Hi folks, if I take my website offline (eg. for an IIS7 site, I'm using the app_offline.htm file), then all requests goto my maintenance page. But, Google (and other search engines) don't 'know' that? they try to hit http://www.blahblah.com/whatever and it returns the maintenance page (and a 404 http status .. which IMO is BAD .. shoul...
Can anybody come up with the simplest script for Greasemonkey or Stylish to select “100 Results” from the “Results per page:” dropdown menu in Google’s Advanced Search page? ...
I have found a post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/999056/ethics-of-robots-txt/999088#999088 discussing a matter of robots.txt on web sites. Generally, I agree with the principals. However, there are commercial tools checking Google positions by - very likely - scraping Google for results, due to lack of API (in case someone doesn't ...
Could i use the Google weather api in a commercial project, by just adding a "weather powered by google" link? ...
How to localize Google Map on my site? ...
I'm looking to implement OpenSocial on my web application, which is written in php/mysql. What is the best way to go about doing this? For instance, are there options along the way? Is one path better than another? What should my scope be for a good first version? I just want to get it working for version 1, is there a logical path to a...
I.e., I want my web server to initiate a Google Search, manipulate the results, and send the result back to the user's browser. I know there's an AJAX API designed for searching client-side with Javascript, but is there a non-AJAX API designed for server-to-server communication (like there is for maps)? ...
I want to put a google maps on our website, i know you can add custom markers with javascript onto your map. but why do that through code if you got my maps ? my co-workers can edit the public created my map easily, add / delete markers without any programming knowledge you can add that custom map my map to your site with an iframe But...
Hi guys, I am attempting to use google checkout to process a shopping cart created with Zmags. With Zmags you can integrate a basket with your e commerce shopping cart, however I want to send it straight to google checkout. Problem is the XML output from zmags is not the same format as the one required by google checkout... The XML ...
Maybe you've noticed but Google Image search now has a feature where you can narrow results by color. Does anyone know how they do this? Obviously, they've indexed information about each image. I am curious what the best methods of analyzing an image's color data to allow simple color searching. Thanks for any and all ideas! ...
I am working at a web portal that has a events section. I have created using DDay.iCal a iCal "feed" with all the events. Is there a possibility to make a link to this feed, and when clicked, the feed to be automaticly added to google calendar? (Something similar to RSS feeds, when you click them you can select use google reader). Or sho...
Can I use this google finance graph for my website ? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/%5FZaGO7GjCqAI/SKLQYz3h-cI/AAAAAAAAJ-Q/CMScCQuWW1M/s640/plot-feeds-in-google-finance.png ...
I found that embeded Calendar is view oriented, so looks like the only way to add tasks being on not google website is add it through service, and each time reload iframe with Google Calendar. Is that how it should work or I'am missing something? ...
Inside Gmail, there is a small function called "Task". It can allow me to enter a to-do-list. I'm wondering if there is any official / unofficial Google API to access / update the list by Java language? ...
Hi, We have a sitemap at our site, http://www.gamezebo.com/sitemap.xml Some of the urls in the sitemap, are being reported in the webmaster central as being blocked by our robots.txt, see, gamezebo.com/robots.txt ! Although these urls are not Disallowed in Robots.txt. There are other such urls aswell, for example, gamezebo.com/gamelin...
We're building a multiuser platform, where each registered user has a Google App account with his e-mail and calendar. People can add to the events to the calendar, but the entry always show "Busy" instead of displaying the full event details. Any ideas? ...
I guys, Just wondering if there is a wiki engine that is similar to the one used on google code. Ie I want to use that wiki from google code with one of my websites. (I hope this makes sense) ...
So I would like to include pageTracker code in the iFrames that is being called. However the iFrames in this case are called from Flex. We are building a pop up and calling the iframes within the pop up. In this scenario, what is the best way to include the pageTracker code to track and trasnfer the visitor and campaign cookies from on...
Hello everybody, I am using the latest Janrain openid library example and the discovery process seems to work well with Yahoo, myopenid.com and others... But I am stuck with Google endpoint (https semicolon //www.google.com/accounts/o8/id). Consumer.php just returns a 406 apache error, before I am redirected to google's page. All my i...
Is it possible to fine-tune directives to google to such an extent that it will ignore part of a page, yet still index the rest? There are a couple of different issues we've come across which would be helped by this, such as: rss feed/news ticker-type text on a page displaying content from an external source users entering contact pho...