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- The new natural search spam | Consumers may love faceted navigation, but Google hates it multichannelmerchant.com · Archived on
While useful for consumers, faceted navigation as normally implemented actually confuses the search engines by generating massive numbers of URL permutations that contain mostly duplicated content. This is bot spam.
"We are moving all FeedBurner accounts to Google Accounts." Necessary but a bit annoying.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
We now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL.
- Recreating the button | stopdesign stopdesign.com
The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior. They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS
- Geeking with Greg: Marissa Mayer at Web 2.0 glinden.blogspot.com
Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.
- AJAX APIs Playground code.google.com
- YouTube - Wikitude AR Travel Guide uk.youtube.com
Search landmarks in your surroundings and view them on a map, list, and on an Augmented Reality (AR) camera view: What you see is an annotated landscape, mountain names, landmark descriptions, and interesting stories.
- Google Analytics Blog: Want to track Adobe Flash? Now you can! analytics.blogspot.com
This feature is a translation of the current Google Analytics tracking code into the ActionScript 3 programming language that dramatically simplifies the ability to track Flash, Flex and AS3 content.
- WordPress › XML Google Maps « WordPress Plugins wordpress.org
Allows you to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into your blog. You just have to add a link to your self defined Map from My Google Maps, Picasa Webalbum Picture Map, any geoRSS Feed (like Flickr), your uploaded Google Earth file (kmz, kml) or any other dynamic or static Google Earth file (umapper.com, flickr.com, etc.)
- Google's Android Gets Game - Forbes.com forbes.com
"The [service] attracting the most buzz is "WiFi Army," a first-person shooter game currently in beta. Like a mash-up of laser tag and the parlor game Assassin, participants meet on the street (using Google Maps) and "shoot" each other with their phone cameras."
"Google has thrown its weight behind ambitious plans to bring internet access to 3bn people in Africa and other emerging markets by launching at least 16 satellites to bring its services to the unconnected half of the globe." Smart.
- Android Developer Challenge Gallery - Android code.google.com
- Google Mobile Ads services.google.com
- PC Pro: News: Google: mobile browsers are dead pcpro.co.uk
"Google claims that every phone manufacturer will offer full web browsers within a year, hailing the end of mobile-specific browsers." Aside from browsers on the billions of handsets that've been sold worldwide to date.
- Google Mobile Optimizer google.co.uk
- Fresh Android SDK released (sdk v0.9_r1) :: anddev.org - Android Development Community | Android Tutorials anddev.org · Archived on
Screenshots from the Android SDK.
- Android Developers Blog: Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK android-developers.blogspot.com
The beta SDK that we're releasing today is the first big step on the SDK's road to compatibility with 1.0. Since this is a beta release, applications developed with it may not quite be compatible with devices running the final Android 1.0. However, the APIs are now pretty stable and we don't expect any major changes.
- Google Maps API for Flash - Google Code code.google.com
This API lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. Similar to the JavaScript version, this ActionScript API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding content to maps through a variety of services.
- AJAX Libraries API - Google Code code.google.com
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries.
The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Webmaster tips for creating accessible, crawlable sites googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
- Official Google Maps API Blog: Google Maps Without the Scripting googlemapsapi.blogspot.com
"The Google Static Maps API provides a simpler way to add maps to your website. Rather than use JavaScript, the Google Static Maps API creates map images on the fly via simple requests to the Static Maps service with HTTP requests. No JavaScript, no overh
- TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » The UK is now crucial to Google’s revenues uk.techcrunch.com · Archived on
"Now that Google is probably pulling down more ad revenue than ITV, the biggest TV network in Britain, it looks like it is the the UK’s single largest advertising channel, posits Seamus McCauley." Clarification: ITV1 the channel, not ITV the network
- AppleInsider | Google iPhone usage shocks search giant appleinsider.com
Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset -- a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.
- Why Social Ads Don’t Work - Bokardo bokardo.com
"Social ads don’t work as well because people are being social, not searching for something." Context matters.
- Google Docs Bar - Companion for Firefox gdocsbar.com
With gDocsBar, you can drag and drop multiple files into the sidebar to upload documents. You can search, filter documents right from the sidebar.
Research-behaviour traits that are commonly associated with younger users – impatience in search and navigation, and zero tolerance for any delay in satisfying their information needs – are now becoming the norm for all age-groups.
- Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Generating charts from accessible data tables and vice versa using the Google Charts API wait-till-i.com · Archived on
A small script that converts data tables to charts using the API and a wee bit of JavaScript. Using this script you can take a simple, valid and accessible data table [...] and it gets automatically converted to a pie chart.
- Google Corporate Information: Our Philosophy google.com
"Ten things Google has found to be true". Classic vision.
- Subdomains and subdirectories mattcutts.com
Google could return a search page with lots of results all from one domain. In the last few weeks we changed our algorithms to make that less likely to happen.
- Wheel 2.0: Jason Huck’s Devblog » Google Analytics Integration with jQuery devblog.jasonhuck.com
A jQuery plugin to make embedding Google Analytics simpler for typical web sites.
- Google Mobile Maps PinPoints Your Location Without GPS techcrunch.com
"Today, [Google] updated its mobile maps to pinpoint your locations by triangulating between cell towers". Hurrah! Results suck for me, though.
- Figuring out OpenSocial simonwillison.net
So it’s out, and lots of people are talking about it, but I’m still trying to work out exactly what it is.
- advertising practitioner: angry blogging, finger wagging, happy happy joy joy russelldavies.typepad.com
Eventually, once every efficiency has been wrung from the web, they'll start to need those skills of imagination, craft and intuition that our funny little industry has so painstakingly acquired.
- Google Maps - Personalize Google Maps maps.google.com
"Easily create and share personalized, annotated maps of your world". Nice video tutorial
- blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web blog.pmarca.com
"Ning, is participating in this week's launch of a new open web API called Open Social, which is being spearheaded by Google and joined by a wide range of partners including Google's own Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster, Salesforce.com, Oracle, iLike, Fli
- StumbleUpon Will Love Us Even When Google Doesn’t nowsourcing.com
Some interesting stuff on StumbleUpon.
- Google Maps maps.google.com
Basic Google maps via little-known querystring.
- IP Addresses of Search Engine Spiders iplists.com
"Are you interested in tracking the IP addresses of search engine spiders? You can see my latest lists of search engine IP addresses and User-Agents here." Handy.
"...searches on the sites, indicated in your del.icio.us bookmarks. With its help you can find the necessary page according to any phrase or word, which it contains. And [...] deliGoo can create on your demand custom search engines on any del.icio.us tag.
- Google LatLong: YouTube-style Embeddable Maps google-latlong.blogspot.com
A new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML.
- Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility googleblog.blogspot.com