Add Google News To Your Website
Google introduced News–based element for webmasters and developers. This element will allow you to easily integrate headlines and previews from Google News into any page to supplement your content and help make it more dynamic. Whether your site's visitors are interested in business, entertainment or fashion, you control the types of stories in your personal news show. You can input keywords like "Obama" or broad topics like "world news" or "politics".
Adding this element to your site or blog is easy using our NewsShow wizard. You can select the size of the frame, the topics, and the number of articles you want to show, and we'll build the code for you. Or, for more customization, take a look at our documentation.
Google Rolls Out More Tweet-Based Ads
Google confirmed an “alpha” test of new ads distributed on its AdSense network that featured tweets. Today, it appears more of these tweet-based ads are live an in the wild.
Magne Uppman is part of that test and he has shared screen shots and examples of his Twitter Google AdSense ads in action.
Google Adsense New Feature
The newly launched "Analyze Competition" feature will help you understand how your AdWords campaign matches-up with others bidding on the same type of keywords:
‘Analyze competition’ examines your account’s activity over the past two weeks and lists categories that represent the products or services you're advertising. Categories are based on actual Google.com search terms and are matched up against your keywords, ad text, and landing page text. For each category associated with your account, you’ll see a bar graph, which shows your individual performance compared to the average performance of other advertisers in the same category.
Google Adds Background Pictures
Google has added the ability to add a Background Picture to the main google.com homepage. Mine is now set to a beautiful black and white image of Yosemite valley (Ansel Adams?) from their selection. Very Bing-like, but one of the things that people have always said they like about Bing is the background images that show up on the main page.
Google ends WiFi collection after personal data captured
IGoogle is halting the collection of WiFi network information for its controversial "Street View" mapping service after admitting it mistakenly gathered personal data sent over unsecured systems.
The Internet giant had insisted previously that it was only collecting WiFi network names and addresses with the Street View cars that have been cruising cities around the world taking photographs for the Google Maps service.
Google Translation Now Supports Urdu Language
Google translation, a tool to translate from one language to 57 another languages, has added Urdu in the list.
Meaning that, now you can translate 57 languages into Urdu and from Urdu to 57 well known languages of the world.
About the quality of translation, given that in ALPHA version, results are amazing good, but not the perfect. Let’s expect further enhancements with time.
Just to add, Google Translation allows users to upload documents and get them translated with a single click.
Google’s Nexus One Closes Its Online Store
Google's Nexus One Android smartphone device will soon be available to a wider audience. The phone, which was sold online without a contract, will become available at retail outlets carried by wireless providers.
Nexus One is manufactured by the Taiwanese owned HTC and was originally available in only four regions, the United States, the U.K., Singapore, and Hong Kong, exclusively through Google’s online store.
Google Wants to Get Into Travel; Will 'Google Airways' Be Next?
Google's foray into travel last March, when the Mountain View giant added hotel listings and room rates to Google Maps, increasingly seems like it was just the beginning of the company's plans to compete in yet another sector.
Google Goggles Text Translation: A Hands-On Trial
Google has a new tool in its Google Goggles Android app, and it's time to take it for a test drive.
Google announced the debut of its Google Goggles image-based text translation feature this morning. The feature, integrated into the new 1.1 version of the Goggles app, allows you to point your phone's camera at any block of text and have it instantly translated into your native tongue.
Using Google Goggles Text Translation
Using the Google Goggles translation tool is simple enough: After downloading the latest version of the Goggles app, you simply open the app and aim your phone at text. It could be on a street sign, a menu, or practically anything else you could imagine.
Google’s YouTube Boosts Display Advertisers 10-Fold
Google Inc. has boosted the number of advertisers using display ads on its YouTube video site 10-fold in the past year, a sign the company is making headway to lift sales in businesses other than search.
YouTube, the most popular U.S. video-sharing site, has gotten more companies to place display advertisements, such as videos or graphical marketing messages, said Barry Salzman, managing director of media and platforms for the Americas at Google, owner of the largest Web search engine.
The Real Threat to Google From Facebook
For a young Web 2.0 company, Facebook is also doing relatively well at monetizing its social embeddedness, with revenue doubling annually (to more than $500m last year) and an after tax margin exceeding 25%. However, even if Facebook reaches revenues of a billion or two in 2010, it remains less than one-tenth the size of its newfound rival.
However, the more serious threat to Google is that the success of Facebook is part of the transformation of the openness of the web to a network of browser-accesible walled gardens. If the world’s content is not available on freely accessible HTML pages but inside password-protected silos,Google Search applet.
Google Maps 4.1 adds voice searching
Google Maps for S60/Symbian just got itself an update to v4.1. No, not free real time navigation - that's still coming for Symbian - but voice searching, along the same lines as its existing Google Search applet.
Facebook's Universal Sharing Challenged by Google, Microsoft, Meebo
At its F8 developers' conference April 21, Facebook is expected to unveil a "Like" button publishers can embed on their Web sites to let users share content with their Facebook friends. Facebook's effort is being preempted by a group of companies intent on not letting Facebook infuse the Web with its members-only approach to the social
graph. Meebo April 19 launched XAuth, a platform for automating the way users share content on social networks, with partners Google, MySpace, Microsoft, Yahoo and others.
Google Rewrites Google Docs with HTML5 Focus to Unseat Microsoft Office
Google April 12 said it has revised Google Docs using a new JavaScript layout engine and HTML5 to improve and speed up the document, drawing and spreadsheet editors in Docs.
Google Shows Potential Bullish Pattern
Ahead of its earnings report tomorrow, Google (GOOG) is showing a potential bullish pattern on its daily chart.
The pattern is an irregular one, somewhat akin to a bullish "cup and handle," and has taken nearly all of this year so far to form. During that time GOOG has been hugging its resistance level, which I have drawn in red at the $588 area.
A Different Kind of Company Name
Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google.
We’ve been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM (Central Daylight Time) April 1st, Google has officially changed our name to Topeka.
Google's deals in doubt amid spat with Beijing
Google Inc.'s business ties in China unraveled a little more amid a widening backlash to the U.S. Internet company's decision to move its Chinese search engine offshore in a challenge to the country's online censorship laws
Chinese shrug shoulders at possible Google pull-out
The China Business News reported Google may make an announcement as early as Monday on whether it will pull out of China.
The Financial Times, citing a person familiar with the situation, said the company could say on Monday that it will close its Chinese search engine.
Google has not formally unveiled any such plans.
Two months since Google said it would no longer agree to abide by Beijing's censorship rules even if that meant shutting down its Google.cn site, some Chinese Internet users and state newspapers are baying for the company to pull out.
Google phone now works on iPhone's wireless system
Google Inc. has upgraded its Nexus One phone so it works on the same high-speed wireless network as Apple Inc.'s iPhone, putting the increasingly antagonistic rivals on an even more direct collision course in the mobile market.
The latest version of the Nexus One unveiled Tuesday could make the device a more serious challenger to the iPhone, which uses AT&T Inc.'s 3G network as its main communications channel in the United States.
Google Apps Marketplace
Google Apps for Business has opened their own marketplace to exchange apps.
It basically just looks like a place for companies to pimp out their services to Google Apps Business users.
I’ll keep poking around, but I have doubts I’ll find something actually useful.
Google Tests TV Search Service
Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, the latest development in a fast-moving race to combine Internet content with conventional TV.
Chrome Browser Beta Adds Translation, Improves Privacy
Automatic translation is the newest feature added to Google's Chrome browser. A beta version of Chrome 4 recognizes pages not in the user's -preferred language and offers to translate.
The new beta, released late Monday, works with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, despite some confusion because Google did not list Windows 7 as a supported operating system on an early version of the download page. (The new beta is Chrome version 4.1.249.1021.)
Google bosses convicted in Italy
Google spokesman on the conviction of three executives
An Italian court has convicted three Google executives in a trial over a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied.
The Google employees were accused of breaking Italian law by allowing the video to be posted online.
Google to Move Out of China?
This piece of news comes to us in an odd form. It originated from cyber attacks which were assaulted against Google’s GMail product, among other companies within the Chinese borders
There is no doubt in my mind that it was a difficult decision to make. As of Google’s 2008 numbers, China had a popular of 1,325,639,982, which has no doubt grown beyond that today.
That’s a huge population to suddenly not be serving anymore, if the Chinese government does decide to block Google from being access.
Upcoming Google AdSense Webinars
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AdSense Optimization Basics - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 5:00 pm GMT/ 9am PST
- Advanced Optimization - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 5:00 pm GMT/9am PST
- Improving AdSense Performance using GAM - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 10:00 am GMT
- Realizing the potential of AdSense for Search (AFS) - Wednesday, March 3, 2010 5:00 pm GMT/9am PST
Technical requirements: To participate, all you need is a computer with an Internet connection and speakers or a pair of headphones.
Google And NSA
The Washington Post is reporting that internet search giant Google, and America’s electronic security agency, the NSA, will be teaming up to analyze data from the recent cyber attack that is believed to have originated from China. Neither the NSA nor Google is commenting on the partnership, however the Post has an anonymous source who claims, “the alliance is being designed to allow the two organizations to share critical information without violating Google’s policies or laws that protect the privacy of Americans’ online communications.” The Post went on to say, “the deal does not mean the NSA will be viewing users’ searches or e-mail accounts or that Google will be sharing proprietary data.” What do you think? Does the thought of the NSA working with Google make you feel more secure?
Google to open app store for business software
Google may open as early as March an online store to sell third-party software that complements its Google Apps collaboration and communication hosted suite, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Google would let customers purchase the software from its store and charge the third-party developers a commission, according to the Journal, whose article was based on anonymous sources.
Google Announces Fourth Quartar And Fiscal Year 2009 Results
Google reported revenues of $6.67 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, an increase of 17% compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition costs (TAC). In the fourth quarter of 2009, TAC totaled $1.72 billion, or 27% of advertising revenues.
Google Voice Iphone
Google Voice Iphone, What’s the solution to Apple’s stinginess about Google getting an official Google Voice app on the iPhone App Store? A webapp that has about all the functionality, but usable on any HTML5-capable smartphone.The webapp mimics the functionality of hitting up Google Voice on your desktop. You can make calls, send texts, listen to voicemails.
Google Dashboard, more privacy and control
Google Inc, the search giant has announced that it will provide a window called Google Dashboard to its users so that they can view what data Google is capturing from their services like YouTube, Gmail, Google Reader etc.
The company had been criticized often for accumulating large data about its users and providing easy access to others. With the new application, users can now adjust privacy settings directly via Google Dashboard for their different Google products. The service has launched in first week of November, 2009.
Google Squared
In case you’re wondering what ever happened to that
Google Labs feature called Google Squared, well it’s still on and just got some enhancements. What
Google Squared is, It’s an experimental search tool that collects facts from the web and presents them in an organized collection similar to a spreadsheet -or squared format.