Congratulations to Hemakumar M!
April 17th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)A new gadget by Hemakumar M is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: Digital Clock.
April 17th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Hazel Mary, Software Engineer Have you ever wanted to check if your buddy responded to your scrap about this evening’s plans, but not been close to a computer? Do you wish you could pass the time on your long commute home by browsing through…
April 17th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical WriterName: Digital ClockAuthor: Hemakumar MDescription: Pure digital looking clock gadgetMore information | Download gadgetEach week this blog features a recently added Google Desktop gadget that looks promising. If …
Promoting your referrals — properly
April 17th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Some of our publishers have asked us about the policies surrounding promotion for referral units, and so we’d like to address two of the most frequent areas of confusion. While the policies are generally the same for referrals as for standard AdSense f…
April 17th, 2008 | by dastels | published in Google Testing
Flaky tests make your life more difficult. You get failure notifications that aren’t helpful. You might become numb to failures and miss an actual failure condition. Your changes might get unfairly blamed for causing a flaky test to fail. Unfortunately…
April 16th, 2008 | by Peter Harbison | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Jason Cooper, Developer ProgramsLast month’s prelaunch testing of the orkut developer platform brought a small set of third-party applications to less than 1% of orkut users. After implementing various improvements, tweaks, and fixes, we are …
新增!Novo! Новинка! ¡Nuevo! 新しい!
April 16th, 2008 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By Naomi Bilodeau, Google Code TeamDevelopers speak lots of languages, not just English and C++. We know that you use Google Code from all over the world, and we understand that the love of a good API is universal.We’re excited to announce that devel…
Tip: Open URLs with framework.openUrl
April 16th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)I’d bet good money that most Desktop gadget developers could recognize and understand this code snippet: var obj = new ActiveXObject(‘WScript.Shell’); obj.run(‘http://desktop.googl…
April 16th, 2008 | by Googler | published in Google News
Posted by Jack Hebert, Akash Nanavati and Natasha Mohanty, Software EngineersBe it poetry or public speech, words matter.Consider this election season. All along the campaign trail we have heard candidates’ thoughts on the future of health care, the wa…
Best practices when moving your site
April 16th, 2008 | by Ríona MacNamara | published in Google Webmaster Central
Posted by Ríona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools Team Planning on moving your site to a new domain? Lots of webmasters find this a scary process. How do you do it without hurting your site’s performance in Google search results? Your aim is to make the tra…
Google Products for Non-Profits feature of YouTube
April 16th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Posted by Steve, YouTube TeamTwenty-first century grassroots activism is increasingly cropping up online, and YouTube is a central platform for this engagement. Ever since the site launched in 2005, all kinds of people and organizations have been using…
New Google Data video tutorials!
April 16th, 2008 | by api.rboyd | published in Google Code
Posted by Austin Chau, Google Data APIs TeamA picture is worth a thousand words, so a video is probably worth a few thousands more. I’ll try to keep this blog post short so you can watch the new tutorial videos we’ve released!The first video focuses on…
Website Optimizer Now Out of Beta
April 16th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Today, we’re announcing that Google Website Optimizer is officially out of beta. For those unfamiliar with it, Website Optimizer is Google’s free content testing and optimization tool. It allows you to test different variations of your site content and…
April 16th, 2008 | by Jon, Website Optimizer Blog Team | published in Google Website Optimizer
Posted by Jon, Website Optimizer Blog TeamIt’s been about a year since we made Website Optimizer available to all Google AdWords users. Since then, we’ve seen great enthusiasm for the tool; now it’s hard to find a serious advertiser who doesn’t at leas…
Graduation Day for Website Optimizer and Urchin Software!
April 16th, 2008 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Today at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco, we very happily announced two launches. If we could have shouted them from the rooftops, we would have. Enjoy!Website Optimizer now available as a standalone product!Google Website Optimizer is all grow…