Introducing “Testing on the Toilet”
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Sun, Yahoo spark Nasdaq rally
Wall Street bounded higher Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq after profit reports from Yahoo and Sun Microsystems restored investors’ confidence in the tech sector.Comment Original post by San Jose Mercury News
I’ll be at SES London next month
<<I’m going to SES London 2007. I’ll be hanging at the conference (which runs Tuesday February 13th to Thursday February 15th), and I’ll do a Keynote Conversation with Chris Sherman that Wednesday. If you’re at the conference, please come up …
New look for image search & Groups out of beta
<<I realized that I didn’t mention that Google Image Search got a makeover. The focus is on the thumbnails, but as you mouse over an image, you get more info. It looks like this: If you haven’t taken image search …
Teagenie
Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Macromedia’s Flash Player. Original post by Clifton Lee Johnston
I’ll be at SES London next month
<<I’m going to SES London 2007. I’ll be hanging at the conference (which runs Tuesday February 13th to Thursday February 15th), and I’ll do a Keynote Conversation with Chris Sherman that Wednesday. If you’re at the conference, please come up …
Report Center Series (Part 1)
<<In a recent Inside AdWords post, Ronnie C. from the Optimization team encouraged you to not only test and iterate, but to also evaluate your account’s performance. If you’re using Google Analytics or any other web analytics program, you’re probably …
Google New York Starting Speaker Series
Google has announced a speaker series to be hosted at their New York City offices, bringing some cool talks at the Google offices for everyone to enjoy. The first talk is this Monday, with Adam Bosworth talking about “Physics, Speed, …
Internet is Next Step
Call it a million-dollar impulse purchase. Ahmed Goheer, a Pakistani banker, purchased his apartment in this luxury tower in Dubai through a state-run Web site one evening before going to bed.Comment Original post by Press-Enterprise
Internet’s Most Wanted: A Rogue’s Gallery
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the bowels of the Internet, where you could be swallowed by the Spam King to be digested over a thousand years or trapped in a battle with …
YouTube “Nofollow”s Most All Outgoing Links
Here’s a shocker: Wikipedia isn’t the only major site that uses “nofollow” on outgoing user-generated links; YouTube does it too. I looked at the source code on a typical YouTube video page and discovered 137 rel=”nofollow” tags! The strange thing …
Spotlight: Cordless/WMG Music blogs
<<The folks at Cordless/WMG recently launched three awesome Blogger-powered blogs for their bands Dangerous Muse, Throw the Fight and Die Mannequin. Aside from their fantastic designs, they’ve done a number of neat-o template integrations with other Google services like YouTube, …
Google Dusts Off Discussion Groups
Online discussion forums date from the Internet’s early days, and many people consider them passe in the Web 2.0 era of blogs, wikis, and social networks.Comment Original post by PCWorld.com
About badware warnings
<<Some of you have asked about the warnings we show searchers when they click on search results leading to sites that distribute malicious software. As a webmaster, you may be concerned about the possibility of your site being flagged. We …
We Want You to Write More Tests. Yes, You.
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The ActionScript Open Source Libraries
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FIXED: V8 CampaignService
<<Thank you for all for your feedback and patience. We updated our v8 CampaignService WSDL to fix a client interoperability issue with nillable fields in the new budget optimizer settings. This is similar to a previous fix we made to …
Google boosts discussion groups
Google improves discussion group service The groups have been redesigned and upgraded, though some wonder if the Web forum has been passed by Web 2.0 features like blogs and social networking sites Google has …Comment Original post by Infoworld
In red-hot Dubai market, real estate sales jump to the Internet
Call it a million-dollar impulse purchase. Ahmed Goheer, 31, was checking e-mail before bed this month when he read a message saying a Web site was selling luxury apartments in this Arab Gulf boomtown.Comment Original post by SiliconValley.com
Google Custom Search Engine Gets Statistics
Google has added a stats page for its custom search engines, letting those who have created and maintain one of their CSEs see what sort of usage the search engine is getting. The new feature shows the number of queries …