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New Google Analytics Snippet Aims to Reduce Page Load Time

Published 2 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Google released a new alternate Analytics snippet . Google writes that “Unlike a traditional installation, asynchronous tracking optimizes how browsers load ga.js so its impact on user experience is minimized. It also allows you to put your Analytics snippet higher in the page without ...
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Google's Fade-In Homepage Now Official

Published 2 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

This might surprise you, but Google has made their “fade-in” homepage variant – or more precisely, one of the several prototypes they were testing – their official homepage design now, as they announce at their blog. This is a major redesign for Google.com: at first when ...
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Google's Bigger Image Thumbs

Published 2 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Now when Google web search decides it’s images you’re looking for, they’re showing an even bigger preview picture in their “universal results” than before. You can try it with queries like pictures of madonna . Interestingly enough, even though the image is ...
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Re: Google Adds Disclaimer Ad to Results for [Michelle Obama]

Published 8 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

This is getting absurd. First, a racist caricature of the US president’s wife, Michelle Obama, appeared in a search for her name, and Google decided to launch a disclaimer ad campaign on those results. Then that image got removed and disappeared for some of us, but the results were soon ...
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Google Adds Disclaimer Ad to Results for [Michelle Obama]

Published 10 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Searching Google Images for michelle obama currently results in a (Blogspot-hosted) racist image in the number one position. Google decided to buy* a disclaimer ad for this page reading: Offensive Search Results www.google.com/resultsinfo Sometimes our search results can be offensive. ...
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Google to Acquire Teracent, Makers of Algorithm-Generated Banners

Published 10 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Google announced they’re acquiring the company Teracent, which creates auto-learning/ self-adjusting image ads. “Teracent’s technology can pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time – tweaking images, products, ...
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A CSS3-based Rotated Google

Published 10 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Ages (in web time) ago, I created a rotated Google based on some IExplorer hack. Now, there's a CSS3 compatible new Rotated Google around. As the old one, it's completely unofficial, but (rotation aside) also completely usable. If you check out the HTML source of the page, you'll notice the ...
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This Google toilet paper...

Published 10 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

... is not official, but a copycat clone from Thailand, which a reader of the Funny Potato blog snapped. [Thanks Jonathan! Pic courtesy of Funny Potato.] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: This Google toilet paper... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Search Marketing Arena: SEM/ SEO Questions & ...
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A Book on Programming the Google App Engine

Published 10 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Programming Google App Engine is a new book from O’Reilly, written by Google’s Dan Sanderson. The App Engine, despite all its downtimes, is an interesting (Python/ Java based) environment with a focus on being scalable. And even if you already have a domain and server ...
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Check the Redesigned Google (With Always-Visible Sidebar) Yourself
blogoscoped.com - 9 days ago
Check the Redesigned Google (With Always-Visible Sidebar) Yourself
— blogoscoped.com — When you paste the following into the address bar of your browser and hit return, you should... find yourself as new participant of Google's latest and more all-encompassing prototype test – the one with a new logo, buttons, and always-visible ... (more) Check the Redesigned Google (With Always-Visible ...

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Trying Out Google Analytics Alerts

Published 10 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

I noticed that the “Intelligence” section was rolled out for my Google Analytics account. I’m tracking various domains’ traffic with the Analytics snippet, and often you might miss when there’s a traffic peak at any particular domain. The Intelligce ...
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Microsoft Wishing to Pay Publishers to Block Googlebot?

Published 12 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Financial Times reports that Microsoft has had discussions with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp media company “over a plan that would involve the media company’s being paid to ’de-index’ its news websites from Google”. Talks are at an “early ...
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Which Apps Do You Think Are Missing On Chrome OS?

Published 13 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

A big target group of Chrome OS may be casual users – e.g. it seems to fit perfectly as operating system on the computers of an internet cafe (not the worst thing for Google, as that’s a place where many young people in many countries may use the internet most of the time). But ...
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Did You Develop a Popular iGoogle Gadget?

Published 14 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Are there any of you out there who developed a really popular iGoogle gadget? How did you manage to make it popular? Please share your story in the comments! [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Did You Develop a Popular iGoogle Gadget? | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to advertise here? Your ad ...
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View Your iGoogle Gadget Stats in One Place

Published 14 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Google released a Gadget Dashboard for iGoogle gadget developers. On this page, you can add gadget of yours by URL – for some, you may need to click on a link in a verification mail – and then see weekly stats, your gadget ratings and more. Note though that the stats only ...
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Google to Test New, More Colorful (and Permanent) Sidebar
blogoscoped.com - 15 days ago
Google to Test New, More Colorful (and Permanent) Sidebar
— blogoscoped.com — Google is rolling out a design prototype to some users which will have a permanent new pane... to the left hand side. Within that pane, as the screenshot by Search Engine Land (with more coverage) shows, there will be sections such as ... (more) Google to Test New, More Colorful (and Permanent) Sidebar

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A Preview of Google Chrome OS

Published 15 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Google has released Chromium OS *, the open source precursor to their Chrome OS (which Google says will be “ready for users” in a year). Google in a blog post explains that the Chrome operating system will be all about web apps, not traditional apps, so the “entire ...
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On the Fight Over Control of the Web

Published 16 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Tim O’Reilly argues that we’re heading for a web war – an ugly fighting over the control of the web, which goes against the web as an interoperable platform: [W]e’ve grown used to a world with one dominant search engine, one dominant online encyclopedia, one dominant ...
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Google Results Show a Page's Place Within the Site Hierarchy

Published 16 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Some websites have a hierarchical navigation path; for instance, the eBay URL collectibles.shop.ebay.com/Comics-/63/i.html?_pcats=1 is put in Home > Buy > Collectibles > Comics > Search results . Now, Google sometimes helps searchers by displaying such navigation hierarchy info ...
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Explore Similar Images with Google Image Swirl

Published 17 days ago by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

Google has released an interactive similar images explorer. The app is called Google Image Swirl , and it’s using the wonder wheel Flash visualization you might know from web search results. Here’s how it works: you enter a query, like “lion”. After a bit of loading, ...
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