October 31st, 2005 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
In an effort to provide more consistent and accurate keyword data to our developers and advertisers, we will be changing some of the fields within the KeywordEstimate object on Thursday, November 3rd. We will add the following field to the KeywordEstim…
October 31st, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
I remember the first time I read Tony Pierce’s blog because I’d only been working on Blogger for a short time, and the fact that I hadn’t heard of him was pretty bad from a first impressions standpoint.But my fellow Pyrate (Sutter) tipped me off, and t…
October 31st, 2005 | by Eva | published in Google Video
Google Video is growing so fast that we think a blog is the best way to showcase some of the great videos that catch our attention. Each week we’ll highlight a handful of videos that share a common theme. (Of course, we add videos daily to the [site]–…
October 28th, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
As a good number of folks have noted, the cover story of next month’s Forbes magazine features an article titled “Attack of the Blogs.”Seeing as how the article is already being picked apart by the web at large for saying things like “Web logs are the …
October 27th, 2005 | by Jason | published in Google Reader
Earlier this week we pushed out a new release of Reader. Most of the changes are under the hood and should make for a faster, smoother experience. However, there were a few user interface tweaks too. My favorite is support for the space keyboard shortc…
October 27th, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
We’ve pushed some additional changes this week to make it more difficult for spam to be created using our API and other tools (this includes Hello/Picasa, Flickr, w.bloggar, ecto and many others).The downside to the API changes is that those users whos…
October 24th, 2005 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
As you may have heard, we’re updating our AdWords login system to Google Accounts. Starting in early November, you and your clients will be invited to update your account(s). By updating your account, you will be able to establish multiple logins for…
October 21st, 2005 | by Mihai Parparita | published in Google Reader
I’ve written my share of Greasemonkey scripts. I’m therefore very glad that in turn other people are writing their own scripts for Google Reader. We make no guarantees that we won’t (inadvertedly) break them, but we’ll certainly be looking at them for…
October 21st, 2005 | by Chris Wetherell | published in Google Reader
First post! Everyone from the Google Reader team would like to say hello. (Say hello, everyone.)
(Everyone looks up while still typing.) “Hello, internet.”
I’m lucky I got their attention – the last two weeks have been a whirlwind. Most products at…
October 20th, 2005 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Sounds like cooking blog Chocolate & Zucchini just scored a book deal:”Life changes? Yes, indeed: today seems like the perfect day to announce that I have just signed a book deal with a NYC publisher, that I have quit my dayjob and that I now live …
October 20th, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Today we are posting a revised version of the word verification system we released yesterday. With this version we have resolved a number of the problems from the initial launch – the most important of which was the inability of some users to solve th…
System Maintenance – October 21
October 19th, 2005 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 9pm to 11pm PDT on Friday, October 21, 2005. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you will not be able to perform any API operations during this maintenance perio…
October 18th, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
One of the ideas I mentioned yesterday was making it more difficult for would-be spammers to post. Earlier today we pushed out a change that will prompt some users to solve a CAPTCHA if our spam classifier identifies the blog as spammy.We plan to quic…
October 17th, 2005 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
Later this week we will be adding a new error code to the API: error code 86, Account_Blocked. This error code indicates that the account you are trying to access has been blocked due to suspicious activity. We are in the process of adding this new i…
October 17th, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Spam is a tricky problem. Or as Matt Haughey says “spam bloggers sure are resourceful little bastards.”For a while now, the Blogger team has been contending with spam on Blog*Spot through mechanisms like Flag as Objectionable and comment/blog creation…