Product Ideas page available as soon as the feature launched.

That's why we now launched several Sidewiki topics on Product Ideas to solicit your thoughts around how to improve Sidewiki.

Be assured that we always take your feedback to heart, and we will use your feedback to help drive innovation and make Sidewiki the best service it can possibly be. While we won't necessarily answer or implement every idea, we'll check in to let you know what we've decided.

Don't wait too long; we will be closing this series to new questions and votes on October 12, 2009. Visit Product Ideas for Google Sidewiki.

We're excited to announce Product Ideas has just launched for Google Apps administrators! If you manage Google Apps for your company or organization and have an idea to share, then we want to hear from you. Read more about it on the Google Enterprise Blog.

The Product Ideas team has been very busy lately, and you've probably noticed some changes on the Product Ideas page in the past week that we're very excited to tell you about. Since we launched Product Ideas, we've received a lot of feedback about Google mobile products, Blogger, and Webmaster Tools, and we've identified a lot of ways to better gather your ideas. Now, with our new series for iGoogle, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Sketchup, Google Ad Planner, and Google Custom Search, we're excited to officially unveil version 2 of Product Ideas.

In this new version, we've added several features to keep the ideas list fresh, and to help you better categorize, sort, and filter to find the most relevant ideas for you to vote on. At the top of every idea list, you'll see four ways to sort:

* Top Voted - sort ideas in a topic by the total number of positive votes

* What's Hot - sort by the most popular ideas right now

* What's New - see the most recently submitted ideas

* Ideas in Action - will show you the ideas that we've reviewed and responded to, so you can see how your feedback has helped us make Google products better

In addition, you can now submit an idea into multiple topics. For instance, if you have a great Google Spreadsheets feature request that's relevant to educational use, you can now choose both "Feature Request" and "Education" in the "Pick a Topic" selection box.

The best part is, we're only getting started. Now it's time for you to share your thoughts and tell us what ideas matter most.

Have an idea you'd like to share with the Google Docs team? Maybe it's an idea about Google spreadsheets, or something that bugs your about presentations. Share them now using Product Ideas for Google Docs.

We encourage you to share your feedback about Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Just like before, we'll be listening to your ideas with an open ear, and we'll be keeping you all in the loop about your ideas. Be on the lookout for updates in our "Ideas in Action" section.

We can't wait to hear all your fabulous ideas. Happy idea sharing and voting!

-The Product Ideas Team