Developer survey results
July 17th, 2007 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Omar Khan, Software Engineer (Google Desktop Team)Recently, we ran a survey soliciting feedback from every developer who has ever submitted a gadget for Google Desktop. I’d like to highlight five areas where your feedback particularly resonat…
More sleep for the AdSense Crawler
July 17th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Let’s imagine that you’re the AdSense Crawler. You’re bouncing along all over the Internet, visiting publishers’ sites, and letting the AdSense system back at Google know what the pages are all about. Then one day, you run into a site that asks you for…
Now CSE for businesses
July 17th, 2007 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: Patrick Riley, Software Engineer Ever since we launched Custom Search Engine (CSE), businesses of all sizes have been talking to us about specific features, more flexibility on presentation, and tighter integration with their websit…
July 17th, 2007 | by Matthew Glotzbach | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by Nitin Mangtani, Product Manager for Enterprise SearchIn our nearly six years in enterprise search, we’ve always looked to develop offerings that would help businesses of all sizes find and share the right information with their employees, c…
July 16th, 2007 | by Panayiotis Mavrommatis | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Srinath Anantharaju, Security TeamCross-site scripting (aka XSS) is the term used to describe a class of security vulnerabilities in web applications. An attacker can inject malicious scripts to perform unauthorized actions in the context of …
We’re back…at least until tomorrow.
July 16th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamThe Google Mashup Editor and all applications built with the Editor should now be back to full functionality. The maintenance that was scheduled for today got pushed back and rescheduled for tomorrow af…
July 16th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Kevin Systrom, Gmail TeamJames Surowiecki opens his book The Wisdom of Crowds with the example of Francis Galton, a famous statistician, who asked individuals to guess the weight of an ox. After collecting all the guesses, he came to a startl…
Tip: Print Your Favorite Reports By First Viewing in PDF
July 16th, 2007 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Analytics
Many of our users like to print their Google Analytics reporting interface to include in presentations, handouts or company reports. We added the ability to export to PDF in the new interface so printed reports would look perfect. These PDF reports a…
Google Developer Podcast Episode Five: Adam Sah on Google Gadgets
July 16th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsUsing iTunes? The Google Gadget Ventures announcement was very exciting for us and the community. We couldn’t wait to get Adam Sah of the Google Gadgets team to discuss Gadgets, and the new announcement.Intervie…
Finding first reads with Google
July 16th, 2007 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Stephanie Movahhed, Book Search Support TeamThe other day I realized that I could use Google Book Search to find a piece of my past. With just a few keystrokes, I searched and found the first book I ever read, Danny and the Dinosaur. There it…
Limited Reporting Delays, Data Now Updated
July 16th, 2007 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
This weekend a small percentage of our users experienced processing delays. For several hours affected users were not able to view updated traffic for a large portion of the day. This was a temporary processing delay. No data was lost and all reports s…
DART Search Product Enhancements
July 16th, 2007 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of DART Search on Saturday, July 14th, 2007. In this release, we will upgrade DART Search with the following new features:Yahoo Geo-Targeting in DART SearchDART Search users can now use geo-t…
European content regulation and the Audiovisual Media Services Directive
July 16th, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Patricia Moll, European Policy ManagerThe European Union recently agreed on new rules for broadcasting and on-demand content. The catchily termed “Audiovisual Media Services Directive” – formerly known as the “Television Without Frontiers” …
Scheduled Maintenance on Monday
July 15th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamThe Google Mashup Editor and published applications built using the Google Mashup Editor will be in a reduced functionality, read-only mode between 9AM and 1PM PST on Monday July 16th for scheduled main…
Candidates at Google: Ron Paul
July 15th, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Manager, Global Communications and Public AffairsRep. Ron Paul (R-TX) became the fifth presidential candidate to visit the Googleplex Friday (following Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Bill Richardson and John Edwards), and the …