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What compliance and legal clearances are required to use Google MAP API with Iphone Apps?

We are using 2 following google services, we need to talk to google folks if we need to do some additional stuff to fulfill the conditions: Reverse Geocoding APIs: For getting city and state from the iphone's geocodes (latitudes and longitudes) Doing a Local Business Search: based on city and state Also is it mandatory to embade Goog...

How do you remove the x-axis from a bar chart produced by Google's Visualization API?

Referring to the kind of chart shown here: http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/barchart.html There doesn't seem to be a simple switch, and changing the axis color to white (on a white background) didn't seem to do anything. I even tried jquery to hide the selectors produced by the api output but no dice. ...

prepend category in SEO-friendly URL

I have a website that contains "items", that have an ID and title. They are divided into categories. Category indexed are viewed at URL's like example.com/tutorials example.com/maps What would be the best URL structure for the items themselves, from a SEO point of view and just semantically in general. example.com/tutorials/12/Make+...

Android coverflow

Im writing an app for android and would like to have an itunes like coverflow preview. Is there anything in the api that I can use or do I have to build it from scratch? ...

Accessing Google Spreadsheets with C# using Google Data API

I'm having some information in Google Spreadsheets as a single sheet. Is there any way by which I can read this information from .NET by providing the google credentials and spreadsheet address. Is it possible using Google Data APIs. Ultimately I need to get the information from Google spreadsheet in a DataTable. How can I do it? If any...

Does Google 'understand' microformats and will it help my SEO?

Semantic HTML makes it easier for Google to crawl and 'understand' a website but what about microformats? Are microformats any more semantic/crawlable then standard HTML markup? ...

How Prevent Google Duplicate Content Problem | Multi Site

I'm about to launch a multi-domain affiliate sites which have one thing in common which is content. Reading about the problem with duplicate content and Google I'm a little worried that the parent domain or sub sites could get banned from the search engine for duplicated content. If I have 100 sites with similar look and feel and basica...

SEO for product known by different names

If you're selling widgets, we all know that having "Bob's Widgets" in the title and the H1 gives you a better ranking in Google when people search for "widgets". But what if, as someone explained to me the other day, their product is known by different names in different parts of the world? In the US, it's called a Widget. In Canada, i...

Adjusting the scale in google maps API

Hi I want to show a distribution of marks for students in a class. But the problem is that I can adjust scale to the number of students. This is an example of the code i'm trying http://chart.apis.google.com/chart? chs=450x150 &cht=lc &chd=t:4,2,1,1,3 &chxt=x,y &chxr=0,0,80| 1,0,12,1 &chxt=x,y &chxl=0:|FL(0%-39%)|3rd(40%-49%)|2.2(50%-...

Google Search API Inside Firefox Extension

Hi, I am developing a firefox extension and I need to include the Google Search API. But I am encountering an error in the google.load('search','1') line. Can anyone tell what the problem is Thanks. ...

How do I subscribe to the resources of another google custom search engine

I set up a Google custom search engine that I truly love. From time to time I find other custom search engines to whose links I'd like to subscribe to. How do I do that? ...

What programming language is Google written in?

I mean google the search engine. ...

Regarding Google Safe Browsing API

Does anyone know how to use the Google safe browsing API. I downloaded the entire the malware and phish update from the google safe browsing using the API key and tried comparing the hash of the suspicious site (md5_file method in php) but it did not work. I also tried comparing the hash of the suspicious site's url (md5 method in php)....

How to make the hybrid the default map on Google maps API?

Google Maps just made the API exactly like the real thing. So now I want the map to display the hybrid map by default, I looked all over Google's Documentation, but I can't seem to find a way to do this. Thanks in advance! ...

Google Android - how to figure out if 3g and 2g is turned on.

I'm developing a simple application for the Google Android to turn on and off the wifi or 3g or 2g. I see http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/WifiManager.html#isWifiEnabled() that you can see if the wifi is enabled or disabled and also us http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/WifiManager.html#setWif...

Using JSON in Javascript to obtain results from Google Search Ajax API

Hi! I am trying to obtain the url from the innerHTML of a web page using javascript. This is what I'm doing: var goog = newTabBrowser.contentDocument.getElementsByTagName("pre")[0].innerHTML; alert(goog.responseData.results[0].url); BUT it wont work :S I outputted goog (using alert) and copied that into my program as follows: v...

Why is google bot getting NullReferenceException when crawling my site?

I have installed some error logging onto my ASP.NET MVC site and I have been getting a lot of NullReferenceException errors when google crawls my site. But when I go to the URL that generated the error there is nothing wrong? Why would this be happening? Why would the google bot be causing an error? ...

Can Google O3D be used as a Rich Internet Application framework?

Although it's pegged as a 3D graphics framework for the browser, could Google O3D be used as an RIA framework similar to GWT, Flex or Rails? ...

Efficient way to add Canonical tags

If the value of the href for Canonical tags is populated via javascript function, would that affect the Search engine indexing (as search engines ignore javascript) ? ...

How does Google Chrome suggest url completions?

I've learned about Google's (unofficial) suggest API and their search API, which both look really great, but the suggest API doesn't actually suggest navigational completions. On the other hand, in Google Chrome if you start to type for example "apple", it will suggest "www.apple.com/trailers". I know it searches your browsing history, ...