China’s online advertising market reached RMB 3.23 billion in 2005, ($40 millionUSD) and is expected to reach RMB 4.39 billion ($55 million USD) in 2006 according to Analysys International. Search engine advertising is fueling this growth. Baidu, Sina, Sohu, …

It’s hard to believe the month is already over. It seems like just yesterday when Mike Gutner first announced that August was Optimization Month. Since then, members of the AdSense optimization team and Googlers representing other products have shared their findings and best practices for how to optimize your AdSense earnings. We hope you’ve come through the month with an arsenal of insightful tips and tricks for optimizing not only your AdSense

By Cynthia Kwon, Strategic Partner Development (and self-proclaimed fashionista)With the new fall wardrobe hitting the stores, I decided it was time to clear my closet to make room for the latest fashions. After choosing a few items that I just could not part with, I was left with a pile of clothes, shoes, and purses, most of which I had only worn a few times

Posted by Bryan Woodward, User Support Coordinator

It’s time to update your official Google Calendar gadget. Due to popular demand, it now supports multiple calendars from your Google Calendar service. It will also color-code your scheduled events using the same colors you’ve set in your main Calendar preferences

If you’ve taken the time to make changes to your site over the past month, it’s important to monitor their effects. Here are my top three tips to ensure you make the most of measuring your results and gain a deeper understanding of what’s happening with AdSense on your site.1. Get accustomed to custom channels.The single most effective way I’ve found for publishers to measure their results is by using custom channels. Custom channels are the idea

Posted by Joe Blackmon, Marketing Manager, Magazines.com Inc.Our goal at Magazines.com is to provide consumers with savings on a wide assortment of magazine subscriptions while providing excellent customer service. We carry over 1,500 magazine subscription offers at significant savings off newsstand prices, and even more important, we back up every sale with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.We’re excited about Google Checkout because it provides consumers with a convenient, safe, and quality platform through which to shop

The “back to school” buzz is in the air, and just as it was key to organize your papers in middle school using your trusty Trapper Keeper, it’s important to manage your ads using your AdSense data. Doing so lets you to see the effectiveness of the different implementations you’ve tested out this month and make decisions about next steps. So let’s flash back to the good old days and apply what we learned in middle school.Vocabulary: Unde

Last week my son asked me if I could show him how to add some videos to his music review blog. Instead of just putting one video on the blog, I decided that it would be sort of fun to have 100+ videos directly accessible from any blog or web page.

The result of this effort is a Video Search solution. Like the Mapsearch solution, this is something you can use as-is or copy and enhance to suit your needs.

We tried to make this easy to use on any

Times have got harder for the online gambling industry in Russia as Rambler, the No.2 search engine has decided to stop accepting PPC advertising for the gambling/poker sector. Earlier this year I reported on the new law introduced to restrict …

We have been hard at work on Windows Live Search to create some new features that we hope our customers will love.  As anyone who works on a service knows – the only real way to know if you’re successful is to run a test, and see what people think.

Well, that’s just what we’re in the process of doing

So you’ve optimized your pages and implemented our best practices. Now what? It’s time to take a look at your results and decide where to go from here. To close out Optimization Month, this week we’ll share tips on how to monitor the performance of your account, how to evaluate your results — and how to figure out what to do next. Now that you’ve implemented some of our optimization tips and best practices, hopefully your revenue is on t

Posted by Martin Omander, Technical Account ManagerThey say that good things come to those who wait. Well, the wait is over for the .NET sample code for Checkout integration. Last Tuesday, August 22nd, we published the code in the sample code area of the Developer’s Center.If you use Visual Studio to build your web UI, you can drag-and-drop the Google Checkout button into your page, add six lines of code, and start posting test orders to Google

I’ve just noticed a new button in Gmail. When you mouse over a person in your contact list, a little “details” box pops up. Well, right beside the Email and Chat buttons, there’s now a Call button. The button is enabled if you are also signed into Google Talk. Clicking on the button places a call to the contact using Google Talk. Cool beans.

By Michael Adelberg, Strategic Partner DevelopmentOne of the most satisfying parts of what we do is work with Google’s content partners, because that’s a win-win situation. Let me explain.Google Base offers tremendous value for content providers large and small. Before Google Base, there was simple web crawling which involved indexing the content on a website

Google Brazil presented this week its Click to Call system to a selected group of marketers.

Launch is scheduled for early September.

By Alison Bjerke, Online Operations CoordinatorSometimes we get emails from Google users who have found great ways to use Google Base along with other Google tools and services. Ryan, from TropicalYarns.com has taken advantage of AdSense, Google Base, Checkout, Analytics, AdWords, and more to turn his small business around.

Three big cheers for the GWT community!
The posts on the GWT developer forum have been amazing. The posts are interesting technically, and it’s great to see everyone supporting each other so courteously.
The great discussions (and, of course, the occasional bug reports about GWT 1.1.0 motivated us to do an update as fast as we could, so
we’ve been working extra hard the last couple weeks to turn around another update quickly, and we’re happy

Search friends,

This will be my first blog at Multilingual Search and I am really happy to have join this brilliant blog team.
Funny enough my first blog will give you news about Denmark, although I am originally Swedish.. but …

According to this news story, Gmail has been opened up for anyone who speaks Japanese.

Google Inc., the world’s biggest Internet search engine, said on Wednesday it is opening the Japanese-language version of its email service to anyone who wants to sign up.

Gmail is offered in over 40 languages, but to date, Google has only opened the Australian, New Zealand and now the Japanese versions for open registration.

Even though there are lots of people with Gmail invites to spare, this move will greatly increase Gmail’s user base.

Google’s Gmail account is now available for general public without an invitation in Japan.
Currently, Google is the default search engine on mobile “au” through the tie-up with KDDI. Gmail may become “au”’s mobile mailer soon???

Gmail is also available …

“Obon” (Aug 10-16) is one of the biggest holiday season in Japan. More and more people use Internet to obtain leisure related information such as travel booking, attraction, and weather. On the other hand, people are busy with …

Reuters reports that the Dutch farmer dating site (supported by the FNV Union) has lost their court case in Amsterdam.

The judge ruled that the keywords (in broadmatching) “farm” and “date” were too general. The combination (Farm-date, Farmdate etc.) however …

So if someone sends you an mp3 attached to an email, you can now play it right from within Gmail without downloading it. The interface looks kind of similar to the Google Video interface and is made in flash as well. They just keep adding stuff don’t they? If you get an mp3, just click the little play link next to the attachment and the player window will pop up. Pretty nifty.

We’re looking for sample web apps that make use of the Google AJAX Search API. If you’re interested in submitting your site, please send an email to code-submission@google.com with the following info:

your name
name of the web app
its URL
URL for a 129×110 JPG or PNG thumbnail
list of APIs used
suggested description

For example:
Mark L.
Official Google Map Search Gadget
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=mapsearch.xml
http

Google Book Search was launched this week in Brazil. Its the first version targeting South America. The publishers already involved are: Senac, Callis, Boitempo, Planeta, Grupo Oceano, UIA, Editorial Norma, Random House Mondadori, Longseller, Iteso e Editora Pedagógica e …

Posted by Lanny Morton, CEO, SportsCloseouts.comAt SportsCloseouts.com we specialize in selling name-brand sporting goods at steep discounts. We decided to offer Google Checkout because we wanted to provide our customers with a more convenient checkout process.In addition to improving our customers’ shopping experience, Google Checkout has helped us generate more sales and lower costs

Posted by Sandra Huang, Business Product ManagerWe know merchants want fast, simple process for integrating Google Checkout with their websites, and one of the easiest ways to get integrated with Checkout is through one of our many e-commerce provider partners. We’re committed to giving merchants a wide range of these providers to choose from, which is why there’s a new incentive program that gives existing “storefront solution” providers even stronger incentives to integrate their platforms with Google Checkout

Posted by Scot Wingo, CEO, ChannelAdvisorAt ChannelAdvisor, we provide software and services that empower online retailers to manage search (paid and natural), comparison shopping engines and online marketplaces as online sales channels. We work with retailers of all sizes, from the very large to the very small

If a tree falls in the forest and no one can hear it, does it make a sound? Even more perplexing: if you have a great, content-rich website and nobody visits it, is the content useful? Rather than debate this, I’d like to share with you five ways that Google webmaster tools can help you drive more users to your site and improve the visibility of the site content you’ve worked so hard to create.1. Submit all of your pages to the Google index – f

By Matthias Zenger, Software EngineerToday we’re releasing the Google Base data API with which you can write applications that dynamically interact with Google Base. You can upload, edit and delete items, as well as query data to create mash-ups combining Google Base content with other services. It’s a ReST-full API, based on the GData protocol.Check out the demo to see the possible uses, and to get you started in building your own client application

The newspapers in Australia are covering a developing story about laws being started to regulate adult content for mobile phones.

Though not strictly search, this restriction can have consequences to other industries on the web. Censorship needs to be regulated more …

Posted by Dror Shimshowitz, Product Marketing ManagerSummer’s almost over, which means it’s time to send the kids (or yourself) back to school. Here at Google Checkout , making shopping easier is our prime directive, so we’re now featuring dorm furniture, backpacks, tech gear and numerous other products for academia. And to ease your way into back-to-school shopping, we’re also offering $10 off every purchase of $30 or more at these participating stores throughout August. So students everywhere — start your shopping engines.

:Drive in a Ferrari through the streets of Paris - A while back (perhaps even a year ago) I made mention of a map that was created using Google Maps of the 1978 short film, “Rendezvous” set in Paris. The map has been taken a step further on bhendrix.com where the film is played in a small Google Video window, while below the route is drawn for you as the film progresses. Switch to satellite mode and you can follow along all the twists and turns t

There are so many great tools, how-tos and examples out on the web and in the blogosphere for creating and enhancing Google Maps mashups. Here is my eighth roundup of these examples that I’ve found over the past several weeks.. New Google Maps Creation Tools: Fly a plane over your hometown - Make your own Google Maps flight sim with Goggles! StickyMap.com - Wiki style user annotation Mapicurious - Create your own maps Do-it-Yo

By Jean Tessier, Google Base EngineerWe’re pleased to offer Google Base providers more information on how your items are faring. For example, you might want to know how often they are part of search results (”impressions”), and how frequently people are clicking on them (”clicks”). Now you can find the answers on your “My items” page.We’ve added three new columns on the items dashboard: impressions, clicks, and page views

I hope this week you’ve discovered a new feature or learned how to improve your use in a way that will benefit your site and your earnings. Today I’m going to share my top 3 tips for getting the most out of AdSense.As a bonus, my advice will also help you climb the social ladder at your school or workplace. Prepare to grow your revenue…and your popularity.1. Be friendly with everyone – If you want to be more popular in school, you can’t o

Posted by Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing Manager

Starting today, Google Desktop 4 is coming out of beta in 26 languages (including Romanian!); a Japanese version is now available in beta too. It’s easier than ever to search and personalize your computer no matter what language you speak. In version 4, we’ve aimed to improve Desktop’s performance and have added a few features you’ve asked for:

Easier to add international gadgets - Use the new Add/Remove gadgets interface to easily find gadgets in other languages; choose the language you want in the top right corner

Configurable Taskbar “gadgets” button - Just click the arrow to the right of the Google Desktop “gadgets” button, and hover over “Taskbar Button” to change the display - with text, or without, or remove it altogether

Change the Sidebar font size - Cick the “Options” button located at the top of the Sidebar, and hover over “Font Size” to change the setting
The Google Desktop Gadget Designer is now available in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, and can be downloaded as part of the Google Desktop SDK

Read/Write Web has issued a new report on web 2.0 applications in Spain

One thing that’s been on our list for a while now is changing the current UI for switching between one search result, more search results, and all search results. The new treatment uses three buttons that let you quickly select one, more, or all search results. Each button has “tool tip” style text that shows up on hover to help everyone learn the meaning of the buttons (note the tool tips are in English, but are in the localization queue).

We’

For today’s optimization tip, I’d like to focus on a site targeting feature: Onsite Advertiser Sign-up. This enables advertisers to quickly and easily target cost-per-impression (CPM) ads specifically to your site, from your site.As a publisher, you’ll be automatically opted in to Onsite Advertiser Sign-up. You can also customize the landing page advertisers will see when they click on the ‘Advertise on this site’ link within your ad units