Google AJAX Search API Latest search engine news blog articles from Google AJAX Search API. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/Google+AJAX+Search+API.html Google AJAX Search API News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13109 We're pleased to announce the addition of local search for China. For users already using the AJAX Search API for local search, you should now be able to search for businesses in China without having to make any changes. Try typing "hotels in Beijing" in your site or app which uses the Google AJAX Search API. You should see some results: To take advantage of local search functionality, take a look at the AJAX Search API . The samples here are also particularly useful. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:06:22 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13024 If you're a Flash nut then you probably know about the SWFObject Javascript library. I'm not, so I didn't. However, since I promised myself I would play with Flex soon I am very happy that a "Flasher" suggested that we add it to our AJAX Libraries API. I took a look at it and found out that it's a great little must-have library! See, embedding a Flash video on a page is actually more complicated than it should be. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:37:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12625 With Google I/O just a few weeks away (May 28 - 29), if you haven't already registered then now is the time. There are now more than 80 technical sessions posted. In addition to the AJAX APIs sessions that we talked about before, we've recently added a number of other AJAX & JavaScript related talks: State of AJAX: The Universe Is Expanding Dion Almaer, and Ben Galbraith, founders of Ajaxian.com , will discuss the State of Ajax (hence the title), Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:34:51 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10538 by Gokul Nath Babu and Anupama Dutta, Software Engineers We're excited to announce a new addition to the AJAX Language API - the Transliteration API . Transliteration is the process of phonetically converting a word written in one script into another. We launched transliteration on India Labs a year ago to make it easier to type in Indian languages using an English keyboard. Since then, we've integrated this into a number of Google properties, such as orkut scraps , Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:41:46 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10255 Have you ever gone to a site, looked at the page and wondered, "how did they do that?" Since we launched our 2008 U.S. Election site I am getting lots of questions about that nifty little "page element" sitting in the center of the page. Everyone wants to know, "how did you guys do that? how did you pack so much valuable and tightly scoped information in such a small amount of space?" Take a look at the page element below, Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:39:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10146 Google engineers spend a lot of time working on speeding up their Web applications. Performance is a key factor for our teams, and we recognize how important it is for the entire Web. When you take a look at the effort that it takes to setup work that should be simple, such as caching shared JavaScript libraries, you quickly realize that the Web could be faster than it currently is. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:37:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1657 Google will be hosting a hackathon at the Mountain View campus on Friday, February 29th from 2pm until 10pm. The hackathon will be covering multiple JavaScript APIs, including our AJAX Search/Feeds APIs. There will be some quick introductions to the APIs, then we'll get you guys coding with our APIs (bring your laptops!). This is a great chance to learn a bit about APIs you haven't played with and to ask more advanced questions about the ones you love. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:51:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1217 A few weeks ago, our team received a call from the Executive Producer of EW.com , the online extension of Entertainment Weekly Magazine. She asked if our Feed API could be used to build a module that they could configure to promote and link to their partner's sites. The result of that phone call is our brand new PartnerBar control. Working closely with the Executive Producer and production staff, we developed the control to meet the demanding needs of EW. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:26:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1219 Early this morning we turned on a highly requested feature... The AJAX Search API now supports up to 32 search results as well as pagination through result sets. I understand that this might not match everything that you have been asking for, but at this point in time, delivering a 4x increase in the number of available search results is all that we are able to support. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:18:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1220 The Google AJAX Feed API's Slide Show got an update with the addition of a full control panel option. To see this new control panel in action, just hover your mouse over the sample below. To get all the information on the new feature, visit the Slide Show Programming Guide . And as always, let us know what you think in the developer forum . Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:01:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1227 This morning, we made an update to the AJAX Search API that provides you with direct access to YouTube Channels , Most Viewed Videos, Top Rated Videos, and Recently Featured Videos. As millions of you have already discovered, our insanely popular Video Bar Control is a great way to showcase your favorite videos on your site. Using this new feature, you will be able to "subscribe" a Video Bar to the lonelygirl15 channel, the Most Viewed YouTube Videos Channel, Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:39:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1222 The Google AJAX Feed API's got a small addition today in the form of the Dynamic Feed Control . It is a control that expands on the base FeedControl and allows user's to embed multiple feeds for convenient display on their webpage. It offers several layouts, including our popular horizontal layout similar to the NewsBar , and also two forms of vertical layout. You have access to the full source code . We include default CSS styling, Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:29:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1212 In case you missed the announcement today on the Maps API Blog , the AJAX Search API now supports Australia in GlocalSearch. Make sure you read Pamela's post and check out her inline sample. If you have a map on your site and want to add search, the Local Search Control , might be the perfect solution. Make sure to check it out. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:30:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1207 Post by Ali Pasha, Product Manager Over the last few months, many of you provided input requesting that we take an active role in addressing namespace clutter in our JavaScript based APIs. Based on your feedback, this morning we updated the documentation in a way that we feel addresses your concerns while also respecting the considerable investment you have made in your applications. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:07:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1221 Post by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer Yesterday was an exciting day for us over here on the Google AJAX Search API team. At 6:00 a.m. I flipped a bit on our servers, opening up Image Search as the newest addition to this very powerful, and increasingly popular API. We built several samples that highlight this new capability, including a sample designed specifically for the iPhone . Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:24:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1223 Post by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer Since its release last year, the Google AJAX Search API has given developers a simple way to add Google Web, Local, Video, Blog, and News search to their websites and web applications. In February 2007 , we extended the system to include Book Search. After a few months of focusing on the AJAX Feed API , Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:22:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1211 The AJAX Feed API makes it easy to display RSS and Atom feeds on any web page. Unfortunately, its not always quite as easy to find the feed URL of the feed that you wanted. To help with discovering and finding feeds, today we launched two additional methods. The new findFeeds() method searches for feeds based on a simple query. The new lookupFeed() method accepts a url and then returns to you the primary feed associated with that URL. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:15:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1206 Post by Ali Pasha, Product Manager We just launched a Google Search widget for Blogger built using the AJAX Search API. For more information, see the Blogger In Draft Post . One cool feature of the widget is the 'Linked From Here' feature that searches the pages you've linked to from your blog posts. If you are not using Blogger but use the AJAX Search API, you can still create something similar for your website using Linked Custom Search Engines . Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:23:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1210 Google Maps added local search support for Sweden and Denmark last month and we couldn't wait to get it into the Google AJAX Search API. You can now search for businesses in Sweden and Denmark through your local search-based mashup without making any additional code changes. Go ahead and try "hilton near stockholm" or "sushi near copenhagen" here and see what results you get. Ali Pasha, Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:47:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1218 The Google AJAX Feed API's Slide Show Control is now available as a Google Gadget that can be added to your iGoogle homepage . So this.. can now be on your iGoogle homepage with one click below. The Google Gadget supports any direct feed that uses the MediaRSS extensions . In addition, it has configuration support for discovery of public Picasa Web Albums and tag-based search over PhotoBucket . We will most likely add other tag-based domains in the near future. As always, Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:48:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1216 We just launched local search for the UK this morning. For users already using the AJAX Search API for local search, you should now be able to search for businesses in the United Kingdom without having to make any changes to your code. Go ahead and now try "Starbucks near London" in your App that uses the Google AJAX Search API. You should get something like the following: If you want to add local search to your web site, take a look at the AJAX Search API documentation . Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:00:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1224 This afternoon we released a Local Search Control for the Google Maps API . If you already have a Google Maps application, extending it to support local search doesn't get any easier: Include a reference to the AJAX Search API Include a reference to the Local Search Control Call map.addControl(new google.maps.LocalSearch()); Take a look at the sample below. It's the canonical "hello world" of Google Maps with the addition of the Local Search Control in the lower left corner. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:12:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1209 I was at Google Developer Day last week and ran into an old friend and blogger , Robert Scoble, VP Media Development at PodTech . Robert and I were discussing how the AJAX Feed API could be used to engage customers more deeply. During this conversation, we discussed the characteristics of the feeds produced by PodTech. It turns out that each entry contains a photo associated with the article, an audio or video stream, as well as text based content and related meta data. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:16:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1215 This afternoon we extended the AJAX Feed API with a new Slide Show Control . This control allows you to easily embed a slide show of images from PhotoBucket , Flickr , Picasa Web Albums , or any feed that uses the Media RSS extensions. With just a few lines of code: new GFslideShow("http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/slideshow/sample.rss", document.getElementById("slideshow")); You can insert a slide show like this on your site or blog: As always, Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Tue, 15 May 2007 02:28:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1213 This morning we added a new class to the Google AJAX Feed API designed to allow you to more easily add a collection of feeds to your pages. The FeedControl is pretty simple: var feedControl = new google.feeds.FeedControl(); feedControl.addFeed("http://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml", "Digg"); feedControl.addFeed("http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch", "TechCrunch"); feedControl.draw(document.getElementById("feedControl")); In addition to the formal documentation, Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Tue, 08 May 2007 06:46:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1205 This morning we launched the Google AJAX Feed API , an API that takes the pain out of developing mashups in JavaScript. Now you can mash up feeds using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies. The sample below uses the AJAX Feed API to display a rotating collection of iTunes RSS Feeds. Feel free to try this on one of your own pages or on your blog. On an administrative note, Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:38:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1226 On March 15th, we announced the Blog Bar . Like the News Bar , and Video Bar , the Blog Bar has seen phenomenal adoption. In the announcement message we asked for your feedback and ideas for improvement. Based on your feedback , we have updated the Blog Bar to include site restricted search. This means that you can now create a Blog Bar and program it to only search over a selected blog. As always, let us know what you think in the AJAX Search API developer forum . Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:05:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1204 On February 7, we announced the availability of the Google News Bar . This cut-and-paste search control is simple to use and has seen phenomenal adoption. Anytime we launch a new AJAX Search API feature, we ask you to share your thoughts with us in the AJAX Search API developer forum . Late Sunday evening, " CyberCoder " (a.k.a., inventor of the Google Video Bar ) asked us to produce a modified News Bar that worked over Blog Search instead of News Search. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:46:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1228 In late January we announced the inclusion of YouTube Video results in the Google Video search index. Early this evening, we updated the Google AJAX Search API to include YouTube Video results via the GvideoSearch object. For those of you using our advanced video search controls , you now have search and playback access to Google Videos as well as YouTube Videos. The VideoBar control, Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:02:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1214 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). Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:23:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1208 The AJAX Search API has always included a localized text based Search Control where the user-interface is presented in the language of the site visitor. The API includes a number of advanced search controls including: Map Search Control Video Bar Video Search Control News Bar Book Bar These controls have seen strong world wide adoption. This afternoon, Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:23:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1225 We just launched a new cut-and-paste solution for the AJAX Search API that lets you embed a dynamic Google News bar in your web pages: Try it out. Just enter the searches you want to power the news bar, and the AJAX Search API does the rest. We support two different form factors a thin horizontal strip and a wider vertical bar so it's easy to incorporate dynamic news content into the layout of your site. We've also added support for Book Search to the AJAX Search API. Search Engines News SEO News Google AJAX Search API Google AJAX Search API Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:36:00 GMT