What are you doing right now? It s a pretty simple question. Me? I m writing this post. Maybe you re eating a magnolia cupcake, or at work, but shopping online. Or maybe you re thinking of how to use the word of the day in a sentence: polypropolen…
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerIn the spring of 1907 Kenneth Grahame sent his seven year old son, Alastair nicknamed Mouse , the first of a series of letters telling the story of a group of animals and their various adventures along the river, in the woods and on the road. These letters, centering on the swaggering Mr. Toad, formed the first whisperings of what would become one of the best loved children s stories of all time: The Wind in the Willows. http: www.ouls.ox.ac.uk news 2007 feb 23 Tomorrow, to celebrate World Book Day, Oxford University s Bodleian Library will display these original letters as well as manuscripts and special illustrated editions of this children s classic.If you happen to be near the Oxford area, you ll be able to view these precious artifacts in person. And while young children from local schools listen to readings from the book in a specially decorated corner of the library s Divinity School, people around the world can explore Grahame s classic tale online through Google Book Search we have the original 1908 edition digitized as well as multiple in print versions . You can even take a virtual tour of the Bodleian s exhibit, as the library has made images of the original letters and manuscripts available online. Near or far from Oxford, you ll be able to enjoy The Wind in the Willows and explore the rich history of a story that has delighted readers for a hundred years.
By Steven De La O, Google Base SupportBack in December 2005, Clint published a post about the label attribute and its usefulness in helping searchers find your items. A little more than a year later, we ve had the opportunity to evaluate the information included for this attribute, and we d like to announce changes that affect its use. Moving forward, we will no longer support the label attribute. We ve found that label values can easily be submitted for other, more relevant attributes, and we d like you to start using our predefined attributes or your own custom attributes to submit them. As an example, let s take a look at the comic book collection item noted in Clint s post to find out how this change can be accomplished. He included the following label values: Captain America, Superman, DC comics, Marvel, graphic novel, super heroes. The following table lists alternative attributes under which these values can be submitted.Attribute nameValuehero custom Captain Americahero custom Supermanpublisher predefined DC comicspublisher predefined Marvelproduct type predefined graphic novelgenre predefined super heroesWe understand that these changes require time and effort to execute, but we feel strongly that they will help improve the Google Base experience for you, our data providers, and for folks searching the web to find your items on Google. If you have thoughts on this change, feel free to visit our Google Base Help Discussion group to share them. We ll be listening.
Google Friends Newsletter February 2007 Salutations to all of our Google friends. We hope you enjoy this month s update on our products and services. POWER TIP Search KMLs on Google Earth KML is the XML file format people use to create overlays to enhance the geographic imagery with a vast array of detailed information. For
Google Friends Newsletter February 2007 Salutations to all of our Google friends. We hope you enjoy this month s update on our products and services. POWER TIP Search KMLs on Google Earth KML is the XML file format people use to create overlays to enhance the geographic imagery with a vast array of detailed information. For
We have always strongly supported those of you wishing to re style AJAX search results. Each search result contains a number of properties like title, visible url, snippet, etc. , as well as a standard .html property. Note: while it s ok to re style a search result, it is not ok to change the search result values e.g., its not ok to replace a Google delivered url of http: www.vw.com gti with http: please click on this virus url.com . One way to get the look and feel that you need is to build your own representation of a search result using the result s core properties. This is the technique that we use in the News Bar, the Video Bar, the Map Search Control, etc. Another very powerful approach is to use the .html property either standalone, or in conjunction with the core Search Control, and then use customized CSS rules to re style the .html node. Using this approach you can select fonts, colors, spacing, visibility, borders, etc. We stil advocate using Firefox s DOM Inspector or the Firebug Extension to get a feel for the DOM structure of a result. In addition, this morning, we published the skeleton format of each search result type. This should help those of you that are not fluent in DOM Inspector or Firebug. As always, let us know what you think in the AJAX Search API developer forum. If this documentation style is a helpful way for you to learn about the DOM structure of a search result, we will use the same approach to document the DOM structure of the various search controls. And finally, I know many of you are working hard to extend the Map Search Control. In an effort to make your attempts at this more robust and reliable, this morning, we published a formal mechanism and sample that you can use to gain access to the GMap2 objects that are at the heart of this control.
We ve recently updated the Cycle of Search image to reflect the 4000 online search engines and specialist databases that you can blaze trails on. You can see a subset in the image below:Since launching the add an engine feature in 2006, we ve ha…
Just a reminder per our announcement on November 9, we will shutdown Version 6 of the API on Monday, March 12, 2007.Please make sure you migrate your applications to Version 7 or 8 by March 12. You can find more information about these versions inc…
Some users have been unable to publish via Mail to Blogger for the last few days. This is due to one particular faulty machine, and we re working on addressing the problem right now.Update: This problem has been fixed and Mail to Blogger posting should…
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