robots.txt and seo ranking
is there any point in having a robots.txt with just one line of content like below User-agent: * compared to not having it at all ? ...
Web Service API that supports searching by regular expression
As far as I know, Google Code Search and Google Analytics can support searching by regular expression, and both of them offer API that allows developer to call the service by HTTP. Besides these two, any more API can do so? ...
Implementing Google search operators
Google currently uses keywords such as site: or is: in searches (the second example is from Gmail). I'm trying to develop a similar system and am wondering how best to go about identifying and handling those terms. For simplicity's sake, assume an OO language is being used (Ruby, Python, Java, C#, et al). Currently, my plan is to have a...
Authenticating DNN (or ASP.NET) site in Google Adsesne
Google Adsense now has a site authentication feature where site owners can have Google authenticate against your login scheme and crawl password protected content. I am haivng trouble getting this working in DNN and in any ASP.NET site that uses forms Authentication Can anybody tell me what needs to go into the different fields for Go...
How to set google map in the center of a small <div>?
hi friends, how to set google map in the centre of a small <div>? below is the code below code is working fine but the city is display in the top corner of the <div> how to move that in the center of <div> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title>Google Map</title> <scr...
Google Libraries - URL version selecting
Reading through documentation, I found following: 1.9.1 1.8.4 1.8.2 A version of "1.8.2" select the obvious, fully-specified version. Specifying a version of "1.8" would select 1.8.4 since this is the highest version released in the 1.8 branch. For much the same reason, a request for "1" loads version 1.9.1, since t...
Google Codejam 2009 Qualification problem: Watershed in C++
I tried out this Codejam problem and produced a valid solution in C++. There is a Python solution on the website. Was wondering if any C++ people would offer some improvements/optimizations to this solution. Thanks! BTW: In Codejam the goal is to write code as fast as possible (a reason why Python would have been a better language choic...
How do I extract surface normals (facade) at each pixel from google maps street view api?
In this google lat-long blog post ( http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-smart-navigation-in-street.html ) they describe how they estimate the surface normal or facade orientation using 3D point clouds. Is there a way to extract/retrieve the surface normal at each pixel using the google street view api? ...
Code related web searches
Is there a way to search the web which does NOT remove punctuation? For example, I want to search for window.window->window (Yes, I actually do, this is a structure in mozilla plugins). I figure that this HAS to be a fairly rare string. Unfortunately, Google, Bing, AltaVista, Yahoo, and Excite all strip the punctuation and just show any...
How do search engines conduct 'AND' operation?
Consider the following search results: Google for 'David' - 591 millions hits in 0.28 sec Google for 'John' - 785 millions hits in 0.18 sec OK. Pages are indexed, it only needs to look up the count and the first few items in the index table, so speed is understandable. Now consider the following search with AND operation: Goog...
Do CNAME DNS entries affect SEO?
I am setting up a website for a client which I will be hosting and maintaining, and I am trying to determine what will be the most pain free setup. My thought is to do the following: 1) Set up the clients domain at client.mydomain.com 2) Have the client update their dns records for *.client.com to CNAME client.mydomain.com From a prac...
how does Google implement online PDF reader?
hello I am somewhat ignorant about modern web technology, last have played with them way back in CGI days. I am curious as to how Google implements their PDF reader online, can you please explain it briefly? from what I can tell it is not a simple webpage/image Thanks ...
Google marks seemingly perfect emails as spam
Hi! First post, have found many answers here, so hopes are high. The problem: Google marks seemingly correctly formatted emails from my apache/postfix server as spam. Sample email as follows; (I have replaced my domain with mydomain.com.au and the IP with a pretend IP) Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: by 10.150.216.21 with S...
Can't get fullCalendar to display google calendar events
Hi - I'm very new to JQuery etc. I'm trying to set up fullCalendar to display my Google calendar events. I followed the instructions from Adam Shaw's site but although the calendar appears on the site, the events don't - it's just blank. I'm sure it's just me marking the code up wrong: $(document).ready(function() { // page is now rea...
Loading a Maps API site in a Native Android Application
I'm trying to follow the example from google: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/android_v3.html Using the example files from their SVN repo: (http)gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/articles-android-webmap/ But although it seems to compile and export it fails; can someone sanity check that its not just me this fa...
DotNetOpenAuth: Webforms, Getting Started
I am trying to figure out how to get DotNetOpenAuth(http://www.dotnetopenauth.net/) working in my webforms app I don't understand where to begin. I have an OpenIDSelector on my Login.aspx that lets you choose google or Yahoo. You can choose one, then a popup comes up, and lets you login. Once you login the program hangs because it i...
SEO: Why "indexed pages" in Webmaster Tools and the command "site:" gives so much difference?
When I go into the Webmasters Tools in Google for my website it gives me "Indexed URLs: 305,509", but when I type in Google "site:" with my url it returns about 19.000 results. How is it possible? ...
Google Search appliance Schedule Reindexing.
Hi to all, my question is simple: Are any way to delete the index and schedule the reindexing? Best regards. Jose ...
How to override or remove a control in Google Map API
I was playing with Google maps for last two days and started understanding little bit about its functionality. I was using Large Map i.e. 700 X 300 resolution map size and i was trying to implement controls used in small maps. eg. var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map_canvas")); map.setCenter(new GLatLng(37.4419, -122.14...
Error callback every time when trying to POST XML using jQuery in non-IE browsers
I am trying to communicate with Google's spell check service using jQuery. Google's service requires that you post XML and it will in turn return an XML response. In IE, the success callback gets hit every time, but in non-IE browsers (tested in Firefox and Chrome) the error callback is getting hit every time. The biggest difference is ...