Google reaches out to developers
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(InfoWorld) - Valentine's Day is months away, but Google displayed its ardor for developers by delivering to them this week a programming equivalent of a box of chocolates and a dozen red roses. With several new and upgraded programming tools, Google continued it courtship of external developers, a group it considers key for the successful adoption of its online services. The new toolsÂ make it easier for developers to access functions in Google's search engines, Base repository of product listings and lightweight 'gadget' Web applications. Google also introduced aÂ search engine tuned to find publicly available source code. Despite its size and might, Google believes that it benefits greatly from allowing programmers that aren't on its staff to build Web applications that use Google services and data. These can be hobbyists, professional programmers or corporate developers. These external coders often come up with applications, plug-ins and Web sites that extend and enhance Google services in ways that Google staffers don't think of. For example, Google Maps has become the core to myriad "mashups" from external developers. Other large Internet companies that woo external programmers with incentives and tools include Yahoo Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc., all for similar reasons behind Google's outreach efforts. This week, Google upgraded its AJAX Search API (application programming interface), designed to simplify adding a search box to a site and displaying results without taking users to a separate page. The API also allows the creation of applications that use Google search functions. Meanwhile, Google also created a new utility that automatically feeds inventory data to Google Base from stores hosted by Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc. and Yahoo Inc. on their respective e-commerce platforms. This new Store Connector is designed to save online store developers from manually entering their product listings into Google Base. Products listed on Google Base can appear in Google.com search results, with a link to the store selling them. Another overture toward external developers this week was the release of almost 1,300 'gadget' mini-applications for use in non-Google Web sites. Previously, they could only be used in Google sites. In addition to benefiting site publishers, the wider availability of these gadgets will provide more exposure for external developers who have created them. Finally, Google unveiled a new search engine intended to simplify the often tedious and time-consuming task ofÂ finding source code online. Unlike the Google.com Web search engine, this one crawls deeply into program files and returns snippets from lines of code with links to the file they belong to.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE  OAKLAND, Calif. - Internet search engine Ask.com has been chasing market leader Google Inc. for years without making much headway, but that hasn't deterred its engineers from trying to set the pace for innovation.
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InfoWorld - Google has begun inviting mobile Web site developers to display Google ads on their sites as part of a limited beta test.
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Stuart Herbert has posted about an opening with the company he works for in the UK that's looking for developers/managers/etc to help fill out their new expansion:   We're expanding the team in our Cardiff city-centre office (right in the heart of Europe's youngest capital city). We're looking for exceptional people with a proven track record in designing, delivering, and managing web-based solutions to large organisations. If you're a project manager, software developer, web site designer with XSL experience, or a systems administrator, maybe we have the right opportunity for your next role.   You can get all of the details about the company from from their website.
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Time is running out for prospective investors to submit their offers to buy shares of Google Inc, the Web's No. 1 search company.
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Google released an update to the SDK for Android, its mobile-phone operating system.It&#39;s the first update since the SDK was&#160;released in November&#160;and includes changes requested by developers.Google highlighted a couple of changes in the updated SDK, which was released Wednesday. It has a new user interface that the search giant said is still a work in progress.In addition, developers can now support additional file formats in the Android media player. Also, applications can translate an address into a coordinate and the reverse, in location-based programs.Developers haven&#39;t had much time to review the updates; few have posted reactions on the Android developers&#39; blog.Even though developers said that the first version of the SDK was thin, Android has managed to gain momentum. Four chipmakers, including Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, showed off&#160;prototypes that support Android&#160;this week in Barcelona at the annual Mobile World Congress.Still, Android faces competition from the established mobile operating systems as well as companies that have rallied behind LiMo, the consortium that is developing an open Linux mobile operating system. At the conference in Barcelona,&#160;LiMo announced 18 phones&#160;that comply with the operating-system specification that are either on the market already or will be.
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Google Inc.'s two founders said on Monday that their company is working on a personal search service, but they remained coy on plans for an instant messaging client or Web browser.
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Google is in the online ad-service business. Why does it lavish attention on software developers and open-source projects? Kicking offline Web apps into gear
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Recently , Google has released a new service for their search engine, the Google Code Search. It allows for developers to look through and locate items in public source code through the simple Google interface we're all used to. Fortunately, there's also a few security problems the site can help with as well, and Chris Shiflett shares some of these in his latest post.   Stephen de Vries sent an email to SecurityFocus's web application security mailing list earlier today to comment on the new Google Code Search: "Google's code search provides an easy way to find obvious software flaws in open source and example applications."   Chris talks about cross-site scripting problems, issues with the superglobals, SQL injection problems, and even a misplaced trust of the $_SERVER superglobal. Each of the items is linked to is search terms on the Code Search to make it easy to locate.
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Everyone in the PHP community (as is probably true all around the web) is buzzing about the new offering from Google - the Google Code Search. In the PHP community, the ones talking about it so far include:  Chris Shiflett's look at the security aspect of the search Ilia Alshanetsky's take on the search as it possibly being a hacker's good friend Pierre-Alain Joye's searches for macros and the term "virtual_file_ex" Harry Fuecks' own search for superglobal-related issues Ivo Jansch's happy look into frustrations other developers have had (ex. this search)    Check out this handy tool and see what you think. Does it provide too much access to code that needs to stay out of hacker's hands? Or does it promote the "open" in open source better than most of the tools out there?
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Editor&#39;s Summary: Google is searching India -- for white collar IT workers. Google gurus Sergey Brin and Larry Page are touring cities -- including hi-tech hubs Bangalore and Hyderabad -- looking to hire engineers and online sales and support workers.
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Google is the only search system with any kind of personality. So why not a Google browser? &quot;Google has wooed Joshua Bloch, one of the main developers of the Internet programming language Java, from Sun Microsystems.
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Internet search engine Ask.com has been chasing market leader Google Inc. for years without making much headway, but that hasn't deterred its engineers from trying to set the pace for innovation.
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GOOGLE, the world&#39;s number one search engine, has lost its edge. That&#39;s the considered view of software engineers who have been testing an early version of Microsoft&#39;s MSN Search service, released last week.
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As Google tells it, the company wanted to hire two engineers who lived in Seattle. The engineers didn&#39;t want to move to Mountain View, California, Google&#39;s headquarters, so the company opened up a Seattle office.
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A top Google scientist confirms what has been rumored for years: the company improves its search engine by asking thousands of part-time workers to rate Web sites.
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Software giant hopes to challenge Google with new search technology.