Official Google Blog: January 2007

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Google Mini turns 2

January 30, 2007

Posted by Ryan Pollock, Product Marketing ManagerOur blue boxGoogle AnalyticsGoogle SitemapsGoogle Enterprise blog

Our Seattle-Beijing collaboration

January 30, 2007

Posted by Feng Hu, Software Engineerpan-Pacific collaborationUpdate:YouTube

Find and compare local businesses

January 29, 2007

Posted by Ronojoy Chakrabarti, Product Manager

Find the location of and driving directions to the Googleplex (or any specific address).

Find and compare Mexican restaurants in Pasadena, CA

Get directions to and read reviews about a local eatery in Pittsburgh.

Find movie showtimes for films that are playing in your neighborhood.

SMS on orkut

January 29, 2007

Posted by Pedram Keyani, Software Engineerorkutscrap

New sunrise layer on Google Earth

January 29, 2007

Posted by Clint Stinchcomb, EVP & GM, HDTV & New Media, Discovery Networks U.S.Google EarthSunrise Earth

Fun with robotics

January 26, 2007

Posted by Glenn Trewitt and Albert Bodenhamer, Software Engineers

^®FLL^® Nano QuestfunWorld FLL FestivalPlaying@LearningFIRST Vex Challenge^®a competition for you.

Controlling how search engines access and index your website

January 26, 2007

Next time...
Coming soon: a post detailing the use of robots and metatags, and another on specific examples for common cases.

Update: Added a sentence to paragraph 9 on access-control policies.

Posted by Dan Crow, Product Managerrobots.txtrobots.txtrobots.txtrobots.txtWhat does robots.txt do?The web is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you might think it's a lot of work maintaining your website, but that's just peanuts to the whole web. (with profound apologies to Douglas Adams)robots.txtrobots.txtrobots.txtFine-grained controlrobots.txtMETAMETArobots.txtMETAA simple examplerobots.txt

User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /logs/

User-Agentrobots.txtDisallowlogs logsPreventing access to a fileMETA

<html>
<head>
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">
...

METArobots.txtLearn morehttp://www.robotstxt.orgGoogle's Webmaster help center, which contains lots of helpful information, including:

How to create a robots.txt file

Descriptions of each user-agent that Google uses

How to use pattern matching

How often we recrawl your robots.txt file

webmaster blog

Using robots.txt files

All about Googlebot

There is also a useful list of the bots used by the major search engines: http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active/html/index.html Next time...Update:

New life for network equipment

January 26, 2007

Posted by Urs Hoelzle, Senior VP, OperationsNetwork Startup Resource CenterUniversity of Oregonaccomplishments

is routers, switches and wireless equipment. In many cases, a single, relatively inexpensive piece of hardware is the critical factor preventing a network from becoming operational, but in developing areas, networking hardware can be difficult or prohibitively expensive to obtain. We're pleased to support the NSRC by donating our decommissioned networking hardware. Thus far, we've heard that some of our retired switches have been sent to universities across Africa and in Guyana and Thailand. More will be shipping out in the coming months to universities and research institutes in, among others, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Afghanistan and Vietnam.

If your company would like to give financial assistance or hardware, or if you want to look into volunteering, please get in touch. It will truly help connect the world.

Show us your university campus in 3D

January 25, 2007

Posted by Allyson McDuffie, Google SketchUp Education Program CoordinatorBuild Your Campus in 3D CompetitionGoogle SketchUpGoogle Earthcompetition website3D WarehouseWalt Disney ImagineeringElectronic ArtsCommunication Arts Inc.Skidmore, Owings & MerrillGreen Mountain Geographics LTDHKS Architects, Inc.

A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube

January 25, 2007

Posted by Salar Kamangar, Vice President, Product Managementofficially closed our acquisitionGoogle VideoYouTubeon the AdSense blog

Let's get together

January 23, 2007

Posted by Griff Hazen, Software EngineerGoogle GroupsTake a tour to learn more.And if you're wondering how you might use a group, how about:

coordinating your class reunion (or make it private for a family reunion)

learning about Greenhouse Hydroponics and participate in discussions

finding the group you're looking for, or create one of your own

We hope you enjoy Google Groups; we really enjoy working on it, and it's been very rewarding to see all the useful things you and so many others have done with it.

Our New York speaker series

January 23, 2007

Posted by Marcus Mitchell, Engineering Director, Google New YorkGoogle New YorkAdam Bosworthjoin us

Don't miss your opportunity to be part of Google's first Code Jam Latin America!

January 17, 2007

Posted by Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Engineering Site Director

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UNCF/Google Scholarship

January 16, 2007

Posted by Aneto Okonkwo, Associate Product Managerlearned in Octoberscholarship programless than four percent

Olaniyi Bajulaiye, Benedict College

Desmond Baldwin, Morehouse College

Keitha Griffin, Alabama A&M University

Jennifer Hairston, Wilberforce University

Keith Morren, Florida Memorial University

Derrick Nnaji, Prairie View A&M University

Lawrence Secrease, Florida A&M University

Shantavious Williams, Alabama A&M University

Real-time quotes for free

January 11, 2007

Posted by Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group Product ManagerdelayedSECNew York Stock ExchangeNetCoalitionWe have encouraged the SECrecent effortsproposalGoogle FinancePersonalized GoogleMobileGoogle.comset up your portfolio

We made the list

January 9, 2007

Posted by Adam Redlich, Lead Recruiter, Engineeringthe best company

Want to join me?

Super models wanted

January 9, 2007

Posted by John Hanke, Director, Google Earth & MapsGoogle SketchUp3D WarehouseGoogle EarthHere are the guidelines for building "super" modelsUpdate:

A field trip to Google

January 6, 2007

Posted by Jenna Warman[We often host visitors in Google offices. Just recently, as part of a Chamber of Commerce program, a group of Seattle-area high school students visited our Kirkland office. The point of such visits is to inspire teens to think about working in technology some day. Here's a firsthand report from Jenna Warman, a student at Lake Washington High School.Google campus located in KirklandDoodles

Dr. Bonnie Dunbar

Kirkland calling

January 3, 2007

Posted by Narayanan Shivakumar, Director, Seattle-Kirkland R&D CenterKirkland, WashingtonHere's a summaryNorthwest outpost

Latin American Code Jam opens

January 3, 2007

Posted by Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Engineering Site DirectorGoogle Code Jam Latin AmericaBelo Horizonte

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Google Mini turns 2

Our Seattle-Beijing collaboration

Find and compare local businesses

SMS on orkut

New sunrise layer on Google Earth

Fun with robotics

Controlling how search engines access and index your website

New life for network equipment

Show us your university campus in 3D

A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube

Let's get together

Our New York speaker series

Don't miss your opportunity to be part of Google's first Code Jam Latin America!

UNCF/Google Scholarship

Real-time quotes for free

We made the list

Super models wanted

A field trip to Google

Kirkland calling

Latin American Code Jam opens

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