At Oz Webmasters is a rant on the topic. Rob is critical of how Google merely offers a Python script, with Python being so archaic that most webmasters wouldn't touch it with a twelve-foot stick! Why does the almighty Google have this python script (and links to 3rd party solutions) rather than creating their own PHP script, or buying one?
You no longer need to have a GMail account to join the Google Talk bandwagon. (I'm guessing that this product has been a disappointment for Google. But if a new IM app emerges, they might be the first to jump on it...)
Thanks to the power of Google Maps, we can all be worried/scared of the beastie. See it here and tremble!
For your company to participate in the Google Advertising Professionals programme, you need to be based in the USA, or one of the so called EMEA countries.
What am I signing up for?
If you do a search at google.com, and then enter the following into your browser's address bar:
It is being trialed. I'm guessing that the email has to be submitted to Google first, so it knows the content to match the ads to... Either that or Google will need to look inside people's email boxes.
Not only is she now accuing Google of going into her Gmail account and removing emails, it has been revealed that she is quite a serial litigant, and maybe a loose nut as well.
My father-in-law does. He accessed our baby photos by typing the full URL (with the http://) of the site directly into Google - rather than the address bar of his browser. And because it was obviously a full URL, Google just sent him directly to the site.
http://picasaweb.google.com
Microsoft just became very slightly redundant. If you send a MP3 file as an attachment to someone's Gmail account, they can now play it from within Gmail.
A post at ABW from a beta tester, the email the received from Google says:
Thanks for participating in the AdSense Cost-Per-Action test. We'd like to announce that we're ending this phase of the beta. Therefore, please take down any CPA ads that you are currently hosting as there won't be any further support.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes television viewers should not have to stand for tv commercials that are “a waste of your time.”The plan is to target viewers, and use technology to measure how much viewers like ads. In general I can't see it working, because:
Schmidt is frustrated that “When you watch the television you see ads that are clearly not targeted for you.” More...
The alliance between Google & Apple just got a lot stronger, just as the business partnership with Yahoo did recently. Eric Schimdt has become a director at Apple Computer Inc. It's as if Google's mantra is "Do no evil, do not talk to Microsoft".
Has it finally peaked?
"We think (the) loss in domestic market share could signal a topping point" for Google, he wrote. "We do not expect Google's aggressive market share gains to continue in perpetuity."
... 43.7% of all search queries conducted in the United States in July used a Google search engine, down from the 44.7% attributed to Google the month before.
Just go do a search here to see how your ad appears in regular Google search results:
Levi Strauss & Co.'s main Web site has quietly stopped offering Google Inc.'s Checkout online payment feature, marking yet another hiccup for the new Google feature introduced in late June.More...
The San Francisco-based clothier hasn't completely abandoned Checkout. It's still available on the Web site for Dockers, one of the company's other properties.
...The Checkout feature was pulled from a few days after Levi Strauss & Co. encountered a "particular issue" with it...
...It's likely the firm will revisit Checkout after Google releases an updated version of feature, due out in the next few weeks. The update addresses concerns merchants have raised about how Checkout orders are sometimes delayed for days by an overly-cautious procedure for rooting out fraud, according to some update details revealed on a Web site Google provides for Google Checkout merchants.
Starting this week, Google News will be offering more than just 30 days worth of results when you seacrh for news. Many of the links will be to newspapers that charge to see old news items - so that suits everyone just fine.
http://code.google.com/hosting/
Basically, GOOG realised that threats of the Brazilian courts to fine them US$23,000 a day plus a further US$62 million, and close their local office were real & about to happen, so they gave in and let the authorities have some Orkut data to help them catch folk who talk about nasty stuff on that site (which is very popular down that way...)
I guess it's a good place to experiment, with minimal backlash if anything backfires.
Google announced this week that it has selected Abuja, Nigeria as one of about seven African cities the company will fully connect with a wireless network. Although described as one of Google's "social responsibility projects", the announcement follows the company's proposal last October to create a citywide Wi-Fi network for San Francisco. Could Google's activities in Africa be a central part of its long-term business strategy? More...
One has admitted clicking on ads on her site, but is suing Google for removing her from the AdSense program
UPDATE: Google told me that Google automatically pre-filters out clicks on ads emanating from Google IP addresses so that the clicks are not deemed to have occurred for accounting purposes.
Lots of out-of-copyright books can now be downloaded in PDF format for free at Google Book Search.
