March 6th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
We’ve updated the Site Exclusion tool to give you more control over where your ads appear on the Google content network. It’s now called the Site and Category Exclusion tool, and it allows you to exclude certain categories of webpages from your content…
March 6th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Guest post by Lalit Sarna, ActOnMe [As we get ready for apps to go live on orkut, we’re excited to invite orkut developers to guest blog and preview their apps here. -The orkut Team] Bring your friends’ photos to life! Attack them with fun animations,…
March 6th, 2008 | by dastels | published in Google Testing
Code coverage (also called test coverage) measures which lines of source code have been executed by tests. A common misunderstanding of code coverage data is the belief that:My source code has a high percentage of code coverage; therefore, my code is w…
March 6th, 2008 | by Dan Israel | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by Jim Payne, Product ManagerWe’re excited to announce a new product designed specifically for businesses who want to put Google Maps on their website: Google Maps API Premier. We’ve taken customer feedback and added several features to this p…
DoubleClick In-Stream at Mix
March 6th, 2008 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick, Uncategorized
Yesterday I was excited to announce DoubleClick’s support for the Silverlight 2.0 framework at the Microsoft Mix conference in Las Vegas. As I said at the conference, Microsoft and DoubleClick are competitors in many ways, but we share a commitment to …
March 6th, 2008 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
Yesterday I was excited to announce DoubleClick’s support for the Silverlight 2.0 framework at the Microsoft Mix conference in Las Vegas. As I said at the conference, Microsoft and DoubleClick are competitors in many ways, but we share a commitment to …
Conversion Tracking Issue on March 5
March 6th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
On Wednesday, March 5th from approximately 9am to 2pm PST, some web pages containing the AdWords Conversion Tracking code snippet presented visitors with a browser message indicating a Google server certificate had expired.This issue has since been fix…
March 6th, 2008 | by Mihai Parparita | published in Google Reader
photo by groundzero (CC-licensed)Not every Reader release is filled with exciting new features, but we’d like to think that every little improvement counts. While we’ve been working on some longer-term things, we’ve also had time to make some smaller c…
Google Calendar sync application for Microsoft Outlook available
March 6th, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Users can now synchronize their Google Calendar accounts with their Microsoft Outlook calendars. Synchronization works in both directions, or users can choose to only sync in one direction.Editions impacted:Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partn…
First date with the Googlebot: Headers and compression
March 5th, 2008 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Maile Ohye as the website, Jeremy Lilley as the Googlebot Name/User-Agent: GooglebotIP Address: Verify it hereLooking For: Websites with unique and compelling contentMajor Turn Off: Violations of the Webmaster GuidelinesGooglebot — what a d…
Introducing the Google Contacts Data API
March 5th, 2008 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By DeWitt Clinton, Google Developer ProgramsA common contact list has helped power applications like Gmail, Google Reader, and Google Calendar. And now, with the launch of the Google Contacts Data API, we’re opening up this contact list to your appli…
March 5th, 2008 | by Jeremy Milo | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by Matt Kulick, Associate Product ManagerGoogle Apps users appreciate that their web-based Google Calendars are available anywhere and anytime, and packed with powerful sharing options. But people aren’t always connected to the Internet, and th…
3. 2. 1. Contact. The API has landed
March 5th, 2008 | by api.rboyd | published in Google Code
Posted by Sebastian Kanthak, Google Contacts TeamHave you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password so that it can import your Gmail contact list? Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the web…
Best Practices: Repository Resets
March 5th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Ben Collins-Sussman, Open Source TeamOver in the google-code-hosting discussion group, we see a lot of users asking us to ‘reset’ their Subversion repositories back to an empty revision 0, tossing away all data and history. Sometimes there are good …
Diagnosing and treating revenue fluctuations (Part I)
March 5th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
You love your website and you want it to thrive. You create content, manage your community, and keep an eye on your AdSense performance. If AdSense revenue is down, you’re understandably concerned. If AdSense revenue is up, you’re happy, but you want t…