Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Keep up-to-date with the Google Friends Newsletter.

It only goes out once a month, so it won't be enough for the true Googleholic, but there is a Google Friends Newsletter with updates on the latest features:


Subscribe to the Google Friends mailing list and make sure you always know what's happening at your favorite search engine. Messages include important announcements of new features and other information.

Inside Adsense launches

Google has launched an official blxg for its Adsense Program - Inside Adsense. If you're an Adsense Publisher, this blog will be a must read.


Google is still a pretty small place, so when we heard that our AdWords friends had put together an Inside AdWords blog, it got our competitive juices flowing! It also made us think about all of the information we'd love to share with our publishers – and there's quite a bit of it, from site optimization tips, to product feature descriptions, to ideas on getting more out of AdSense.

Free WiFi for everyone?

Is Google building a network that could eventually blanket the earth in free Wi-Fi broadband internet access? Maybe...


Characteristically, the company is cryptic about its goal. "We are sponsoring [Feeva] because [it is] trying to make free Wi-Fi available in San Francisco, and this matches Google’s goal to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible," says Google spokesman Nate Taylor. "We don't have anything to add at this point about future plans."


"Google's goal to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible..." hmmmmm....

Monday, August 15, 2005

Google API lets developers add Google searches

The Google Web API, based on "SOAP", let's software and web developers add Google search data to their applications.


With the Google Web APIs service, software developers can query more than 8 billion web pages directly from their own computer programs. Google uses the SOAP and WSDL standards so a developer can program in his or her favorite environment - such as Java, Perl, or Visual Studio .NET.