30 July 2010, 4:28 am
Google previously announced (at its I/O developer conference) the creation of a Places API as part of the Google Maps API. That Places API is now open for business and being made available to third party developers.... Read More »
29 July 2010, 6:38 pm
Google has begun opening up access to a new Application Programming Interface (API) called the Places API . Developers building apps that include a "check in at this place" feature can use the Places API to search across all the places users might check in for basic information like business name, a... Read More »
29 July 2010, 9:58 am
At Google I/O Google VP Vic Gundotra and his co-presenters showcased a dizzying array of announcements and products to come. Included among them was Googles iTunes competitor, soon to come to market, and well as a range of new richer mobile ad formats .... Read More »
28 July 2010, 3:04 pm
Sponsored links at the top of Google search results last week promised to take you to the official sites of big brands, but instead led to pages designed to extract your personal data. Google - Searching - Search Engines - Companies - Tools... Read More »
28 July 2010, 2:34 pm
Google is retiring the old version of AdSense for Search and telling users to switch to the new version powered by Google Custom Search, which has been offered for a while. If you see "powered by Google" on the logo on the search results page, then you're using the old one. In a post on Google's Ins... Read More »
28 July 2010, 12:57 pm
Google CEO Eric Schmidt dismisses the notion that his Internet company is on a collision course with Facebook, despite signs that Google is working on a social networking and gaming service of its own.... Read More »
28 July 2010, 7:34 am
Search Engine Land Editor-in-Chief Danny Sullivan points out how poorly Google handles those gaming Google News, using Google Trends as a starting point. Do you find Google News to be too heavily polluted? Share your thoughts . He found a blatant example when the term "chocomize" became listed ... Read More »
27 July 2010, 9:44 pm
GOOGLE is encouraging online-games makers to offer their wares on a new service the internet-search giant is building.... Read More »
27 July 2010, 10:29 am
Another rad browser plugin called Google Alarm hit the Internets this week, which alerts you every time your personal info is sent to Google's servers. How? Via notifications, a running tally of dangerous sites and, naturally, a super annoying, vuvuzela-like alarm.... Read More »
26 July 2010, 6:17 am
A featured WebmasterWorld thread is titled "Shocked to See Many Sites Using My Adsense Code." It is a common story, you have a popular site with Google AdSense ads on them. There are many people out there that copy your site and put it on their own spammy sites. They not only copy your content, but ... Read More »