Topic: Google Developers

Google Revamps Webmaster Tools API

Google announced on the Webmaster blog that they’ve updated the Google Webmaster Tools API to bring it up to par with other Google APIs. Google has revamped how you authenticate for apps or web-services and it also gives you access to some of the main features of Webmaster Tools. Specific features within the new API […]

Google Introduces New Content API For Google Shopping

Today, Google introduced a new version of the API that allows retailers to manage product feed content programmatically, as opposed to through manual updates to Google Merchant Center. It’s the first version update of the API since Google first launched it in 2010, before Google Shopping became a paid platform. Version 2 of the Content […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 13, 2011

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Buys Clever Sense: An Answer To Siri? As is being widely reported Google has bought startup Clever Sense, which earlier this year launched the local-mobile recommendations app Alfred. Alfred is […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 28, 2011

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Get Started With YouTube Promoted Video Earlier in the year, YouTube surpassed Yahoo as the world’s second largest search engine. In June 2011, ComScore reported that in the U.S., […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 18, 2011

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Facebook Gestures: How Users Could Be Sharing Their Opinion Facebook “Likes” have become a universal way to share or promote a piece of content on a blog or website (or Facebook […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 28, 2011

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How You Can Build Links Easily With Product Reviews The art of building links to increase search rankings has been a big topic in the SEO community for a long time. […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 31, 2011

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Tightens Review Process For New AdSense Publishers Google has added a new review step to its process for adding new AdSense publishers, presumably to better eliminate abuses and improve the […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 25, 2011

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Think Global — But Make Your Ads Local Find out how to maximize your performance in international PPC campaigns – watch this webcast: “Global Domination through PPC: What you MUST know […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 2011

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New York Times Continues Paid Link Outing Stories, Looks At Online Flowers Industry Over the weekend, the New York Times published a story called Trying to Game Google on “Mother’s Day […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 26, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Changes AdWords Agency Service Model This week, Google AdWords sent out emails to some of their agency customers detailing a change that will be happening in their AdWords support model. […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 2, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Says Its New Facebook Like Integration Really, Really Is Live The Bing Search Blog officially announced that the Facebook integration on Bing is live. Last week, we reported some were […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 15, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The New Twitter & Search, An Illustrated Guide Twitter’s rolling out a new design to users that makes the site more interactive and shows more information than before. What’s new for […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 27, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: International SEM Goes Beyond Simple Translation: Q&A With Latin3’s Matias Perel Because only a fraction of the world’s population resides here in the United States, the idea of global reach is […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 13, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Oracle Sued Google Over Patent Infringement Of Java Within Android Oracle has filed suit against Google for allegedly infringing on patents they hold for Java, which Oracle acquired last year. Karen […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 20, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo Q2 Revenues Flat, Display & Net Income Up Yahoo announced generally flat Q2 revenues of $1.6 billion but improved net income today. That compares with revenues of $1.57 billion in […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 12, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Search Funnel Reports—Tunnel Vision? On March 19, 2010 Google unveiled Google AdWords Search Funnel Reports via this YouTube video. This was a great day for proponents of multi-attribution marketing analysis. […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 4, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Liveblog: SMX West 2010 Keynote – The State Of The Search Union It’s day three of SMX West 2010, and we’re going to kick off with a group keynote conversation called […]

Google Wants The Web To Go Faster

Google wants to make the internet faster. By speeding up the “most important computing platform of our time,” Google believes that consumers and businesses will experience a wide range of benefits, many of which we can imagine, some of which might be revealed over time. There’s no product or specific consumer offering here. Rather Google […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 15, 2009

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Wolfram Alpha Live Review: The Un-Google The already much discussed Wolfram Alpha official launch is Monday May 18, though the company has said they plan a “soft launch” starting tonight, with […]

Google Analytics Opens API

Google Analytics announced the public availability of the new Google Analytics API. The API gives developers, webmasters, and SEMs the ability to pull data from Google Analytics to use as they wish. Clearly this can be useful for SEMs who want to integrate analytics data with their SEM systems, plus developers or webmasters who have […]

Yahoo’s Chief Performance Expert, Souders, Joining Google

Steve Souders, Yahoo’s Chief Performance expert and writer of the Firefox add-on YSlow, announced on his site he is joining Google on January 7, 2008. It is not clear exactly what Souders will be doing at Google. It appears that he will be working with Dion Almaer, who is working on Google Code, Google Gears, […]