Have you ever gone to a site, looked at the page and wondered, “how did they do that?” Since we launched our 2008 U.S. Election site I am getting lots of questions about that nifty little “page element” sitting in the center of the page. Everyone wants…
Have you ever written an app and wanted to do something simple like center a map on your user’s location? Consider a simple little map gadget. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to center that map on your user’s home country, state, or city, instead of jus…
Three weeks ago, we quietly launched support for accessing the AJAX Search, Feed, and Language APIs from Flash, and other non JavaScript environments. Check out the relevant documentation for: Google AJAX Search APIGoogle AJAX Feed APIGoogle AJAX Langu…
A few weeks ago, our team received a call from the Executive Producer of EW.com, the online extension of Entertainment Weekly Magazine. She asked if our Feed API could be used to build a module that they could configure to promote and link to their par…
Early this morning we turned on a highly requested feature… The AJAX Search API now supports up to 32 search results as well as pagination through result sets. I understand that this might not match everything that you have been asking for, but at th…
This morning, we made an update to the AJAX Search API that provides you with direct access to YouTube Channels, Most Viewed Videos, Top Rated Videos, and Recently Featured Videos.As millions of you have already discovered, our insanely popular Video …
In case you missed the announcement today on the Maps API Blog, the AJAX Search API now supports Australia in GlocalSearch. Make sure you read Pamela’s post and check out her inline sample. If you have a map on your site and want to add search, the Lo…
Post by Mark Lucovsky, Software EngineerYesterday was an exciting day for us over here on the Google AJAX Search API team. At 6:00 a.m. I flipped a bit on our servers, opening up Image Search as the newest addition to this very powerful, and increasing…
Post by Mark Lucovsky, Software EngineerSince its release last year, the Google AJAX Search API has given developers a simple way to add Google Web, Local, Video, Blog, and News search to their websites and web applications. In February 2007, we extend…
The AJAX Feed API makes it easy to display RSS and Atom feeds on any web page. Unfortunately, its not always quite as easy to find the feed URL of the feed that you wanted. To help with discovering and finding feeds, today we launched two additional me…
This afternoon we released a Local Search Control for the Google Maps API. If you already have a Google Maps application, extending it to support local search doesn’t get any easier:Include a reference to the AJAX Search APIInclude a reference to the L…
I was at Google Developer Day last week and ran into an old friend and blogger, Robert Scoble, VP Media Development at PodTech. Robert and I were discussing how the AJAX Feed API could be used to engage customers more deeply. During this conversation, …
This afternoon we extended the AJAX Feed API with a new Slide Show Control. This control allows you to easily embed a slide show of images from PhotoBucket, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, or any feed that uses the Media RSS extensions.With just a few lines…
This morning we added a new class to the Google AJAX Feed API designed to allow you to more easily add a collection of feeds to your pages. The FeedControl is pretty simple:var feedControl = new google.feeds.FeedControl();feedControl.addFeed(“http://ww…
This morning we launched the Google AJAX Feed API, an API that takes the pain out of developing mashups in JavaScript. Now you can mash up feeds using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies.The sample below …