News Quotes About Google 2006

Introduction

This page contains some news quotes about Google for year 2006.

Contents

Google's Bigdaddy data center

Feedback on Bigdaddy data center
January 4, 2006
"About a month ago I alluded to a data center called “Bigdaddy” that
people could check out as a preview. We’re ready to collect feedback
on the Bigdaddy data center now."
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy/

Bigdaddy
http://64.233.179.104/

Links:

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-01-05-n16.html
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060104-170002

Google Pack

Google Pack
(January 7, 2006)
http://pack.google.com/

"System Requirements"
"Windows XP with Administrator privileges"
"Firefox 1.0+ or Internet Explorer 6.0+"
http://pack.google.com/pack_installer_required.html

Google Software Included
   Google Desktop
   Google Earth
   Google Pack Screensaver
   Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer
Additional Software Included
   Ad-Aware SE Personal
   Adobe Reader 7
   Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar
   Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition
http://pack.google.com/pack_installer_required.html

"What is the Google Pack?"
"Google Pack is a free collection of essential software from Google
and other companies."
"Google Pack also takes the hassle out of downloading, installing, and
updating software. You can download and install the entire Google Pack
in just a few clicks. And the included Google Updater helps you
discover new programs and keep your current software up to date."
"What is the Google Updater?"
"The Google Updater is the program that downloads and installs all the
software in the Google Pack. You can use the Google Updater to monitor
the status of your installation, run software that's been installed,
or uninstall software."
"Is all the software in the Google Pack free?"
"Yes, all the software in the Google Pack is free. Some programs may
offer paid versions that provide additional features or ongoing
updates, but you'll never have to install the paid versions, and your
free version will continue to work as long as you have it installed."
http://pack.google.com/about.html

Learn more about each of the programs
http://pack.google.com/product_earth.html

Google Pack Help
http://www.google.com/support/pack

Google Updater
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=30252&topic=8326/

Google Desktop
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=10101&topic=8313

Google Earth
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=31710&topic=8314

Google Pack Screensaver
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=28076&topic=8315

Google Talk
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=31712&topic=8316

Google Toolbar
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/topic.py?topic=8317

Picasa
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=11147&topic=8318

Ad-Aware
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=31730&topic=8319

Adobe Reader
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=31731&topic=8320

GalleryPlayer
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=28075&topic=8321

Mozilla Firefox
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=31729&topic=8322

Norton AntiVirus
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=31732&topic=8323

RealPlayer
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=31736&topic=8324

Trillian
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=31737&topic=8325

Google Video Store

Google Video Store
(January 10, 2006)
http://video.google.com/videostore

Google Video Help
http://video.google.com/support

Google Video forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Google-Video

Official Google Video Blog
http://googlevideo.blogspot.com/

Links:

http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/video_marketplace.html
http://googlevideo.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-videos-new-year.html
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/01/10/google-video-store-updated/
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/01/07/google-opens-video-store-for-vod/
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-01-10-n82.html
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-01-07-n43.html
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060109-223133
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060106-190001

The Google Podium

The Google Podium
(January 12, 2006)
"Here you'll find a selection of public presentations made by Google
executives. From time to time, we will continue to add transcripts,
audio or video clips and links to presentations hosted elsewhere."
"You'll need to have RealPlayer or Windows Media Player installed as
well as a computer capable of playing sound to play the video or audio
files."
http://www.google.com/press/podium.html

Examples:

http://www.google.com/press/podium/ces2006.html
http://www.google.com/press/podium/eric.html
http://www.google.com/press/podium/brin.html
http://www.google.com/press/podium/ana.html
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail795.html
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail818.html
http://www.google.com/press/factorytour.html

Google Personalized Homepage for mobile

Google Personalized Home for mobile devices
January 12, 2006
"Today, Google continued the expansion of its mobile offerings with
the announcement of Google Personalized Home for mobile devices, a new
service that enables users' access to their personalized Google
homepage on their mobile phones and PDAs. With Personalized Home,
users on-the-go can view the information they access most frequently
from one screen on their mobile device. For example, business
travelers can easily keep up with their personal stock quotes while
they're on the road, and news junkies can stay on top of their
favorite headlines when they're away from their desktops and TVs – all
without having to search multiple web pages from a mobile device."
http://www.google.com/press/annc/p_home_mobile.html

Google Personalized Homepage Mobile
January 12, 2006
" the Google Personalized Homepage is now also available for certain
mobile phones. Just point your phone to “www.google.com/ig/mobile”. "
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-01-12.html#n44

Google Makes Personalized Home Page Portable
January 12, 2006
"Google has expanded the personalization of its home page beyond the
browser and onto the cell phone; it's called Google Mobile Home. This
page explains how to do it; you must customize the portable page
separately from the browser page. This is a good thing, as it allows
the user to select different content for the road"
http://google.weblogsinc.com/2006/01/12/google-makes-personalized-home-page-portable/

Links:

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060112-115505
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3577286

Google News: Recommended News and Most Popular News

And now, News
January 23, 2006
"We're taking Google News out of beta! When we launched the English-
language edition in September 2002, we entered untested waters with a
grand experiment in news browsing - using computers to organize the
world's news in real time and providing a bird's eye view of what's
being reported on virtually any topic."
"today we're adding a way to automatically recommend stories for users
with Personalized Search. Here's how it works: You can sign up for
Personalized Search to view and manage your history of news searches
and the articles you've read. When you're signed in to your Google
Account, you'll receive recommended news stories based on the previous
stories you've read. These recommendations will be highlighted just
below the top news stories on the page, in a clearly marked section.
You can also get a full page of recommended stories by clicking on the
section. All of this is done automatically using algorithms."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/and-now-news.html

Links:

http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/01/23/notice-anything-different/
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-01-21-n38.html
http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=16833&title=Google%20News%20Adds%20Most%20Popular,%20Recommended
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060123-142418
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-news-leaving-beta/
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177103029
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1881298449;fp;16;fpid;0

Google Patents and Patent Applications

Google Patent Application: "Call-on-select Advertisements"

Name: Advertisements for devices with call functionality, such as
mobile phones
Number: 20060004627
Date: January 5, 2006

"Abstract"
"The serving of one or more ads to a user device considers determined
characteristics of a user device, such as whether or not the user
device supports telephone calls. At least some ads may include call-
on-select functionality. When such an ad is selected (e.g., via a
button click), instead of loading a document (e.g., Web page) for
rendering, a telephone number associated with the ad by an advertiser
can be automatically dialed."

"Claims"
1. "A method for serving one or more ads to a user device, the method
comprising: a) accepting a request for one or more ads; b) determining
characteristics of a user device associated with the request; and c)
determining a set of ads to serve using the determined
characteristics."
2. "the user device has characteristics of having a small display and
call functionality, and wherein the set of ads includes at least one
ad which, if selected, initiates a telephone call"
3. "the user device has a display having a diagonal measurement of
about 3 inches or less"
4. "the user device has a display having a diagonal measurement of
about 1.5 inches or less"
5. "the user device has characteristics of having a slow
communications connection and call functionality"
15. "A machine readable medium having stored thereon an ad data
structure comprising: a) a first machine-executable code for rendering
an ad creative on a device; and b) a second machine-executable code
for initiating a telephone call in response to a user selection of at
least a portion of the ad creative rendered."
23. "Apparatus for serving one or more ads to a user device, the
apparatus comprising: a) an input for accepting a request for one or
more ads; b) means for determining characteristics of a user device
associated with the request; and c) means for determining a set of ads
to serve using the determined characteristics."

"Description"
[0002] "The present invention concerns advertisements ("ads"), such as
ads served in an online environment. In particular, the present
invention concerns adapting an online ad environment to make ads more
useful for devices with call functionality, and/or a limited ability
to render Web pages in a manner satisfying to a user (e.g., due to
small displays, slow communications connection speeds, and/or slow
rendering), such as mobile phones for example."
[0008] "Although using Web pages, such as those authored in HTML or
some other markup language for example, as ad landing pages is useful
when the user is using a browser on a device with an adequate display
monitor (e.g., 13'', 15'', 17'', 19'', 21'', etc., or perhaps even
smaller), the use of the same Web pages as ad landing pages is much
less useful when the user is using a device with a smaller and/or
lower resolution display. Similarly, although using Web pages as ad
landing pages is useful when the user device has an adequate
communications connection to the Internet (e.g., a 56 Kbps modem, a
higher speed digital subscriber line (DSL) modem, or a higher speed
cable modem) and an adequate processor for rendering the Web page,
using Web pages as ad landing pages is much less useful when the user
device has a slow communications connection (e.g., 9.6 Kbps) and/or a
slow processor."
[0021] "The present invention may involve novel methods, apparatus,
message formats, and/or data structures for considering device type
information such as display size and/or resolution, communications
connection speed, processor speed, and/or call functionality for
example, in an on-line advertising environment. The following
description is presented to enable one skilled in the art to make and
use the invention, and is provided in the context of particular
applications and their requirements. Thus, the following description
of embodiments consistent with the present invention provides
illustration and description, but is not intended to be exhaustive or
to limit the present invention to the precise form disclosed. Various
modifications to the disclosed embodiments will be apparent to those
skilled in the art, and the general principles set forth below may be
applied to other embodiments and applications. For example, although a
series of acts may be described with reference to a flow diagram, the
order of acts may differ in other implementations when the performance
of one act is not dependent on the completion of another act. Further,
non-dependent acts may be performed in parallel. No element, act or
instruction used in the description should be construed as critical or
essential to the present invention unless explicitly described as
such. Also, as used herein, the article "a" is intended to include one
or more items. Where only one item is intended, the term "one" or
similar language is used. Thus, the present invention is not intended
to be limited to the embodiments shown and the inventor regards his
invention as any patentable subject matter described."
[0027] "FIG. 2 illustrates an environment 200 in which the present
invention may be used. A user device (also referred to as a "client"
or "client device") 250 may include a browser facility (such as the
Explorer and pocket-PC Explorer browsers from Microsoft, the Opera Web
Browser from Opera Software of Norway, the Navigator browser from
AOL/Time Warner, the Mozilla browser, etc.), an e-mail facility (e.g.,
Outlook from Microsoft), etc. A search engine 220 may permit user
devices 250 to search collections of documents (e.g., Web pages). A
content server 210 may permit user devices 250 to access documents. An
e-mail server (such as Hotmail from Microsoft Network, Yahoo Mail,
etc.) 240 may be used to provide e-mail functionality to user devices
250. An ad server 210 may be used to serve ads to user devices 250.
The ads may be served in association with search results provided by
the search engine 220. However, content-relevant ads may be served in
association with content provided by the content server 230, and/or e
-mail supported by the e-mail server 240 and/or user device e-mail
facilities."
[0038] "When an online ad is served, one or more parameters may be
used to describe how, when, and/or where the ad was served. These
parameters are referred to as "serving parameters" below. Serving
parameters may include, for example, one or more of the following:
features of (including information on) a document on which, or with
which, the ad was served, a search query or search results associated
with the serving of the ad, a user characteristic (e.g., their
geographic location, the language used by the user, the type of
browser used, previous page views, previous behavior, user account,
any Web cookies used by the system, user device characteristics,
etc.), a host or affiliate site (e.g., America Online, Google, Yahoo)
that initiated the request, an absolute position of the ad on the page
on which it was served, a position (spatial or temporal) of the ad
relative to other ads served, an absolute size of the ad, a size of
the ad relative to other ads, a color of the ad, a number of other ads
served, types of other ads served, time of day served, time of week
served, time of year served, etc. Naturally, there are other serving
parameters that may be used in the context of the invention."
[0042] "A "conversion" is said to occur when a user consummates a
transaction related to a previously served ad. What constitutes a
conversion may vary from case to case and can be determined in a
variety of ways. For example, it may be the case that a conversion
occurs when a user clicks on an ad, is referred to the advertiser's
Web page, and consummates a purchase there before leaving that Web
page. Alternatively, a conversion may be defined as a user being shown
an ad, and making a purchase on the advertiser's Web page within a
predetermined time (e.g., seven days). In yet another alternative, a
conversion may be defined by an advertiser to be any
measurable/observable user action such as, for example, downloading a
white paper, navigating to at least a given depth of a Website,
viewing at least a certain number of Web pages, spending at least a
predetermined amount of time on a Website or Web page, registering on
a Website, etc. Often, if user actions don't indicate a consummated
purchase, they may indicate a sales lead, although user actions
constituting a conversion are not limited to this. Indeed, many other
definitions of what constitutes a conversion are possible."
[0051] "A limited or small display may be thought of as one that
cannot render Web pages in a manner satisfying to most users, or a
target set of users, due to size, and/or resolution. A 3'' diagonal
display common on most current generation PDAs is one example of a
limited display in the context of most Web pages authored for personal
computers. A 1.5'' diagonal display common on most mobile telephones
is another example of a limited display in the context of most Web
pages authored for personal computers. Similarly, a slow
communications connection speed may be thought of as one that is too
slow to permit loading Web pages in a manner satisfying to most users,
or a target set of users. A 9.3 Kbps modem is one example of a slow
connection speed in the context of loading most Web pages authored for
personal computers. Similarly, a slow processor may be thought of as
one that is too slow to permit a loaded Web page to be rendered in a
manner satisfying to most users, or a target set of users. Finally, a
limited user device may be thought of as one that cannot render
requested Web pages in a manner satisfying to most users, or a target
set of users (e.g., due to some combination of screen size,
communications connection speed, and/or processor speed). What
constitutes a limited user device, a limited display, a slow
connection speed, and/or a slow processor may be defined by an
advertiser, an ad serving system, an end user, or some combination of
definitions from these parties and entities."
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060004627%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060004627&RS=DN/20060004627

Links:

http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/01/13/google-patent-application-for-click-to-call-advertising/
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060112-125312
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3576931
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=13598&Page=1&pagePos=3
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5160

Google Search Privacy Examination

Protecting Your Search Privacy: A Flowchart To Tracks You Leave Behind
January 23, 2006
"anyone who assumes they've protected themselves by using an
anonymizing tool is probably not eliminating the important ISP aspect.
Meanwhile, laws being considered to force search companies to destroy
data must consider the role of ISPs to fully provide the intended
protection."
" I'll take you step-by-step about how your search privacy data gets
exposed from all the way from your desktop to the sites you visit."
"1. Search Privacy On Your Own Computer"
"Anything you do on the internet gets recorded on your own computer in
various ways. Pages you've visited are stored in your computer's
cache, and a history of the URLs you've seen and things you've
searched for may also get stored in your browser."
"Running any desktop search tools? They may be storing information you
want to delete. For example, Google's desktop search tool also stores
all the pages you view on the web. When I last looked, deleting your
browser cache did not destroy the data Google Desktop itself keeps."
"even if you delete files, people with the right tools and knowledge
might still be able to bring back the data. Some of the tools
mentioned above may be able to make this easier so that something
you've deleted really stays deleted. But the most surefire way to do
so would be to physically destroy your computer's hard drive,
literally prying out the metal platter where the info is recorded and
ideally breaking it up into multiple parts that would be disposed of
in various places."
"2. Search Privacy & Your ISP"
"The weakest link in protecting your search privacy is your ISP.
Everything you do is going to flow out of your computer and through
your ISP to a search engine. Your ISP will see the pages you are
requesting and in all likelihood have some type of records of what
you've done for a set period of time. Whatever deletions you do on
your own computer -- plus whatever things you do to be anonymous with
search engines -- these have no impact on your ISP. It sees all."
"3. Search Privacy & Your Search Engine"
"Visit a major search engine, and it keeps track of every request you
make. It will also assign you a cookie, unless you reject these.
That's easy enough to do, and the Wired article gives you some tips on
that."
"Rejecting cookies still leaves behind your internet address. My
Search Privacy At Google & Other Search Engines article and the other
one I've just posted, Private Searches Versus Personally Identifiable
Searches explains this a bit more. Basically, it links your request
back to your ISP and thus still back to you, if someone has access to
your ISP."
"4. Search Privacy & Your Personalized Results"
"you might decide you want to get rid of some or all of your search
history. At Google, it's easy. Here are the instructions. Ah, but even
though you removed those items, they aren't necessarily deleted!
Here's the Google privacy policy on personalized search. Notice that
while your information is "removed from the service," it does NOT say
that the information is destroyed entirely."
"Over at Yahoo, you can clear your search history, though there's no
help page I can point you at about this (go to My Search History, then
use the Clear History link on the left-hand side). However, it's again
not clear that this wipes out all the information entirely."
"Many web sites make use of third party analytic services, such as
ClickTracks, WebSideStory, WebTrends or Google Analytics. That means
these services are almost like clearinghouses of search data. They see
what many people are searching for -- and clicking on -- from all over
the web through the data from thousands of clients using them.
Potentially, they are just as rich a target for any government agency
to mine as the search engines themselves."
"5. Search Privacy & Sites You Visit / Tracking Services"
"All the major search engines embed the search terms you used into the
URL that appears in the address field of your browser. When you click
on a listing, that URL is sent as "referrer" information to the web
site you go to. That means what you searched on is sent to the web
site you ultimately visit from a search engine. They're able to know
the search terms you used plus your IP address."
"Referrer information is precious data to web sites. It allows them to
know exactly how people found them."
"In Conclusion: Securing Search Privacy Is Tricky"
"As you can see, ensuring your search privacy is tricky. The
information you send is leaving traces in multiple places. The
solution to ensuring privacy isn't going to be as easy as passing a
law that targets Google, Yahoo and the others. Ideally, the entire
lifecycle of a search beyond the computer desktop needs to be
considered from ISP through to tracking services. Searchers themselves
also need to consider what they do on their own computer desktops."
"There's also an issue of what should be private. I wrote earlier
today that most people probably think the conversations they have with
search engines as being private. But to date, we don't have any
protected searcher-search engine relationship as we do with attorney-
client privilege or between clergy and worshipper. Perhaps that needs
to be enshrined in some way. But then again, others may feel that
going out on to the public web and using publicly accessible search
engines entitles no one to an expectation of privacy, or perhaps a
more limited one."
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060123-112156

AdWords Editor

AdWords Editor
(January 26, 2006)
"AdWords Editor is Google's free, downloadable account management
application for your computer. Now you can download your AdWords
account to your computer, make your changes, then upload your revised
campaigns."
http://services.google.com/adwordseditor/index.html

AdWords Editor FAQ
"At this time, AdWords Editor has only been tested for Windows 2000
and Windows XP (Home/Pro). However, the application is designed for
cross-platform functionality. We're working on expanding to additional
operating systems, including Macintosh and Linux."
http://www.google.com/support/adwordseditor/bin/static.py?page=about.html

AdWords Editor Help Center
http://www.google.com/support/adwordseditor/

AdWords
http://adwords.google.com/

AdWords Help Center
http://adwords.google.com/support/

StopBadware.org

Putting a stop to spyware
January 25, 2006
"We're really excited to tell you about StopBadware.org, a new
initiative aimed at combating the growing problem of spyware and other
deceptive software."
"Google, along with Sun Microsystems and Lenovo, are co-sponsors."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/putting-stop-to-spyware.html

StopBadware.org
http://www.stopbadware.org/

StopBadware.org FAQ
http://www.stopbadware.org/home/faq

StopBadware.org forum
http://groups.google.com/group/stopbadware

What is badware?
http://www.stopbadware.org/home/help

About Us
http://www.stopbadware.org/home/about

Google Toolbar 4 Beta for Internet Explorer

Google Toolbar Gets Personal
January 30, 2006
"Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the latest version of
Google Toolbar and a new Google Toolbar for Enterprise. The new beta
versions of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer are open and
customizable, with new features that enable users to customize their
search experience and share information with friends."
"Google Toolbar was designed to make the Internet easier to use and
help people find the information they are looking for as quickly and
easily as possible. The new versions of Google Toolbar now offer
customizable buttons, online bookmarks, enhanced search features, new
sharing capabilities, and an open API. Google Toolbar for Enterprise
beta also includes administration and control for business
environments."
"Users can now personalize their Toolbar through the addition of
Custom Buttons. Custom Buttons enable users to run search queries
directly on any website, receive alerts, and subscribe to feeds, right
from their Toolbar. For example, news enthusiasts can now add Custom
Buttons to search all their favorite news and see top news stories
directly from their Toolbar"
"Google offers users three ways to get Custom Buttons. They can create
their own by simply right clicking the search box on any website and
selecting “Generate Custom Search”.  They can install a Toolbar button
offered on one of their favorite websites. Or, they can select ready
made buttons from Google’s new Button Gallery."
"The new version of Google Toolbar also enables users to create, label
and manage bookmarks for their favorite sites with a single click.
Bookmarks are now saved to a user’s Google Account making them
accessible from any computer."
"Additional product enhancements include expanded search functionality
that offer users helpful query suggestions and spelling corrections as
they type in the search box. Enhanced sharing capabilities allow users
to easily send and share web page content via Gmail, SMS, or a blog by
selecting the section of page they want to share and clicking the new
"Send To" button."
"With this release, Google is also offering a new version of the
Toolbar for enterprise environments.  Google Toolbar for Enterprise
beta includes all the new functionality of Google Toolbar, offering
the same level of personalization and customization to corporate
users.  In addition, Google Toolbar for Enterprise includes group
policy for administrative control of features, as well as Microsoft
System Installer for easy corporate deployment. For example, an
enterprise could distribute customized Toolbars to their users pre-
loaded with Custom Buttons for Intranet sites, employee directories,
and frequently used information sources."
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/toolbar4.html

Google Toolbar 4 Beta
http://toolbar.google.com/T4/

Google Toolbar Beta for Enterprise
http://www.google.com/tools/toolbar/T4/enterprise/

Google Toolbar 4 Beta features
http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/static.py?page=features.html&v=4

Google Toolbar button gallery
http://www.google.com/tools/toolbar/buttons/gallery

Google Toolbar API
http://www.google.com/tools/toolbar/buttons/apis/index.html
http://www.google.com/tools/toolbar/buttons/apis/started.html
http://www.google.com/tools/toolbar/buttons/apis/howto_guide.html

Google Custom Buttons forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Custom-Buttons

Google Toolbar Help
http://www.google.com/support/toolbar

BearingPoint partners with Google

BearingPoint partners with Google to launch Search Solutions Practice
February 14, 2006
"Today, BearingPoint announced a new search practice for enterprise
customers through an agreement with Google. We'd like to say thank
you, and welcome."
"BearingPoint is the leading global management and technology
consulting firm. As search becomes more of a critical business
application, BearingPoint will help expand Google's search
capabilities through proprietary technology plug-ins, customized
search software and integration services."
http://www.google.com/press/annc/bearingpoint.html

A NEW WORLD OF SEARCH SOLUTIONS FROM BEARINGPOINT AND GOOGLE
"By combining BearingPoint's enterprise strategy and systems
integration expertise with the world's most powerful search
technology, we can help you harness the untapped value of information
across your global infrastructure."
"Beyond web content, the BearingPoint | Google search solution can
deliver real-time data and business intelligence from a wide spectrum
of enterprise applications - all courtesy of the familiar Google
search function."
http://www.bearingpoint.com/portal/site/bearingpoint/menuitem.6b87f1711e4fdef420c9d310c22026a0/channel/published/enterprise%20search/?source=4

Google Enterprise Solutions
http://www.google.com/enterprise/

Gmail Skins

Gmail Skins
(February 16, 2006)
"Gmail Skins is a Firefox extension that lets you change the look of
your Gmail inbox (amongst some other things)."
http://gmailskins.mozdev.org/

Gmail's Chat Feature

Gmail chat features
(February 16, 2006)
"Now Gmail accounts are automatically enabled with chat features. You
don't have to do anything special, it just works. See when your
friends are online and decide for yourself how you want to get in
touch with them. Email and instant messaging don't have to be so
different. And why should you always have to remember whether
something important was said over email or IM? We've made it easy for
you to save chats, so you can search for them, print them, even reply
to one over email."
"How do I use it?"
"When you're signed in to Gmail, you should always see a Quick
Contacts box along the left of your screen. Clicking on a name in
Quick Contacts will start a chat session or an email. The people you
can chat with have colored balls next to their names—green means
they're online, yellow means they're idle and red means they're busy."
"What's the difference between this and Google Talk?"
"Gmail's new chat features, while integrated with the Google Talk
network, do not allow you to make or receive calls to your friends
over your computer. You still need to download the Google Talk Windows
client for that."
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/chat.html

"Can I use emoticons?"
"Yes. Emoticons make your chats more fun! To use emoticons, just type
the appropriate combination of keys, and hit Enter. Here's a list of
our emoticons:"
" < 3  , : ( | ) , \ m / , : - o , : D , : ( , X - ( , B - ) , : ' ( ,
= D , ; ) , : - | , = ) , : - D , ; ^ ) , ; - ) , : - ) , : - / , : P
"
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=34056

"Which browsers support chat in Gmail?"
"Internet Explorer 6.0+ and Firefox 1.0+. Also, make sure you're using
http:// when you log in -- chat in Gmail doesn't work in https://
quite yet, but it will soon."
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=33540&topic=8405

"Can I chat with people who don't use Gmail?"
"Yes. You can chat with anyone who uses the Google Talk instant
messaging service, regardless of whether they use Gmail as their email
service. Just invite your friend to chat, and look for him or her
online!"
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=29300&topic=8405

"How do I invite someone to chat with me?"
"There are three different ways to invite someone to chat with you.
You can:"
"Mouse over any person’s name in Quick Contacts, and click Invite to
chat in the profile card that pops up."
"Click Add contact at bottom of Quick Contacts -- then, enter your
friend's email address in the box, and click add."
"Use auto-complete by entering your friends' name in the box at the
top of Quick Contacts. Once the name of the person you'd like to
invite appears, select Invite to chat."
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=33508&topic=8405

"How do I change my status?"
"Under Quick Contacts, click the arrow next to Set status here. Select
the status you'd like to appear next to your name in your friends'
Contact lists. Here’s what the different statuses mean:"
"Green: Available"
"Yellow: Idle. Your status automatically changes to idle when you're
away from your computer for 15 minutes. You can't manually select to
appear idle."
"Red: Busy. This lets your contacts know you’re busy and don’t want to
be interrupted."
"Grey: Signed out of chat"
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=29298&topic=8405

"How do I block a contact?"
"Blocking a contact prevents the person from talking to you and seeing
when you're signed in to Gmail or Google Talk. Here's how:"
"Click Contacts along the left side of any Gmail page."
"Locate the person you'd like to block."
"Under Show in Quick Contacts?, select Block."
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=29295&topic=8405

"Why don’t I have Gmail's chat features?"
"Gmail’s chat features are currently available to a limited set of
users, but we’re actively rolling them out in stages so they'll be
available for all Gmail users as soon as possible. For now, the Gmail
chat features are available through the US English interface only, and
you'll need to use a supported browser. Also, make sure you're using
http:// when you log in -- chat in Gmail doesn't work in https://."
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=33504&topic=8405

Gmail Help Center
http://mail.google.com/support

Google China Blog

Google 黑板报
(February 16, 2006)
http://www.googlechinablog.com/

Google China Blog
February 14, 2006
"Google now has an official Chinese blog."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-02-14.html#n58

Google in Time magazine

In Search Of The Real Google
"An inside look at how success has changed Larry and Sergey's dream
machine. Can they still be the good guys while running a company worth
$100 billion?"
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1158961,00.html

Google in Time
February 13, 2006
"Time has a cover story on Google."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-02-13.html#n50

Kamambe: Customize Google in Firefox

Kamambe
(February 16, 2006)
"customize the google menu"
http://kamambe.com/

"Requirements"
"Firefox 1.5 and the Greasemonkey extension. You will need to install
the extension before the script will work."
http://kamambe.com/firefox.php

Customized Google with Kamambe
February 11, 2006
"Kamambe lets you customize the links shown on top of the Google
search box by generating a Firefox Greasemonkey script."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-02-11.html#n61

Measure Map Joins Google

Here comes Measure Map
February 14, 2006
"Today [--] the Measure Map team joins Google"
"I check my stats a half-dozen times a day, anxious to see if anyone
has linked to me or see what posts are most popular today"
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/here-comes-measure-map.html

Measure Map
"Measure Map provides free, easy stats for your blog"
"Measure Map helps you understand what people do at your blog, and
what influence you are having on the world."
"Track links to see who sends you traffic"
"Find out what people do at your site"
http://www.measuremap.com/

Measure Map Support Forums
http://forums.measuremap.com/

Unplayable Google Videos

What Good Are Unplayable Google Videos?
February 15, 2006
"If so many videos in Google Video, like all the Olympic videos, are
unplayable outside the U.S., then why are they showing up in search
results outside the U.S.?"
"If you don't live in the United States, the recent upgrade of Google
Video has made it absolutely useless. Almost every video now is U.S.
only. If it's U.S. only and you know I don't live there, then why not
exclude those from the results in the first place?"
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/02/15/what-good-are-unplayable-google-videos/

Google and Santy.a Worm

Worms prey on Google for victims
February 15, 2006
"Using Google's search tool to hunt for system vulnerabilities is the
latest way for Malware developers to find their next victims."
"Recently, the Santy.a worm targeted vulnerability in some versions of
the phpBB bulletin board system application, that it took advantage of
to damage content on websites. This was done by simply creating an
automated search in a Google query string."
"Google was able to stop the worm quickly once they figured out what
was going on by blocking any searches used for malicious purposes."
"The most common Google hacks involve queries that call up user names
and passwords on unsecured servers. Log files for these particular
users were put in jeopardy by not placing security measures and access
privileges on important documentation."
http://google.weblogsinc.com/2006/02/15/worms-prey-on-google-for-victims/

Google PageRank Update

Google PR update
February 19, 2006
"It looks as thoough Google has updated PageRank at a bunch of Google
Data centers. The rollout has been taking place for some time now. It
was previously expected that the PR update was to take place early
February, too much disappointment."
"The PR updates started to take place on Feb 18 at two Google
datacenters, and are quickly making their way to other locations.
However there is also a rollback at other datacenters."
http://google.weblogsinc.com/2006/02/19/google-pr-update/

Google Trusted Tester Program

Google Trusted Tester Program
(February 21, 2006)

"What is the Trusted Tester Program?"
"The Trusted Tester Program gives the friends and family members of
Google employees a chance to test early Google confidential betas and
let us know what they think. To become a Trusted Tester, you first
must be invited by a friend or family member who currently works at
Google. You can then log on to the Trusted Tester website with a
Google Account in order to access and test out betas of new Google
products as they become available."

"What is a Google beta?"
"A Google beta is a Google product that is still early in the product
development process and that may not be feature complete or polished.
That is why we hope to get your feedback at this early stage so we can
make the product even better."

"Am I obligated to test Google betas as a Trusted Tester?"
"Certainly not; you're welcome to test only those betas that you're
interested in, and for which you have time. Of course, we value all
your feedback, so the more betas you test, the more you can help us
make better products."
http://www.google.com/tester/faq

Google Current

Google Current
(February 23, 2006)
http://www.current.tv/google

About Google Current
http://www.current.tv/google?section=about

Google Current message board
http://www.current.tv/studio/community/1652422

Google Current
"Current TV is a new cable and satellite channel available throughout
the U.S. Through a partnership, we provide access to Google Zeitgeist
information - up to the minute aggregated search query results -
for the Current staff to use in creating new TV stories. The resulting
program, "Google Current," airs every half hour on Current TV and
provides a look at what the world is searching for on Google."
http://groups.google.com/group/google-friends/msg/7e677453815fe6c7

Google Page Creator

Google Page Creator
(February 23, 2006)
http://pages.google.com/

About Google Page Creator
"Want to create an online photo tour of your vacation to Bali? An
overview of the South American precipitation cycle for your science
class? A shrine to your pet ferret?"
"Now's your chance. We're testing a new product that makes creating
your own web pages as easy as creating a document in a word processor.
Google Page Creator is a free tool that lets you create web pages
right in your browser and publish them to the web with one click.
There's no software to download and no web designer to hire. The pages
you create are hosted on Google servers and are available at
http://yourgmailusername.googlepages.com for the world to see."
"At Google, we've found that listening to our users early helps us
develop the best possible products. So we're giving our users a chance
to play with Google Page Creator even though it's not yet fully baked,
and we're counting on you to send us your feedback and suggestions. If
you'd like to stay up to date on all the latest Google Page Creator
happenings, sign up for our updates mailing list."
"What do I need in order to use Google Page Creator?"
"You need to have a Gmail account and be using either Internet
Explorer 6.0 or Firefox 1.0, or higher, with JavaScript and cookies
enabled."
"What does "beta" mean?"
" "Beta" means that that the product is still being tested and
refined. Google finds that the best way to improve a product is to get
feedback directly from our users. We invite you to let us know what
you think about Google Page Creator by sending us your feedback and
suggestions. "
"Are there space restrictions?"
"Yes. You can use up to 100MB of space for your pages and uploaded
files."
 "I don't want my landlady to find out about my pet ferret. How can I
unpublish my pages?"
"Don't stress; if you want to unpublish any given page, simply go to
the Page Manager page, select the pages you want to take offline by
clicking their checkboxes, and select "Unpublish" from the "More
Actions..." dropdown menu."
http://pages.google.com/-/about.html

Google Page Creator Help Center
http://www.google.com/support/pages

Google Page Creator forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Page-Creator

Google Page Creator Terms of Use
http://pages.google.com/-/terms_of_use.html

Google Page Creator Shortest Google Beta Ever?

Shortest Google Beta Ever?
February 23, 2006
"Well, I'm sure this has to be a new record! Google has closed Google
Pages to new registrations already. Since Stu was the first to report
this to me at 11 a.m., and I first noticed Pages at around 2 a.m.,
that would mean a nine-hour beta. Wow. Either Google had a very
specific number of people they wanted for this, or the word-of-mouth
network is extremely good."
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/02/23/shortest-google-beta-ever/

Google Stops Page Creator Enrollment
February 23, 2006
"Gary Price reports that Google has temporarily stopped "people from
registering to use" Google Page Creator, which was released this
morning. If you go to http://pages.google.com/ you will notice on the
bottom right hand corner, a message that reads;"
"Due to heavy demand, we are unable to offer new accounts for today.
If you'd like to be added to our waiting list, please enter your email
address."
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060223-124416

Google Dashboard Widgets for Mac

Google Dashboard Widgets for Mac
(February 24, 2006)
"Welcome to the Google Mac Dashboard Widgets page. Widgets are mini-
applications that you download and install into Dashboard to add new
functionality."
http://www.google.com/macwidgets/

Google Dashboard Widgets for Mac forum
http://groups.google.com/group/macwidgets

Google Photos in Time Magazine

Life in the Googleplex Photo Essay
(February 24, 2006)
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/inside_google/

Official Google Research Blog

Official Google Research Blog
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/

Source:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ -> "More Google Blogs"

Google News for mobile devices

Google News for mobile devices
(March 1, 2006)
http://mobile.google.com/news/index.html

Overview of Google News for mobile devices
http://mobile.google.com/news/tour.html

Google News for mobile devices FAQ
http://mobile.google.com/news/faq.html

Google Recruiting Video

Google Recruiting Video
(March 5, 2006)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8618166999532839788&q=google+recruiting+video&time=30000
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/robots-and-writers-and-googlers-oh-my.html

Videos from the Googleplex

Videos from the Googleplex
(March 5, 2006)
"In addition to helping distribute content from across the world,
Google would like to share videos featuring our company. The videos on
this page give you an overview of our culture, products and business.
Whether it's a scientist discussing their latest work or one of our
campus events, we hope to provide a sample of great conversations and
presentations."
http://video.google.com/googleplex.html

Google Switching to AMD Servers

Google Switching to AMD Servers
March 2, 2006
"Google is reprovingly switching its over 200,000 servers to run on
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. chips instead of Intel chips."
"They have been utilizing the AMD chips on all new purchases recently.
With winning a customer like Google, AMD has sparked greater interest
in their brand, and will greatly increase their server business side."
http://google.weblogsinc.com/2006/03/02/google-switching-to-amd-servers/

Gmail Security Flaw

Gmail Security Flaw Fixed
March 3, 2006
"Google fixes a recently uncovered Gmail security flaw that allowed
the attacker to run JavaScript in the context of Gmail (which often
lead to XSS exploits)."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-03-03-n10.html

Google fixes 'minor' Gmail flaw
March 2, 2006
"Google has fixed a flaw in its Gmail Web based e-mail service after
the problem was disclosed by a blogger, the company said Thursday."
" The flaw could allow JavaScript code to run when viewing a message
in Gmail, potentially allowing malicious code to be used by an
attacker to compromise a Gmail account, according to a blogger who
calls himself "Anthony." "
"The blogger, who claims to be a 14-year-old student, found the flaw
when sending code from his Yahoo Web mail account to his Gmail
account, he wrote on Wednesday. The Web log is hosted by Google's
Blogger service."
"Google fixed the flaw "very shortly after the initial blog post went
up," a representative for the Mountain View, Calif., company said. "We
learned of a minor security flaw in Gmail a little while ago and
worked quickly to fix the problem, which has now been resolved," the
representative said."
"Because the vulnerability was fixed quickly, it likely never was
exploited in any attacks, the representative said. Still, Google would
have preferred to have been alerted to the flaw privately, instead of
via a public blog."
" "We encourage all vulnerability reporters to follow responsible
disclosure practices and notify vendors first before making the
vulnerability public," the representative said. "
"Flaws in online services are found regularly. Last December, Google
fixed a security hole in the mechanism it uses to generate error pages
for forbidden redirects and pages that don't exist on the Google Web
site. The flaw opened the door to phishing scams, account hijacks and
other attacks."
"Similar flaws have been discovered and fixed in other parts of
Google's Web site, as well as in Microsoft's Xbox 360 Web site and
Yahoo's Web-based e-mail service."
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6045416.html

Google Page Creator Security Flaw

More Google Authentication Flaws
March 8, 2006
"Garett Rogers reports that by sharing the URL you get after logging
in to the Google Page Creator, you may inadvertedly also allow others
to get into your Page Creator account... without ever having to enter
your password. (I could reproduce this problem.) This security flaw is
related to a previous one for Google’s book search, which also had the
“auth” parameter in the URL. Just to be sure, if you ever see this
“auth” parameter in your URLs, remove it before sending the URL to
anyone."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-03-08-n45.html

Marissa Mayer

Google's Marissa Mayer tells how she works:

How I Work
"Marissa Mayer"
"VP, Search Products and User Experience, Google"
"I use Gmail for my personal e-mail -- 15 to 20 e-mails a day -- but
on my work e-mail I get as many as 700 to 800 a day, so I need
something really fast."
"I use an e-mail application called Pine, a Linux-based utility I
started using in college. It's a very simple text-based mailer in a
crunchy little terminal window with Courier fonts. I do marathon e-
mail catch-up sessions, sometimes on a Saturday or Sunday. I'll just
sit down and do e-mail for ten to 14 hours straight. I almost always
have the radio or my TV on. I guess I'm a typical 25- to 35-year-old
who's now really embracing the two-screen experience."
"I almost always have my laptop with me. It's sitting with me right
now. We are a very laptop-friendly culture. It's not uncommon to walk
into a meeting at Google where everyone has a laptop open."
"To keep track of tasks, I have a little document called a task list.
And in the same document there's a list for each person I work with or
interact with, of what they're working on or what I expect from them.
It's just a list in a text file. Using this, I can plan my day out the
night before: "These are the five high-priority things to focus on."
But at Google things can change pretty fast. This morning I had my
list of what I thought I was going to do today, but now I'm doing
entirely different things."
"My day starts around 9 A.M. and meetings finish up around 8 P.M.
After that I stay in the office to do action items and e-mail. I can
get by on four to six hours of sleep. I pace myself by taking a week-
long vacation every four months."
"I have an assistant, Patty, who handles calls from the outside,
answers e-mails, letters, and requests. She does a great job with
scheduling. In an average week I'm getting scheduled into about 70
meetings, probably ten or 11 hours a day. On Friday, Patty lets me out
early -- around 6, and I go up to San Francisco and do something
interesting."
"From 4 to 5:30 every day that I can, I'll sit at my desk to answer
any question that shows up on my doorstep. We have a big sign-up sheet
outside. We joke that we should get one of those deli number tickers
-- "Now serving No. 68!" But we have nice couches and power for
laptops and things outside the door where people wait."
"The average seems to be around 13 people per day. Sometimes they show
me mockups or new demos of ideas they want to advance. Sometimes they
have a presentation they're working on. Or sometimes they just want to
ask me a question about Google's overall management. Anything is fair
game. So if they ask, "Why are we in China?" I try to answer as
candidly as I can."
"Interviewed by David Kirkpatrick"
http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fortune/how_i_work/frameset.exclude.html

Writely is Part of Google

Writely so
February 9, 2006
"For the last five months, I've been part of a Silicon Valley startup
called Upstartle, which makes Writely, a collaborative word processor
that runs in a web browser. Well, as of Monday, I'm happy to say that
I, and the rest of the Writely team, are now part of Google."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/writely-so.html

Writely - The Web Word Processor
"...that's now part of Google."
"Share documents instantly & collaborate real-time."
"Pick exactly who can access your documents."
"Edit your documents from anywhere"
"Nothing to download -- your browser is all you need."
http://www.writely.com/

Writely Tour
http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowTourPage1.htm

Writely FAQ
http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowFAQ.htm

"What exactly can I do with it?"
"You can:"
"Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create
documents from scratch)."
"Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to format your documents, spell-check
them, etc."
"Invite others to share your documents (by e-mail address)."
"Edit documents online with whomever you choose."
"View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version."
"Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose."
"Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF*,
HTML or zip."
"Post your documents to your blog."
http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowFAQ.htm#faq1

"What browsers does Writely support?"
"Writely will work wherever you have access to the Internet via a
Windows or Macintosh computer with one of these browsers:"
"IE 5.5+ (Windows)"
"Mozilla 1.4+ (Mac & Windows)"
"Firefox 1.0.6+ (Mac & Windows)"
"Regardless of your browser type, you must:"
"Enable cookies"
"Enable Javascript"
http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowFAQ.htm#faq4

"What blogs can I post to?"
"Writely supports posting to most of the popular blog sites, as well
as to any blog that supports the Blogger, metaWeblog or MovableType
APIs."
http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowFAQ.htm#faq26

"How much storage space do I get?"
"During the beta period, there is no limit on total storage space.  To
prevent abuse, there are (generous) limits on an individual document:
the document itself can be up to 500K in length; each embedded image
can be up to 2 megabytes; each document can be shared with up to 50
people."
http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowFAQ.htm#faq42

Google Mars

Google Mars
http://www.google.com/mars/

About Google Mars
"This map of Mars, published by Percival Lowell in 1895, was the
result of many years spent carefully studying the Red Planet through
his telescope. Now you can do the same through your web browser. In
collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University, we've
created some of the most detailed scientific maps of Mars ever made."
"We've included three different types of data in Google Mars:"
"Elevation - A shaded relief map, generated with data from the Mars
Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor
spacecraft. This map is color-coded by altitude, so you can use the
color key at the lower left to estimate elevations."
"Visible - A mosaic of images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. MOC is like the digital
camera you have at home. Basically, this is what your eyes would see
if you were in orbit around Mars."
"Infrared - A mosaic of infrared images taken by the Thermal Emission
Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. Warmer
areas appear brighter, and colder areas are darker. Clouds and dust in
the atmosphere are transparent in the infrared, making this the
sharpest global map of Mars that's ever been made."
http://www.google.com/mars/about.html

@Last Software acquired by Google

A new home for @Last Software
March 14, 2006
"When I went to sleep last night, I was employed by a small start-up
called @Last Software. This morning, although I’m going to the same
office, sitting at the same desk, and seeing the same people, I’m
going to work as a Google employee."
"People see SketchUp and they love it. Now that we’re part of Google,
how many of those ah-ha moments will happen every day? Already we’ve
had hundreds of users create 3D content in SketchUp and place their
models in Google Earth. (A free plug-in enables you to do this.)"
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/new-home-for-last-software.html

@Last Software acquired by Google
March 14, 2006
"Google Inc. has acquired @Last Software"
"You have to be wondering what this means for SketchUp. Are we going
to give up on design and all the cool new features and products we
have in the pipeline? No way! In fact, the mission doesn’t change at
all. We’re all about enabling users to express themselves in 3D and
share their vision with others. Architects, builders, woodworkers,
gamers, students and my Uncle Bob all want basically the same thing:
the most intuitive tools to help them create and share their 3D
dreams. So we’ll stay the course."
"SketchUp is still SketchUp, but now it will go places it couldn't
possibly have gone before."
"Here’s the story. We got to know a bunch of Googlers while we were
building the Google Earth Plugin for SketchUp, and it quickly became
apparent that we could really stir things up together. At first, it
was kind of hard to imagine; after all, we'd been blazing our own
trail for so long. But after we kicked it around awhile, it started to
seem right. One thing led to another, and here we are."
http://www.sketchup.com/index.php?id=1439

Judge Tells DoJ "No" on Search Queries

Judge tells DoJ "No" on search queries
March 17, 2006
"Google will not have to hand over any user's search queries to the
government. That's what a federal judge ruled today when he decided to
drastically limit a subpoena issued to Google by the Department of
Justice."
"The government's original request demanded billions of URLs and two
month's worth of users' search queries. Google resisted the subpoena,
prompting the judge's order today. In addition to excluding search
queries from the subpoena, Judge James Ware also required the
government to limit its demand for URLs to 50,000. We will fully
comply with the judge's order."
"This is a clear victory for our users and for our company, and Judge
Ware's decision regarding search queries is especially important.
While privacy was not the most significant legal issue in this case
(because the government wasn't asking for personally identifiable
information), privacy was perhaps the most significant to our users."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/judge-tells-doj-no-on-search-queries.html

Documents:

http://www.google.com/press/images/ruling_20060317.pdf
http://www.google.com/press/images/subpoena_20060317.pdf

Google Finance

Google Finance
http://finance.google.com/

Google Finance FAQ
"What is Google Finance?"
"Google Finance is an early beta product that offers a broad range of
information about North American stocks, mutual funds and public and
private companies along with charts, news and fundamental financial
data."
"Here are some specific Google Finance features:"
"Company Search — With Google Finance you can search for stocks,
mutual funds, public and private companies, using both company names
and (where available) ticker symbols."
"Interactive Charts — Google Finance charts correlate market data with
corresponding dated news stories to help you determine if there is a
relationship between them (for instance, by seeing news stories that
came out about a certain company in the context of what that company's
stock did that day). You can also click and drag the charts to see
different time periods and zoom in to see more detailed information."
"News and More News — Google Finance incorporates our Google News
service, which gathers stories from more than 4,500 English news
sources worldwide. Stories are clustered by topic so you can see
different opinions on a single subject; you can also review news
stories by monthly date range and by importance (which is determined
by algorithms)."
"Blogs — If you want the opinions of citizen journalists, you got 'em;
Google Finance includes company-related postings from Google Blog
Search."
"Company Management Team — Google Finance helps you put a face to a
name. Mousing over an executive name shows you their picture as well
as links, where available, to their biography, compensation details
and trading activity."
"Discussion Groups — Talk amongst yourselves. Google Finance offers
high-quality Discussion Groups whose dedicated team of moderators work
to keep conversations on and spam-free."
"Portfolios — Google Finance offers a fast, easy and powerful way to
keep create and maintain your portfolio of stocks and mutual funds."
"How does Google Finance work? Where does your financial content come
from?"
"Google Finance works by combining content we've licensed from
financial data providers with content we've crawled and indexed from
the web. The result is an easier approach to helping you find and
manage financial information online."
"Why is Google Finance in "beta"?"
"The "beta" label means that the product is still being tested and
refined; we generally find that the best way to improve new products
is to get feedback directly from users on what works and what doesn't.
So if you have comments or suggestions about Google Finance, we'd love
to hear from you."
"What are the minimum system requirements for using Google Finance
charts?"
"To use Google Finance charts, your system must meet the following
requirements:"
"1. Macromedia Flash; Player 7.0+. If you don't have a Flash Player
plug-in installed on your computer, you can download it from the Adobe
website."
"2. Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher with the latest updates
installed: IE 6.0, Windows Firefox 1.0, Windows Opera 8.0"
"3. Mac OS: Macintosh Firefox 1.0, Safari 1.2.4 and 2.0"
"4. Linux: Firefox 1.0.4"
"How can I create a Google Finance portfolio? How many companies can I
track?"
"To create a Google Finance portfolio you simply need to have a Google
Account. Once you have a Google Account, click on the portfolio link
at the top of the Google Finance page."
"Does Google Finance cover bonds?"
"No, we don't offer any bond coverage at this time."
"Does Google Finance support international companies? Why don't I get
the same amount of information for international companies as I do for
U.S. companies?"
"Google Finance currently covers international markets such as
Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, Paris and Toronto. We're working to
expand our international coverage for these markets and other
international markets, so stay tuned."
"Does Google Finance work on SMS?"
"Right now you can indeed get Google Finance stock quotes on SMS.
Finance content such as business description and news aren't yet
available on SMS."
"How are Google Finance Discussion Groups different from regular
finance message boards?"
"We've created a few tools to help ensure the Discussion Groups are
filled with real people with real opinions. We also have a team at
Google dedicated to ensuring these discussions are as high-quality as
possible, so you can enjoy thoughtful conversations about the
companies or mutual funds you care about."
"How do I participate in a Google Finance Discussion Group?"
"In order to post and participate in the Google Finance discussions,
you'll have to create a Google Account if you don't have one already.
We also ask that you tell the community a few things about yourself by
creating a Google Finance profile Google Finance profile. After that,
simply submit your posts and our team will review to ensure compliance
with the Discussion Group community guidelines. We strive to review
all posts within one business day."
"If you'd prefer to just read content on Google Finance Discussion
Groups, however, you can do so without signing up for the service."
"How will I know if my post has been disapproved?"
"If your post isn't approved, you'll receive a notification email at
the email address associated with the Google Account you used to sign
up. Otherwise, you can expect to see it live very soon."
http://www.google.com/googlefinance/faq.html

Google Finance discussion group
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Finance

Google Finance Community Guidelines
http://www.google.com/googlefinance/communityguidelines.html

Social Tagging With Google Reader

Google Jumps Into Social Tagging With New Google Reader Feature
March 22, 2006
"Philipp Lenssen notes that the Google Reader Blog has announced that
you can now share the content you read with your friends, family,
colleagues and others. This is a big move for Google, what seems to be
the first time they've allowed people to both tag and importantly
share that tagged content with others."
"Google's had tagging in the form of "labels" at Gmail for some time
and recently added (and also see here) bookmark/tagging features to
the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. However, items you tagged
couldn't be shared with others."
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060322-090845

Share Google Reader Feeds
March 22, 2006
"Just when you thought Google didn’t get “social,” Google Reader
introduced a nice new feature: sharing of feeds. Click on the new
“Share” tab and it allows you to publish items by label or by their
star."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-03-22-n89.html

Reader learns to share
March 21, 2006
"Google Reader has the ability to share what you like to read with
your friends. You can send a link to your starred items in Reader, or
you can put a clip on your blog with recent items from your reading
list"
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2006/03/reader-learns-to-share.html

Official Google AdSense Group

Official Google AdSense Group:

AdSense Help
http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help

Source:

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/03/now-you-can-help-each-other.html
https://www.google.com/support/adsense/

Google Personalized Homepage Directory Change

Google Personalized Homepage's (GPH) directory has changed. It now
contains pictures with titles:

More feeds for speed
April 3, 2006
"The personalized homepage has a new directory with more content and
more ways to browse, search and add it to your Google homepage."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-feeds-for-speed.html

GPH directory pages:

http://www.google.com/ig/directory
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&cat=news
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&cat=tools
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&cat=communication
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&cat=funandgames
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&cat=finance
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&cat=sports
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&cat=lifestyle
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&cat=technology
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&q=Google&hl=en

Google User Interface Experiment: Green Bars In Sections

More Experiments on Google Result Pages
January 26, 2006
"Google seems to be experimenting with a new kind of search result
page. As usual, from what we can assume, Google only tests their
prototypes on a relatively small amount of users and then analyzes the
“feedback” (clicks, time spent on page, and so on)."
"While the sections which moved to the left side aren’t new (we
spotted this a while ago), I’ve never seen the green bars next to the
sections. Possibly, they indicate the page count of this section’s
result, or another type of relevance measurement."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-01-26-n64.html

Related links:

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-12-30-n51.html
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-03-26-n51.html
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/03/27/use-googles-three-fold-interface/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=140
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060326-6460.html
http://www.playfuls.com/news_01791_Catch_A_Glimpse_Of_Googles_New_Search_Interface.html
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/003559.html
http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6055127.html

Google Related Links

Google Related Links
"Google Related Links use the power of Google to automatically bring
fresh, dynamic and interesting content links to any website.
Webmasters can place these units on their site to provide visitors
with links to useful information related to the site's content,
including relevant news, searches, and pages."
"Getting started is simple. Just choose a format, copy and paste the
code we provide onto your pages, and Google Related Links units will
appear on your site, providing your visitors with links to related
news, search, and pages."
http://www.google.com/relatedlinks/index.html

Google Related Links FAQ
http://www.google.com/relatedlinks/faq.html

Google Related Links forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Related-Links

Google Related Links Terms of Service
http://www.google.com/relatedlinks/terms.html

Google Related Links Program Policies
http://www.google.com/relatedlinks/policies.html

National Google Blogs

National Google blogs:

Google Blog (China)
Google 中国的博客网志，走近我们的产品、技术和文化
http://googlechinablog.com/

Google Blog (Italia)
Il blog ufficiale di Google Italia
http://googleitalia.blogspot.com/

Google Blog (Japan)
Google のサービスや技術についての最新情報が気になる方へ
http://googlejapan.blogspot.com/

Google Blog (Korea)
http://googlekoreablog.blogspot.com/

Google Blog (Mexico)
Planteamientos de empleados de Google sobre productos, tecnología y
nuestra cultura
http://googlemexicoblog.blogspot.com/

Inside AdSense (German)
Das offizielle deutsche AdSense-Blog
http://adsense-de.blogspot.com/

Source:
http://www.google.com/press/ -> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

Google Calendar

Google Calendar
http://www.google.com/calendar

Google Calendar Overview
"we've created Google Calendar – our free online shareable calendar
service. With Google Calendar, it's easy to keep track of all your
life's important events"
"Fully supported browsers:"
"- Microsoft IE 6.0+ (download: Windows)"
"- Mozilla Firefox 1.07+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)"
"JavaScript and cookies must be enabled on all browsers."
http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/overview.html

Google Calendar Help Center
http://www.google.com/support/calendar

Google Calendar Tour
http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/tour.html

Google Calendar and Your Privacy
http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/privacy_info.html

Google Calendar forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Calendar-Help/

"How do I sign-up?"
" If you have a Google Account, you're already signed up. Just visit
the Google Calendar homepage, enter your Google Account email and
password, and click on "Sign in." "
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37005&topic=8556

"How do I create an event?"
"You can create an event in a number of ways:"
"- Click and type to create an event."
"Click on the day where you'd like to create a new event. If the event
spans over an hour, click and drag. Type the title and event time for
your new event in the box. Finally, click "Create Event" to publish
the event to your calendar immediately, or click "edit event details"
to add additional information."
"- Create an event using the "Quick Add" feature."
"Click on "Quick Add" or type the letter "Q," then enter your info--[
Dinner in North Beach 8PM Friday ], for instance."
"- Create an event using the "Create Event" link."
" Just click on "Create Event" in the left column of your calendar.
This will bring you to a page where you can enter as much information
as you'd like about your event. On this page, you can also add guests,
change a reminder setting, and publish your event to other users. Once
you've entered the appropriate information and selected the desired
settings, make sure to click "Save." "
"- Create an event from the "Calendars" menu."
" Under "Calendars" in the left column, click on the down-arrow button
next to the appropriate calendar. Then, select "Create event on this
calendar." "
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37249&topic=8599

"How do I create repeating events?"
"To create a repeating event, just follow these steps:"
"Create an event and go to the event details page."
" Click into the event time section of the page, and select the
appropriate time interval from the drop-down menu entitled "Repeats."
"
" Select the appropriate time interval from the drop-down menu
entitled "Repeats." "
"Fill in the event's other details."
" Click "Save." "
"To make an existing event repeat, follow these steps:"
"Click on the event."
" Select "edit event details." "
" Click into the event time section of the page, and select the
appropriate time interval from the drop-down menu entitled "Repeats."
"
"Select the appropriate time interval from the drop-down menu entitled
"Repeats." "
" Click "Save." "
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37115&topic=8599

"How do I invite guests to my event?"
"Google Calendar lets you create invitations for special events, send
those invitations to friends, and keep track of responses and comments
all in one place."
"To invite someone to your event, just follow these steps:"
" 1. Click on the event and select "edit event details." "
" 2. In the "Guests" section, click on "Add Guests." "
"3. Enter the email addresses of the guests, separated by commas."
"4. Click on "Save." "
"5. If you'd like to notify your guests of your changes, click "Send";
if not, click "Don't Send." "
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37161&topic=8600

"How do I add a comment to an event?"
"Adding a comment is a handy way to communicate with other guests to
coordinate meeting-agenda topics, discuss who's bringing what, or
share other info about the event."
"To add a comment to a particular event, just follow these steps:"
"1. Click on the event."
" 2. Select "edit event details." "
"3. In the "Discuss this event" section, click on "Add a comment." "
"4. Enter your comment."
"5. Click on "Post comment." "
" 5. Click on "Save." "
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37160&topic=8600

"How do I create an event in Gmail?"
"Gmail offers an easy, convenient way to create events from your
inbox. If you're reading an email that contains info you'd like to add
to your Google Calendar, just follow these steps:"
"Open the email"
"Select Create Event from the More actions... drop-down menu"
"Edit and add event details as desired"
"Click Save Changes"
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37169&topic=8602

"How do I add a map to an event?"
"Just fill in the "Where" field on the "Create Event" page, and Google
Calendar will create a link to a Google Map's search result. To ensure
an accurate result, please enter a full address, including city and
state."
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37114&topic=8599

"How do I change calendar views?"
"With Google Calendar, you can view calendar information by day, by
week, and by month. You can also customize your calendar view to
display as many days as you want in one view."
"To change between different views, just click on the tabs in the top
-right corner of your calendar. To quickly customize your view, just
click and drag on your mini-calendar from your desired start date and
drag to your desired end date."
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37189&topic=8556

"How do I change the time format (e.g. 1:00 PM, 13:00)?"
"To change the time format, just follow these steps:"
"1. Click on "Settings" at the top of any Google Calendar page."
"2. Select the "General" tab if it isn't selected already."
"3. In the "Time format" section, select a format from the drop-down
menu."
" 4. Click on "Save." "
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37068&topic=8557

"How do I add calendars?"
"You can add four types of calendars: additional personal calendars,
public calendars, friends' calendars, and holiday calendars."
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=36602&topic=8556

"Will Google share my information?"
"Google takes your privacy as seriously as our own. We won't share
your personal information with anyone, except under the limited
circumstances required by law. For more details, please refer to the
"Information Sharing" section of our Privacy Policy."
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37054&topic=8560

"Is Google reading my calendar information?"
"Google's computers process the information in your calendars to offer
you the best possible service, including formatting and displaying the
information to you and backing up your calendars' contents. Google
employees will not read your private calendar information except in
the limited circumstances described in the "Information Sharing"
section of our Privacy Policy."
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37055&topic=8560

"Will my calendar information be visible to others?"
"Your calendar information stays private unless you adjust your
calendar-sharing settings. If you choose to share, you decide who to
share with, and which details they can see."
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37056&topic=8560

"How can I protect my password?"
"To help protect your password, follow these guidelines for creating a
unique password:"
"- Be creative. Don't use words that can be found in a dictionary."
"- Use at least six characters."
"- Don't use a password that you have used elsewhere."
"- Include punctuation marks. Mix capital and lowercase letters.
Include numbers."
"- Find ways of collecting random letters and numbers, such as opening
books, looking at license plates or taking the third letter from the
first ten words you see."
"Tips for keeping your password secure:"
"- Never tell anyone your password. Don't write it down."
"- Never send your password by email. Neither Google Calendar or
Google will ever ask you for your password by email."
"- Periodically change your password."
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37053&topic=8560

"Does Calendar have keyboard shortcuts?"
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=37034&topic=8556

"Import & Export"
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/topic.py?topic=8566

"Notifications"
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/topic.py?topic=8567

"Mobile Access"
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/topic.py?topic=8568

"Gmail Integration"
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/topic.py?topic=8569

Google Groups Forum Moved

Today the official Google Groups Beta (GG2) forum has moved to:

Google Groups Guide
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Groups-Guide

More info:

http://groups.google.com/group/past-discussions/msg/94aa0fc62628769b
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Groups-Basics/msg/1bdecb3d0df38874
http://groups.google.com/support

Google Summer of Code 2006

Google Summer of Code 2006
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html

FAQs
http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html
http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html

Forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Summer-Discuss-2006

Google Notifying Webmasters Of Penalties

Notifying webmasters of penalties
April 26, 2006
"Google’s Webspam team is working with our Sitemaps team to alert some
(but not all) site owners of penalties for their site. In my world
(webmasters), this is both a Big Deal and a Good Thing, even though
it’s still an experiment. Sign up for Sitemaps to try it out."
"In the early days when Google had 200-300 people there was no way we
could do everything we wanted to do. But as Google grows, we get more
of a chance to “go back and fix things,” to build the ideal search
engine. And part of doing that is having more and better communication
with webmasters."
"I believe the ideal search engine would help site owners debug and
diagnose crawl problems, and the Sitemaps team has made great strides
with that in Google’s webmaster console. But I think the ideal search
engine would also tell legitimate site owners when they risk not doing
well in Google."
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/notifying-webmasters-of-penalties/

Links:

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/6413
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060426GoogleAddsWarningsToSitemaps.html
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.support.general/msg/27b3101297b1ce8e

Google Sponsored Links

Google Sponsored Links
http://www.google.com/sponsoredlinks

Links:

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001309.html
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/4668.htm
http://www.researchbuzz.org/2004/12/get_just_google_adwords_result.shtml
http://adwords.google.com/

http://www.google.com/ie

Google Bare-bones Interface

what is google/ie

"Google.com/ie is designed to be displayed in the left hand 'search
pane' of internet explorer, if you set Google to be the default search
engine within IE"
"However it's become popular with webmasters who are checking the
positions of a particular site and so don't need to see anything but a
bare-bones interface."
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/21455.htm

www.google.com/ie is mentioned in Google's Windows Registry file
on page "Make Google Your Default Search Engine":

Make Google Your Default Search Engine

"Download this file to make Google the default search engine for
Internet Explorer versions 4.0 - 6.0. (Note: you will need
Administrator privileges on your computer in order to install this
file.)"
"The "search" button will bring up a Google search box down the left
side of your browser."
http://www.google.com/options/defaults.html#default

And here are the contents of the Windows Registry file:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Use Search Asst"="no"
"Search Page"="http://www.google.com"
"Search Bar"="http://www.google.com/ie"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL]
""="http://www.google.com/keyword/%s"
"provider"="gogl"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search]
"SearchAssistant"="http://www.google.com/ie"
http://www.google.com/google.reg

Links:

http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/35957/Windows_Tip_Let_Google_Take_Over.html
http://alexamancini.com/blog/index.php?print=3
http://www.regxplor.com/tweak22.html
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=87
http://www.visakopu.net/ie5google/
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/Google/

Google SketchUp & 3D Warehouse

Google SketchUp
http://sketchup.google.com/

"Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program whose
few simple tools enable you to create 3D models of houses, sheds,
decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships. You
can add details, textures and glass to your models, design with
dimensional accuracy, and place your finished models in Google Earth,
share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print
hard copies."
http://sketchup.google.com/product_suf.html

Google 3D Warehouse
"Search, share and store 3D models"
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/
http://sketchup.google.com/product_3dwh.html

The SketchUp Product Family
"Google SketchUp (free)"
"SketchUp Pro 5"
http://sketchup.google.com/products.html

Google SketchUp Online Documentation
http://download.sketchup.com/OnlineDoc/GoogleSketchUpHelp.htm

Google SketchUp Video Tutorials
http://sketchup.google.com/tutorials.html

Google SketchUp Help Center
http://sketchup.google.com/support/

Google SketchUp Forum
http://groups.google.com/group/sketchup

Google Suggest on Google News

Google Suggest on Google News
http://news.google.com/news?complete=1

News + Suggest join forces
April 28, 2006
"I've always been a big fan of both Google News and Google Suggest. So
in my 20% time, I've worked on a way to bring them together, and I'm
now happy to report the launch of Google Suggest on Google News, which
provides you with search suggestions specific to news in your country,
in real time, while you type."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/news-suggest-join-forces.html

Google Labs
http://labs.google.com/

Google's Webmaster Pages Have Changed

Google has reorganized its pages for webmasters. There are no more
much of "Google Information for Webmasters" pages, but instead there
are now "Webmaster Help Center" pages.

Below are some examples of redirections from old pages to new pages
(with links to old versions in Google's cache or in Wayback Machine
archive):

Example 1:

"Google Information for Webmasters"
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

->

"Webmaster Help Center"
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/

(Wayback Machine version)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050203014039/http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Example 2:

"Webmaster Guidelines"
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

->

"What are Google's webmaster guidelines?"
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

(Wayback Machine version)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050203192058/http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

Example 3:

"Googlebot: Google's Web Crawler"
http://www.google.com/webmasters/bot.html

->

"Googlebot"
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8460

(Google's cached version)
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:tdNGnYQ1nBAJ:www.google.com/webmasters/bot.html+&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

Example 4:

"Feedfetcher: Google's Feed Grabber"
http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html

->

"Feedfetcher"
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8461

(Google's cached version)
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:wfWAohZVOUsJ:www.google.com/feedfetcher.html+&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

Example 5:

"Need to remove content from Google's index?"
http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

->

"Removals"
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8459

(Google's cached version)
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:__Mnbe32KmgJ:www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html+&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

Example 6:

"My Site's Listing is Incorrect"
http://www.google.com/webmasters/3.html

->

"My site's no longer included in the search results. What happened?"
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34443&topic=8523

(Wayback Machine version)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050203181855/http://www.google.com/webmasters/3.html

Google Code Jam Europe 2006

Google Code Jam Europe 2006
http://www.google.com/codejameurope/
http://www.topcoder.com/pl/?module=Static&d1=gecj06&d2=overview

Google Code Jam Europe 2006 FAQ
http://www.topcoder.com/pl/?module=Static&d1=gecj06&d2=faq

Google Code Jam Europe 2006 forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Code-Jam-Europe

Google Co-op

Google Co-op
"Google Co-op is about sharing expertise. You can contribute your
expertise and benefit when others do the same. Help other users find
information more easily by creating "subscribed links" for your
services and labeling webpages around the topics you know best."
"This is a work in progress, but even in its early stages, Google Co-
op has the potential to let you contribute your expertise to the
overall goal of making information more discoverable for everyone."
http://www.google.com/coop/

Google Co-op FAQ for users
"Google Co-op is a community of organizations, businesses, and
individuals working together to help improve Google search. The
benefit to you as a Google user is new ways to quickly refine your
searches to find what you're looking for more quickly. Check out the
Google Co-op directory for a list of providers who have contributed
labels and subscribed links that you can add to your Google search
results."
"How will subscribing to someone affect my search results?"
"When you subscribe to someone in the Google Co-op directory, all of
that provider's labels and subscribed links will be added to your
Google search results for relevant searches. The labels and links
provide new and useful ways to refine your searches."
http://www.google.com/coop/docs/faq_users.html

Google Co-op FAQ
http://www.google.com/coop/docs/faq.html

Google Co-op Directory
http://www.google.com/coop/directory
http://www.google.com/coop/directory?cx=lifestyle
http://www.google.com/coop/directory?cx=health_devel
http://www.google.com/coop/directory?cx=information
http://www.google.com/coop/directory?cx=news
http://www.google.com/coop/directory?cx=destination_guides_devel

Google Co-op: Manage Co-op profile
"Your profile lets others know about your interests, background, and
contributions to Google Co-op. Send others a link to your public
profile page so they can subscribe to your contributions."
http://www.google.com/coop/manage/profile

Google Co-op forum for contributors
http://groups.google.com/group/google-co-op

Google Co-op: Subscribed Links Developer Guide
"With the Google Subscribed Links API, you can add your services
directly into Google search. This can help make those services more
accessible, giving your users another entry-point to them when they're
making a related search on Google."
http://www.google.com/coop/docs/guide_subscribed_links.html

Google Co-op: Topics Developer Guide
"This document explains how you can help improve Google search by
contributing annotations to topics that are currently being worked on,
as well as how to create an entirely new topic in your area of
expertise."
"You create annotations by associating labels with URL patterns."
http://www.google.com/coop/docs/guide_topics.html

Yes, we are still all about search
May 10, 2006
"Google Co-op is a way for users to help us improve search. It lets
people and organizations label web pages and create specialized links
related to their unique expertise. Whether it's information about a
hobby, a profession, or an unusual interest, everyone can contribute
to making Google search more relevant and useful for the entire
community."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/yes-we-are-still-all-about-search.html

Google Desktop 4

Yes, we are still all about search
May 10, 2006
"Google Desktop 4 gives you another way to improve search, by
personalizing your desktop. New "Google Gadgets" deliver an array of
information--ranging from games and media players to weather updates
and news--straight to your desktop."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/yes-we-are-still-all-about-search.html

What's new in the latest version?
"Google Gadgets: These new interactive mini-applications can be
anything from games to search tools to media players, and you can also
build your own. You can also configure certain gadgets to back up your
gadget content and settings on Google Desktop's servers to protect
your information. Saving your information in this manner also allows
you to access it from your other computers by logging into your Google
Account with Google Desktop. For instance, you can now 'synch' the To
Do list on both your laptop and your desktop."
"Improved indexing: When you move files, Google Desktop now updates
your index more quickly and accurately. With the new “Re-Index”
feature, you can also manually re-index your computer."
"Search Across Computers: Through a secure login, you'll now have the
ability to search your Google Desktop index from other computers. This
feature will allow you to search your home computer from your work
computer, for example."
http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14638&topic=168
http://desktop.google.com/features.html

Google Gadgets for Google Desktop
http://desktop.google.com/plugins

Google Desktop Help Center
http://desktop.google.com/support

Google Desktop forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop

Google Trends

Google Trends
"See what the world is searching for."
http://www.google.com/trends

Google Trends FAQ
"With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your
favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they've
been searched for on Google over time. Google Trends also displays how
frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and which
geographic regions have searched for them most often."
"Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute
how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to
the total number of searches done on Google over time. We then show
you a graph with the results -- our search-volume graph."
"Located just beneath our search-volume graph is our news-volume
graph. This graph shows you the number of times your topic appeared in
Google News stories. When Google Trends detects a spike in the volume
of news stories for a particular term, it labels the graph and
displays the headline of an automatically selected Google News story
written near the time of that spike."
"You can use the drop-down boxes in the upper-right corner of the
Google Trends results page to restrict your results to a particular
time frame or region. The restrictions will affect both the search
volume and news volume graphs, and the city, region, and language data
that appear below the graphs, though news volume may not be available
on a per region basis. When you restrict your results to a specific
year or multi-year period, each point on the graph will represent a
week's worth of searches. When you restrict the results to a specific
month, each point on the graph will represent one day of searches."
"When the Cities tab is selected, Google Trends looks at a sample of
all Google searches to determine the cities from which we received the
most searches for your first term. Then, for those top cities, Google
Trends calculates the portion of searches for your term coming from
each city, relative to all Google searches coming from the same city."
http://www.google.com/trends/about.html

Google Trends forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Trends

Yes, we are still all about search
May 10, 2006
"Google Trends builds on the idea behind the Google Zeitgeist,
allowing you to sort through several years of Google search queries
from around the world to get a general idea of everything from user
preferences on ice-cream flavors to the relative popularity of
politicians in their respective cities or countries."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/yes-we-are-still-all-about-search.html

Google Notebook

Google Notebook browser extension
http://www.google.com/notebook/

Google Notebook Overview
"Google Notebook makes web research of all kinds – from planning a
vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car – easier and
more efficient by enabling you to clip and gather information even
while you're browsing the web."
"And since Google Notebook lives in your browser, you won't be left
with a scattered collection of notes, Word docs, and browser bookmarks
to sort through; all your web findings will be gathering into one
organized, easy accessible location that you can access from any
computer."
http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/overview.html

Google Notebook FAQ
"How do I get started?"
"Just sign in to the Google Notebook homepage with your Google
Accounts username and password, then download the Google Notebook
browser extension (if you haven't already). As soon as you restart
your browser, you should see a Google Notebook icon in the bottom-
right corner of your browser window. Click on this icon to open your
mini Google Notebook"
"Why do I need to download a browser extension?"
"Downloading a browser extension enables you to use the mini Google
Notebook. The mini Google Notebook allows you to clip information from
the web without ever leaving the page you're on. You'll never again
need to toggle between windows, or copy and paste info from your
browser window to another application."
"What browsers does the Google Notebook extension support?"
"To take advantage of Google Notebook's full functionality, you'll
need one of these up-to-date browsers:"
"Internet Explorer 6"
"Firefox 1.5+"
http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/faq.html

Google Notebook forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Notebook

Google Web Toolkit

Google Web Toolkit
"Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework
that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy
for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language.
Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone
process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle
incompatabilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript's
lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components
difficult and fragile."
"GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users
the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front
end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts
your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML."
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/

Building User Interfaces
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/com.google.gwt.doc.DeveloperGuide.UserInterface.html

Remote Procedure Calls
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/com.google.gwt.doc.DeveloperGuide.RemoteProcedureCalls.html

Class History
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/com.google.gwt.user.client.History.html

Debugging in Hosted Mode
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/com.google.gwt.doc.DeveloperGuide.Fundamentals.HostedMode.html

Deployment in Web Mode
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/com.google.gwt.doc.DeveloperGuide.Fundamentals.WebMode.html

JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI)
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/com.google.gwt.doc.DeveloperGuide.JavaScriptNativeInterface.html

Making AJAX development easier
May 16, 2006
"we're bringing you Google Web Toolkit. GWT is a new publicly
available software development tool that makes creating AJAX
applications much easier. With GWT, you can develop and debug your own
AJAX applications in Java code using the Java development tools of
your choice. When you deploy your application to production, the GWT
compiler simply translates your Java application to browser-compliant
JavaScript and HTML."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/making-ajax-development-easier.html

Google Continues To Dominate Search Engine Competition

Google Continues To Dominate Search Engine Competition
"Google was estimated to have handled 2.9 billion searches which is a
key component of revenue for the company. The more searches that are
conducted on the search engine, the more money they can charge for
advertising and placement."
"While Google continues to dominate the search engine world, it is
still lagging behind the competition in other areas. Yahoo! mail has
42 percent of the e-mail market while MSN Hotmail has 23 percent and
MySpace Mail has 19.5 percent. Gmail from Google has only 2.5 percent
of the market."
"Google Finance only had 0.3 percent of the market, well behind Yahoo!
and MSN while Google finished third in map services with 7.5 percent."
"So, while Google continues to dominate the search engine sweepstakes,
it still has a ways to go to make serious inroads in other services."
http://www.elitestv.com/pub/2006/May/EEN447357c758889.html

Google increases US web search market share to 43%
May 29, 2006
"In April 2006, web search company Google gained in search market
share for the ninth consecutive month and maintained its status as
market leader with 43.1 per cent of all US searches conducted on its
sites, according to figures from internet research firm Comscore
Networks. Internet company Yahoo remained in second place with 28 per
cent, while MSN ranked third with 12.9 per cent."
"Americans conducted 6.6bn searches online in April, up 4 per cent
from last month."
"Google sites led the pack with 2.9bn search queries performed,
followed by Yahoo Sites (1.9bn), MSN-Microsoft (858m), Time-Warner
Network (457m), and Ask Jeeves/Ask Network (384m)."
"MySpace.com has been added to the search engine rankings for April
2006, coming in at 6th place with 43m search queries performed (0.6
per cent share of the U.S. search market)."
"Google and Yahoo continued their dominance among toolbar searches,
combining for more than 95 per cent of the market share in April.
Google grabbed 48 per cent of toolbar searches, while Yahoo captured
47.6 per cent."
http://www.digitalmediaasia.com/default.asp?ArticleID=15683

Google Tops Another Search Survey
May 22, 2006
"[Google] won a lot of users over the last five years, but it could
easily lose them," said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research.
"Search is one of the least 'sticky' Internet applications, which is
why Google has been so busy launching new features."
"Google has come out on top of yet another survey of the search-engine
market, following the company's top rankings on recent surveys by
HitWise and Nielsen//NetRatings. Analysis firm ComScore Networks'
latest rankings report indicates that, in April, Google gained market
share for the ninth consecutive month."
"The Reston, Virginia-based firm said that Google maintained its top
position by capturing 43.1 percent of all U.S. searches. Yahoo
remained in second place with 28 percent, while MSN came in third
place with 12.9 percent."
"These figures are very similar to recent survey data from HitWise and
NetRatings," said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research. "They
are also very similar to a U.S. survey Forrester Research carried out
last fall which put Google in top place for Internet searches."
"The ComScore report indicates that Google's market share rose from
36.5 percent in April 2005 to 42.7 percent in March 2006, while Yahoo
fell from 30.7 percent in April last year to 28 percent in March 2006.
MSN also declined, with its market share falling from 16.1 percent in
April 2005 to 13.2 percent in March."
"While Google continues to dominate the world of search, experts say
that the company cannot afford to be complacent in light of the fierce
competition for Internet users."
"It won a lot of users over the last five years, but it could easily
lose them," said Li. "Search is one of the least 'sticky' Internet
applications, which is why Google has been so busy launching new
features."
"Li noted that both Yahoo and Google are developing advanced search
services that are designed with better, more-personalized
recommendations in mind."
"They are using different approaches," she said. "Google is adopting a
technological approach using complex search algorithms based on past
searches by a user, while Yahoo looks at its records of what other
people with similar interests are searching for."
http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Google-Tops-Another-Search-Survey/story.xhtml?story_id=112003LQMRAO

Links:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/index.php?p=188
http://oraclewatch.eweek.com/blogs/google_watch/archive/2006/05/22/10226.aspx
http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20060522GoogleStillMakingFootstoolofYahooandMSN.html
http://www.newratings.com/analyst_news/article_1281860.html
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=43637
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/tm.site/news/TOP%20STORY/265284/

Google To Shut Down Orkut Communities

Google to shut down Orkut communities
May 24, 2006
"Google (GOOG) said Wednesday that it has agreed to shut down some
communities on its popular Orkut social networking site because the
Brazilian government says they advocate violence and human rights
violations."
"Google agreed to shut down any sites that violate Orkut's terms of
service, which forbid "any illegal or unauthorized purpose," after the
company met Tuesday with a Brazilian human rights commission, which
presented evidence that Brazilians have been using the invitation-only
networking site to promote crimes and violence."
" "Orkut does not condone any of the communities that advocate
violence and are a threat to human rights," Nicole Wong, a Google
attorney, said in a statement. "
"Brazilian Rep. Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh, a member of the congressional
commission, said Google had agreed to remove six websites from Orkut
and help police identify those who posted the pages as part of a
preliminary accord."
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-05-24-google-brazil_x.htm?csp=34

Links:

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2006/05/22/daily48.html
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N25191491.htm
http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6077136.html
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-commission-orders-closure-six-orkut-communities-/2006/05/25/1659614.htm

Google's Picasa for Linux

Picture this: Picasa for Linux
May 24, 2006
"today we're launching Picasa for Linux on Google Labs. It
incorporates nearly all the features of the current Windows version of
Picasa, providing you with the tools you need to easily find, edit,
and share the photos on your computer. And because it runs on a
carefully tested version of Wine, Picasa avoids the slowing effects of
an OS emulation or a virtual machine."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/picture-this-picasa-for-linux.html

Google Picasa Now on Linux
"Google has ported over its popular free Picasa photo organization
tool to the Linux operating system. It has released a new build of
version 2.2. In order to support the open source OS, Google developers
are using a special version of Wine, along with code from Mozilla."
"The new release is expected to run on any of these Linux distros
running on a an x86 compatible processor:"
"Debian Sarge"
"Debian Etch"
"Fedora Core 4"
"Fedora Core 5"
"Linspire 5"
"Mandriva 2006"
"Mandriva 2005"
"Red Hat Workstation 3"
"Red Hat Workstation"
"Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)"
"SuSE 9.3"
"SuSE 10.0"
http://www.sda-india.com/sda/news/psecom,id,9063,nodeid,4,_language,India.html

Google Sends Picasa To Linux
May 26, 2006
"The call for Google to port its software applications to Linux got
off to a good start with the company's photo sharing and editing
software Picasa making the jump."
"Google's Picasa for Linux utilizes Wine and Mozilla's Gecko engine to
operate on Linux systems. The 24MB download brings most of Picasa's
functionality from Windows to Linux, though there are a few
exceptions."
"The software has minimal hardware requirements. Google said Picasa
will run on 386-compatible processor machines with glibc 2.3 or
greater, and a working X11 display system. Google listed some optional
system requirements that would support other Picasa functions:"
"XVideo extension on your display driver (to view things full screen);
having a newer kernel (>= 2.6.13) to get notified of file changes;
having a new kernel and HAL to automatically detect new media
insertion. Note: There are other variations -- for example, setting
screensavers and desktop backgrounds only works on certain Linux
windowing environments."
"Desktop Integration features require a current version of Gnome or
KDE."
"Camera detection and integration requires kernel >= 2.6.13, hal >=
0.56, and gnome-volume-manager or equivalent."
"To make Picasa work with Linux, Google made some changes to Wine.
Those changes have been contributed back to the Wine project."
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060526GoogleSendsPicasaToLinux.html

Google releases Picasa for Linux -- and 100+ Wine patches
May 25, 2006
"Picasa is a photo organizing and editing tool from Google that does
most of what most people need to do with their digital pictures. Now
Picasa, previously a Windows-only program, has binaries available for
most popular GNU/Linux distributions. The Linux version of Picasa is
still a beta release, but it's ready to handle photo storage,
organizing, and light photo editing on your Linux computer."
"Even if you don't want to use Picasa, Google's creation of the Linux
version may help make your Linux computer more versatile. The Picasa
Linux port is being made with Wine, and in the process more than 100
patches are being contributed back to the community."
" Google spokesperson Chris DiBona says, "At the end of this, a lot of
people will be able to use Wine who weren't able to before." "
"Google hired CodeWeavers to do much of the work needed to get Picasa
to run on Linux with Wine, but long-time Wine community contributor
Dan Kegel also helped; he works for Google."
"According to DiBona, the Picasa Linux beta release currently lacks
these features:"
"CD Burning"
"TiVo Export"
"Support for languages other than English"
"Hello™ instant picture chat"
"Picasa does not work with SELinux due to problems with camera
recognition caused by SELinux's security features."
"DiBona cautions all downloaders: "This is a beta version. We're
expecting bugs." But he also says that, except for the features
specifically noted as not working, this is a fully-functional program,
ready for everyday use."
http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/06/05/25/2343255.shtml?tid=138&tid=75&tid=131

Links:

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7038481273.html
http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1148651322.html
http://www.osdir.com/Article8757.phtml
http://www.betanews.com/article/Google_Ports_Picasa_to_Linux/1148662939
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=33074&src=site-marq
http://www.digitalhomecanada.com/content/view/1258/1/

Some Gmail & Google Mail Users Locked Out

Some users locked out of Google Mail
May 29, 2006
"Google said it is "working to resume normal service soon" for Google
Mail after a number of users of the e-mail service were left without
access."
"The search giant last Thursday confirmed the outage after some people
complained they couldn't access their e-mail accounts. Problems were
also reported with Google Desktop."
" "By midmorning on last Thursday users were reporting the service as
being back to normal, although many were questioning the root of the
problem. A Google representative declined to comment, other than to
say Google was "investigating this." "
"Back in March, several Google Mail users complained that they were
struggling to use the free service. Two said their accounts had
actually been deleted."
"The search giant eventually admitted some accounts had indeed been
wiped, but claimed it was not responsible."
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/0,39044246,39362009,00.htm

Users irked by Gmail glitch
May 25, 2006
"An apparent outage left many users unable to access Gmail, Google's
free web-based email service, on Wednesday."
"Gmail, like many web services, experiences occasional availability
problems. But the issue of Wednesday lasted several hours and hit a
substantial number of users, judging by our postbag and posts on a
Gmail forum."
" By Thursday, the Gmail service was restored to normal. Nobody from
Google with knowledge of the issue was available for comment at the
time of going to press."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/25/gmail_glitch/

Google Green Maps Mashup

Google Green Maps
http://maps.google.com/green/

Map your way to greener travel
May 31, 2006
"we started working on a Maps mashup that would highlight some fun
summer activities that also respect the environment. The result is our
Summer of Green travel mashup site. We've teamed with Earth Day
Network to highlight some planet-friendly travel tips for top U.S.
travel destinations as well as how to use Google Maps in your daily
routine to find and support green activities."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/map-your-way-to-greener-travel.html

Google Video: Movie Trailers

Google Video: Movie Trailers
http://video.google.com/movietrailers.html

Google Spreadsheets

Google Spreadsheets (Limited Test)
"Create, store and share spreadsheets on the web."
"Imagine a spreadsheet that's always current and that others can
update from their own computers, even at the same time."
"Get started quickly."
"Import your existing spreadsheets or create new ones from scratch."
"Edit your spreadsheets from anywhere."
"All you need is a Web browser - your spreadsheets are stored securely
online."
"Share changes in real-time."
"Invite people to your spreadsheets and make changes together, at the
same time."
"Google Spreadsheets is a limited test. If you fill in your email
address below, we'll send you an invitation – first-come, first-
served."
http://spreadsheets.google.com/

Google Spreadsheets Sneak Peek
http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/tour1.html

Google Spreadsheets Help Center
http://www.google.com/support/spreadsheets

Google Spreadsheets forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Spreadsheets

Google Terms of Service
http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/terms_of_use.html

Google Spreadsheets Privacy Policy
"The Google Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information
when you use Google's services, including information provided to
Google Spreadsheets. In addition, the following describes our
practices that are specific to Google Spreadsheets."
"Google's servers automatically record certain information about your
use of Google Spreadsheets. Similar to other web services, Google
records information such as account activity (e.g., storage usage,
number of log-ins, actions taken), data displayed or clicked on (e.g.,
UI elements, links), and other log information (e.g., browser type, IP
address, date and time of access, cookie ID, referrer URL)."
"Files you create with Google Spreadsheets may, if you choose, be
read, copied, used and redistributed by people you know or, again if
you choose, by people you do not know. Information you disclose using
the chat function of Google Spreadsheets may be read, copied, used and
redistributed by people participating in the chat. Use care when
including sensitive personal information in spreadsheets you share or
in chat sessions, such as social security numbers, financial account
information, home addresses or phone numbers."
http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/privacy.html

Google Spreadsheets Legal Notices
"Google Spreadsheets includes portions of OpenOffice.org Calc
documentation authored by Magnus Adielsson, Richard Barnes, Peter
Kupfer, Iain Roberts and Jean Hollis Weber and distributed under the
Creative Commons Attribution License, version 2.0"
http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/legalnotices.html

Google Labs: Frequently Asked Questions
"What does "limited test" mean?"
"Some Google Labs prototypes can handle only a limited number of users
in their initial stages. When we know that's the case, we do our best
to let you know too, by putting "limited test" next to its name, along
with some screenshots and/or more information about the product for
those of you who weren't able to get there in time to actually try it
out."
http://labs.google.com/faq.html#limitedtest

Inside Google Spreadsheets
June 6, 2006
"At this time, Google is sending out invites to the first people who
signed up for what must be the 15th or so product launch this year."
"Google spreadsheets works quite smoothly. There were no noticeable
lags in-between editing, and the multi-user editing is superb (and
somewhat similar to Writely). The look and feel is that of Excel, but
Google-branded and webified. There are less icons, less menu entries,
and there is also only the most needed functionality. Your files can
be exported into several formats (Excel, CSV, and HTML)."
"You’ll notice Google put a focus on sharing and multi-user editing.
You can invite others to your document, you can chat with them, and
edit along with them on the same document, at the same time. (When
you’re used to Microsoft Excel showing weird messages like “the
document is currently being edited” on your intranet, this is a
refreshing change.)"
"Google Spreadsheet usability is quite good. As ever so often, this is
a Google product with no ads so far (ads might be on the horizon, of
course); it’s more a tool than a site, clearly fitting into the
growing array of Google OS products. The only thing I really missed so
far was right-clicking rows to apply formatting changes or to copy &
paste text. (It’s not trivial working around the default browser
context menu, which in certain contexts can’t be replaced at all by a
web page.) That, and the ability to create graphs from your data (and
the help file also needs to be completed yet). But that’s the good
thing about web apps; they can be constantly updated by the developers
in the background without any of us ever having to install a new
version."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-06-06-n86.html

Google Spreadsheets hands-on
June 6, 2006
"I got access to Google Spreadsheets this morning, shortly after I
wrote up my quick take based on the screenshots on Google's site."
"Google Spreadsheets is easy to use, free, and works much like every
other spreadsheet you've ever worked with. It takes very little time
to learn to use it."
"You can't lose your work. Once you name the spreadsheet you're
working on, or right after you import an XLS file from your computer,
Google Spreadsheets saves your file. From that point, every change you
make is immediately saved."
"The sharing function lets you collaborate with other users (Google
account holders only so far). Alternatively, you can invite people to
view, but not edit, your work. All changes are live, so you can be
talking on the phone and editing the same work at the same time. This
is very useful, and it's something you can't easily do with Excel."
"There's a good list of mathematical, financial, statistical, and
other function types. You won't find many calculations that you can't
perform."
"The service imports your existing Excel (and CSV) files pretty well.
It's not 100%, however: I found that some text formatting (colors, in
particular) and date formatting did not import."
"Google Spreadsheets does support multi-sheet spreadsheets, just like
Excel"
"There's no print function. But you can export your spreadsheet as a
static HTML file."
"I'd recommend this service for the new spreadsheet user or the person
who just wants to work with numbers or small data tables from time to
time. It has functionality most people need, except the critical
graphing and printing functions. The collaboration features are just
dynamite."
http://news.com.com/2061-12572_3-6080622.html

Google Spreadsheet - it's not about Microsoft
June 6, 2006
"The critical point about Google Spreadsheet is not that it threatens
Microsoft's Excel sales. It is the continuing disruptive impact that
free Web-based programs will have on computer users."
"Thanks to Web-based e-mail, word processors, calendars, to do lists,
drawing programs, whether I'm working on a Mac or a Windows, PC is
becoming irrelevant. This should worry PC makers. Bundled software
becomes less of a selling point when all the programs you want to run,
and that your friends run, are out there in cyberspace and don't need
to be started from the desktop."
"An example. A famous Mac user declared he is "sick and tired of being
a beta tester for Apple." In the course of a recent Daily Source Code
podcast, Adam Curry described how his third Mac had died, within a
year. And how easily he was able to switch over to a much-lighter (and
probably cheaper) PC laptop, because he was able to find Web-versions
of many of the same services (GMail, among them), as well as free or
shareware analogues of Mac programs for audio processing and file
maintenance."
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?dist=newsfinder&siteid=google&guid=%7BDB29470C-0C11-4179-9D75-B2BA94CF9FD0%7D&keyword=

Links:

http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/002213.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/index.php?p=202
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2732
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2006/06/06/google_announces_spreadsheet_press_reaction_is_clueless_as_usual.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Google-to-launch-online-spreadsheet-to-compete-with-Microsoft/2006/06/07/1149359773881.html
http://www.forbes.com/markets/equities/2006/06/06/google-microsoft-0606markets06.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5051610.stm
http://www.betanews.com/article/Google_to_Test_WebBased_Spreadsheet/1149561176
http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188701833

China Restores Google.com

China Restores Google.com
June 9, 2006
"China has lifted its online blockade of Google.com after a two-week
crackdown that had prevented direct access to the site and temporarily
thwarted popular workarounds, a media watchdog group reported Friday."
"The Paris-based journalism advocacy group Reporters Without Borders,
or RSF, said that tests revealed the uncensored version of the search
site was accessible again to internet users in Beijing and Shanghai.
The crackdown overlapped with the June 4 anniversary of the bloody
1989 Tiananmen Square protests."
" A Google spokesperson confirmed this, saying that "we have heard no
further reports from users in China of problems accessing Google.com."
"
"On June 6, RSF reported that Google.com was blocked throughout much
of China, and that programs like DynaPass and Ultrasurf, which allowed
users in China access to censored web content, were also being blocked
on a large scale successfully for the first time."
" "It's always the same thing that happens in China -- they heavily
censor the internet because they think people will be discussing the
event," said Julien Pain, RSF Internet Freedom desk chief. "
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,71121-0.html?tw=wn_politics_1

Google’s China wobbles
June 9, 2006
"Google was probably hoping its Chinese troubles would fade into
memory but events seem to be conspiring it after its main search
engine, Google.com, appeared to have fallen foul of the country’s
authorities once again."
"Chinese internet users reported serious problems using the
international search engine, prompting speculation it is being
disrupted by government censors."
"Although China rarely announces which websites are being screened,
the problems suffered by Google are similar to other censored sites."
"Google was blocked entirely by the government in 2002, but was
reinstated after worldwide protests. However, bloggers suspected that
the state was up to its old tricks again because it had been
emboldened to act against Google’s main website after the company set
up a censored China-based version of its search engine, Google.cn."
"Google.cn continued unaffected - although if Google’s own estimates
are right that only 1 per cent of Chinese users use Google.cn,
government agents may be the only people enjoying the smooth service."
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/294b51e4-f7b8-11da-9481-0000779e2340.html

Google Browser Sync

Google Browser Sync
"Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously
synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history,
persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It
also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different
machines and browser sessions."
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/index.html

Google Browser Sync FAQ
"Which browsers does this extension work with?"
"This extension works with Firefox version 1.5 and later. Currently,
it doesn't work in the Mozilla Suite, Internet Explorer, or Opera."
"I'm using Firefox, but the extension isn't working. Why not?"
"Here are a few things you can try:"
" Check which version of Firefox you're using and confirm that it is
version 1.5 or later. To do so, just click on the "Help" menu, then
select "About Mozilla Firefox." "
"If you've just installed Google Browser Sync, be sure to restart your
browser."
"Make sure Browser Sync appears in your browser's list of extensions.
To see this list, select "Tools" > "Extensions." If Browser Sync
appears, make sure it's enabled (i.e. not grayed out). If it's grayed
out, you can enable it by right-clicking the extension name, selecting
"Enable," and restarting your browser."
"Why shouldn't I install Google Browser Sync on computers that other
people can access?"
"Browser Sync keeps all your browsers in sync with each other, so it
needs to send potentially sensitive information like your stored
passwords, bookmarks, and browser history to the other computers where
you've installed it. Also, once you install Browser Sync, you don't
need to log in every time you start the browser to access this info.
Therefore, someone who uses a computer where you've installed browser
sync will have access to all the info you've chosen to sync across
your computers. Any new browser settings they create, such as browsing
history, will also show up on your other computers."
"Why do I need to provide a PIN?"
"The PIN you create during setup is used to encrypt information that's
synced between your computers, which may include sensitive information
such as your passwords for websites. We use your PIN to unlock that
information. Without your PIN, no one will be able to read the
information that's being transmitted between your computers via Google
Browser Sync."
"What's the point of encrypting my information?"
"By encrypting your information, it will be transmitted to and stored
on Google's servers in a format that is nearly impossible to interpret
without the PIN. That means that without the PIN, no one, not even
Google, will be able to read your data. Therefore, it's important to
choose a good PIN (at least 8 characters including both numbers and
letters) that's hard to guess and to keep your PIN safe. Note that
encrypting all of your browser settings may affect the performance of
Google Browser Sync and Firefox."
"What if I want to start synchronizing my settings with a different
Google account?"
"To change Google accounts, just click on the "Settings" menu under
your username in the upper-right corner of the page, then click the
"Stop syncing" button. This will close all of your open browser
windows and take you back to the setup wizard, where you can log in
with a different Google account. Remember that this will import all
the settings from the current browser under that account, so you'll
get everything that had been synchronized from your last account."
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/faq.html

Google Extensions for Firefox
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/index.html

Google Firefox Extensions forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Firefox-Extensions

Links:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/get-in-sync.html
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4583/53/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=224
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/K4uAWRyHMg75mb/Google-Puts-Firefox-in-Sync.xhtml
http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6081609.html
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/113F833D0708BFA2CC257187006B798F
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/06/08/google-browser-sync-turns-firefox-gives-firefox-consistency-across-computers/
http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=21869

Google Earth 4 Beta

Google Earth (Release 4 - BETA)
"The latest version of Google Earth is being released in beta form.
We've added several new features that will make your Earth browsing
even better."
"Less Is More - A New UI"
"The most obvious change is a new and, we think, simpler user
interface."
"Free Feel To Change Your World"
"Seeing buildings in 3D is one of the coolest things about Google
Earth. And with this release, this feature is even better. For the
first time, we support "textured" 3D buildings, meaning the bricks
look like real bricks, the glass like real glass, and overall, the
world looks more like, well, the real world."
"With Google Sketchup, you can now create your own textured 3D
models."
"Creating and Sharing Geographic Information – A New Type Of KML"
"The best thing Google Earth's got going for it is the creativity of
the millions of users who are adding and sharing geographic
information. And with Google Earth (Release 4 BETA), we've expanded
that capability in “KML,” the file format Google Earth uses to add and
share data."
http://earth.google.com/earth4.html

Google Announces Major Imagery Update For Google Earth, New Tools And
Innovations in Mapping
June 12, 2006
"Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced a series of updates to the
company's mapping product suite, further illustrating Google’s
commitment to creating powerful tools for sharing geographic
information. Announced live at Google's first Geo Developer Day, these
innovations both connect users to information about the world around
them, as well as address the growing needs of the developer
community."
"Google Earth news announced today includes:"
"Satellite imagery update: A significant high-resolution imagery
update for Google Earth increases the product's index of high-
resolution imagery by four times."
"New version of Google Earth: In the product’s first major update
since its launch one year ago, Google Earth now features a more
streamlined user interface and new tools that enable the creation and
display of third party and user generated content. The addition of
textured buildings brings a new level of realism and detail to Google
Earth’s 3D world. Google Earth is also now available for the Windows,
Mac and, for the first time, Linux operating platforms; and is fully
localized in French, Italian, German and Spanish."
"Google SketchUp with textured buildings: In coordination with the
release of Google Earth, Google SketchUp now enables the creation of
textured buildings for visualization in Google Earth and the Google 3D
Warehouse."
"Google also announced several updates to Google Maps and the Google
Maps API (Application Programming Interface), the developer tool that
enables users to easily embed Google's interactive, dynamic maps into
their own websites. These innovations include:"
"Google Maps API: In response to developer feedback, an update to the
Google Maps API enables developers of Google Maps-powered mash-ups, or
websites that merge geographic information with Google Maps, to
integrate data based on addresses. This ability to geocode addresses
using the Google Maps API is the most requested feature from Maps API
users."
"KML for Google Maps: A new feature of Google Maps enables the display
of KML (Keyhole Markup Language, the file format used by Google Earth
and other applications to share geographic information) on Google
Maps. This innovation enables data created in Google Earth to be
viewed in a web browser as a simple mash-up. Requiring no computer
programming expertise, KML for Google Maps makes the sharing of
geographic information even easier."
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/geoday.html

Local Times In Google

You can get local times in Google:

http://www.google.com/search?&q=time+in+San+Francisco
http://www.google.com/search?&q=time+in+Madagascar
http://www.google.com/search?&q=time+in+Finland
http://www.google.com/search?&q=time+in+Sri+Lanka
http://www.google.com/search?&q=time+in+Tokyo
http://www.google.com/search?&q=time+in+Canberra

Source:

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-06-12-n80.html

New Official Google Blog: Inside Google Book Search

Inside Google Book Search
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/

Source:

http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/about.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/bards-thing.html

Picasa Web Albums

Picasa Web Albums (Limited Test)
"Post your photos online in seconds"
"One-click web upload directly from Picasa."
"View and save your friends' photos"
"Keep track of your favorite people and see when they've added
something new. Download entire albums to Picasa in just one click."
http://picasaweb.google.com/

What is Picasa Web Albums?
"Picasa Web Albums is Picasa’s newest feature, designed to help users
post and share their photos quickly and easily on the web."
"Cost: The latest version of Picasa with the Web Albums feature is
free. It’s also free to use Picasa Web Albums for posting, sharing and
viewing photos."
"Access: You need an invitation to post and share photos on Picasa Web
Albums. You can sign up for an invitation using your Gmail username.
No invitation or sign-in is required to view a friend’s photos
online."
"Storage: Each Picasa Web Albums account comes with 250MB of free
storage space, or room to post and share approximately 1,000
wallpaper-sized photos (at 1600 pixels each). For $25.00 per year,
users can get a subscription to an additional 6GB of storage – room to
post and share approximately 25,000 photos."
"System requirements:"
"Picasa: Windows 2000/XP, Internet Explorer 6.0+"
"Picasa Web Albums Internet Explorer 6.0 (also works with IE 7 Beta
2), Firefox 1.0+ or Safari 2.0"
http://picasa.google.com/web/help.html

Picasa Web Albums Program Policies
"Picasa Web Albums may refuse to host content that violates its
policies including:"
"illegal content"
"invasions of personal privacy"
"violations of copyright. Please see our DMCA policy for more
information"
http://picasa.google.com/web/policy.html

Picasa Web Albums Privacy Notice
"You need a Gmail Account to set up an account on Picasa Web Albums
and upload photos. Google asks for some personal information when you
create a Gmail Account, including your email address and a password,
which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. You
may view photos posted on Picasa Web Albums by other users without
registering for an account."
"Picasa Web Albums stores, processes and maintains your photos,
Favorites List and other data related to your Account in order to
provide the service to you."
"When you use Picasa Web Albums, Google's servers automatically record
certain information about your use. Similar to other web services,
Google records information such as account activity (including storage
usage and number of log-ins), data displayed or clicked on (including
UI links); and other log information (including browser type, IP-
address, date and time of access, cookie ID, and referrer URL)."
"Other Picasa Web Albums users who view your albums will see
information about you including your photos and the user name you have
selected.  If you do not select an alternate user name, the Gmail
username associated with the account will appear as part of the page
URL."
"If you designate an album “public,” anyone who visits your public
gallery will see your album.  If you designate an album “unlisted,”
those photos will not appear in your public gallery but can be seen by
someone who knows the URL."
"You may organize, modify or delete your pictures, albums, and
associated information such as captions following instructions in the
FAQ.   Such changes will take immediate effect in your account view. 
Residual copies of deleted photos may take up to 60 days to be deleted
from our active servers and may remain in our offline backup systems."
http://picasa.google.com/web/privacy.html

Picasa Web Albums Terms of Service
http://picasa.google.com/web/tos.html

Picasa Home Page
http://picasa.google.com/

Picasa Customer Support
http://picasa.google.com/support/

Picasa forum
http://groups.google.com/group/picasa

Google U.S. Government Search

Google U.S. Government Search
http://usgov.google.com/

Google U.S. Government Search FAQ
"Google U.S. Government Search offers a single location for searching
across U.S. government information, and for keeping up to date on
government news. You can choose to search for content located on
either U.S. federal, state and local government websites or the entire
Web -- from the same search box. Below the search box, the homepage
includes government-specific news content from both government
agencies and press outlets.  You can personalize the page by adding
content feeds on government or other topics that you're interested
in."
"How do I search across U.S. government sites?"
"To search across content from U.S. government sources on Google U.S.
Goverment Search, all you have to do is enter a query into the search
box and click the "Search Government Sites" button. This launches a
search across U.S. federal, state and local government sites with
domains such as .gov, .mil, and other select ones."
"What sites are included in the Google U.S. Government Search index?"
"The Google U.S. Government Search index includes U.S. federal, state
and local sites with domains such as .gov, .mil as well as select
government sites with .com, .us, and .edu domains (eg. .usps.com,
.ca.us and ndu.edu). We add content from these sites to our search
index on a regular basis."
"Will personalizing the Google U.S. Government Search homepage change
the content on my Google.com homepage?"
"No, it will not. You can have seperate personalized content on both
your Google U.S. Government Search and Google.com homepages."
"Can I add Google Gadgets to the Google U.S. Government Search
homepage?"
"Currently you can add content feeds from sources all over the web --
and on all sorts of topics -- to the homepage. You can't, however,
currently add Google Gadgets. We're working hard to add this
functionality."
http://www.google.com/help/about_usgovernmentsearch.html

Google Checkout

Google Checkout
"Find it with Google.  Buy it with Google Checkout."
"Stop creating multiple accounts and passwords."
"With Google Checkout™ you can quickly and easily buy from stores
across the web and track all your orders and shipping in one place."
http://checkout.google.com/

Google Checkout Tour
https://checkout.google.com/buyer/tour.html

Google Checkout Help and FAQ for Buyers
http://checkout.google.com/support/

Google Checkout Help and FAQ for Sellers
http://checkout.google.com/support/sell

Google Checkout Privacy Policy
https://checkout.google.com/files/privacy.html

Google Checkout: Terms of Service for Buyers
https://checkout.google.com/termsOfService?type=Buyer

Google Checkout: Terms of Service for Sellers
https://checkout.google.com/termsOfService?type=Seller

Information for sellers
https://checkout.google.com/sell

A few places to shop
http://www.google.com/buy/m.html

"What credit or debit cards can I use with Google Checkout?"
"You can use any of the following credit or debit cards to make
purchases with Google Checkout:"
"Visa"
"MasterCard"
"American Express"
"Discover"
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=29064

"In what locations is Google Checkout available?"
"At this time, Google Checkout is available to anyone who has a United
States billing and mailing address. We look forward to expanding our
service in the future."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43348&topic=

"Can I use Google Checkout at any online store?"
"No. Not all online stores accept Google Checkout. To find stores that
accept Google Checkout, search Google for items you'd like to buy, and
look for sponsored links with the shopping cart logo."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=30868

"How much does it cost to use Google Checkout?"
"It's free! You'll only be responsible for paying for your purchases,
including taxes and delivery fees (if applicable). You won't be
charged any additional costs for making a purchase through Google
Checkout."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=29062

"How secure are my transactions and account information?"
"Your payment information and shipping address is saved in your Google
Account to make future purchases more convenient and secure for you.
We guarantee that:"
"Your account information is stored on our secure servers."
"Your purchase information is encrypted during transmission with
industry-standard SSL (secure socket layer) technology."
"Google doesn't share your full credit card number with sellers."
"Google won't disclose personally identifiable information about your
purchase history to advertisers or merchants."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=29075

"How can I tell if it's safe to enter my credit card information when
checking out?"
"Once you click the Google Checkout button on a store's shopping cart
page, you'll be redirected to a site within the
https://checkout.google.com domain where you can safely enter your
personal information."
"Always verify that a site belongs to Google before entering personal
information."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43092&topic=

"How does Google protect my account from unauthorized activity?"
"Protecting your account and personal information is our top priority.
That's why our fraud protection policy covers you against unauthorized
purchases made through Google Checkout. If we find that an
unauthorized purchase is made with your Google Account, we'll make
sure you aren't charged for it."
"Please file a report with Google immediately if an unauthorized
purchase is made with your account. Unauthorized purchases must be
reported within 60 days of the transaction. Once we receive your
report, we'll begin an investigation, and we may contact you for
further details, if necessary."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=41201

"How can I protect my account?"
"There are a number of things you can do to help keep your personal
information safe. Review the list below for some useful tips:"
"Always sign out when you've completed your purchase, especially if
you use a public or shared computer."
"When using a public computer, clear forms and passwords so none of
your personal information is accessible by other people using the
computer."
"Keep secrets! Never tell anyone your password; if you do tell
someone, change it as soon as possible."
"Choose a good password."
"Enter a secondary email address in your Google Account. By doing so,
you'll be able to gain access even if you lose access to your primary
email account."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=42817&topic=

"Why was I automatically logged out of my account?"
"If your account sits idle for an extended period of time, you'll
automatically be logged out -– this helps protect your personal
information. If you're automatically logged out, please sign back in
to continue shopping."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43206&topic=

"I never signed up for Google Checkout. Why is my credit card being
charged, and what should I do?"
"If you see charges on your credit card statement for purchases made
through Google Checkout, but you've never created an account, please
contact us immediately so we may begin an investigation."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=42822&topic=

"What is a Card Verification Code?"
"A Card Verification Code, or CVC, is a number that provides extra
security to credit and debit card holders, in case an unauthorized
person gets a hold of your account number. CVCs are one way to make
sure someone has the actual card in his or her possession."
"The CVC on American Express cards is four digits, and is located on
the front of the card, on the right side. Discover, MasterCard, and
Visa use three-digit CVCs, which are listed on the back of the card.
The CVC is the last three digits of the number that appears on your
signature bar."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43073&topic=

"What information does Google share with sellers?"
"We will not sell or rent your personal information or purchase
history to third parties. When you make a purchase through Google
Checkout, we may share portions of your credit card number with the
seller to identify the transaction, but we don't share your full
credit card number with the seller."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=42825

"What does it mean if a seller tracks affiliate advertising?"
"Google Checkout allows stores to track affiliate advertising by
adding a web beacon to the Google Checkout order confirmation page. A
web beacon is an electronic image (1x1 .gif) within a web page that
helps a seller analyze customer traffic, and track transactions."
"Google does not allow sellers to collect personal information through
web beacons. We'll will show a message along the bottom of your order
confirmation page when a seller is tracking affiliate advertising, but
if you'd like to opt-out of affiliate tracking, please visit the
provider's site listed on the confirmation page for more information,
or clear your cookies from the provider's domain."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43192

"How will purchases made with Google Checkout appear on my credit card
statement?"
"Each time you make a purchase through Google Checkout, we'll let you
know exactly how a charge will appear on your credit card –- once you
complete an order, look at your receipt for details."
"Your credit card will be charged by Google and we will not share your
full credit card number with the seller. The standard format for
charges on your statement is: GOOGLE * [Seller's name], but please
check your receipt for exact details."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43057&topic=

"How long does it take for a payment to post to my credit card?"
"It depends. Charges generally post to your credit card within a few
days. Look at the receipt in the Purchase History section of your
account to see the exact date your credit card was charged for your
purchase."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43058&topic=

"How do I review the status of my order?"
"After you make a purchase, you can review its status by signing in to
your Google Account."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=29067

"How do I request a refund or cancel an order?"
"If you need to cancel an order or request a refund, you should
contact the seller. Here's how:"
"Sign in to your Google Account."
"Click Purchases along the left side of the page."
"Locate the order containing the item you'd like to cancel or have
refunded, and click the link in the Item column."
"At the top of the receipt, click Contact [Seller's Name]."
"Cancellation and refund policies vary by seller. In some cases, you
may be unable to return an item, or you might be charged a return,
restocking, or processing fee. Please review the seller's refund or
cancellation policies (if available) for more information before you
make a purchase."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=29071

"My credit card was declined. What should I do?"
"If you placed an order and your credit card was declined, you'll
receive an email from Google to notify you of the failed charge. After
receiving notification, you must sign in to your Google Account and
update your payment information within three days. If you do not
update your payment information within three days of receiving the
notification, your order will automatically be cancelled."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43075&topic=

"I share a credit card with someone. Can we use the same credit card
to open separate Google Accounts?"
"No. You can't use the same credit card for more than one Google
Account. To ensure that you are the only person making purchases with
your credit card, and that your information remains secure, we only
allow one account per credit or debit card."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=29065

"I don't want to save payment information in my Google Account. Can I
still use Google Checkout?"
"Yes. If you don't want to save your payment information in your
Google Account, you can delete it after making a purchase. Keep in
mind that if you return an item to a seller, your payment information
must be saved in your Google Account so the store may issue a refund."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=29073&topic=

"Can I receive payments by signing up for Google Checkout?"
"No. You aren't able to receive payments through Google Checkout. If
you sell or want to sell items online, and would like to accept Google
Checkout, you can sign up for a seller account."
http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43054&topic=

eBay Bans Google Checkouts

eBay Bans Google Checkouts
July 7, 2006
"eBay has added Google Checkout to its list of payment services not
allowed in its marketplace. Google joins an illustrious list:"
"AlertPay.com, anypay.com, AuctionChex.com, AuctionPix.com,
BillPay.ie, ecount.com, cardserviceinternational.com, CCAvenue,
ecount, e-gold, eHotPay.com, ePassporte.com, EuroGiro, FastCash.com,
Google Checkout, gcash, GearPay, Goldmoney.com, graphcard.com,
greenzap.com, ikobo.com, Liberty Dollars, Moneygram.com, neteller.com,
Netpay.com, Nochex.com, paychest.com, payingfast.com, paypay,
Postepay, Qchex.com, rupay.com, scripophily.com, sendmoneyorder.com,
stamps, Stormpay, wmtransfer.com, xcoin.com"
"All of these services have been banned due to being unsafe for eBay
buyers, that they are in some way poorly designed or secured and thus
aid fraud. Google Checkout, however, is too new and untested to fall
into this category, so it is far more likely that this is being done
for political reasons. Checkout is very similar to Paypal, just
cheaper, so if a large number of eBay’s merchants switched over, a
huge portion of their revenue model would just go away."
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/07/07/ebay-bans-google-checkouts/

Google Gmail Users Targeted By Phishers

Phishers target Google Gmail users
July 11, 2006
"IT security experts warned today of a "widespread phishing email
campaign" that tries to swindle unwary recipients by pretending to
offer a cash prize from Gmail, Google's popular free email service."
"The emails claim that the recipient has been randomly selected for a
$500 cash prize, and that the money can be paid automatically if they
click on the embedded web link. Part of the email reads as follows:"
   "'You won $500! Gmail congratulates you!"
   "CONGRATULATIONS!"
   "YOU WON $500!"
   "Gmail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is
   randomly selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will
   get cash prizes from us. Please click the link below and follow
   instructions on our web site. Your money will be paid directly to
   your e-gold, PayPal, StormPay or MoneyBookers account.'"
"The embedded link takes users to a web page saying that there has
been a problem sending the payment. They are then asked to enter their
bank details and pay a membership fee of $8.60."
" "Of course this email wasn't really sent by the folks at Gmail, and
the $500 cash prize doesn't exist. Anyone tempted to try and collect
it is in danger of walking straight into a trap set by these
fraudsters," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at
Sophos. "
"People need to learn that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and
be much more wary of unsolicited email communications whoever they may
appear to come from."
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2160080/phishers-target-google-gmail

Links:

http://www.securitypronews.com/news/securitynews/spn-45-20060711SophosWarnsofGmailPhishingScam.html
http://sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/07/gmailphish.html
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/blogs/google_watch/archive/2006/07/12/11367.aspx
http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/news.php?id=88528

Google Pages Allows AdSense Ads

Google Pages Allowing Google AdSense Ads
July 7, 2006
"Google Page Creator, the site building and hosting service offered by
Google and launched this year, is now allowing the implementation of
Google AdSense ads into user sites; which will lead to some bonus
revenue for Google Pages users while also helping Google to monetize
their service."
"Darren Rowse @ ProBlogger.net points to an email received by Google
Pages users today:"
   "1. Log into your AdSense account at www.google.com/adsense"
   "2. From the AdSense Setup tab, customize and generate your AdSense
   code"
   "3. Copy the generated code from the ‘Your AdSense code’ box"
   "4. Log into your Google Page Creator account"
   "5. Select the web page you’d like to dis play AdSense ads"
   "6. Select the field where you’d like the ads to appear"
   "7. Click ‘Edit HTML’"
   "8. Paste the AdSense code in the HTML source code of the page"
   "9. Save your updated web page"
   "10. Publish your web page"
   "After taking the steps above, your ads should appear shortly. If
   you have trouble implementing the Ad Sense code onto your web page,
   please feel free to respond to this email."
   "Good luck,"
   "The Google AdSense Team"
"Google Pages, when launched, was compared to the old ‘build your own
personal site system’ of Geocities, which is now part of the Yahoo
network. Yahoo does serve contextual advertising within its Geocities
pages, however, does not have the advertising set up as a revenue
sharing structure like that of Google’s."
"In the same fashion as Google’s steps in sharing the wealth with
their Blogger members (Google used to serve AdSense ads on Blogger
blogs hosted on Blogspot.com without sharing the earnings with
bloggers), Google’s new sense of giving within Google Pages may spark
some excitement in the project, while maybe also adding a new free
hosted service which will be targeted for AdSense spamming."
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=3598

Links:

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/07/04/google-pages-allows-adsense-ads/
http://stuff.techwhack.com/archives/2006/07/05/google-pages-adsense/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=250
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060703-092737

Google Pages Used to Host Trojan Horse

Google Pages Used to Host Trojan Horse
June 19, 2006
"Security vendor Websense warned last week that a Trojan horse is
being hosted on a site with the same IP (Internet protocol) address as
the main Google Pages Web site."
"Trojan horses present themselves as legitimate programs but actually
conceal malicious code inside. They can be engineered to steal
information from computers and are frequently spread by unsolicited e
-mails or via instant messaging (IM) links."
"Users are enticed to open attachments or click on Web links to launch
the Trojan, releasing the malicious code on their computer."
"The Trojan appears to have been noticed before its authors have
managed to launch an attack, Websense said. The company has not yet
detected e-mails or IM links leading back to the Trojan, which is
designed to steal bank details relating to certain financial
institutions."
"The Trojan, also known as a "keylogger" for its ability to record
keystrokes, is programmed to know when a user visits a bank site, and
to then activate the keystroke recording function, said Ross Paul, a
senior product manager at Websense."
"Criminals often use free hosting services to post dangerous code,
Paul said. "Anywhere there is anonymous access to create content is a
pretty useful tool for criminals," he said."
"The Trojan's file size has been reduced using ASPack, a file
compression tool."
"Google Pages is the hosting complement of Google Page Creator, a free
WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Web page editor that doesn't
require HTML knowledge. Google Page Creator offers numerous templates
and 100MB of storage for uploaded files and pages."
"Within hours of its launch in February the service was taken down due
to overwhelming demand. It was restored three days later."
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,126152,00.asp

Google Pages Used To Host Trojan Horse
June 19, 2006
"The security vendor Websense sent out a warning on Friday that
Google's Web page hosting service, known as Google Pages, was being
used to host a Trojan horse. It is believed the discovery was made
before the malware's author(s) could launch an attack."
"Websense had this to say about the Google-hosted Trojan: "The file is
packed with ASPack and is a banking Trojan Horse which is designed to
steel banking credentials upon visiting pre-defined financial
institutions sites." The company's solution was to simply block the
website."
"Google can't be blamed for the event-any free hosting service is
likely to encounter such problems. Still, the search engine giant
would do well to run some sort of check or scan on files as they are
uploaded. Imitators (or even the same party) may follow up this first
attempt with others."
"In order for Trojans to launch, they require users to open an
attachment, run a program, or click on a link, as the case may be. The
Trojan horse on Google Pages was no different in this respect. And so
while this new incident is somewhat disturbing, it shouldn't make
individuals any more vulnerable than they were in the past. Just
continue to exercise caution in your Web browsing."
http://www.securitypronews.com/news/securitynews/spn-45-20060619GooglePagesUsedToHostTrojanHorse.html

Trojan Hosted on Google Pages
June 19, 2006
"Google has been the target of some folks who have been up to no good
as its hosting server was targeted when attackers uploaded a malicious
file to the Google Pages server. Google Pages is the Google service
which lets Google Account holders create and host web pages with
Google."
"A Google Spokesperson told the press:"
"Google Page Creator enables users to upload and serve files on their
Web site. We understand some users are hosting and serving malicious
files, and we are removing these Web pages when notified. We are
working on a more permanent solution to guard against these malicious
efforts. However, we encourage users to continue to notify us when
they encounter sites that host or serve malicious files."
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=3546

Links:

http://google.weblogsinc.com/2006/06/21/google-pages-used-by-hackers/
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1695533406;fp;2;fpid;1
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6085295.html
http://software.silicon.com/malware/0,3800003100,39159722,00.htm

Google Reader Security Fix

Google Reader Security Fix
July 6, 2006
"Google has fixed a minor security issue with Google Reader that could
potentially enabled hackers to steal sensitive information from
readers."
"An attack could be initiated by hackers embedding a script into web
postings or input fields on sites, making the Google RSS feed tool
extremely vulnerable to attacks."
"The fix was made to the Reader as soon as Google discovered it, and
was reported as a minor security flaw."
http://www.google.weblogsinc.com/2006/07/06/google-reader-security-fix/

Links:

http://news.com.com/Google+fixes+security+flaw+in+Reader/2100-1002_3-6090974.html
http://www.betanews.com/article/Security_Hole_Fixed_in_Google_Reader/1152203957

Orkut Users Attacked By A Worm

Data-thieving worm targets Orkut users
June 16, 2006
"A new worm that attempts to steal online banking credentials is
propagating on Google's social-networking Web site, a security company
warned Friday."
"The worm, dubbed MW.Orc, primarily targets Brazilian users of
Google's Orkut Web site. It uses a message in Portuguese to entice
people to click on a file that is disguised as a JPEG image, FaceTime
Security Labs said in a statement."
"The initial file, called "minhasfotos.exe," creates two additional
files on a user's system, "winlogon_.jpg" and "wzip32.exe," FaceTime
said. When the user, after the initial compromise, clicks on the "My
Computer" icon in Windows XP, an e-mail with his or her personal data
is sent to the anonymous attacker, the security company said."
"Additionally, the compromised computer may be added to a network of
hijacked PCs, known as a botnet. The pest also tries to propagate by
placing a malicious link on the profiles of people in the Orkut user's
network, FaceTime said."
" Google confirmed the worm. "We are aware of this issue and will have
a temporary fix in place within the hour," a company representative
said in an e-mailed statement. "We are working on a more permanent
solution for users to guard against these malicious efforts." "
"For their protection, Orkut users, just as users of all online
services and applications, should always be careful when opening or
clicking on anything suspicious, the Google representative said."
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6084932.html

Links:

http://oraclewatch.eweek.com/blogs/google_watch/archive/2006/06/19/10909.aspx
http://tech.moneycontrol.com/news/orkut-targetted-by-new-worm/1591/india/
http://www.scmagazine.com/uk/news/article/564925/malware+targets+orkut+social+networking+site/
http://stuff.techwhack.com/archives/2006/06/20/mworc/
http://google.weblogsinc.com/2006/06/21/orkut-is-the-home-to-an-infectious-worm/
http://today.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-06-19T211345Z_01_N19197360_RTRIDST_0_TECH-ORKUT-VIRUS.XML&rpc=66
http://www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189500744&subSection=Cybercrime
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1195057,00.html
http://www.sda-india.com/sda/news/psecom,id,9476,nodeid,1,_language,India.html

Replace DMOZ (ODP) Snippets

More control over page snippets
July 13, 2006
"The way we generate the descriptions (snippets) that appear under a
page in the search results is completely automated. The process uses
both the content on a page as well as references to it that appear on
other sites."
"One source we use to generate snippets is the Open Directory Project,
or ODP. Some site owners want to be to able to request not using the
ODP for generating snippets, and we're happy to let you all know we've
added support for this. All you have to do is add a meta tag to your
pages."
"To direct all search engines that support the meta tag not to use ODP
information for the page's description, use the following:"
"<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">"
"Note that not all search engines may support this meta tag, so check
with each for more information."
"To direct Google specifically from using this information to describe
a page, use the following:"
"<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOODP">"
"Once you add this meta tag to your pages, it may take some time for
changes to your snippets to appear. Once we've recrawled your pages
and refreshed our index, you should see updated snippets."
http://sitemaps.blogspot.com/2006/07/more-control-over-page-snippets.html

Links:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35264&topic=8523
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060713-131905
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060713GoogleYouCanSayNoToODP.html
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-07-13-n78.html

Google Crawls JavaScript

Google Crawling Javascript Links with Clean URLs
May 1, 2006
"Well, if Yahoo can crawl and index links surrounded by “no follow”
command, then Google is going to have to do something just as crazy to
throw a wrench into the world of SEO, links, and text advertising."
"Barry Schwartz points out on SERoundtable that the GoogleBot is now
crawling Javascript with “clean” URLs"
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=3352

GoogleBot Can Crawl JavaScript With Clean URLs
May 1, 2006
"I have been noticing a patters of posts where more and more people
are claiming that Google is posting JavaScript forms. All of those
posts, including this one, all have the same story. Basically, if you
have a clean URL in the JavaScript, GoogleBot will try to explore that
URL."
"The same type of story spring up over the weekend at a WebmasterWorld
thread. As you can tell by the thread, the JavaScript included some
clean URLs, which GoogleBot extracted and explored."
"Just be careful your JavaScript doesn't opening contain a method to
delete your whole Web site."
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/003737.html

Bot Obedience: Herding Googlebot
July 8, 2006
"S.E.W., in general I’d be cautious of relying on JavaScript to keep
bots from following a link. Google for one has gotten better at
crawling even when links are in JavaScript."
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bot-obedience-herding-googlebot/

Googlebot finally decided to crawl!!!!!
April 21, 2005
"Do you people notice something? Gooeglebot was logged as being
javascript enabled. So there goes the notion that bots are not
javascript enabled. At least some of them are - the mightiest of all
as a matter of fact."
http://forum.statcounter.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16588

Google Crawls Javascript
March 16, 2004
"you might want to simplify your JavaScript. Google can often extract
urls from JavaScript, but I can believe that doing utterly weird stuff
might mess things up"
http://www.markcarey.com/googleguy-says/archives/discuss-google-crawls-javascript.html

Links:

http://www.hawaiistreets.com/seoblog/?itemid=876
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/34087.htm
http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/2005/12/24/does-google-run-javascript/
http://www.searchengineforums.com/apps/searchengine.forums/action::thread/forum::seo-general/thread::1150727297/

Google Page Creator's Page Editor Allows JavaScript

With Google Page Creator (Google Pages) you have been able to use
JavaScript from the beginning with uploaded files, but since around
June and July 2006 you have been able to add JavaScript code also in
Google Page Creator's Page Editor. There are still limitations,
because some features of JavaScript are designed to be used in the
head section of an HTML document (but there are some workarounds).

Add Google Adsense to Google Page Creator
July 7, 2006
"Google Page Creator now allows JavaScript. This opens you up to
earning money with your Google Page Creator Web Site. Add Google
Adsense to your Google Page Creator Web site and earn a little money
from your Google Page Creator Web site.People have been using Google
Adsense for years to make money from their Web sites. Read the rules
before using Google Adsense. If you misuse it they will cut you off in
an instant."
http://personalweb.about.com/b/a/256463.htm

Google Page Creator Supports Javascript
June 30, 2006
"Google Page Creator, the service that lets you create and publish
static web pages hosted by Google, lets you embed Javascript code in
the pages. You just have to go to a editable area, click "Edit HTML"
and type your script. That means you can include in your pages
AdSense, Analytics code, Ajax and other interactive features."
"Until now, users had to create HTML files offline and upload them in
Page Creator, which was pretty difficult, especially if we think that
the service wants to let you "build high-quality web pages without
having to learn HTML or use complex software"."
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/06/google-page-creator-supports.html

JavaScript and Google Page Creator
July 7, 2006
"Google Page Creator now allows JavaScript. This is great news, as you
can now include AdSense code and other advanced features in your site.
Because this is such a new feature, though, we're still working out
some of the kinks."
http://groups.google.com/group/gpc-updates/browse_frm/thread/777dd65bd97ef3d2/0a59229fb4f03fdc#0a59229fb4f03fdc

Google Pages allows JavaScript
July 1, 2006
"Google Pages now allow you to insert JavaScript in your page, and
Google want you to insert your AdSense codes there. The AdSense team
invited/emailed some Google Page Creator users to give it a try."
http://googlified.com/2006google-pages-allows-javascript/

Links:

http://groups.google.com/group/GPC-How-to-Advanced/browse_frm/thread/e39197857328af2c/8d33b97d3b332fca#8d33b97d3b332fca
http://www.google.com/support/pages/bin/answer.py?answer=35213&topic=0
http://personalweb.about.com/b/a/256463.htm
http://easywebbers.blogspot.com/2006/07/google-pages-now-allows-javascript.html
http://digg.com/programming/Google_Page_Creator_(googlepages.com)_now_supports_JavaScript
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=250
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.support.general/msg/1cf4e01e51cb7688
http://gpsgfaq.googlepages.com/google_page_creator.html#features

Google Accessible Search

Google Accessible Search
http://labs.google.com/accessible/

Google Accessible Search FAQ
"What is Google Accessible Search?"
"Accessible Search is an early Google Labs product designed to
identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by
blind and visually impaired users. Regular Google search helps you
find a set of documents that is most relevant to your tasks.
Accessible Search goes one step further by helping you find the most
accessible pages in that result set."
"How does Accessible Search work?"
"In its current version, Google Accessible Search looks at a number of
signals by examining the HTML markup found on a web page. It tends to
favor pages that degrade gracefully --- pages with few visual
distractions and pages that are likely to render well with images
turned off. Google Accessible Search is built on Google Co-op's
technology, which improves search results based on specialized
interests."
"How can sites make their content more accessible to the blind?"
"Some of the basic recommendations on how to make a website more
useable and accessible include keeping Web pages easy to read,
avoiding visual clutter -- especially extraneous content -- and
ensuring that the primary purpose of the Web page is immediately
accessible with full keyboard navigation. There are many organizations
and online resources that offer Website owners and authors guidance on
how to make websites and pages more accessible for the blind and
visually impaired. The W3C publishes numerous guidelines including Web
Content Access Guidelines that are helpful for Website owners and
authors. Broad adherence to these guidelines is one way of ensuring
that sites are universally accessible."
http://labs.google.com/accessible/faq.html

Google Labs FAQ
"What is Google Labs?"
"Google Labs is a playground where our more adventurous users can play
around with prototypes of some of our wild and crazy ideas and offer
feedback directly to the engineers who developed them on which ones
are interesting and which ones are just crazy, and why, and how you
think they might be improved. Please note that Labs is the first phase
in a lengthy product development process; none of this stuff is
guaranteed to make it onto Google.com"
"What happened to that cool thing I was playing around with last
week?"
"The prototypes on Google Labs are meant to be low-maintenance
experiments. If one disappears it may be because no one was interested
enough to use it, or because it wasn't stable enough for users to try
it out, or because it was so wildly successful that heavy usage
brought the server to its knees. Don't worry - while that particular
application may not reappear, there will be something just as
interesting to replace it shortly."
http://labs.google.com/faq.html

New Official Google Forums

I noticed a few new official Google discussion groups, which probably
have been created this summer (2006).

"Google Web Search Help" has existed since about June 29, 2006:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Web_Search_Help
http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Web_Search_Help-UsingWS/msg/2cc3c56aa58592e1

http://www.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=1592

"GoogleToolbar Firefox Help" and "Google Toolbar IE Help" have existed
since about June 3, 2006:

http://groups.google.com/group/FFToolbar-Group
http://groups.google.com/group/FFToolbar-group-GettingStarted/msg/51ff1b7cd2f418b8

http://groups.google.com/group/IEToolbar-Group
http://groups.google.com/group/IEToolbar-Group-GettingStarted/msg/1bcbacd7d5a7748e

http://www.google.com/support/toolbar

"Google Maps" has existed since about June 23, 2006:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-Past-Discussions/msg/2a58933069276c1d

http://local.google.com/support

"Google Checkout Merchants Forum" and "Google Checkout Developers
Forum" have existed since about June 17, 2006 and June 22, 2006:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-merchants-forum
http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-basics/msg/885bf11e2e0fb0fd

http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-developers-forum
http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-api-updates/msg/be54a57fc6719abd

http://checkout.google.com/support/sell

"Google-Labs-Spreadsheets" has existed since about June 6, 2006 (I
didn't find a charter/welcome message for that group, so I searched
for the last topic in the topic list):

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Spreadsheets
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Spreadsheets/msg/8565f204a9dcbb35

http://labs.google.com/

"Writely Discussion Group" has existed since about June 2, 2006:

http://groups.google.com/group/Writely-Discussion-Group
http://groups.google.com/group/getting_started/msg/c5402d77ee5c47cc

http://www.google.com/support/writely

Unofficial Google forums list:

http://gpsgfaq.googlepages.com/index.html#googlediscussiongroups

Gmail: Delete & Select All In Label

Since about May 2006 some Gmail users have been able to delete/select
all messages in Trash, Spam or in other labels. Since about July 2006
even more Gmail users have been able to do that. More info:

"Now you can apply the same action to all messages in a label or
section of your account (Inbox, Sent Mail, Spam, Trash, etc.), in just
a few steps. Use this feature to archive all mail in your Inbox, apply
labels to every message meeting certain criteria, delete all messages
in Spam or Trash, or apply a filter to all relevant messages in your
account."
"Here's how to take an action on all messages in a label or section of
your account:"
"Open the view (Inbox, Sent Mail, etc.) containing the messages on
which you'd like to take an action."
"Click Select: All along the top."
"Click the link that says Select all [number] conversations in
[current view]."
"Select the action you'd like to take from the More Actions... drop-
down menu."
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=35088

"Take an action on multiple messages"
"Now you can apply the same action to all messages in a label or
section of your account, such as archiving all mail in your Inbox,
deleting all messages in Spam, or applying a label or filter to all
relevant messages in your account."
http://gmail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html

Google Help Pages A-Z

Google has created a page where you can see links to many of the help
pages of various Google services:

Help Topics A-Z
http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=alpha_index.html

Google Personalized Homepage for mobile

Google Personalized Homepage for mobile
http://www.google.com/ig/cp

Google Maps for Mobile with Traffic and Customized iGoogle for Mobile
Devices
June 25, 2006
"Google Personalized Home now makes it even easier for mobile phone
users to quickly get the information they need when they're away from
their desks. When users log in to Personalized Home on their desktop
and click on the "mobile" link at the bottom of the page, they will be
able to customize the content they see the next time they log on to
their Personalized Home on their mobile device. Not only can they
customize content, but users can also specify the order in which that
content appears on their mobile devices."
http://www.google.com/press/annc/mobile_traffic_ig.html

Google AJAX Search API

Google AJAX Search API
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/

Google AJAX Search API FAQ
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/faq.html

Google AJAX Search API Documentation
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/reference.html
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/samples.html

Google AJAX Search API Community Samples
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/community-samples.html

Google AJAX Search API Terms of Use
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/terms.html

Google AJAX Search API discussion group
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API

Google AJAX Search API Blog
http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/

Google Jobs Temporary Positions FAQ

Google Jobs Temporary Positions FAQ
"Why does the position I'm interested in say it's through
WorkforceLogic?"
"Google recognizes that there are times during the course of business
that workloads increase and additional staff is needed to accomplish
specific tasks or projects. Google has elected to manage these
temporary needs by partnering with WorkforceLogic to assist with
Google's temporary staffing needs. The position you are interested in
is an WorkforceLogic-sponsored position. If you are selected to work
on this position, you will be working on a temporary assignment at
Google, but you will be employed by WorkforceLogic."
"Who is WorkforceLogic?"
"WorkforceLogic (formerly ABE Services) is a leading provider of
professional level on-site Contingent Workforce Program Management.
WorkforceLogic provides its employees with an excellent and robust
employee benefits package. Their benefits will be offered to temporary
workers on assignments at Google who work a minimum of 30 hours per
week."
"How do I apply for a temporary assignment at Google through
WorkforceLogic?"
"For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML
version of your resume to temporaryjobs@google.com. Important: The
subject field of your email must include the job title of the
temporary position."
http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=37620

Google Toolbar 4 for Internet Explorer

Google Toolbar 4 for Internet Explorer 6 is out of beta:

Google Toolbar
http://toolbar.google.com/T4/

IE Toolbar Version 4
http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/static.py?page=features.html&hl=en&v=4

Make your own buttons
July 28, 2006
"Custom Buttons are by far my favorite feature in the new Google
Toolbar, which comes out of beta today. Clearly I’m not the only one,
either -- we have over 600 buttons in the gallery, with new buttons
being added every day -- and here are some some of my favorites, if
you'd like to add them to your Toolbar."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/make-your-own-buttons.html

Google Hands Over Gmail Account Info

Google Hands Over Gmail Account Info
July 28, 2006
"If someone sends hate speech through Gmail, Google may hand out the
account information based on gov’t requests – it happened in this
case, eWeek reports:"
"The [Federal] agents requested the records on June 22nd, 2006 after
the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) notified the FBI
they had received a threatening e-mail."
"The recovered records included the offending e-mail, registration
information, session timestamps, and originating IP addresses for
amgonow@gmail.com."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-07-28-n33.html

Links:

http://computerworld.com/blogs/node/3094
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1995743,00.asp
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=2247383
http://oraclewatch.eweek.com/blogs/google_watch/archive/2006/07/27/11852.aspx
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1995747,00.asp
http://www.thechannelinsider.com/article/Gmail+Used+For+Hate+Speech+Feds+Examine+Google+Records/184664_1.aspx

Google Talk: File Transfer, Voicemail and Music Status

Testing a new version of Google Talk
July 26, 2006
"We've been working hard to add your top-requested features to Google
Talk, such as fast and reliable file transfer, and the ability to send
and receive voicemail messages for free. We've even created a fun
little feature for you music lovers."
"So today, we're excited to be releasing these features to a small
percentage of Google Talk users. We'll be rolling these features out
to all Google Talk users on the U.S.-English interface in the coming
weeks."
http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/07/testing-new-version-of-google-talk.html

New Google Talk Features: File Transfer and More
July 28, 2006
"Google Talk has been updated with a bunch of new features:"
"File transfer: Send unlimited files & folders to your chat friends."
"Voicemail: Leave voice messages when your friend’s not around. They’
ll get your message sent as email attachment."
"Music status: You can let your friends know about the music you’re
currently listening to."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-07-28-n31.html

Links:

http://www.google.com/talk/whatsnew_more.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=276
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=3668
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060728GoogleTalkHasVoicemailNow.html
http://stuff.techwhack.com/archives/2006/07/29/google-talk-now-supports-file-transfer/

Google International Code Jam 2006

Google International Code Jam 2006
http://www.google.com/codejam2006
http://www.google.com/codejam/

Code your way to Gotham
August 14, 2006
"New York, New York -- A place so nice, we're holding the Google Code
Jam finals here! I'm excited to tell you about our fourth annual
competition, the 2006 Google International Code Jam. This year the
last round will be held at our second-largest development center,
right in downtown Manhattan. The best coders in the world (and that
includes you, if you're up for the challenge) compete on speed and
accuracy to solve challenging problems with only their brains,
fingers, and a computer. If this is your idea of fun, then sign up --
registration opens today. We'll fly the best 100 coders to New York in
October, all expenses paid, for the final competition, to meet Google
software engineers and to experience Manhattan. First prize is
$10,000; all finalists are guaranteed a minimum prize of $750."
"Of course, we'll be on the lookout for future Googlers -- those who
love solving tricky coding challenges, and are excited about solving
the Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal of organizing the world's information."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/code-your-way-to-gotham.html

Google Sitemaps is now Google webmaster tools

New name better reflects our commitment to communicate with you
August 4, 2006
"To better reflect our goal to provide tools and information to keep
you, the webmasters, informed and help you increase your crawl
coverage and visibility on Google, we're renaming Google Sitemaps to
Google webmaster tools. The Sitemaps protocol remains unchanged and
Sitemaps submission mechanisms and reporting is still available from
the Sitemaps tab. We're also renaming our blog and Google Group to be
more broadly focused on webmaster topics."
"You can find handy links to all the tools, the new blog, Google
Group, help center and more from our newly launched Google webmaster
central. Join us at the blog's new location at
googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com where you'll learn about all the
exciting things we're planning. Oh, and please don't forget to update
your bookmarks and feed!"
http://sitemaps.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-name-better-reflects-our.html

Google Webmaster Central
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Google Webmaster Help Center
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters

Google's discussion group for webmasters
http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help

Google's blog for webmasters
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/

Coupons on Google Maps

Print and Save - Coupons on Google Maps
August 15, 2006
"Today, Google announced printable online coupons on Google Maps. When
searching for local information, discount coupons from businesses are
now displayed on Google Maps search results and business listing
pages. These coupons can be printed out directly from a computer and
redeemed at a physical store location of a neighborhood or local
business. For users of Google Maps, coupons provide additional
relevant business information and ultimately contribute to a better
local search experience. For businesses, coupons provide another way
to reach customers online."
"Google has partnered with Valpak, one of the leading direct marketing
companies in North America, to provide coupons from current Valpak
advertisers on Google Maps."
"Coupons are available in Google Maps at no cost to businesses and
consumers. Businesses simply need to log into the Local Business
Center at Google Maps to enter in coupon information
www.google.com/local/add. In addition, businesses can easily add or
update their local business listings on Google Maps from the Local
Business Center. Once coupon information is entered, the coupon is
displayed on Google Maps within hours. Businesses do not need a web
site to participate."
http://www.google.com/press/annc/maps_coupons.html

"What are coupons?"
"Coupons are provided by business owners and can be seen on the
business details page of a local business listing on Google Maps. You
can print coupons and redeem them for use at the corresponding
business. At this time, coupons are only eligible to appear for
business listings in the U.S."
"If you're a business owner interested in creating coupons for your
business, please visit our Google Local Business Center."
http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=45982&topic=1467

Google Maps: Local Business Center
http://www.google.com/local/add/lookup?hl=en-US&gl=US

Google WiFi Mountain View

Free citywide WiFi in Mountain View
August 16, 2006
"Today, Google launched a WiFi network in our hometown of Mountain
View. Radios hanging on lampposts throughout the city are now
broadcasting a "GoogleWiFi" wireless (802.11b/g) signal that brings
wireless Internet access to the city's residents, businesses, and
visitors. All anyone needs is a laptop or other wireless-enabled
device and a web browser to get online. Then Mountain View users can
select the "GoogleWiFi" signal, open their web browser and sign in
with a free Google Account. To learn more about the network's coverage
area and the location of the WiFi radios, we've published a map."
"This network is a way for us to give back to and engage with the
community where our headquarters are. As the product manager for
Google WiFi, it has been has been tremendously rewarding to partner
with the local government, the schools, the library, the neighborhood
associations, and all of our trusted testers to introduce the power of
free, wireless Internet connectivity to the city."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/free-citywide-wifi-in-mountain-view.html

Google WiFi Mountain View Help/FAQ
http://wifi.google.com/support

"What is Google WiFi?"
"Google WiFi is a free wireless Internet service offered in the city
of Mountain View, California, as part of Google’s ongoing community
outreach efforts. The service is available for anyone to use, provided
they have what is required to access the Google WiFi network. Google
WiFi is primarily an outdoor network, although there are ways to
access the Google WiFi network from inside your home or office. An
exception to this is the Mountain View Public Library, where we have
installed WiFi access points inside to ensure good coverage throughout
the building."
http://wifi.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=44967&topic=9087

"Where is this service available?"
"The goal of Google WiFi is to eventually cover the entire city of
Mountain View, California, with our network."
"Initially there may be areas where the signal is not received within
the city limits. However, we are working to continually improve this
service. Please reference our map (may load slowly) of Google WiFi
nodes to confirm that Google WiFi is available from your present
location."
http://wifi.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=30791&topic=8330

"Should I cancel my current DSL or cable Internet service?"
"We are not encouraging our users to cancel their current Internet
accounts. However, this decision is up to each individual. We
recommend testing the Google WiFi network extensively before deciding
whether it can fulfill your Internet needs."
"The Google WiFi service is primarily meant for outdoor use. With that
said, you may choose to extend this service inside your home by
purchasing third party network equipment."
http://wifi.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=30855&topic=8297

"Is there a limit on data rate or total amount of data I can send?"
"Google WiFi is a community resource to be shared among the residents
of Mountain View. Our philosophy is to support the maximum possible
per-user data rates and consumption while ensuring the network
capabilities are able to be equally enjoyed by everyone. To that end,
we have capped the upload and download data rate each to 1000 kbps --
note that typical DSL rates are 350 kbps down and 125 kbps up."
http://wifi.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=30862&topic=8297

"What should I do if there is a tree/building/obstacle between me and
the closest Google WiFi node?"
"We apologize that your service is being obstructed. We hope that you
are able to use Google WiFi in other outdoor areas of Mountain View."
"Additionally, you may wish to reference our map of Google WiFi nodes
and known ‘dead zones’ (may load slowly) to confirm that Google WiFi
is available from your current location."
http://wifi.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=30811&topic=8330

"Will Google WiFi work inside my home or office?"
"Google WiFi will be strongest when a user is outdoors. It is unlikely
that a WiFi enabled laptop or a computer with a conventional WiFi card
will work indoors in most locations. If you want to use the service
indoors, we suggest purchasing a WiFi modem. An exception to this is
the Mountain View Public Library, where we have installed WiFi access
points inside to ensure good coverage throughout the building."
http://wifi.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=44036&topic=9012

"Will Google WiFi be a secure network?"
"In order to make our service easily accessible to a large number of
WiFi-enabled devices, Google WiFi is an open-access wireless network,
and our signal is not encrypted. As such, we encourage our users to
take security precautions such as using a firewall and a virtual
private network (VPN)."
"Google offers a free, downloadable virtual private network (VPN)
client that a user may install and use to prevent others from
accessing or seeing the data he or she receives or transmits on Google
WiFi. Please reference our section on Google Secure Access (GSA) for
more information."
"Please note that Google WiFi users may elect to use a different
third-party VPN client. Click here to view a list of recommended
third-party VPN clients."
"Even without a VPN client, any Google Account information submitted
through our login process will be encrypted for your protection.
Additionally, any information submitted through a secure site
indicated by an ‘https://’ URL or a padlock at the bottom corner of
your browser will be encrypted. As with any wireless network, users
should take certain precautions to secure their online experience from
security violations by third parties or unintentional security
breaches."
http://wifi.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=30815&topic=8296

Connecting with your Laptop
http://wifi.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=8290

Troubleshooting
http://wifi.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=8292

Gmail Opens Up In Japan, Australia and New Zealand

Google Gmail Japan opens to anyone interested in opening an account
August 24, 2006
"Search engine giant Google has announced that Japanese users are now
free to open up a new account on their Gmail webmail service in the
country."
"With this, Japan becomes the third market where Google has opened up
their Gmail service for invite-less registrations."
"Australia and New Zealand are the other two countries where Gmail is
open for public registrations. Users in other markets require an
invite from existing users to create a new account."
" Angela Lee, Tokyo-based product manager at Google spoke on this new
development: “We want as many people to have access to our service.
The change has had quite a significant impact in Australia and New
Zealand.” "
http://stuff.techwhack.com/archives/2006/08/24/google-gmail-japan/

Google opens up Gmail to Japan
August 24, 2006
"Google has reportedly opened up access to Gmail for users in Japan,
after a successful launch of open access for Australia and New Zealand
users. Google is trying to raise its presence in the mobile phone
capital of the world, where more people access the internet from
mobile phones than from personal computers."
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/08/24/google-opens-up-gmail-to-japan/

Google gives open access to Japan version of GMail
August 23, 2006
"Google Inc., the world's biggest Internet search engine, said on
Wednesday it is opening the Japanese-language version of its email
service to anyone who wants to sign up."
"Japan is the third market after Australia and New Zealand in which
the U.S. Internet conglomerate has allowed open access to GMail, which
it offers in more than 40 different languages."
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-08-23T064746Z_01_T264574_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-JAPAN-GOOGLE.XML

Google has opened Gmail to all of Australia
August 10, 2006
"Google has just announced that it has opened up Gmail for Australian
users. Normally, Google only allows Gmail sign-ups by invitation only.
Australian users just have to visit www.gmail.com and sign up for an
account to gain access to the popular email service. Google has
decided that they want to broaden the availability of the free 2.7 GB
of free email space, and are trying it out in Australia and New
Zealand first."
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/08/10/google-has-opened-gmail-to-all-of-australia/

Gmail parties in Australia without invitation
August 12, 2006
"Australian and New Zealand residents are the first in the world to be
able sign up for Gmail without having to scrounge for invites from
existing users."
"As of today, users can sign-up to Google's Web-based e-mail program
by simply registering on the site www.gmail.com"
"As we prepare to broaden availability, we have decided to launch
these efforts in Australia and New Zealand first," said a Google
Australia spokesperson. "We understand the extreme interest and
passion that people around the world have for Gmail and we look
forward to making Gmail generally available in more places as soon as
we are able."
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/news/2677519.php

Gmail now freely available in NZ
August 11, 2006
"Google's Gmail service is now available to anyone with internet
access in Australia and New Zealand."
"The service offers users 2.7 gigabytes of free space, and Google says
that it has superior spam protection to other email services.
Previously, the service was only available to people who received an
invitation from an existing user, or by signing up through Google
SMS."
http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=15889&cid=3&cname=Technology

Google Apps for Your Domain

Google Apps for Your Domain
(August 28, 2006)
"Now you can offer private-labeled email, IM and calendar tools to all
of your users for free*, so they can share ideas and get things done
more effectively. You can design and publish your organization's
website, too. It's all hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or
software for you to install or maintain."
"Gmail  -  Offer email to your members with 2 gigabytes of storage per
account, search tools to help them find information fast, and instant
messaging built right into the browser."
"Google Talk  -  Your members can call or send instant messages to
their contacts for free -- anytime, anywhere in the world."
"Google Calendar  -  Members can organize their schedules and share
events, meetings and entire calendars with others."
"Google Page Creator  -  Create and publish web pages for your domain
quickly and easily with this what-you-see-is-what-you-get website
design tool."
http://www.google.com/a/

Google Apps for Your Domain Help/FAQ
http://www.google.com/support/a

Google Apps for Your Domain forum
http://groups.google.com/group/hosted

Google Apps for Education
"With Google Apps for Education, you can offer all of your students
innovative email, instant messaging, and calendaring, all for free."
"Gmail  -  Give students email with huge storage capacity, less spam,
search tools to help them find information fast and built-in instant
messaging."
"Google Talk  -  Keep students in contact even when not on campus with
instant messaging and voice calling over the Web."
"Google Calendar  -  Help students stay on top of their schedules,
share plans with others and keep up-to-date on campus events."
http://www.google.com/a/edu/

Google Apps for Education Help/FAQ
http://www.google.com/support/a/?wrapper=edu

Google Launches Hosted Communications Services
August 28, 2006
"Google Inc. today announced the launch of Google Apps for Your Domain
(http://www.google.com/a), a set of hosted applications for
organizations that want to provide high quality communications tools
to their users without the hassle of installing and maintaining
software or hardware."
"In addition to customizing the user interface with their own branding
and color scheme, organizations can tailor the service to their needs
by mixing and matching the email, messaging, calendaring and other
tools offered through Google Apps for Your Domain."
"Google Apps for Your Domain, an expansion of the Gmail for Your
Domain service that launched in February 2006, currently includes
Gmail web email, the Google Talk instant messaging and voice calling
service, collaborative calendaring through Google Calendar, and web
page design, publishing and hosting via Google Page Creator. Domain
administrators use a simple web-based control panel to manage their
user account list, set up aliases and distribution lists, and enable
the services they want for their domain."
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gafyd.html

Google Adds Malware Warnings

Google Adds Malware Warnings
August 3, 2006
"Google now shows a warning when you click on certain potentially
harmful search results. For example, when you search for list keygen
mirc and click on the first result, instead of the target page you’ll
see this (Google links to the StopBadware.org initiative, which it
also sponsors):"
"Warning - the site you are about to visit may harm your computer!"
"You can learn more about malware and how to protect yourself at
StopBadware.org."
"Suggestions:"
"• Return to the previous page and pick another result."
"• Try another search to find what you’re looking for."
"The URL of above warning is google.com/interstitial?url=http://asta-
killer.com/list.html. To test if a specific domain is considered to
host malware, you can replace the URL parameter; apparently, only if
it’s considered malware will the warning show (otherwise you’ll get a
“forbidden” message)."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-08-03-n78.html

Malware Warnings on Google Search Results
August 3, 2006
"Google has started to issue malware warnings for some of the search
results. If you search for list keygen mirc (which is a bad thing, but
mIRC should be free anyway), and click on the first result, Google
will show you this page:"
"Of course, you can still go to the page, but Google warned you."
" Google and Sun Microsystems fund a non-profit anti-spyware group
called StopBadware and this is one of the Google's contributions to
the project. "The internet has the extraordinary capacity to allow
anyone, anywhere, to develop software, and to instantly distribute it,
without cost, throughout the world. StopBadware.org was established in
an effort to preserve this positive ability to generate and share
information by exploring ways to solve the badware problem. With the
advice and input of a panel of internet experts, we isolated seven
categories of behaviors that many users reported as unwanted in
software they download: deceptive installations, unclearly
identification, causing harm to other computers, modifying other
software, transmitting user data, interfering with computer use, and
being difficult to uninstall completely." "
"There are many solutions that provide safety ratings for sites. One
of the most popular is SiteAdvisor, a plug-in for Internet Explorer
and Firefox. When you search with Google, SiteAdvisor displays
different colors (green, yellow, red) next to search results and ads
to show if the site sends spam, has malware, pop-ups, or links to
dubious sites."
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/malware-warnings-on-google-search.html

Google Image Labeler

Google Image Labeler
"Welcome to Google Image Labeler, a new feature of Google Image Search
that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of
Google's image search results."
"You'll be randomly paired with a partner who's online and using the
feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown
the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible
to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner's
label, you'll earn some points and move on to the next image until
time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you've
seen and the websites where those images were found. And we'll show
you the points you've earned throughout the session."
http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

Google Image Labeler FAQ
"How was Google Image Labeler developed?"
"Google Image Labeler is based in part on technology licensed from and
developed at Carnegie Mellon University."
"Do I need to provide my Google account or my name?"
"If you'd like to keep a record of your contribution, we suggest you
sign in to your Google account. You'll also be asked to provide a
nickname. Note: If you'd like to remain anonymous, you don't need to
log in to your Google account to label images."
"What information will my partner and I be able to see about each
other?"
"None. Unless you choose a nickname, in which case your partner can
see that."
"How do I earn points?"
"When you and your partner match labels on an image, you both earn
points."
"Where can I see all the points that I have earned?"
"When you sign in to your Google account, you'll be able to access the
points that you have earned while you were logged in. If you weren't
logged in, you will not be able to access points from all of your
sessions."
"What are these points for? Can I redeem them for anything?"
"They're intended to help indentify contributions from participants.
But they're not redeemable."
http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/help.html

Google News Archive Search

Google News Archive Search
http://news.google.com/archivesearch

About Google News Archive Search
http://news.google.com/archivesearch/about.html

Google News Archive Search Help
http://news.google.com/archivesearch/help.html

Google News
http://news.google.com/

Sitelinks In Google Search Results

Information about Sitelinks
September 7, 2006
"You may have noticed that some search results include a set of links
below them to pages within the site. We've just updated our help
center with information on how we generate these links, called
Sitelinks, and why we show them."
"Our process for generating Sitelinks is completely automated. We show
them when we think they'll be most useful to searchers, saving them
time from hunting through web pages to find the information they are
looking for. Over time, we may look for ways to incorporate input from
webmasters too."
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/09/information-about-sitelinks.html

How do you compile the list of links shown below some search results?
"The links shown below some sites in our search results, called
Sitelinks, are meant to help users navigate your site. Our systems
analyze the link structure of your site to find shortcuts that will
save users time and allow them to quickly find the information they're
looking for."
"We only show Sitelinks for results when we think they'll be useful to
the user. If the structure of your site doesn't allow our algorithms
to find good Sitelinks, or we don't think that the Sitelinks for your
site are relevant for the user's query, we won't show them."
"At the moment, Sitelinks are completely automated. We're always
working to improve our Sitelinks algorithms, and we may incorporate
webmaster input in the future."
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334&topic=8523

UI fun: Better snippets
August 19, 2005
"For a small number of sites, we’re not just showing our regular
snippets: we try to expose useful links from within a site. In this
Berkeley example, Google shows links for Berkeley departments,
academics at Berkeley, etc. Pretty neat (and more importantly, useful)
stuff."
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ui-fun-better-snippets/

How Much Data Does Google Store?

How Much Data Does Google Store?
September 10, 2006
"In case you were wondering how much information Google stores, the
paper about BigTable I was talking about last week gives some
interesting insights."
"Google search crawler uses 850 TB of information (1 TB = 1024 GB), so
that's the amount of raw data from the web."
"Google Analytics uses 220 TB stored in two tables: 200 TB for the raw
data and 20 TB for the summaries."
"Google Earth uses 70.5 TB: 70 TB for the raw imagery and 500 GB for
the index data."
"Personalized Search doesn't need too much data: only 4 TB."
"Google Base uses 2 TB and Orkut only 9 TB of data."
"If we take into account that all this information is compressed (for
example, the crawled data has compression rate of 11%, so 800 TB
become 88 TB), Google uses for all the services mentioned before 220
TB."
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-much-data-does-google-store.html

Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
"Over the last two and a half years we have designed, implemented, and
deployed a distributed storage system for managing structured data at
Google called Bigtable. Bigtable is designed to reliably scale to
petabytes of data and thousands of machines. Bigtable has achieved
several goals: wide applicability, scalability, high performance, and
high availability. Bigtable is used by more than sixty Google products
and projects, including Google Analytics, Google Finance, Orkut,
Personalized Search, Writely, and Google Earth. These products use
Bigtable for a variety of demanding workloads, which range from
throughput-oriented batch-processing jobs to latency-sensitive serving
of data to end users. The Bigtable clusters used by these products
span a wide range of configurations, from a handful to thousands of
servers, and store up to several hundred terabytes of data."
"Table 2 provides some data about a few of the tables currently in
use. Some tables store data that is served to users, whereas others
store data for batch processing; the tables range widely in total
size, average cell size, percentage of data served from memory, and
complexity of the table schema.
"Project name, Table size (TB)"
"Crawl, 800"
"Crawl, 50"
"Google Analytics, 20"
"Google Analytics, 200"
"Google Base, 2"
"Google Earth, 0.5"
"Google Earth, 70"
"Orkut, 9"
"Personalized Search, 4"
http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf

Google Campus Activities Calendar

Google Campus Activities Calendar
"Google is coming to campus! Take a look to see when we're visiting
your university. You can even place a reminder on your calendar if you
wish!"
"The United States is a big place, so we've created four calendars
each dedicated to a specific region and set of schools. If you don't
find your school on our calendars, we still want to hear from you!
Please take a look at our opportunities and apply online."
http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=students.html&sid=calendar

Examples:

UC Berkeley, September 12, 2006
http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=ZXJpZzFhanZrcTdqa2xwZDFlMDJvYzJiNGMgMmpoYzRsYjQ1aTg0N29mN2Y3YWxydXZnZWtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

USC, September 13, 2006
http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=cTFmdGFidnRwMDl1cTI5cG90NTJnM2U0ZWcgMmpoYzRsYjQ1aTg0N29mN2Y3YWxydXZnZWtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

Arizona State University, September 20, 2006
http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=ZGZxazdja29xdnAwc29kcXR0M2c3cjN1MnMgMmpoYzRsYjQ1aTg0N29mN2Y3YWxydXZnZWtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

Alberta, September 21, 2006
http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=aTJsYm1pc280cWFpb2YydXN1cnR0ZWxwM2cgMmpoYzRsYjQ1aTg0N29mN2Y3YWxydXZnZWtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

U British Columbia, September 28, 2006
http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=aW9sdXI4ZGN0dDhkbWptY3Y3NnRoaG5ua28gMmpoYzRsYjQ1aTg0N29mN2Y3YWxydXZnZWtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

Google Desktop Gadget Contest Winners 2006

Results of the Google Desktop Gadget Contest!
September 5, 2006
"3rd place – Day/Night World Clock by Beatrix Gottanka – We couldn't
have designed a better world clock. Not only does this clock show you
the local time, but there's also a map that indicates where it's night
or day at any given hour. And if you want options, this gadget has
them."
"2nd place – Multiplayer Reversi Game by Turhan Aydin – Immerse
yourself in the fun game Reversi with this visually rich gadget. Not
only can you play against the computer, but this gadget takes
advantage of our Google Talk API so you can also play with your
friends."
"1st place – diGGGadget by Marius and Yannick Stucki – Stay on top of
the latest stories from digg.com. Click on a few buttons and you'll
know why we think it's so great. It also takes advantage of our
advanced APIs to enable sharing news with friends plus personalization
based on your interests."
http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2006/09/results-of-google-desktop-gadget.html

Google Desktop
http://desktop.google.com/

Google Desktop Help
http://desktop.google.com/support

Google Desktop Forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop

Google Desktop SDK Developer Guide
http://desktop.google.com/developerguide.html

Google Desktop Blog
http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/

Google Gadget Awards

Google Gadget Awards
"If you're a student with an email address ending in .edu, the Google
Gadget Awards is your chance to win a Google programming competition –
even if you're not a programming ninja. If you've ever taken a web
design class, you can probably create a gadget in a few minutes – no
need to download anything or even own hosting space. Once you've
submitted your gadget, people can add it to their Google homepage with
a few mouse clicks."
"1 Create a Google Gadget."
"2 Submit your gadget by November 1, 2006."
"3 Check out the competition – and the winning gadgets."
http://www.google.com/gadgetawards
http://www.google.com/intl/en/events/gadgetawards/index.html

Google Gadget Awards Contest Rules
http://www.google.com/intl/en/events/gadgetawards/rules.html

Google Scholarships

Google Scholarships
"As part of Google's ongoing commitment to advancing computing and
technology, we are pleased to provide scholarships to encourage
students to excel in their studies and become active role models and
leaders. We hope these programs also help in dismantling barriers that
keep women and minorities from entering computing and technology
fields."
http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=students.html&sid=scholarships

Google Public Service Search Login Problem

For Those Wondering About Public Service Search
September 15, 2006
"We recently learned of a security issue with our Public Service
Search service and disabled login functionality temporarily to protect
our Public Service Search users while we were working to fix the
problem. We are not aware of any malicious exploits of this problem
and this service represents an extremely small portion of searches."
"We have a temporary fix in place currently that prevents exploitation
of this problem and will have a permanent solution in place shortly.
Unfortunately, the temporary fix may inconvenience a small number of
Public Service Search users in the following ways:"
"* Public Service Search is currently not open to new signups."
"* If you use Public Service Search on your site, you are currently
unable to log in to make changes, but rest assured that Public Service
Search continues to function properly on your site."
"* The template system is currently disabled, so search results will
appear in a standard Google search results format, rather than
customized to match the look and feel of your site. However, the
search results themselves are not being modified."
"If you are a Public Service Search user and are having trouble
logging in right now, please sit tight. As soon as the permanent
solution is in place the service will be back on its feet again. In
the meantime, you will still be able to provide site-specific searches
on your site as usual."
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/09/for-those-wondering-about-public.html

Google Talk Now Available For Everyone

Now anyone can Talk
September 28, 2006
"Last year, we launched Google Talk, a free and easy service for
making voice calls and sending instant messages. It used to be that
only Gmail users could use Google Talk but now anyone can sign up for
Google Talk."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/now-anyone-can-talk.html

Create a Google Account - Google Talk
"Your Google Account gives you access to Google Talk and other Google
services."
https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=talk

Google Talk
http://www.google.com/talk/

Google Groups Beta (GG3)

Google has launched Google Groups Beta (GG3):

"Today, the Google Groups team launched a new beta version, available
to anyone at groups-beta.google.com."
"Group owners can now create a welcome message, upload a group logo
and customize your fonts and colors. You can make your group your own,
in other words — something you had been telling us you really wanted."
"Another thing I'm particularly proud of is the Pages feature, which
lets you create web pages inside your group, and work on them with
others. Instead of only offering rigid templates, we integrated many
of the functions of Google Page Creator right into Groups, so you can
create exactly what your group needs: an essay for school, the history
your family, a web page with photos, a list of links, and so on."
"Some of the other improvements to Groups include:"
"Using Gmail's message cards for discussions, which makes them easier
to follow"
"Adding a Files section so users can share and collaborate on
documents"
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-groups-experience.html

Links:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Groups-Basics/browse_frm/thread/ed404d3ea3d7db85/ac3627f9127cd29a?#ac3627f9127cd29a
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-04-n43.html
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-google-groups.html
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=3860
http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/002891.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=348
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/10/05/another-google-groups-beta/

Historical information about DejaNews, Google Groups 1, and Google Groups 2:

http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html
http://www.pandia.com/searchworld/2001-26-usenet.html
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Groups-past-discussions/browse_frm/thread/7a92653357cbad54/9ae8221d8ad46b65?#9ae8221d8ad46b65
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Groups-Basics/msg/bcdcd16b3c0f168c

Google's SearchMash.com

Google's New SearchMash Test Site
October 2, 2006
"Google's gained a new unbranded site called SearchMash where it plans
to test user interface ideas without Google's brand somehow skewing
the tests."
"Web results are presented in the main left-hand column after a search
and seem ranked the same as at Google. Unlike Google, presentation is
different. Results are numbered."
"After the first ten results, there's a "more web pages" link at the
bottom. Click on this, and you get another 10 results magically
appearing on the same page, inserted below the first 10. You can keep
going, adding 10 more results at a time."
"Unique to SearchMash is the ability to drag-and-drop web search
results. Click on the number next to any listing, and you can move
that listing higher or lower in the search results. The number doesn't
change after you move it."
"Those are the features at the moment, which you can also find
described on the site's features page. What you won't find is much
about Google on the site. The About page doesn't mention them. You've
got to go into the privacy page where you discover:"
"SearchMash is a website operated by Google Inc. The Google Privacy
Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use our
products and services, including information provided when you use
SearchMash. In addition, the following describes our privacy practices
that are specific to SearchMash."
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061002-192616

Google launches SearchMash.com
October 5, 2006
"Google has recently released a new search site called SearchMash.com.
Although there isn’t a Google logo in sight, a quick look at the
privacy policy reveals that the site is well and truly owned by Google
Inc."
"So why have Google launched another search engine? I can only assume
that they plan to test some new user interface ideas out on the site.
Take a look at the ‘Features’ page and see which new functionality
appeals to you as a searcher."
"Being a search marketer, my favourite has got to be the ability to
drag and drop your site’s listing to the top of the search results!"
http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/361814/google-launches-searchmash-com.html

Google's Other Search Engine Exposed
October 3, 2006
"Google has another, somewhat secretive search engine called
SearchMash.com. Kudos to Nathan Weinberg for releasing this valuable
piece of information! Search Mash appears to be a testbed of sorts for
AJAX search technology (the same technology that Microsoft's new
Live.com search engine uses). Check out the Search Mash features list
and you will see how some of the options seem to steer more toward a
higher level of personalized results; a direction Google is forging
towards."
"I can't say I like the search engine all that much but I know it
isn't meant to win any popularity contests. It appears to be Google's
playground for search technology; something not meant to be taken too
seriously by mainstream searchers."
"At any rate by testing Search Mash you are bound to get a glimpse at
some of the features that will be present in the future AJAX version
of Google. A version that is very likely to appear within the next
couple of years (unless a better technology is in their sites)."
http://news.stepforth.com/blog/2006/10/googles-other-search-engine-exposed.php

Google Running SearchMash
October 3, 2006
"Google is running an alternate search engine called SearchMash, which
includes some useful and “out there” features that might not be right
for Google.com, but could make a really interesting search engine. Of
course, if any of the features turn out to be huge hits, who knows?
Google hasn’t commented on SearchMash yet, but they admit they own it
in the privacy policy (and their name is in the WhoIs, anyway)."
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/10/03/google-running-searchmash/

Google’s SearchMash.com
October 2, 2006
"A new sign of Google’s upcoming Search Mashup service appeared:
SearchMash.com, a Google-operated site from what it looks like. This
might be a sample application of a customized search engine (in that
case, Search Mash may be a quick n’ easy tool to create your own
search engine). On a light purple and white background, you can drag &
drop specific search results, and to the right side of the web results
you’ll see 3 image results. A combo-box next to the search input box
allows you to toggle between web and image search."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-02-n30.html

Google’s SearchMash : Google 2.0
October 3, 2006
"After acquiring several related domain names last week, Google has
estinguished the rumor flames of their Search Mashup ambitions with
the quiet launch of SearchMash.com."
"Google’s new Search Sandbox (not to be confused with the other Google
Sandbox) for playing with search result toys includes the addition of
Ajax URL menus, integrated A9 style image search, and the ability for
users to reorder their results."
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=3853

SearchMash
http://www.searchmash.com/

Google Blog Search Pinging Service

Got blog? Will ping.
October 5, 2006
"Today we're launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which
is a way for individual bloggers and blog platform providers to inform
us of content changes. Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML
and want to be included in our Blog Search index can now ping us
directly."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/got-blog-will-ping.html

Google Blog Search Pinging Service FAQ
"What is the Google Blog Search Pinging Service?"
"The Google Blog Search Pinging Service is a way to inform Google Blog
Search of weblog updates. These updates are then published and shared
with other search engines to allow them to discover the changes to
your weblogs. In addition, Google Blog Search will add submitted
weblogs to the list of blogs it needs to crawl and index."
"Who should use the Google Blog Search Pinging Service?"
"The Google Blog Search Pinging Service is for bloggers who wish to
have their blogs crawled by Google and have them updated in Google
Blog Search. It is also for blogging services that wish to provide the
service to their blog writers."
"How often should I ping Google Blog Search?"
"You should ping as often as your blog changes."
"I pinged the Google Blog Search, but why don't I see the results in
Google Blog Search?"
"While the Google Blog Search Pinging Service helps us stay informed
about updates to your blog, it doesn't guarantee that your blog will
be included in our Blog Search results. Since our inclusion process is
automated, many factors, such as delays between when we receive the
ping and when we then crawl your blog, can affect your blog's
inclusion."
http://www.google.com/help/blogsearch/about_pinging.html

About Google Blog Search Pinging Service API
http://www.google.com/help/blogsearch/pinging_API.html

Google Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/

Google Code Search

Google Code Search
http://www.google.com/codesearch

Google Code Search FAQ
"Google Code Search helps you find function definitions and sample
code by giving you one place to search publicly accessible source code
hosted on the Internet. With Google Code Search, you can:"
"Use regular expressions to search more precisely"
"Restrict your search by language, license or filename"
"View the source file with links back to the entire package and the
webpage where it came from"
"What kind of code are you crawling?"
"We're crawling as much publicly accessible source code as we can
find, including archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip), CVS
repositories and Subversion repositories."
"What regexp syntax does Code Search support?"
"Google Code Search supports POSIX extended regular expression syntax,
excluding backreferences, collating elements, and collation classes.
To search for a space character, escape it with a backslash, as in
hello,\ world. You can search for literal strings by enclosing the
strings in quotation marks, as in "hello, world". We also support Perl
extensions \d, \D, \s, \S, \w, and \W."
"How do I restrict by language, license or filename?"
"You can either use the Advanced Code Search page or use our
operators. Our operators include:"
"The lang: operator, which restricts by programming language (e.g.,
lang:"c++", -lang:java, or lang:^(c|c#|c\+\+)$)"
"The license: operator, which restricts by software license (e.g.,
license:apache, -license:gpl, or license:bsd|mit)"
"The package: operator, which restricts by package URL (e.g.,
package:"www.kernel.org" or package:\.tgz$)"
"The file: operator, which restricts by filename (e.g.,
file:include/linux/$ or -file:\.cc$)"
http://www.google.com/help/faq_codesearch.html

Google Code Search forum
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Code-Search

Google Code Search Terms of Service
http://code.google.com/tos.html

Google Labs
http://labs.google.com/

Google Mac Blog

Inside Macs at Google
October 9, 2006
"There are a lot of people who love Macs at Google, and we're really
excited to contribute to the Mac OS X platform. I know how frustrating
it is to not get a regular dose of Mac news or find the Mac
application you want. So check out the new Google Mac Blog to get all
the news, tips, and insider stories about Macs at Google. Another site
you might want to visit is www.google.com/mac. Created by Ryan Brown,
an engineer on the Mac team, this site showcases all of the Google
applications for the Mac."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/inside-macs-at-google.html

Official Google Mac Blog
http://googlemac.blogspot.com/

Google Press Center
http://www.google.com/press/

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

What's new in Google Docs & Spreadsheets?
"Writely and Google Spreadsheets have come together!"
"You can see, create, and share all of your web-based documents and
spreadsheets in one place. As your collection grows, you can manage
and find them using tags, stars, and searches."
"The document and spreadsheet editors now share the same UI, as
features of one product. Not every little detail is the same, since
they do different things, but they certainly have a similar feel."
http://www.google.com/google-d-s/whatsnew.html

Google Docs & Spreadsheets
http://docs.google.com/

Writely (the old website)
http://www.writely.com/

Google for Educators

Google for Educators
"Google recognizes the central role that teachers play in breaking
down the barriers between people and information, and we support
educators who work each day to empower their students and expand the
frontiers of human knowledge. This website is one of the ways we're
working to bolster that support and explore how Google and educators
can work together."
"To your left, you'll find a teacher's guide to 12 Google products,
including basic information about each tool, examples of how educators
are using them, and lesson ideas. You'll also find lesson plans and
videos from our partners at Discovery Education focusing on two of our
most popular teaching tools: Google Earth and Google SketchUp."
"Web Search, Earth, Book Search, Maps, Video, Docs & Spreadsheets,
Blogger, SketchUp, Calendar, Picasa, Personalized Homepage, Google
Apps for Education"
http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Google Apps for for Education
"Google Apps for Education is a broad IT solution that schools can use
to bring communication and collaboration tools to the entire academic
community for free. Google manages all the technology details, so you
can focus your time, energy and budgets on teaching your kids."
"Students, teachers and staff can share ideas more quickly and get
things done more effectively when they have access to the same
powerful communication and sharing tools. Google Apps for Education
for your domain lets tech administrators provide email, sharable
online calendars, instant messaging tools and even a dedicated website
to faculty, students and staff for free. There's no hardware or
software to install or maintain, since everything is delivered through
a standard web browser -- anytime, from anyplace."
http://www.google.com/educators/p_apps.html

Google Teacher Newsletter
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Teacher-Center

Google SMS

Google SMS
"Text message your search query to 46645 ('GOOGL' on most devices) and
we'll text message back results."
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/sms/
http://www.google.com/sms/

Access Google from anywhere, anytime.
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/index.html

Google SMS Help
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/topic.py?topic=9123

"What is Google SMS?"
"Google SMS is a service that enables you to search for certain kinds
of information with Google from a mobile device (such as a
Blackberry), and returns your search results as text messages. With
Google SMS, you can get phone book listings, movie showtimes, weather,
facts, dictionary definitions, product prices, and more. Please visit
the Google SMS homepage to see sample queries and the types of results
you might get."
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=40396&topic=9126

"How much does Google SMS cost?"
"Google doesn't currently charge users to send a query or to receive
results, but your mobile provider's standard rates for sending and
receiving text messages still apply."
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=40403&topic=9126

"Which mobile service providers does Google SMS support?"
"Google SMS works on all major mobile providers in the US, including
Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Cingular, Dobson, Nextel, Sprint PCS, T-
Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon, and Virgin Mobile."
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=40407&topic=9126

"Where does Google SMS work?"
"Google SMS is currently available in Canada, Germany, Japan, Spain,
and the US. We're working diligently to make it available for more
users."
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=40406&topic=9126

"Does Google SMS work in other languages?"
"At this time, Google SMS only works in English."
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=40408&topic=9126

"Will Google SMS work on my mobile phone or hand-held device?"
"It should, as long as you have a mobile device that's able to do text
messaging or to send and receive SMS messages. Please note, however,
that Google SMS only works on major mobile providers in the US.
Supported mobile providers currently include Alltel, Cincinnati Bell,
Cingular, Dobson, Nextel, Sprint PCS, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon,
and Virgin Mobile. You also need to make sure that you have text
messaging enabled on your service plan. If you're not sure whether you
have this capability, please check with your mobile provider."
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=40401&topic=9126

"What does "1of2" stand for?"
"If you see "1of2" on your screen, that means you're looking at the
first of two messages. You'll likely get more than one result message
per search, and we use this notation so you can read your messages in
the correct order."
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=40487&topic=9128

"What's the maximum number of results I can get for each query?"
"Three."
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=40485&topic=9128

Business Listings
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/topic.py?topic=9095

Movie Showtimes
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/topic.py?topic=9096

Driving Directions
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/topic.py?topic=9098

Weather
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/topic.py?topic=9099

Sports Scores
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/topic.py?topic=9100

Google Q&A
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/topic.py?topic=9104

Prices by Froogle
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/topic.py?topic=9106

Currency Conversion
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/topic.py?topic=9109

Google Website Optimizer (for AdWords)

Google Website Optimizer (for AdWords)
"Take the guesswork out of landing page testing. Website Optimizer
makes it easier to determine which version of your landing page users
like best. Graphical reports show which page resulted in the highest
conversion rate. Complete the steps below and sign-up to participate
in our beta test. We can only invite a small number of advertisers at
this time, but hope to open the tool to all Advertisers over the
coming months."
"While Website Optimizer is integrated into AdWords, it tests all
traffic to your site – including traffic from your AdWords ads, Google
search results and any other source of traffic to your site."
http://services.google.com/websiteoptimizer/

Google Website Optimizer FAQ
https://www.google.com/analytics/siteopt/siteopt/help/FAQ.html

Google Website Optimizer Overview
https://www.google.com/analytics/siteopt/siteopt/help/overvw.html

Google Country Manager For Finland

Google appoints first country manager for Finland
October 23, 2006
"Internet search engine company Google has chosen Petri Kokko as its
first country manager for Finland, the company said in a statement
Monday."
"According to Google the nomination is part of an investment in Nordic
countries that aims at enhancing the availability of Google's products
and services for local users and advertisers."
"Mr Kokko is best known in Finland for his career as one of the
country's most successful figure skaters. He has also worked as the
chief executive of Stream Helsinki and Nike Finland."
http://newsroom.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=14092&group=Business
http://virtual.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=14092&group=Business


Links:

http://www.tietokone.fi/uutta/uutinen.asp?news_id=28492
http://www.taloussanomat.fi/page.php?page_id=97&news_id=200618480
http://www.hs.fi/talous/artikkeli/Googlen+ensimm%C3%A4iseksi+Suomen-johtajaksi+Petri+Kokko/1135222511107
http://www.nelonen.fi/uutiset/arkisto_uutinen.asp?d=1135222511107
http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/txt/mediait.shtml/arkistot/mediait/2006/10/478544
http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/haku.php?action=page&id=232487&search=Petri%20Kokko
http://www.digitoday.fi/page.php?page_id=13&news_id=200618478
http://www.marmai.fi/doc.te?f_id=1050665
http://www.google.fi/intl/fi/corporate/address.html

Google Custom Search Engine

Google Custom Search Engine
"Harness the power of Google search to create a free Custom Search
Engine that reflects your knowledge and interests. Specify the
websites that you want searched - and integrate the search box and
results into your own website."
http://google.com/coop/cse/

Google Custom Search Engine FAQ
"What is a Custom Search Engine?"
"A Custom Search Engine is a tailored search experience, built using
Google's core search technology, which prioritizes or restricts search
results based on websites and pages that you specify, and which can be
tailored to reflect your point of view or area of expertise."
"What does this have to do with Google Co-op?"
"The Custom Search Engine is built on the Google Co-op platform, the
goal of which is to enable people to build upon, customize and tailor
Google Web Search."
"Who hosts my Custom Search Engine results pages?"
"We host the search results pages for you; you don't have to pay for
software or hosting services, or possess the technical expertise to
add your Custom Search Engine results to your site. You can customize
the look and feel of your Custom Search Engine search results to make
it feel like your own, and you can also host the results in an iframe
on your own site if you prefer."
"What does it mean to collaborate on a Custom Search Engine?"
"Your Custom Search Engine can benefit not only from your hard work,
but also from that of others who collaborate with you. Collaboration
is an optional feature which allows you to let other people whose
expertise you trust contribute to your Custom Search Engine. You can
either invite people explicitly, or allow anyone to volunteer to
collaborate, with your approval."
http://google.com/coop/docs/cse/faq.html

Google Co-op
http://www.google.com/coop/

Google Co-op forum
http://groups.google.com/group/google-co-op

Google Blog Alerts

Now Google Alerts offers blog alerts:

On the alert for bloggers
October 26, 2006
"So many interesting blogs and so little time! If you're anything like
me, you like to pick and choose what posts you read on any given blog.
You may only want to read a post about a topic of your interest, or
perhaps you only want to read blog posts by a particular writer or
two. Hence the new Blog Alert, which notifies you about new blog
search results. We've also added a Comprehensive Alert, which can show
results from multiple sources (including Google News, the web, and
blogs) so you get fuller information whenever your favorite topics
appear online."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/on-alert-for-bloggers.html

Google Alerts
http://www.google.com/alerts

Gmail Java Application for Mobile

Email On-the-Go Now Even Easier -- Google Launches New Mobile
Application for Speedier Access to Gmail
November 2, 2006
"Google Inc. today announced the release of an innovative new mobile
client, Gmail for mobile devices. This freely downloadable Java
application delivers Gmail users the look and feel of Gmail through a
fast, feature-rich interface that's optimized for handheld devices.
With the release of this client, Google is taking one more step toward
its goal of providing users with quick and easy access to the
information they need, when they need it."
"Gmail users can already access their accounts through the browser on
their mobile devices, but this application brings users the same great
Gmail experience -- complete with search, conversation view, and
automatic synchronization with the desktop version -- with the
following new benefits:"
"Up to five times faster access and use, thanks to automatic pre-
fetching of messages"
"Drastically reduced clicks and scrolling to access email"
"Fewer keystrokes for reading, composing, or searching mail"
"Attachments, including files and photos, viewable and automatically
resized to fit the user's phone"
"Getting started is easy: users can go to gmail.com/app from their
mobile browser to download the app. If users don't already have a
Gmail account, they can sign up for an account via SMS by going to
gmail.google.com and clicking on “sign up for Gmail.”"
"The application is available completely free of charge from Google
(carrier mobile data charges may still apply).  It is currently
compatible with all J2ME-enabled phones in the U.S. and works with a
variety of carrier service plans."
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/mail_mobileclient.html

Google Acquires JotSpot

JotSpot
http://www.jot.com/

"Who is JotSpot?"
"JotSpot, a privately held company headquartered in Palo Alto,
California, is the first application wiki company. Founded in 2004 by
Excite.com co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer, the company is
pioneering do-it-yourself application publishing to enable anyone to
create, publish, and share collaborative and personalized wiki
applications."
"What is a wiki?"
"A wiki is a website designed for collaboration. In a wiki everyone
can edit, update and append pages with new information, all without
knowing HTML. Wikis can be either publicly accessible or privately
secure."
"What is JotSpot's product?"
"While other wikis only support plain old text, JotSpot's wiki allows
you to create rich web-based spreadsheets, calendars, documents and
photo galleries. It's as easy as using a word processor — you don't
need to know HTML. Thousands of businesses are using JotSpot to manage
projects, build an intranet, share files and stay in sync with
colleagues and customers."
http://www.jot.com/google/faq.html

Spot on
October 31, 2006
"JotSpot is now part of Google"
"Joining Google allows us to plug into the resources that only a
company of Google's scale can offer, like a huge audience, access to
world-class data centers and a team of incredibly smart people."
"Our first order of business is to move JotSpot to Google's software
architecture. While we're doing so, we've turned off new
registrations. But if you're interested, sign up for our waitlist and
we'll keep you posted."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/spot-on.html

What Joe said
October 31, 2006
"We'd like to welcome Joe, Graham, and the rest of the JotSpot team to
Google. They've truly pioneered do-it-yourself application publishing,
enabling anyone from individuals to small businesses and large
enterprises to use wikis for online collaboration. Since we're just
getting started on a long and exciting road in online collaboration
for both consumers and our enterprise customers, joining forces with
the JotSpot team comes at a great time."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-joe-said.html

Google acquires Web applications pioneer JotSpot
November 1, 2006
"SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. said on Tuesday it bought
JotSpot, a Silicon Valley start-up that helped pioneer the market for
collaborative business software like online spreadsheets, in the
latest move by the Web search leader into territory dominated by
Microsoft Corp."
"In a statement on Google's Web site, JotSpot's co-founder and chief
executive, Joe Kraus, said his company agreed to the takeover
following a growing push by Google to offer competing software."
"Three-year-old JotSpot had developed a series of online productivity
software programs that offer many of the functions of Microsoft Office
programs like Microsoft Word or Excel spreadsheets. But instead of
running on individual computers, JotSpot applications are delivered as
Web-based services."
"Following the lead of companies like JotSpot, Mountain View,
California-based Google entered the market this year by acquiring the
Writely word processor and introducing other Web-based applications
such as Google Spreadsheets and Google Calendar."
" It was pretty apparent that Google shared our vision for how groups
of people can create, manage and share information online," said
Kraus, who was also a co-founder of Excite, one of the Web's first
search sites started in 1994. "
"JotSpot's programs run on collaborative wiki software, a flexible
form of Web publishing for groups that allows any approved user to
edit or change individual documents."
"The 27-employee company has helped popularize the idea that wikis are
not just for software geeks but can be used within small groups by
non-technical office workers or family groups to accomplish practical
scheduling or financial tasks."
"Based in Palo Alto, a few miles from Google's headquarters, JotSpot
has temporarily shut down new user registrations while it moves its
Web services and existing customer data onto Google's computer
systems."
"JotSpot has attracted 2,000 companies to use its software. It counts
30,000 paying customers and about 300,000 free users of its Web
software tools. Kraus said his company would continue to support
existing customers during the transition."
"JotSpot was founded in 2003 with $300,000 from Kraus and co-founder
Graham Spencer, who also helped start Excite.com. Two years ago,
Silicon Valley venture capital firms Mayfield Fund and Redpoint
Ventures invested another $4.2 million in JotSpot."
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-11-01T073307Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-274488-1.xml

Google buys JotSpot, dips into wiki world
October 31, 2006
"JotSpot co-founder and CEO Joe Kraus announced the acquisition on a
blog Tuesday morning, saying that being part of search giant Google
will give JotSpot access to "world-class" data centers and engineers."
"JotSpot's product is a platform for building wiki-based applications.
For example, the company has an online spreadsheet and calendar that
multiple people can edit."
"The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company has sold its wiki system
primarily to business customers as hosted collaboration software.
Wikis are catching on within businesses as lightweight alternative to
large-scale document management systems."
"Kraus said that the first order of business as part of Google is to
move JotSpot's software to Google's software architecture."
"In an interview Tuesday morning, Kraus indicated that that the
JotSpot team will work to link its wiki software with Google's current
hosted applications."
"The company earlier this year signed a deal with eBay, which chose
JotSpot's platform to run a member wiki."
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6131024.html

Links:

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-31-n10.html
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2430810,00.html
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1936033,00.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVq8iq1WBzJI&refer=home
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/31/business/jotspot.php
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/01/BUG25M3J531.DTL
http://www.betanews.com/article/Google_Dives_into_Wikis_with_JotSpot_Buy/1162330759
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/10/31/jotspot/index.php
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3867
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/technology/01google.html?ref=business
http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Google_Eyeing_Microsoft_Territory/551-76908-580.html
http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/newsanalysis/technet/10319030.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8L3S9LO0.htm
http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193500815
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-briefs1.2nov01,1,4943986.story?coll=la-headlines-technology
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/11/01/google_buys_maker_of_collaboration_tools/

Doodle 4 Google Winners 2006

Doodle 4 Google Winners 2006
http://www.google.co.uk/doodle4google/winners.html

Doodle 4 Google
"At Google, we like to reflect the ever changing world of our users
through the logo designs on our homepage. These "doodles" celebrate
different people, events or special dates and, until now, have been
designed by our original Doodler, 28-year-old Dennis Hwang."
"The 'Doodle 4 Google - My Britain' competition asks young people
across the UK to design a doodle that represents what it means to be
British today. The winning doodle, which will be displayed on the
Google UK homepage for a day, will be seen by around 18 million
people."
http://www.google.co.uk/doodle4google/

Links:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/history-is-cool-for-school.html
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-11-06.html#n25
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.support.general/browse_frm/thread/5fc3c4edd5663205/652e3e9806be0a4b?#652e3e9806be0a4b

Google Earth and Discovery Education unitedstreaming

Google Earth and Discovery Education unitedstreaming
"Google and Discovery Education have teamed up to make it easier for
K-12 educators to use technology in the classroom. We've created a
series of lesson plans that use Discovery Education unitedstreaming
and
a couple of Google products, Earth and SketchUp, to teach social
studies, language arts, math and geography. Available for elementary,
middle and high school classrooms, these lessons are available for
download right here on the Google for Educators site."
"This page includes lessons developed for use with Google Earth; for
lessons that use Google SketchUp, click on the SketchUp tab at left."
http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth_discovery.html

Google Earth and Geography Awareness Week 2006

Google Earth and Geography Awareness Week 2006
"Google and My Wonderful World, a National Geographic-led campaign for
geographic literacy, have teamed up to use Google Earth as an
educational tool for spreading awareness about people, places and
diversity of our wonderful planet. Since 1987, National Geographic and
other organizations have celebrated "geography awareness" during the
third week of November, promoting the importance of geography in the
U.S. and Canada. Each year, the focus is on a different area of the
world. This year, it's Africa."
"This page contains an interactive quiz on Africa, details on
multimedia content in Google Earth and daily themes for the geography
awareness week."
"Please download Google Earth for viewing the content described on
this page."
"For an overview of how to get started with Google Earth, please
download the Google Earth User Guide."
http://www.google.com/educators/gaw.html

Google Search History for Google Maps

Google Search History now includes Google Maps searches:

Google Search History
http://www.google.com/searchhistory

Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/

Keep track of your Maps searches, too
November 10, 2006
"Google Personalized Search now includes Google Maps, which means
you'll no longer have to remember searches you do for addresses,
businesses, or directions on Maps. Instead, you'll be able to browse,
search for, and bookmark them directly from your search history, just
as you already can with your web, images, news, Froogle, and video
history."
"If you already have Personalized Search enabled, you can access your
history through the "Search History" link in the upper right corner of
Google Maps. Otherwise, you can sign up for Personalized Search, and
make sure you're signed in to your Google Account when searching."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/keep-track-of-your-maps-searches-too.html

Virtual Hosts Vs. Dedicated IP Addresses

Myth busting: virtual hosts vs. dedicated IP addresses
November 13, 2006
"I hear that there was recently a discussion on a NANOG (North
American Network Operators Group) email list about virtual hosting vs.
dedicated IP addresses. They were commenting on the misconception that
having multiple sites hosted on the same IP address will in some way
affect the PageRanks of those sites. There is no PageRank difference
whatsoever between these two cases (virtual hosting vs. a dedicated
IP)."
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/myth-busting-virtual-hosts-vs-dedicated-ip-addresses/

About Matt Cutts
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.support.general/msg/701edcc1553c714c

Google Answers: Bye-bye

Adieu to Google Answers
November 28, 2006
"Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying
lots of new things all the time -- and sometimes it means
reconsidering our goals for a product. Later this week, we will stop
accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first project we
worked on here. The project started with a rough idea from Larry Page,
and a small 4-person team turned it into reality in less than 4
months. For two new grads, it was a crash course in building a
scalable product, responding to customer requests, and discovering
what questions are on people's minds."
"If you have a chance, we encourage you to browse through the
questions posted over the last 4+ years. Although we won't be
accepting any new questions, the existing Qs and As are available.
We'll stop accepting new Answers to questions by the end of the year."
"Google Answers was a great experiment which provided us with a lot of
material for developing future products to serve our users. We'll
continue to look for new ways to improve the search experience and to
connect people to the information they want."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/adieu-to-google-answers.html

Google Desktop 4: Improvements

Newest version of Google Desktop 4 (version 5.0.0611.15590) has some
new improvements:

Check out the new Sidebar
November 14, 2006
"now there's Google Desktop 4.5, featuring a Sidebar with a new look."
"The new Sidebar is transparent, so it fits seamlessly with your
desktop environment. Gadgets that fought for attention now look right
at home, and content-heavy gadgets get new frames and icons that make
it easier to tell them apart."
"this version is compatible with all of the latest software including
Microsoft Vista, Office 2007 and Mozilla Firefox 2.0."
http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2006/11/check-out-new-sidebar.html

"What's new in the latest version?"
"The latest version of Google Desktop offers several new features:"
"Compatibility with the newest releases of your most used programs:
We’ve updated Google Desktop to be compatible with Windows Vista,
Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, and Microsoft Office 2007."
"Visual refresh of the Sidebar: We’ve given the Sidebar a facelift,
adding transparency and new icons for default gadgets. It’s also
easier to resize the Sidebar and undocked gadgets; simply hover over
any edge or corner to activate the resize feature."
"Compatibility with over 1000 Google Desktop and personalized homepage
gadgets: It’s now easier than ever to customize your desktop with
items that can increase your productivity, or simply entertain you."
"Sidebar font size: You can now change the font size of your Sidebar
gadgets."
http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14638&topic=168

Google Spreadsheets Data API

Google Spreadsheets Data API
"The Google Spreadsheets data API allows client applications to view
and update Spreadsheets content in the form of a Google data API
("GData") feeds. Your client application can request a list of a
user's spreadsheets, edit or delete content in an existing
Spreadsheets worksheet, and query the content in an existing
Spreadsheets worksheet."
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/spreadsheets.html

Links:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/11/google-spreadsheets-has-api.html
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-12-01.html#n38
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=406

How Google Handles Hacked Sites

Matt Cutts: How Google handles hacked sites

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-google-handles-hacked-sites/
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/12/03/2049202.shtml
http://digg.com/security/How_Google_Handles_Hacked_Sites
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20061204GooglesStaunchOppositiontoHacking.html

Google Talk, IBM, AOL, and Yahoo! Co-operation

IBM Lotus Sametime, AOL's AIM, Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger Create
World's Largest Business Instant Messaging Community
December 7, 2006
"IBM today announced that IBM Lotus Sametime instant messaging
customers can now communicate with users of AIM and the Google Talk
instant messaging service and interoperability with Yahoo! Messenger
will be available in the coming weeks. Connecting the instant
messaging communities will enable Lotus Sametime users to send and
receive instant messages with, and view the presence awareness status
of, more than 157 million instant messaging users worldwide."
"Integrated access between Lotus Sametime and AOL's AIM, Google Talk
and Yahoo! Messenger is possible through the use of both industry
standards for instant messaging -- the Extensible Messaging and
Presence Protocol (XMPP) standard and the Session Initiated Protocol
(SIP/SIMPLE) standard."
"Industry standards are propelling change and growth in the real-time
collaboration industry, helping the technology evolve beyond its basic
chat roots to the centerpiece for varied types of communication such
as VoIP and Web conferencing. IBM is joining AOL, Google, Jabber and
Yahoo! in support of the SIP/SIMPLE and XMPP standards."
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20728.wss

Lotus Sametime 7.5 Interoperates with AIM, Google Talk
December 6, 2006
"IBM has thrown its weight behind the use of the Extensible Messaging
and Presence Protocol standard for interoperability, and will announce
on Dec. 6 that Lotus Sametime 7.5 instant messaging customers can now
communicate with users of AIM and Google Talk, and will be able to do
so with Yahoo Messenger in a matter of weeks."
"This is also the first time IBM has publicly announced its support of
the XMPP standard for interoperability with Sametime, but it has been
a longtime supporter of the Session Initiated Protocol (SIP/SIMPLE)
standard, Akiba Saeedi, the program director for IBM Lotus Sametime,
told eWEEK."
"Interoperability with Yahoo Messenger is also expected within the
next few weeks, meaning that Lotus Sametime 7.5 users will then be
able to send and receive instant messages, and view the presence
awareness status, of more than 157 million instant messaging users
worldwide—some 70 percent of the worldwide instant messaging user
base."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2068781,00.asp

Links:

http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200612/ij_12_06_06a.html
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3647456
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128093-c,instantmessaging/article.html
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=937AE19B-D6CE-45EC-B279-4E13D3A02AE8
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/06/HNsametimeaimgoogle_1.html
http://press-releases.techwhack.com/6025/ibm-lotus-sametime-aols-aim-google-talk/
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=192209
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/chatting-with-lotus-sametime.html

Google Patent Search

Google Patent Search
http://www.google.com/patents

Google Patent Search FAQ
http://www.google.com/googlepatents/about.html

Google Patent Search Help
"As part of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and
make it universally accessible and useful, we’re constantly working to
expand the diversity of content we make available to our users. With
Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S.
patent corpus and find patents that interest you."
http://www.google.com/googlepatents/help.html

Google Toolbar 3 Beta for Firefox

Google Toolbar 3 Beta for Firefox
http://tools.google.com/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/

Nifty Toolbar upgrades for Firefox
December 12, 2006
"Ever since the latest version of the Google Toolbar for IE came out,
Firefox users have been asking when they'll see the same new features
in their favorite browser. Well, we've been hard at work on a new
version of the Toolbar for Firefox -- Google Toolbar 3 Beta -- that
lets you access your bookmarks from any computer, add custom buttons
to your Toolbar, and share web pages via Blogger, Gmail, and SMS."
"In addition to adding all the features from the Google Toolbar for
IE, there's another one just for Firefox users. When I surf the web, I
want to be able to look at all the files I come across right in my
browser. But a lot of times, I have to download files and view them
with a separate application instead. Since Google Docs & Spreadsheets
launched, I've been able to look at those files right in my browser.
Except the process is kind of clunky right now: I have to right-click
on a link, download the file to my machine, and then upload it to
Google Docs & Spreadsheets. I want to be able to just click on a link
to a document or spreadsheet and have it show up in my browser. So I
added a feature to the Google Toolbar for Firefox to do that."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/nifty-toolbar-upgrades-for-firefox_12.html

Google Web Toolkit Source Code

The Official Google Web Toolkit Issue Tracker & Source Code
http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/

Links:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/opening-up-google-web-toolkit.html
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.support.general/msg/64cc080b07607cb4
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
http://code.google.com/

Google's IPv6 Plans

Google’s secret IPv6 plans
June 24, 2006
"Google Operating System reports on Alex Lightman's theory why Google
is buying up "dark fiber" — to pursue IPv6 initiatives.  According to
Lightman, Google has a huge block of "slash 20" addresses — exactly
what is needed to be a large scale service provider."
"That got me wondering — what does it take to get a block of IPv6
addresses?  I turn to ARIN to find the answer — the information I
found seems to provide some confirmation to Lightman's speculation."
"To qualify for an initial allocation of IPv6 address space, an
organization must:"
"a) be an LIR;"
"b) not be an end site;"
"c) plan to provide IPv6 connectivity to organizations to which it
will assign /48s, by advertising that connectivity through its single
aggregated address allocation; and"
"d) be an existing, known ISP in the ARIN region or have a plan for
making at least 200 /48 assignments to other organizations within five
years."
"If you take ARIN's policies at face value, these statements must be
true:"
"a) Google is an LIR (Local Internet Registry).  LIRs are generally an
ISP whose customers are typically end users or other ISPs."
"b) Google is not considered an "end site" (therefore must be a
service provider)"
"c) Google has plans to provide IPv6 connectivity to organizations."
"d) Within 5 years Google will provide connectivity to at least 200
organizations."
"How do we know that Google falls under these policies?  Well, if we
look up "Google" on ARIN, we can see that in March 2005 they
registered a block of IPv6 addresses.  The parent of that block is
ARIN."
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=241

Google Zeitgeist 2006

Google Zeitgeist 2006

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2006.html

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