January 26th, 2007 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by David Petrou, Software EngineerOne of the first things I did upon moving to New York City was to buy some books about this great metropolis: guide books, historical accounts, collections of stories from famous reporters. My excitement grew wi…
January 25th, 2007 | by Matt Cutts | published in Google Webmaster Central
Co-written with Ryan Moulton and Kendra CarattiniWe wanted to give a quick update about “Googlebombs.” By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs. Now we will typically return …
January 25th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
As you may know, custom channels are a great way to track the performance of individual ad units on your pages. Starting this week, with just a few extra steps you can make your site more attractive to advertisers by allowing them to target these chann…
January 24th, 2007 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
The folks at Cordless/WMG recently launched three awesome Blogger-powered blogs for their bands Dangerous Muse, Throw the Fight and Die Mannequin. Aside from their fantastic designs, they’ve done a number of neat-o template integrations with other Goog…
January 24th, 2007 | by Michelle Levesque | published in Google Testing
So you’ve learned all about method stubs, mock objects, and fakes. You might be tempted to stub out slow or I/O-dependent built-ins. For example: def Foo(path): if os.path.exists(path): return DoSomething() else: return DoSomethingElse() d…
January 24th, 2007 | by Phil Harton | published in Google Webmaster Central
Some of you have asked about the warnings we show searchers when they click on search results leading to sites that distribute malicious software. As a webmaster, you may be concerned about the possibility of your site being flagged. We want to assure …
January 24th, 2007 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
Thank you for all for your feedback and patience. We updated our v8 CampaignService WSDL to fix a client interoperability issue with nillable fields in the new budget optimizer settings. This is similar to a previous fix we made to help certain toolk…
January 23rd, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We often receive questions about the policies related to AdSense referrals. In this post we answer some of your most common concerns. Live (OK — pre-recorded) from the Googleplex, here’s Laura Chen: Laura addresses these burning questions:1. Why am I …
January 23rd, 2007 | by Google Base Blog | published in Google Merchant
By Cynthia Kwon, Strategic Partner DevelopmentPsst! If you haven’t already noticed, the Google Base team has updated its product feed specs. These new specs give more detail as to which attributes you should be sending to us by type of product category…
January 23rd, 2007 | by Christian | published in Google Analytics
Last post, we told you about a way to use Google Analytics to see your Google Checkout transaction data. Today, we’ll show you the alternate method of posting Checkout API requests,Method 2 for posting Checkout API requests into Google AnalyticsIn this…
January 23rd, 2007 | by Scott | published in Google Mac Blog
Posted by Greg Miller, Software Engineer, Mac Team A little over a week ago, we announced the open-source release of MacFUSE. Since FUSE makes it so easy to slap a file system view on data, I thought it might be neat to give Spotlight a file system in…
January 23rd, 2007 | by Allen Hutchison | published in Google Testing
Posted by Allen Hutchison, Engineering ManagerI work in the Test Engineering team, and have always been passionate about sharing my test experiences with others. Last year we organized the first Google Test Automation Conference, where about 150 people…
January 22nd, 2007 | by Google Base Blog | published in Google Merchant
By Daniel Zweifach, Google coupons teamMany of you have physical storefronts for your businesses in addition to your websites. If you do, you know that coupons can be a good way to get new customers through your doors. And now, you can display printabl…
January 22nd, 2007 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We will perform our regular refresh of the API Sandbox database on Friday, January 26 at approximately 3pm US Pacific Time. Therefore, the Sandbox will be unavailable for a few hours.As a result of this database refresh, all Sandbox user and account da…
January 22nd, 2007 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: Matt Wytock, Software EngineerWe’ve added a new statistics page so you can see what people are searching for on your Custom Search Engine — information such as overall traffic to your search engine and popular queries is now available. And…