Archive for November, 2005

November 14

Launch: Google Analytics

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Launch:  Google Analytics, see the statistics on your website
A free version of Urchin, a company Google bought. (official blog post)
Expect a full review and profile in the immediate future.    

November 14

Google opens doors to virtual library

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On Thursday, Google supposedly opened the web’s first virtual library. Google said it’s making available the first large collection of public books, which range from U.S. Civil War history texts to government documents. They’re not subject to copyright laws, either because they were never bound by these laws or because their copyrights have expired. Books […]

November 11

Google Newspaper Ads Go Into Beta

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Google is moving into placing ads in newspapers, starting with one Chicago newspaper. The Google Publication Ads login page is live. This isn’t just a repurposing of AdSense/AdWords for print publications, it’s a whole new service that allows advertisers to use Google to buy print ad space.

Ad buyers can choose pubs by circulation, demographics or […]

November 11

Google Expands Free WiFi Coverage Offer to Mountain View

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Internet search giant Google has offered to bring free wireless Internet, or WiFi, connections to Mountain View, the city of its corporate headquarters. The offer comes about two months after the company offered to do the same for the city of San Francisco.
Google officials approached Mountain View leaders a few weeks ago and offered to […]

November 11

Google News Gets Some History

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Google has expanded Search History to include Google News. Now, all of your searches and the pages you click through to will be saved in your search history, and you can save pages and tag them in the history. Presumably, Google will in a few months begin personalizing news results, so its a good idea […]

November 8

Boeing 767; Innovation; Video Conferencing; Empire

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On the road, Sergey Brin and Larry Page have owned environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles such as the Toyota Prius. In the air, they apparently prefer something roomier.
Google Inc.’s two billionaire founders, both 32 years old, will soon be cruising the skies in a Boeing 767 wide-body airliner. They bought the used plane earlier this […]

November 6

AdSense Referals

Posted by David Chouinard
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Wow! Google is getting hot! Adsense just introduced a new feature: Referrals. Basically, you can choose between the available buttons and display one of them on your site/blog. If someone registers a Google AdSense account through your link, you’ll get 100 big bucks when each of the clients you referred earns $100. Even better, you […]

November 6

Official Google Blogs

Posted by David Chouinard
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It seems that Google really likes blogging. They’re in the proccess of making a blog for each of their products. They already have Blogger Buzz, Inside AdSense, Inside AdWords, Inside Google Sitemaps, the Google Reader Blog, the Google Video Blog and the newly created: Inside Google Desktop (by the way, version 2 just got out […]

November 6

Tutorial: How to Make the Google Logo

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This page shows you how to create a perfect replica of the Google logo. You can also us it to make a logo similar to Google’s but with other words.
Posted by David Chouinard
Google’s
Googlies
Google
Goggles
Ghoulish
Edit…
Ignore all
Add to dictionary
Chained
Chinned
Churned
Cunard
Chianti
Edit…
Ignore all
Add to dictionary

November 6

Google Reader Subscription Link

Posted by David Chouinard
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You can create direct links for people to subscribe to feeds in Google Reader. The format is http://www.google.com/reader/preview/*/feed/{insert the URL of your feed} . For example the Google Reader link for this blog is http://www.google.com/reader/preview/*/feed/http://gsearchblog.com/atom.xml . Google Reader will display a preview of the feed. The user then needs to click subscribe on the top […]