New YouTube Horror: 2 Girls 1 Cup
There’s a new, horrible, horrible video making the rounds. It’s the video equivalent of goatse, and I recommend you do not see it. Suffice to say, the video involves poo in a cup, and two girls, and is so far …
Month: October 2007
Map of the Dead: A Screen Overlay’ed Shoot ‘Em Up!
<<It’s that time of year again: the leaves turn orange and fall off the trees, and I can no longer turn on the TV without fear of stumbling upon a trailer for some ridiculously gory horror movie sequel. The TV …
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Emergence of the personal-assistant robots: PR2, Asimo and Dexter
A Silicon Valley start-up named Willow Garage , backed by early Google employee, is the latest company trying to make personal-assistant robots. via VentureBeat Original post by VentureBeat
More languages in 3D Warehouse
<<If you’ve had a chance to stop by the Google SketchUp Blog today, you most likely saw my post heralding the release of 3D Warehouse in eight new languages. Now Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Korean, Arabic, Czech, and Traditional Chinese …
Helping heroes
<<Talking to my husband Robert on the phone on October 21st, I noticed he sounded worried. At first I didn’t pay much attention, figuring that it had just been a long day for his crew. After all, when you’re a …
ADS-Click – violation of Google TOS?
Has anyone tried out ADS-Click (http://www.ads-click.com/) out yet? I’m interested in testing out but i’m a bit unsure if Google will throw a TOS violation fit if Adsense is on my site with it. But then again, somehow WidgetBucks is …
By the pricking of our thumbs…
<<… something Googley this way comes. It’s that time of year, when ghouls, goblins, and Zeitghosts roam Google in search of fresh human bandwidth. We hope you enjoy these Halloween photos from several of our offices, and wish you a …
Eye-Fi
<<Eye-Fi Google APIs used: Picasa Web Albums Wirelessly upload images from an in-camera SD card to Picasa Web Albums.>> (more…) Original post by International Herald Tribune
Trick-or-Treat
<<Happy Halloween from the AdSense Team!>> (more…) Original post by Chris Gilmer
How our spam filter works
<<I got lucky in April 2004, when Gmail had just launched, and I snagged one of the first invitations (I didn’t work at Google at the time, but had a few friends who did). One of the first things I …
Better geographic choices for webmasters
<<Written by Amanda Camp, Webmaster Tools and Trystan Upstill, International Search Quality Team Starting today Google Webmaster Tools helps you better control the country association of your content on a per-domain, per-subdomain, or per-directory level. The information you give us …
Ad system with highest payout for tech site with 3000 uniques/day? (adult ads are ok)
Hi, After reading through these forums I see that everyone only yalks about the well known ‘clean’ ad networks. If I visit a site like thepiratebay I sometimes see quite disgusting ads, why do they display those, is the payout …
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Earthquake mapping
<<I was working kind of late last night, and around 8:04 pm, I felt the floor underneath my desk shake and move. For a second I thought the Google Halloween party was getting wild, but then I realized I was …
Does anyone here use AVN Ads?
I have a semi-adult site so AdSense is not an option. I tried Clicksor and XXXWebTraffic but they performed very poorly (like 3 cents a day). I get about 1000 visits / 100,000 page views per day. I signed up …
Google Adds Coupon Search
Google Maps has a new area where you can search for coupons that stores have made available in Maps. Just go to a page like this one, and enter the area you’d like to search for stores with coupons in …
The FTC’s advertising town hall, and our new privacy channel
<<The rapid growth of the Internet — and the promise of future growth — has been driven primarily by online advertising. Web sites and search engines are able to provide valuable services to consumers for free due in large part …
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All shook up
<<Last night we had a little earthquake in the San Francisco area. I immediately turned to Reto Meier’s World Wide Earthquakes Mashup to see what was going on. While the dishes were falling off my shelves I could see that …
3D Warehouse now showing in 13 languages
<<Posted by Lori Meiskey, Software Engineer Interested in checking out 3D models of Sportstadions van over de hele wereld (Sports Venues of the World)? Or maybe you’d like to Vytvořit nebo přidat do 3D sbÃÂrky (create or contribute to a …
CPA sites recommended for Advertisers/Merchants
Well I got this one site called www.Twizl.com I want to pay the publisher per signup to my site. What are some of the best CPA networks to do this with? Original post by Doug the Great
Need Customer Service From Google? Find The Door
Nick Starr wanted IMAP in his Gmail account, and when he didn’t get it, he decided he needed to complain to Google in order to get the new feature. Finding no real Google customer service to speak of, he headed …
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