Posts tagged google
Making Ajax Searchable
Oct 14th
Google has come up with a set of guidlines to make Ajax applications Searchable. This was a major limitations for the Ajax applications.
While AJAX-based websites are popular with users, search engines traditionally are not able to access any of the content on them. The last time we checked, almost 70% of the websites we know about use JavaScript in some form or another. Of course, most of that JavaScript is not AJAX, but the better that search engines could crawl and index AJAX, the more that developers could add richer features to their websites and still show up in search engines.
Read more about the this at google webmasters blog.
They say the best design is the simplest design.
Google’s proposal seems rather complicated. If that is the case with a technical person like me not sure how is it going to fare with other folks.Plus this approach has to get the blessings of other search engine.
Whats missing is a reference implementation. Google should definitely make one so that we can understand this better.
Video Chat in Gmail
Nov 14th
Google has just released the Video chat feature in Gmail. Full story here.
Now on we can chat with folks right from the gmail browser window.
This feature only works with the newer version of gmail and the supported versions are FF2.0+
IE 6.0+ Safari 3.0+ and Gogle Chrome.
This feature has made google talk obsolete. Will we be needing it any more.
To get started with Video Chat in Gmail you have to install a plugin.
This link is also provided at the top left in your gmail page
Once the plugin is downloaded and installed you can start video chating with friends by clicking on there names
Using Gdata apis in Appengine
Oct 11th
I started digging into Googles appengine recently. Its a great service provided by Google. Now developers like us dont have to worry about the servers.. deployment and other stuff. If we have an Idea we can jump in and start working on it.
As my first project on appengine, am trying to develop a simple which fetches videos from youtube and displays in a page. Its pretty basic.
Nice articles describing it can be found here.
Found a small issue in this article. There is a small hack we need to do to use the Python gdata apis in appengine. This article talks more about it.
This hack is failing in gdata-python api 1.2.1 With the new gdata api instead of doing
gdata.service.http_request_handler = gdata.urlfetch
We should do this
client = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeService()
urlfetch.run_on_appengine(client)
Lost a day figuring this out. 