I know this is a question that has been asked a hundred times on the Internet, but I have a couple of reasons to ask it here: (1) so it's on SO; (2) it's something that hard to find--there is a lot of junk. What I'm trying to determine which page, for example, example.com is in the Google search results, for say "stackoverflow.com". Is ...
Is there an open source implementation of Google AdWords, or is the technology protected in some way (such as being patented)? Edit: To clarify, I'm looking for a 3rd party implementation of an AdWords-like system (that has nothing to to with Google AdWords beyond the concept and superficial similarity). ...
How does URL replacement on the google SERPs "sponsored links" work? Some of the results have a function rwt attached to the onmousedown event, but the sponsored links don't have any event handlers as far as I can make out. How does it achieve the behaviour of replacing the href, and still send you to the long /aclk?sa= link? Upon savi...
Has anyone had any luck customizing the feed animation? Ideally I would like a left-right marquee animation. Any thoughts would be appreciated. ...
On the Stackoverflow podcast this week, Jeff mentioned that in 2004 he wrote a script which queried Google with 110,000 English words and collected a database containing the number of hits for each word. They use this on Stackoverflow e.g. for the "Related" list on the right-hand side of each question page. Since creating one of these t...
I am working on a course leaflet system for the college I work at, leaflets are stored in a database with primary key course_code. I would like the leaflets ideally to get indexed by google how would I achieve this assuming i develop the system in asp.net 2.0. I understand part of getting it indexed is to pass the variables around in t...
I've had a look at code.google.com, but I didn't find anywhere how to programatically make a search query to Google and get the results. Do you happen to know if this is possible, using some web services or any other way? Of course, there's always the possibility to send a search query, get the HTML content of the result page and parse ...
Any google search for anything about SEO yields more articles than you can shake a stick at, but lot of the articles are out of date, many have conflicting advice and I just about none of them ever give any reasons/proof/data to back up their claims about what works and what doesn't. Has anyone done any at least somewhat scientific test...
I have a site with the following robots.txt in the root: User-agent: * Disabled: / User-agent: Googlebot Disabled: / User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: / And pages within this site are getting scanned by Googlebots all day long. Is there something wrong with my file or with Google? ...
Google has announced Google Friend Connect, and Facebook has announced Facebook Connect. Both services seek to solve the Single Sign On problem. Since OpenID was created to solve this issue, will it fail against the twin heavyweights of Facebook and Google? ...
It's been out for almost five years. It's got tens of millions of users I suspect several businesses rely on it. How is it still "beta"? At what point will it no longer be beta? When it completely owns the e-mail market? ...
How to Creat Charts with the Google Chart API in asp.net? ...
I've heard a lot of people asking how long information stays in Google Cache. To me, this is irrelevant (at least until someone libels my name). My question is: How long does it take before a web page is saved in Google Cache? ...
I am using Google Apps for domain to host the email from my domain and I've setup the MX records on my site according to the Google documentation. Can I also use a "sendmail" server to send additional emails from my webserver without there being a conflict with Google APPS? Specific questions: 1) I want to add MX records for my sendmai...
I have a web forum that I have coded in Python for the App Engine platform. I have noticed that it is not being index well by Google and am trying to fix that. I have Google Webmaster to submit a sitemap with almost 400 URLs but apparently only 8 were index! I even get a warning stating: All the URLs in your Sitemap are marked as hav...
I want a tooltip appear behind the google ads. I am using using a tooltip from http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/prototip/ and when I hover near the google ads the tooltip displays behind the ads, I'm using firefox 2.0. ...
Are all these types of sites just illegally scraping Google or another search engine? As far as I can tell ther is no 'legal' way to get this data for a commercial site.. The Yahoo! api ( http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/V1/inlinkData.html ) is only for noncommercial use, Yahoo! Boss does not allow automated queries etc. An...
Is it Oracle or MySQL or something they have built themselves? ...
Now, I realise the initial response to this is likely to be "you can't" or "use analytics", but I'll continue in the hope that someone has more insight than that. Google adwords with "autotagging" appends a "gclid" (presumably "google click id") to link that sends you to the advertised site. It appears in the web log since it's a query ...
Does anyone know how to remove the extra branding on the google custom search? they've added a button and other things like text that says "gadgets powered by google". there has to be a way to pipe the CSE data into a normal form, right? http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ ...