3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you

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Adobe Makes Flash Crawlable

"Today Adobe systems made an announcement that it has provided technology and information to Google and Yahoo! to help the two search engine rivals index Shockwave Flash (SWF) file formats."

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Google Anti-Malware Diagnostic Pages

ZDNet's security blog points to an update to Google's malware warnings. Like McAfee SiteAdvisor, now each web site has a special diagnostic page that lists answers to four questions:

1. What is the current listing status?
2. What happened when Google visited this site?
3. Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
4. Has this site hosted malware?

Here's, for example, the diagnostic page for google.com...

Be Notified When Google Crawls Your Site

Have you ever wanted to know when Google crawls your website? Well now you can using a simple PHP script which emails you everytime GoogleBot crawls your site.

Goosh, a Google Command Line

Goosh.org hosts an unofficial Google interface which "behaves similar to a unix-shell," as the author Stefan Grothkopp explains.

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Google AJAX Libraries API opened

The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader's google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the most popular JavaScript open source libraries including:

* jQuery
* prototype
* script.aculo.us
* MooTools
* dojo

My Site Is Not Listed In Google. Help!

One of the most common questions webmasters ask when they release a new site is “how do I get to number one on Google?”, but what many find is that they are not even listed at all. This tutorial will take you through a number of key checks that you can do to help you get your site back on track.

Google officially supports IPv6

According to a post on the Official Google Blog, the search company is "pleased to let you know that Google search is also available over IPv6."

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Google Adsense Successful Tips

Google AdSense allows Web site publishers/blogger to display contextually relevant advertisements on their website/blog. If a Web visitor “clicks” on an advertisement, the Web publisher/blogger will earn a percentage of the advertising revenue generated as a result of the click. Many webmasters have built content Web sites around the Google AdSense model. In many cases the specific intent of the webmaster is to profit from Google AdSense. Other webmasters use Google AdSense to supplement their revenue. Regardless of the webmaster’s intent, the following tips will help webmasters looking to profit from AdSense.

Charts with PHP and Google Charts API

Just yesterday I found out about the Google Charts API and I was impressed by this excellent service but noticed that creating multiple charts got pretty messy, especially if I wanted to edit the data later on.

I figured if I wanted to use this in the future, I’d like an easier way to create charts out of my data - thus the class GoogChart was born.

Congratulations to our Summer of Code Students

Google announced today that they are funding 21 Summer of Code students to work on FreeBSD. We had over 100 very competitive applications and so it was difficult to narrow it down to these 21 students. Each student will be paid by Google to spend the summer working on a specified FreeBSD project with an assigned senior developer to mentor them. More information about this program is available from http://code.google.com/soc.

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PHP and Google

• Map Your Users Using the Google Maps API and PHP
• Use the YouTube API with PHP
• Charts with PHP and Google Charts API

Google App Engine needs PHP support

Google App Engine was launched but it does not support PHP. This article presents some ideas that can help Google adding PHP support sooner rather than later.

Translate the language on your site using google API

I got an email this morning from CodeProject with a link to the Google api for language translation. I taught it was interesting so i decided to start exploring it and created 3 demos/examples here:

1. Translate language on page load
2. Translate language as you type
3. Translate to a specific language

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Google Code University

This website provides tutorials and sample course content so CS students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms. In particular, this content is Creative Commons licensed which makes it easy for CS educators to use in their own classes.

The Courses section contains tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas:

* AJAX Programming
* Distributed Systems
* Web Security
* Languages

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Summer Programming Opportunities for Students (Summer of Code)

The FreeBSD Project is happy to again participate in Google's Summer of Code program. This program provides $4500 in funding to allow students to spend the summer writing open source software. If you or someone you know would be interested in this program, please visit our website at :

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html

There you will find a large list of interesting projects in diverse areas of modern Unix operating system development. Some example tasks involve writing kernel/networking regression test suites, working on peripheral device driver infrastructure, improving multibyte character support, improving the IPv6 support in userland utilities, and much more.

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Google releases Contact API

Shortly after releasing a tool for synchronizing Google Calendar with Outlook yesterday, Google released another key in the synchronization puzzle: an API for accessing Google contacts.

Google language tools API ( PHP 5 class )

This PHP 5 class API is developed on the base of a tool that I wrote some years ago.
Simply works querying Google translation / language tools with the text and language pair choosen.

"I find it useful because of Google haven’t released yet an API for its translation tools."

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Prevent Boss From Snooping On Your Google Search Queries

There are chances that someone is secretly spying on your Google search tracks for various reasons. For example, the employer may monitor your Google search habits to know if you are looking for jobs elsewhere while the local ISP may be collecting your Google queries with the purpose of selling that data to large analytics companies.

You cannot prevent these people from watching you because Google appends the search queries to the URL without encryption. So when you type "Jobs New York" in the Google search box, it returns a search page with the URL google.com/search?q=jobs+new+york and that makes data collection fairly simple.

There’s however a workaround - just use Google with a mask that comes indirectly from Google itself.

Google SketchUp 6 on Linux and FreeBSD with Wine

This should work in both Linux and FreeBSD, though I've only tested this on FreeBSD...