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Any ways to display Google web / custom search results, into another UI?

I have currently a program written in html / javascript related to the Google search API which functions when users search a place, information and local places on it will be returned. Google custom search and web results have a standard "UI" for their results returned. I would like to display them in my personal UI, etc maybe in a drop...

What smtp server (provider) should I use to send bulk emails? (5000+)

I am going to send emails to our users (5000+), but I'm not sure what's the best way to do it. To send single emails we have used google apps' smtp server, which allows 100/day (or 400 if you pay). We're using PHP and PHPMailer. 1) How does i.e. google react if i send thousands of emails from my own smtp server? Do they use blacklists ...

Encoded polylines using JQuery

Hi, I've been given some encoded polylines to display on a google map. However I'm using JQuery for a lot of the front end functions and am now stuck trying to find the correct syntax for displaying encoded polylines using JQuery. The standard syntax for adding an encoded polyline is var polyline = new GPolyline.fromEncoded({ color: ...

Converting address from database to lat/lng json

I have a database with addresses in which need to be converted to geocode to work with Google Maps API, i was thinking of bringing in the entries via JSON. Is there an easy way to get the addresses from the database convert them to geocode and create and JSON feed? There are about 4000-5000 entires. I know Google offer the Geocoding AP...

What will Google App Inventor mean for mobile software development?

Google Labs will be rolling out something called Google App Inventor (for Android). CNet says: "To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's beh...

get a link from the database into the google maps info window

Hi, i've started very enthousiastic with google maps and managed to get the info from my mysql dbase to the map on my site. The problem i'm facing now is that i want to be able to click through from the info window to a page on my site (the link also comes out of the dbase). Here is the standard google api code I'm using now ('mijnlin...

What does Google get by offering free email service ?

Google provides many services - Google Adwords, Google Adsense, Google Search APIs which are directly or indirectly generating lot of revenue for Google. But what does Google gain by providing free email service with 10's of Gigabytes of space at free of cost? And I bet the number of registered users are in millions...and obviously ther...

Getting a gmail address with... openid? oauth?

I'm getting confused. I was able to make openid login kinda work using LightOpenID. All I get doing that is just an openid_identity such as "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=xxx". Pretty disappointing: I was expecting to get the email address too. i.e. I need to login (that's what openid does) and to know the email address of ...

How to install Google Earth /Map in Linux Server, and auto export image from it with cron job?

Have many geo-data collected from different source and in different formats. Want to convert them into KML and use Google Earth / Map as a Engine to render nice PNGs for me. My Client need to achieve or print out those PNGs every few hours. But seems the Google Earth / Map don't have a export API. We have considers other GIS program....

google maps api and https

I am using the google maps api with regular key (not premier). When connecting to my server with http, everything works fine, but when connecting with https i receive the following instead of map: "nitialization failed please check the API key swf location, version and network availability" Is that because it is not premier key? can i f...

Google Maps v3 - Automating Zoom Level?

I'm having the possibility to have multiple markers. Currently i'm using the map.fitBounds(bounds); In my css to have the map resized (bounds contains multiple latlng's). What am i doing wrong? Because it won't use the best zoom level :-( Edit: Javascript source var geocoder, map; $(document).ready(function(){ ...

Multiple infoWindows stacking over same location Google Maps API version 3

Hi, I'm loading a json file for a bunch of markers on my google map (verison 3 api) and then placing infoWindows for each marker. It all works swimmingly well except that the markers are ignoring the latlng information, and when markers are clicked the windows simply stack over the original marker. Everything works perfectly except for ...

$ is not defined error using jQuery and Google Code Repository

I'm trying to duplicate the tabs demo from the jQuery website. The sample page I'm working with is: http://yazminmedia.com/playground/jquerytabs.html I'd like to use the Google Code Repository to take advantage of the caching. I have the following code in the head of my page: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/js...

Does Google have an API for its search engine?

Input a query, and Google's API will give me an XML of results? ...

Single package to allow signing in with oauth through several social networks?

I'm looking for a way to allow users to sign in to my site using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google. A good example of a site that does this is Answers.com, on the homepage they have a set of buttons, and each button gives a simple pop up window to confirm the connection. I know that I can implement each connection individually, bu...

Does Google read external Javascript Files that are included

Does Google read external Javascript Files that are included? If I were to append non-keyword information using jquery or such would this affect keyword density? Now I would normally stick to plain HTML/CSS generally but I am curious about this, has anyone tested this before or know factually not I THINK but know or have some evidence ...

Why should anyone use the new google wysiwyg editor?

Yesterday google introduced their wysiwyg editor and I was really exited. However it seems to be kind of heavy. Online demo It took my Firefox 8 seconds to download all 180 requests. The network traffic was 2MB. What is the point of using it anyway? ...

How to get the 'similar' link in google?

Hi! I made a website that I submitted to google a few months ago. It comes up in results, but it could be much better. I've noticed that all the results in front of my site, there's a 'Similar' link just near the 'Cached' link, but it doesn't show up for my site. I know that that link gives related results, so I wonder if there's some...

How would Google Multiple Accounts Sign-in be implemented ?

Google published that they are testing a feature that allows you to sign in simultaneously to multiple Google accounts in the same browser. Any idea how would that be implemented ? ...

Can google see the contents of an iframe when spidering?

I've looked this up and have not found consistent answers. I want to embed a google doc in my page (when you publish your google doc it gives you an iframe). Will search engines like google be able to read the contents of the document (just text, but may have important keywords)? Or will it act as if the page was empty? If it cannot ind...