Everyone. Please add sensible canonicals.
- Especially if you have a 'enable SSL' bit.
- or if you have content that spans multiple domains
- or if you respond to /foo and /foo/ without a 301 redirect on one of them.
I've noticed two canonicalization issues (project hosting and sites) in the past few days. I'm guessing there are many more out there..
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394&ctx=plusone
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Anyone looked into this? Happy to see alternates, but I am somewhat concerned about this quote:
_...there seemed to be little interest from Google in changing and extending GPB to address the performance related issues._
http://blog.blinkprotocol.org/2013/01/blink-compared-to-google-protocol.html
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Begone vile techcrunch transparent image seen in too many shares..
See http://b/5827537 for more detail and to lament that this fix took a whole year..
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5833776330904352769/5833776339214430850
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*Suggest* -- _it's not just for search queries_
Is there a "Google Cookbook" resource for our customers on how best to use our plethora of services given a scenario?
The specific example I have is "opening a new restaurant". Here's some of the steps I can see that we might want to suggest.
* -Sign up for a MapMaker account, add your Restaurant.-
http://mapmaker.google.com/
Oops, found out you can add your listing here instead:
http://www.google.com/places/
* _.....wait for review of your edits...._ * Do not create a Google+ profile (yet) despite what you read at:
http://www.google.com/+/business/
* Consider Apps For Your Domain http://deployment.googleapps.com/Home/small-business
* Create a website for your business using Google Sites
(Or maybe Google Drive? Or just host it)
* Sign up for Webmaster Tools.
https://www.google.com/webmaster/tools/
- Verify website ownership via DNS or 'magic' file.
- Set your geographic target.
- Set up sitelinks for directions/menus
- more?
* Sign up for AdWords. Set your timezone forever and ever:
https://www.google.com/adwords
* Sign up for Google Analytics
https://www.google.com/analytics
* Sign up for Blogger, and create a blog.
https://blogger.com/
* Add the following to your website
- Google Analytics
- plusone/share buttons
https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/
* Phew, -MapMaker- Google Local listing approved weeks later!
* Go to the Google+ Places page, and submit request for verification.
* _.....wait for postcard to arrive in the mail....._
* Start posting to twitter/facebook/tumblr/yelp in frustration.
* Get Zagat rated:
http://www.zagat.com/restaurant-owners
email to [email protected]
[??? Is this obsolete information?]
* Hooray! My business verification postcard has arrived.
* Verify my business! Create my plus page linked to my Places page.
* [delete any plus pages you may have created before this point. so sorry!]
* Connect Plus page to my website
http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1713826
- add magic <link.. tag> or a brand badge widget to verify.
* Add my Opentable link.
* Get interior street view for my business
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/businessphotos/
* Add Blog/Social Networking links to my Plus page for authorship.
* Upload photos to my Plus Page.
* Get Followers for my Page and have them write reviews.
* Sign up for Google Offers
https://www.google.com/offers/business/
* Start an Adwords campaign.
* Post regularly to the PlusPage by setting a reminder email.
After poking around gathering these links it really makes you realize that our Org Chart is on display and how painful this is for users that just want to get things done. I also realize that we've made great progress in unifying many services.
That said, there's lots that could be done. Can we suggest the next step to a user? Can we remove the speed bumps between products. Can we infer customer intent? ("It looks like you're opening a restaurant, you might want to do A, B, C next.)
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IDF needed: *Method of generating culturally non-offensive hash numbers.*
Requesting "Satan's number" removal from my profile!!
Jacob Ryan Hughes Jan 10 08:49PM -0800
I am requesting an *immediate* URL number sequence change!! The pattern in
my profile's number sequence has the following 3 in a row 6s, symbolizing
"Satan's number" in the Bible. It wasn't until today (01/10/2013) that I
realized that the number sequence had the following "symbol". I will even
pay for a shorter URL for the inconvenience! Please help me resolve this
issue!!
Here is my profile
https://plus.google.com/109134666819281103796/about
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Potential Aspen partner for using people.list APIs
https://plus.google.com/113394999772355498767/posts/NsejHpeuYj9
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Anyone have a copy of this lying around? If not I'll expense a copy (or two).
A good chunk of it is in Google Books, but would like to read the rest of it.
http://books.google.com/books?id=2chSmLzClXgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&am...
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The secret truth -- the ITU wants deep packet inspection to fix their Content-Type charset headers..
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5823819709617866049/5823819712652075282
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*Hidden Riches!*
From java-libraries-dev
ImmutableMultimap has an inverse() method, so it's really also ImmutbaleBiMultimap.
http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableMultimap.h...
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Count -all- more of the +1s !!!
And we can even beat twitter when the article isn't being reposted by tons of bots, like this:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/state_web_winter_2012
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5823404156012784257/5823404159481790626
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Pennies from Verizon prepaid 3G bandwith. I find it fun to see how badly people implement their payment systems. Worried a little bit that end-users won't.
[note: 1st attempt was with wrong zip code]
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5818499384700596113/5818499381876482594
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Anyone work with reverbnation? Would be nice to get them supporting Google+
http://www.reverbnation.com/band-promotion/social_sync
They're probably already using our APIs since they target Youtube. They also have one of the larger mappings of social media links I've seen.
http://www.reverbnation.com/band-promotion/social_sync
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What's the state of the art for publishing bloom filters in these parts?
_Problem_: need a way to identify if a URL is a Google+ plus page without sending an RPC all the time. It's acceptable if recent plus pages are not included.
There are any number of MRs that iterate over the all gaia-space that could compute this and put it someplace.
Anyone with good examples of this in practice?
Is there a super-secret bloom filter publishing service that I'm not aware of (and if not, maybe there should be?)
[Obviously once I have the persisted bloom filter then I can play around with doing incremental updates from a subscriber to a goops feed and all that.]
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Decided to dig deep in my mail archives to see what my first contact was with Google-folk after reading @116509592231017933209 post.
Earliest was search integration on redhat.com (early 2000), back then http://redhat.google.com was a real thing.
Lots of people moved on including Ray Sidney, Samir Kothari, Harry Cheung, Howard Jacobson, Rachael Kutras...
The two still here are @112983450704233067709 and @111898143234484272777
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Is there a bad OWNERS MR that someone pays attention to? Seeing a few errors like this:
WARNING: file /google/src/files/38806164/depot/google3/googledata/html/hosted/OWNERS references non-existent file /google/src/files/38806164/depot/html/external_content/gstatic/apps/cpanel/resources/OWNERS
*dasher folks:* can you fix?
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I sense a weekend project combining:
http://deps/unused
and
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/rosie/janitor-tools#TOC-terminator
Now if I could only travel back in time to tell people to not write that unused code in the first place.... or maybe that's a Google-X project?
http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Rosie
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Teach Me How to -Dougie- Viral Loop.
What you see here is a work of art for making viral loops.
The page leading up to this asked me to _confirm_ that someone had endorsed me. I accepted the endorsement (adding it to my profile).
This page uses some decent semantic analysis to generate 'Skills you might Endorse', and a one-click way to generate a 4x viral loop (not to mention all the other mechanisms via 'see more' and loading up more endorsements.
Performing actions here also help improve the algorithms. If one person tags a user with a skill then you can present the same tag once added to the profile to other users and have a high likelihood of success.
And at the end of the day LinkedIn will have a much better way of finding strong candidates with specific skills; users will have more profile content, etc etc.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5795440289929294673/5795440287701076610
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jdk8 uses :: to represent class methods? I'm getting perl flashbacks already!
Also a neat deck on Guava below (where I found out about the jdk8 syntax)
http://gdg-krakow.github.com/google-io-ext-2012-guava/#/13
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Seems like we could rewrite urls in the form of:
http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=...&srcURL=...&snippet=....
as
https://plus.google.com/share?url=...
Right now all you get is:
_We're sorry - Google Reader no longer supports the "Note in Reader" bookmarklet._
Where should I file this bug? Seems like it could be a simple GFE redirect of some sort..
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Anyone else seeing weird proxy issues with Chrome Dev Channel? On net-internals I see this:
Effective settings
Use DIRECT connections.
Source: SYSTEM
Original settings
PAC script: https://proxyconfig.corp.google.com/wpad.dat
Source: SYSTEM
Weird.
https://proxyconfig.corp.google.com/wpad.dat
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Looks like our facebook monitor is better than their own internal systems. Either that or they don't canary :/
Oh and I love graphs with no y-axis units or labels.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5782634724883676961/5782634729491972946
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multiply.com is shutting down their social network. Anyone want to look into ways of bulk importing these folks?
According to igraph we track around 150k multiply.com profiles, so it may not be a big needle mover. However it might be worth it for a PR win. (Or not... if the lede is that Google+ is killing smaller social networks..)
The least we could do is offer to import all the photos into G+
http://multiply.multiply.com/notes/item/5
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Google is a tourist destination -- at least for my in-laws. They all want to go -- two retirees and a middle age school teacher/poet. I guess I forget that people have this fascination with what we do.
Anyone considered opening _Googleworld_ or _Googleland_?
Figure I'll give them the drive around followed by a walk through 43 and lunch. Any other suggestions?
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Can we run an MR against the calendar database that relocates all meetings with '1:1' in the title to the smallest conference room less < 20m from the existing one?
Bonus points if we can reshuffle and repack all meetings into the appropriately sized conference room. (yeah, yeah, I know that's NP-hard, but still, we're Google...)
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When did we start removing the little profile thumbnails from personal search results? I saw this a while back but just assumed I was in some latency experiment...
I've been telling sites that XFN and such are a way for them to "stand out in search" because of the profile photo annotations.
Should we be pushing harder for sites to adopt authorship? Also why are Don Dodge and Jeff Reine not showing up as authors in the results below? Weird....
Would appreciate any clarification.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5763945832968580897/5763945832521104850
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Okay Googlers -- if you were unhappy that Events was a closed dogfood you have your chance to participate in the most open dogfood we've ever done.
Here's some simple things you can do:
- Are you using proper schema.org markup? Are your comments http://schema.org/Comment? Are your reviews http://schema.org/Review?
- Do you have a user history for your service? Investigate if it's possible to send these moments to frame service. I can connect you with the right people.
- Do you request OAuth scopes for your api-based service? Consider using plus.moments.write to send us active and passive user activity.
Docs are below, feedback will be gladly taken (and I just might send you some Google+ schwag as a token of appreciation)
http://developers.google.com/+/history/
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@103803434511913844892 @102352541062683971307
Ade shared this to a limited audience so I can't plus you into the original post...
Looks like you guys recently turned this service down (is it because of igraph changes?)
http://www.stateofsearch.com/google-social-circle-data/
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Tired of being asked to check-in to "West Oakland Mental Health" instead of the Parking Lot to pick up the Google Shuttle. Used Mapmaker to edit, but am seeing the bug described in here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-mapmaker/fBC2A3NTDIE
Click on the link below if you're on MapMaker so we can get this approved.
http://www.google.com/mapmaker?iwloc=0_0&gw=55&editids=3wbiR5KD00huKtMucX&ll=37.803086,-...
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Don't feel soooo bad about our authsub token page now that I've seen https://consent.live.com/
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5756577601909874385/5756577603241283394
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I suppose it would be a bad idea to comment publicly on this.
All I want to say is that you just need to use the report adsense abuse form:
https://support.google.com/adsense/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=violation_report&rd=2
I had the older version of this form bookmarked when I was fending off Typepad spammers back in the day.
http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emily-white-at-npr-all-songs-considered/
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One of these things doesn't belong...
Looks like they just added XFN markup as they're showing up in my reports now.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5755443007134597745/5755443005457489810
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Do you have a way to file bugs for your product? Help Googlers find that secret go link or buganizer category by adding your project here:
https://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhoDoIBug
And the next time you want to rant on G+ about the failings of this or that product make sure you head over to http://go/WhoDoIBug and file a bug first.
#gplusbuganizer
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100 import sources? How about 200 import sources!
Help us dogfood the new webmail contact importer and email address verifier by following the instructions below:
http://goto.google.com/tryWebmailImport
http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Growth-Traction/What-are-some-decisions-taken-by-the-Growth-team-at-Fa...
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Am I the only one seeing 'spinners' on all my Google Docs tabs? (this is on Chrome Dev channel-mac)
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5740697516362579457/5740697514928325506
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I was pondering about how pop music is tuned for mp3 dynamic range this morning and came up with an idea:
Google Play Musicgram
Just imagine:
- AM Radio effect for all your Sinatra songs.
- See what Elvis would sound like autotuned.
- "Chipmunk" Barry White. (or chipmunk Cyndy Lauper and see if your dog can hear it..)
- RPM 33,45,78 (for those that remember such things.)
- Def setting (adds random DJ scratching)
Or we standardize something like this as "html5 audio transforms".
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I hope someone is already de-FUDing this...
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/how-far-does-google-drives-terms-go-in-owning-your-files/75228
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I think there's some interesting research one could do on the virality of the photo you see below.
The sad fact is that my wife found this photo in her twitter feed because WIlliam Gibson tweeted a link to the flickr page. I searched for his name on Google+ and found him and was the first reshare, after that it spread quite nicely.
I suspect there's similar spread on Facebook, twitter retweets, flickr and other networks.
In any case I'm really enjoying following the ripples for this post and watching it spread throughout G+.
https://plus.google.com/116425265660840849345/posts
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I think there's some interesting research one could do on the virality of the photo you see below.
The sad fact is that my wife found this photo in her twitter feed because WIlliam Gibson tweeted a link to the flickr page. I searched for his name on Google+ and found him and was the first reshare, after that it spread quite nicely.
I suspect there's similar spread on Facebook, twitter retweets, flickr and other networks.
In any case I'm really enjoying following the ripples for this post and watching it spread throughout G+.
https://plus.google.com/116425265660840849345/posts
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Resharing internally...
Do you get depressed when you view-source?
Recently I've been doing this a bit for authorship and thought it might be fun to do it in a more general public way. Anyone interested in being a celebrity judge?
https://plus.google.com/117259934788907243749/posts/A6hCjzRdzBD
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@115428577457526581719 any chance that Wil could use the account migrator tool we promised people back when? Has anyone contacted him?
Also this might be controversial, but we should have a proactive VIP queue for people like Wil. It worked well at LinkedIn (paying customers went to the front of the line). hi5 did it too (we had CS reps that killed off spam on the most popular profiles). And even Six Apart had business class blogs.
https://plus.google.com/108176814619778619437/posts/Mm1ppkUz5zu
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Take your Security vitamins!
Security reviews may seem unpleasant, but they're really important to defend our users against the bad folks out there and just plain unintentional sloppiness.
I have to commend the team, their diligence revealed some hair raising issues in a SaaS partner that could have had disastrous consequences for us and all of said partner's customers.
[image CC BY-NC-SA from http://www.flickr.com/photos/teeves/]
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5717225082897424049/5717225079236654674
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It's always interesting to bootstrap your friends on G+. In this case I'm helping a DJ/Producer get onboard. He wanted to get his Youtube account linked which has all his videos. (which is a separate Gaia)
First had to get him on multilogin (and have him chose different profile photos so he didn't get confused.)
Then guided him over chat on adding links to his G+ profile... which resulted in the following..
Hopefully getting him into a Hangout goes better.
(Oh and if you like synth-pop ala pre-industrial ministry check him out:
https://plus.google.com/117422414454098030528
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5716989080486628033/5716989083951888418
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It makes me sad when journalists basically state that "Google sells your information".
That said -- there was some interesting discussion in this piece, especially the question "when does targeting become discrimination?". I'd like to think that our algorithms are better than that. However advertisers will often choose their audience based on demographic data that may not actually work...
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/22/147189154/how-companies-are-defining-your-worth-online
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