This is the official blog of the Google AJAX Search API. We are going to use this blog to publish official updates, tips, and workarounds, and announce new releases. The easiest way to be notified of changes is to subscribe to our Atom feed.

If you have any questions in the meantime, head on over to the developer forum. Google engineers will participate in the group along with other AJAX Search API developers to help answer your questions.

If you need any creative inspiration to get started with the API, check out the nice set of sample applications on our web site.

This month we experienced a posting delay that might keep some payment information from appearing in your account immediately. While all payments have been sent out as usual, the ‘Payment…’ line might take some extra time to show up on the Payment History page of your account under the My Account tab.Additionally, if you recently signed up to receive payments by Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), or added a new bank account for EFT deposits, it m

Google, the world’s leading search engine service provider, authorized Shenzhen Metropolis Search to sell Google AdWords service in Shenzhen and the Shantou area of Guangdong Province in southern China. Shenzhen Metropolis Search was set up in 2005.

CE …

We just released Google Web Toolkit 1.0.21 to the GWT web site. This release fixes a number of bugs from our first release last week, inlcuding: Issue #5823700 - GWT hosted mode does not work when IE 7 is installed Issue #8840603 - GWT applications do not run in IE 7 Issue #3844117 - Cannot reference a final local variable from a deep inner class Issue #9157420 - Compiler reports errors for non-ASCII ch

None other than Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, has been reported by Silicon India as saying that India will be the internet’s biggest market in 5 - 10 years. He also believes that Hindi, not Hispanic, could become one of …

PSI-Japan has begun accepting the applications for new domain “.mobi” for mobile sites.

From May 22 to 29, the registration is limited to the member companies and organizations to GSMA, CTIA, MMA, CWTA, and MEF for their registered trademarks.

From June 12 …

The MSN Search Blog reports MSN Search Engine may use the description from a web page instead of ODP title and description.

In a move to please the search community and more in general webmasters, MSN has introduced a new robots …

Google is facing lots of problems here because of Orkut, its social network which is a huge success here.

The Attorney General’s office, backed by a NGO, is making our friends from Mountain View sweat. Basically: Google must disclose …

Is Baidu expanding? This is the third time in row that the spider from Baidu is the first to arrive on sites that I am marketing. Baiduspider+(+http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.htm). Seeing that the search engine has been around for some time and …

I would like to welcome Renaud Euvrard to the team of contributors here on Google Maps Mania. Renaud will be helping us to keep up to date on all the Google Maps mashups and news from the country of France. He files his first post with us today:Estate agency Kéops - “Agence immobilière Kéops” - Kéops is a network of estate agencies being in the south of France (Herault). The integration of Google Maps is very well made and makes it possible t

We don’t often think of the Eurovision Song Contest having an effect on the world of international search but anyone who has watched the event will admit that the voting is notoriously political. It seemed no coincidence that the UK …

Rambler, the No.2 search engine in Russia with a 20% share in the market, have released their financial statement for 2005. As expected they have seen significant growth, as with most industry sectors in Russia the online advertising market has …

WordReference Verb Conjugator (Beta)

While looking for an appropriate spanish translation for “information retrieval”, I came across WordReference Verb Conjugator tool. It’s a great tool. It might be an old news but is new to me.

A search for “buscar” and “optimizar” …

KDDI announced the agreement with Google to incorporate Google’s search engine into its EZ Web Internet service for “au” mobile phones in July. This search service for both mobile phones and PCs, is the first of its kind in …

Internet.com and Girls.Lab announced the results of mobile site bookmarking survey with 1409 girls between 10 and 18 in Japan.

Here are some of the results:

Q: Do you know the bookmark function on your mobile phone?
- Yes, and have used it, …

Google Reader can now be placed in your pocket, your handbag, your backpack, or thrown from person to person in a game of “keep away”. We’ve just released a mobile-friendly interface for Google Reader. If you use the Google Personalized Homepage and have installed our Reader Homepage Module, it’ll automatically show up on your mobile homepage. Simply go to google.com on your mobile phone’s browser and click the link to “Personalized Home”. It

China Mobile, China’s largest cell phone carrier based on number of subscribers (260 million), and Google are in talks to create a mobile services search engine. China Mobile is seeking ways to offset declining revenues from voice services. No …

Blogging reaches top level government in Italy. Yesterday afternoon the new ministers were sworn into office - business as usual ? Not really if you consider that 6 ministers are active bloggers, in particular neo minister of communications Paolo Gentiloni.

As promised, we’ve introduced EFT in several new countries. Publishers located in New Zealand, Australia, Norway, and Poland can now have AdSense payments sent directly to their bank accounts while avoiding postal delays and check processing fees. If you need assistance signing up for EFT in one of these countries, please visit our Help Center.

When choosing colors for your Google ads, you might notice that the list of predesigned palettes just got a lot shorter. We recently decreased the number of predesigned palettes we offer to just six; three palettes have been renamed (Seaside, Shadow, and Blue Mix) and three more are brand new (Open Air, Graphite, and Ink).We made this change to streamline the choices, getting rid of a number of palettes that don’t typically perform well while als

JASK (Japan Affiliate Service Kyokai) was established on May 12th. They will exchange and provide the information and the services with affiliate service providers, including:

- increase the understanding of the affiliate programs
- monitor improper activities and exchange the information …

70 reporters from around the world witnessed the introduction of the 5500 Sport phone a new type of phone specially made for active people. Nokia has through the years used Iceland as a test market for phones and mobile phone …

Spurl.net, a Iceland based search engine company, was bought by Ja.is. Ja (means yes in Icelandic) owns and publishes both the online and the offline national telephone book and by this is most likely moving on the local search engine …

Google signed its first accord with VimpelCom, a Russian mobile phone company today, making the search engine available to users on their handsets.

“This partnership is very exciting. We are making more of a commitment to Russia,” Dennis Woodside, Google’s director …

We are excited to finally release Google Web Toolkit to the world today. We are going to use this blog to publish official updates, GWT tips and tricks, and notify the GWT developer community of new releases. The easiest way to be notified of changes to GWT is to subscribe to our Atom feed.
If you are at JavaOne, make sure you come see our tech lead, Bruce Johnson, in his session on GWT tomorrow, May 17, at 12:15 pm in the Moscone Center Gatewa

Baidu, China’s leading search engine, launched a censored version of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The website Baike.Baidu.com is also referred to as “Baidupedia”. Late last year China blocked all access to Wikipedia.

Registered users can contribute but Baidu also …

What do you do when you’re not working?Not working? I’m not sure I understand the question… Just kidding–I don’t work that much. I’m usually playing guitar with my rock band, the Swamees, or my heavy-metal side project, the Gibbous Moon. (I’ve been assured that shamelessly self-promoting my band website is okay, though I guess I could be more discrete and rely strictly on the power of suggestion.)When I’m not rocking out, I like riding my moto

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has announced the number of Blog and SNS registrations as of March 31, 2006. The numbers are the total memberships of 53 blog companies and 21 SNS companies.

* Blog membership: 8680,000
* …

I was running a reverse IP check to see how many and what sites where hosted at the same server/IP as my client. While I was doing that I desited to check how Google was storing their sites, how many …

Travellers can now connect to the Internet, talk on GSM’s and use GPRS while on the glaciers, tried and tested on the top of Snaefellsjokull glacier the GSM connection was fine (Snaefellsjokull glacier is where the Jules Verns story Journey …

MARS FLAG is a search engine made in Japan, which shows the search results with web page images. It started to run the beta version in March 2005, and officially opened on May 8th.

They also started to provide …

According to “The Face of the Web”, which was published by a market researcher Ipso Insight, Japan remains the world’s No.1 Internet based economy with about 9 in 10 said to have used the Internet in the past 30 days, …

Sharon Maguire expected that matching her Google ads to her site, dogbreedinfo.com, would give it a cleaner look and feel that her visitors would appreciate. What she didn’t expect was the large revenue increase spurred by her changes — AdSense revenue nearly doubled, to $650 per day.When generating her ad code, Maguire chose a white background and white borders to blend her ads more effectively into her site’s overall color scheme. “Originally

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The number of bloggers in China is expected to reach 60 million by the end of the year and 100 million in 2007 according to a report on China’s media industry by the prestigious Qinghua University. China …

Information week is carrying the news that Nortel and Golden Telecom, a large Russian Internet service provider, are teaming up to build a large Wi-Fi mesh network in Moscow.

The companies said that the network will provide access to about …

Reader and the Google Personalized Homepage have always been kindred spirits, seeing as both deal with feeds (and the teams sit 10 feet apart). We’re therefore very happy to announce that your Reader reading list (or any label of your choosing) can now be added as a module to the homepage. To use it, simply click on the “Add it now” button below (you’ll have to be signed into your Google Account). Here’s what it looks like: Like the regular

The Internet Usage in Japan (by Net Ratings) reports that more than 2 million Japanese had accessed to “You Tube” even though the site is in English.

The number of Japanese users who access to “You Tube” has been rapidly increasing …