Archive for April, 2006

April 6

San Francisco Chooses Google and Earthlink

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Google and Earthlink have been selected by San Francisco for the city’s WiFi service, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
In choosing to negotiate with the Google-EarthLink team, the city is going with two Internet giants with marque names. Both firms have deep pockets and proven track records online, but only limited experience building a large […]

April 4

Google Sitemaps: Very Impressive!

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I’m impressed by the Stats provided by Google Sitemaps. It’s stuff I’m really interested in. Rankings, clicks, content words and link words, listed and downloadable in .csv format. What does Google think about webmasters choosing to disclose this info to their visitors? I think it would be useful to some. They also have queries that […]

April 4

Google Maps API Version 2 Released

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Google recently released version 2 of its popular Google Maps API. Based on changes in the Terms of Service, there’s no question about whether ads will appear in the API. The question is “when?”
The Terms of Use don’t say anything about sharing map ad click revenues. I think Google WILL share money with eCartographers and […]

April 4

Yahoo! Mindset sorts results based on commercialism

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A very interesting (and useful!) idea, I think. What if you wanted to do this with Google? Is it possible?
View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i.e., from academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented sources).

April 4

Google Search blog is back

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Sorry, we were offline for a couple days due to a problem with the domain registration. I’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again!

April 1

Google Developer Network

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It’s Google Code, and it integrates projects from all across Google, including Maps, Sitemaps, AdSense, Homepage, Desktop, Earth, AdWords, Blogger, and Talk.