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Do you ever need to specify javascript: in an onclick?

AFAIK, you never need to specify the protocol in an onclick: onclick="javascript:myFunction()" = bad onclick="myFunction()" = good Today I noticed in this article on Google Anallytics that they are using it: <a href="http://www.example.com" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/example.com');"> Is this example ...

How would someone download a website from Google Cache?

A friend accidentally deleted his forum database. Which wouldn't normally be a huge issue, except for the fact that he neglected to perform backups. 2 years of content is just plain gone. Obviously, he's learned his lesson. The good news, however, is that Google keeps backups, even if individual site owners are idiots. The bad news is, ...

does Google analytics make a major effect on time to download a static web page?

Hi, I understand that by simply adding a script to the end of the body tag of a html document one makes it processable by Google analytics. My question is, is this likely to have much effect on performance (download time and server load)? Let's assume a static page of say 100k served by IIS. Thanks. ...

Where are all the Google Tech Talks at?

I saw one on the creator of captcha, Luis von Ahn, and he also made the picture matching game that Google has bought from him (citation). It was really interesting and I was wondering where a vast archive of Google Tech Talks are. Anyone know? ...

Google gadget Unique ID

How to get unique Google Gadget ID from a gadget added to a iGoogle website, with Javascript? ...

Generate google map based on UK postcode

Hi, Is it possible to do a google map lookup using the google maps API from a UK postcode? I know you can search by UK postcode on their website, but this converts to lat / long. I don't have access to the PAF database to be able to convert to long / lat. An example: Users have an item to sell. One of the details of that item is a pos...

Why is Google's "face recognition" feature available only in Picasa WEB and not Picasa for the PC?

I friend asked me this today. Picasa Web has a cool (and frightening :-) feature where it will recognize all the faces in your photo album. But the PC (desktop) version doesn't have this. Several reasons I can think of: They just haven't gotten around to writing the PC version of the code. They are licensing that feature and it cost...

Google Maps API: Get position over Sealevel

Hi! is there a way to get the position over sealevel from a given position using the google Maps API? Any Help would really be appreciated! ...

Google street view URL question:

Hi I have the address of a property and my application can launch a browser to go to http://maps.google.com?q=searchStringHere. If a good match is found it will take it directly there. Is there any thing I can append to the url to make it switch to streetview without having the exact coordinates? I dont't want to code any javascript or f...

Stop Google from indexing

Is there a way to stop Google from indexing a site? ...

FAST ESP vs Google Search Appliance for development

Hi, Which of the two provides a better API for developing on top of? Although there is a virtual Google Search Appliance available for download, no such equivalent is present for FAST. So looking to developers with experience in either of these products to give suggestions and links to documentation. (especially for FAST as there's none...

How to get Google page rank and number of searches in Excel sheet?

I have a link in one column and based on it I want Number of Google searches in column 2 Page rank of first result in column 3 I know this can be done, as i saw a friend pulling google search result right in Excel. If anyone knows, please share how I could do that. Regards, Thinkjayant ...

Google Friend Connect - Logged in user profile info

I am trying to implement Google Friend Connect. Is it possible to obtain the email address of the logged in user? If so how? ...

How to modify page URL in Google Analytics

How can you modify the URL for the current page that gets passed to Google Analytics? (I need to strip the extensions from certain pages because for different cases a page can be requested with or without it and GA sees this as two different pages.) For example, if the page URL is http://mysite/cake/ilikecake.html, how can I pass t...

Using Google to find programming answers (does locale matter)?

I have overseas developers working for me, and sometimes I am surprised they can't find the same resources online that I do. They are in a South America country... and Google defaults to their language/locale. What do you think about this, when using it to solve computer programs? There is very little software development done in their ...

Can the Google Search appliance generate a report showing broken links on your site?

I know the Google Search Appliance has access to this information (as this factors into the PageRank Algorithm), but is there a way to export this information from the crawler appliance? External tools won't work because a significant portion of the content is for a corporate intranet. ...

Hosted Yui, Google maps, JQuery - an easy way of monitoring website usage?

The Yahoo Javascript library (YUI), JQuery and less so Google maps all allow you to reference their files using the following format: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.6.0/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; This does a request for the script from their servers, which will also pas...

google maps flex API: handle both double and single clicks?

how do you tell a single mouse click from a double click? my single click listener seems to be trapping all the double clicks as well: tz locator it's a known issue for the flash/flex API but the js workaround doesn't seem to handle both either: code.google.com ...

Where is XMLHttpRequest.responseStream defined?

Take a look at the graphics part of the GoogleAPI reference. It says that loadImage takes either a string, or the responseStream property of an XMLHttp. By XMLHttp, I assume it means XMLHttpRequest. My problem is that I can't find documentation for this field (the responseStream field) anywhere. I've had no luck googling it (ironc), it...

How to tell to Search Engines that 2 domain names are the same website?

If I have 2 domains names that points to same website. By example: microsoft.com and microsoft.net both points to microsoft.com. How search engines can distinguish that these 2 websites are the same websites and not a duplicate content? My question is because I know that Google, by example, have an duplicate content filter, and I want...