What are the best Google Tech Talks?
What are the most interesting programming-related Google Tech Talks? ...
How is it possible for new content to appear in Google results mere minutes after it is created?
For example, when I post to Stackoverflow, the post appears in the Google index a minute later. How is this accomplished? What do I have to do to my web-site to get the same frequency of indexing? ...
Google Spreadsheet API - find the first empty cell in a column?
Is there a good way to get the first empty cell in a column from Google's spreadsheet service via Java? I know I can use: public CellFeed CheckColumn(int row, int col) throws IOException, ServiceException { CellQuery query = new CellQuery(cellFeedUrl); query.setMinimumRow(row); query.setMaximumRow(row); query.setMi...
Is there an microsoft/.net "version" of the Google visualization api
Hi, This is just an open question on whether similar type tools/services for visualization available in .Net. Thanks. ...
Extending Android's Default Gmail/Email Applications
Hello everyone, I would like to extend the Android platform's default Gmail/Email applications either by plugging into their ContentProvider or by using intent filters. Essentially, I want to be able to scan incoming emails for special rules that will trigger events in my Android application. If scanning emails automatically isn't possi...
What HTTP signatures are encountered from Google web crawling robots ?
Hi there, With all HTTP data available,What 'signs' can you look for to recognize Google's search engine robots? ...
Which applications would you like to see integrated with Google Wave?
Google Wave has some very interesting features in it, mostly the integration ones. Which applications (web or not) would you like to see integrated with it first, when it launches? ...
Using Google's ClientLogin Interface via XMLHttpRequest in Javascript
I am trying to learn the ClientLogin Interface detailed on the Account Authentication APIs on Google code website. I am using Firefox 3.5pre (Shiretoko) and XMLHttpRequest object in Javascript to follow the process. Here's a stripped down version of what I have: <html> <head> <title>Test</title> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![C...
Any Web or Desktop Apps Out There Like Google Wave?
Are there any existing or upcoming web or desktop apps out there like Google Wave? ...
Effective Googling for short names
Every now and then, I need to lookup some keyword or function in a language that is very small, and/or has special characters.. Examples include the 'as' keyword in python ('python as', 'python as keyword'.. etc don't work) things like '$:' in ruby (wanted to know what it represents) the 'p' command in irb etc Google totally fails me on...
Why would M# be harder to Google than C#?
I read just now in a comment on another question titled Effective Googling for short names C# isn't bad to Google for at all. It would be a lot harder if it were called M#, by the way. Why? What am I missing? ...
google maps : want to divide the map into number of sub bounds
I want to divide the Google map display into 200 parts , I have this code bounds = map.getBounds(); southWest = bounds.getSouthWest(); northEast = bounds.getNorthEast(); tileWidth = (northEast.lng() - southWest.lng()) / 10; tileHeight = (northEast.lat() - southWest.lat()) / 20; for (x=0; x < 20 ; x++) { for (y=0; y < 10 ; y++) { v...
How do I aggregate data off of a google search.
I am trying to aggregate movie times off of google/movies search into a usable format such as json or xml http://www.google.com/movies?q=movie+times&sc=1&mid=&hl=en&oi=showtimes&ct=change-location&near=new+york The Google AJAX api does not seem to work for this as you cannot do a movie search. Does anyone know ...
Should I link to Google API's cloud for JS libraries?
I'm looking for the pros/cons of pulling jQuery & other JS libraries from Google API's cloud as opposed to downloading files and deploying directly. What say you? My decision The likelihood of the lib already cached on the users system is the overriding factor for me, so I'm going with a permalink to googleapis.com (e.g. ajax.googl...
Extracting YouTube Video's author using Python and YouTubeAPI
Hi, how do I get the author/username from an object using: GetYouTubeVideoEntry(video_id=youtube_video_id_to_output) I'm using Google's gdata.youtube.service Python library Thanks in advance! :) ...
Google Analytics executing in a dynamically created modal window
I am using JavaScript to create a modal window when a user either clicks a link or submits a form. The modal window holds either a form if they click a link or a thank you page when a user submits a sign up form. The modal window is populated using innerHTML. The issue I am having is that these modal windows have Google Analytic tags in...
How to redirect a Google search result to a dynamic Web page?
I'm trying to enter a list of items into Google Base via an XML feed so that, when a user searches for one of these items and then clicks the search result link in Google Base (or plain Google), the user is directed to a dynamic Web page on my Web site. I'm assuming that the only way to specify a specific link (either static or dynamic) ...
Is it possible to capture search term from Google search?
This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to capture what a user typed into a Google search box, so that this can then be used to generate a dynamic page on the landing page on my Web site? For example, let's say someone searches Google for "hot dog", and my site comes up as one of the search result links. If the user clicks the...
Automate login to google and download a spreadsheet
My C# application reads and processes Excel file. Recently I moved my spreadsheets to google documents. Now I need to sign in to google and access a particular link(equivalent to export) to get the exported form of the spreadsheet (xls) that my application reads. I was wondering if there is any way to automate logging to google and gett...
How to search Google for <meta name="author">
Is it possible to search Google for all sites built by a specific author declared by a meta author tag? eg http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=v6J&q=%3Cmeta+name%3D%22author%22+content%3D%22Fred+Smith%22%3E&btnG=Search&meta= ...