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How do I style gmap specifics?

I'm trying to a) coloring points for cities red b) coloring borders between countries yellow c) coloring the text for oceans purple Can you recommend any specifics? Here is my style variable var darkStyle = [ { featureType: "all", elementType: "labels", stylers: [ { invert_lightness: true } ] } , { featureType: "...

Google App Engine counters

For all my data in the GAE Datastore I have a model for keeping track of counters/total number of records (since we can't use traditional SUM queries). I want to know the most efficient way of incrementing these global count values whenever I insert/delete a record. This is what I'm currently doing: counter = DBCounter.all().fetch(1) db...

Is the Google Visualization Gauge reliable?

Is the Google visualization gauge reliable? Just started up the page I am working on using Google gauges and I had to refresh the page 4 times and then the google gauge finally came up. It disappeared for 10 minutes, came back again and now it is gone? Internet is connected and have not experienced this before the few times I hav...

.NET engineers at Google, Amazon.com, etc.

This isn't a programming question per se, but I wanted to know: 1) Whether programmers who primarily specialize and code in a .NET environment get hired at Google, Amazon.com or other companies/startups which are mainly Java/MySql shops, 2) And whether there are any .NET teams at Google, Amazon.com or other startups on the East/West co...

Google Local Search API Image not showing

Hi all, I was using Google local search api using .net and the JSON results iam getting does not contain the images. But when i use the actual google local search website iam able to see the images next to the listings. Please help. Thanks ...

How can some search web sites hit every combination of search on google without having real content.

I just made a conversion search on google for "15lbs in kg" and first hit is http://www.trueknowledge.com/q/what_is_15_kg_in_lbs I can then change 15 to ANY number, including decimals, and i always get trueknoledge as first hit with a direct link to their site for converting that number. I can imagine that you can build up something li...

Goals in Google Analytics do not work

Hello I cannot figure out how to get Google Analytics Goals to work: URL in Google Analytics report: /relay/v2/relay.cgi/www.mydomain.com/faerdig.php?tid=3414528&orderid=03-14:29&amount=100000&cur=208&date=20101003&time=1430&cardnopostfix=4000&timer=03-14:29&cardid=2&transfee=0 (Above URL is taken straight from the Google Analytics r...

How can i handle a timeout in this Google-Maps-Request ?

In the following Code i think i have a problem with timeouts, if the connection is slow. The application works with 3G and without net, but on GPRS it quits sometimes without a message in the log. I think, it maybe in this part of code. So, is there a way to handle those timeouts ? Or have i done some stupid mistake, i havent figured ou...

Google maps on mobile device via browser.

Im in a bit of a rut here. I'm trying to get a store locator to work correctly on a mobile device. http://www.trytyku.com/mobile (try NY zipcodes ie. 10023) The problem is, whenever I click a location when i'm on my iPhone it doesn't center to the marker on the phone, yet it seems to work fine in the browser. If anyone has an idea on wha...

How do I get source code from Google code?

How can I get editable source code off of Google Code? (I'm looking into SipDroid and Siphon in particular.) EDIT: I'm not looking to check back in, I just want the source so I can use it in my project. ...

API call to pause/resume google web history?

I am building an app which needs the above feature. Any idea if this is available? Or suggestions on implementing this ? ...

how i can access google docs through my j2me application?

can anybody tell me how can i access google docs through my j2me app? is there any api? please help me and if possible pls give me referece link for that? ...

Why google index this ?

In this webpage: http://www.alvolante.it/news/pompe_benzina_%E2%80%9Ctruccate%E2%80%9D_autostrada-308391044 there is this image: http://immagini.alvolante.it/sites/default/files/imagecache/anteprima_100/images/rifornimento_benzina.jpg Why this image is indexed if in the robots.txt there is "Disallow: /sites/" ?? You can see that is ...

How YouTube recognize copyrighted music tracks ?

What tecnology Youtube use to recognize the copyrighted music tracks ? ...

Google Prettify - Android / Eclipse Java colours

Hey, I'm using Google Prettify which works really well, but are there any colour schemes which match the Android Eclipse colours? Thanks ...

How to get the time from google javascript api

When we search google for "Time Texas" it returns the local time for Texas and its same for any location in the world. It calculated the correct time with day light savings adjustment etc. How can we make a similar call using the Google search JavaScript API and get the time for any given location. ...

Google App Engine-Ajax refresh from datastore using python

Hi, I have an application(developed in python) that requires a refreshed view from the datastore after every 5 seconds. I have came out with an javascript function and handle the refresh using ajax. Ajax function <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.0/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; ...

Google Product Manager Interview Preparation, To the point

Hi, I have an interview for a product manager position at Google, I am a 4+ years of Experience Software Developer and an IT Entrepreneur having a start up. I am currently preparing for the interview, after googling around, I found that I will be asked in Product Management/Design, Problem Solving (Brain Teasers), some were asked tech...

multiple HTTP GET requests in one TCP/IP connection - processed parallel or sequential

hi, ok we get a lot of googlebot requests. googlebot requests up to 11 different files via 11 HTTP GET request, all in one single TCP/IP connection. are these GET request (all in the same TCP/IP connection) processed via the server in parallel or in sequence? Or is it up the the server? in this case, how does nginx handle thi...

Does Google rate the webpage by amount of visits?

Hi there, there is quite extensive discussion about this topic on another website and I am really losing my confidence. The thing is that I claim that the amount (count) of visits is NOT a criteria for increasing the PR of the particular web because: a) Google just doesn't know about every single visit on a webpage (in case it's not us...